ITV Cymru Wales today announced its line up of coverage of the General Election 2017 across news, programmes and online. It will form part of ITV's extensive election programming in the run-up to polling day on June 8th and beyond.

The coverage will include a live election debate, in-depth reports, interviews and analysis from the campaign trail in Wales At Six, plus a raft of special Election programming.

Phil Henfrey, Head of News and Programmes, ITV Cymru Wales, said: “This will be our third major Election coverage in as many years, following the 2015 General Election and last year's Welsh Assembly Election."

Our exclusive poll has already set the context for the campaign in Wales. Our authoritative team of journalists will be reporting from across the country to bring our viewers accurate, balanced and engaging coverage they can trust. Throughout the campaign, results day and beyond, we’ll be examining the key issues and holding politicians to account as part of ITV’s extensive and comprehensive coverage of General Election 2017. Phil Henfrey, Head of News and Programmes, ITV Cymru Wales

The ITV Wales Election Debate

The centrepiece of ITV Cymru Wales’ coverage will be The ITV Wales Election Debate, a live two-hour programme on Wednesday, May 17th at 8pm. Leading figures from the main Welsh parties will answer questions on the big election issues in front of a live audience.

The debate will be hosted and moderated by ITV Wales’ political editor, Adrian Masters. The programme will also be streamed on the ITV News Wales website.

Wales At Six

Wales At Six, with alternating anchors Jonathan Hill and Andrea Byrne, will feature daily weekday Election 2017 reports, interviews and analysis.

Adrian Masters and political reporter Owain Phillips will be on the campaign trail with interviews and insights. There’ll also be updates from our reporters embedded with the main parties. They’ll be covering the big set-piece days and feeding into on-the-day coverage on air and online with every twist and turn of the campaign.

As well as reports on the key marginal seats, Wales At Six will be looking at the constituency battlegrounds around Wales. The voices of voters will feature prominently in the coverage. Carl Edwards will be travelling around Wales meeting people to find out what matters to them.

Our correspondents and reporters will be publishing their reports directly to the ITV News website from the campaign trail as well as issuing regular updates on social media.

Politicians in Wales took part in ITV Cymru Wales' 2015 General Election Debate. Credit: ITV Cymru Wales

Welsh Political Barometer

We’ll also be revealing the results of our exclusive, specially-commissioned “Welsh Political Barometer” voter intention polls, carried out by YouGov in conjunction with Cardiff University. The first poll has already set the context for the election debate having predicted the Conservatives taking the majority of Welsh seats.

Election programmes

In addition to comprehensive coverage on Wales At Six and our news bulletins, there will be online coverage together with four hour-long General Election editions of political programme Sharp End each week running up to polling day.

Andrea Byrne will be travelling to key marginal seats around Wales to discover the views of voters in Election Road Trip on Friday, 26 May and Wednesday, 7 June.

There will also be a special post-Election edition of Wales This Week following two prospective Welsh MPs on the road to Westminster on Monday 12th June.

ITV Cymru Wales will also be producing General Election programming for S4C, including a three-part Y Râs i 10 Downing Street and a Hacio debate for young voters.

Overnight results programme

On election night, ITV Cymru Wales' news teams will be at all the main counts in Wales, feeding the latest news live to the ITV network overnight results programme, presented by Tom Bradby.

Later on June 9th, following on from ITV's extensive post-election programming, Wales At Six will be back with a full round-up and analysis of the results in Wales.

Full details of ITV’s coverage of General Election 2017 can be found here.