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Cardiff East (UK Parliament Constituency)
Cardiff East () is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament, first contested at the 2024 United Kingdom general election, following the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies. It is currently represented by Jo Stevens of the Labour Party (UK), who currently serves as Secretary of State for Wales under the government of Keir Starmer. A parliamentary constituency of the same name previously existed from the 1918 general election until the 1950 general election. Boundaries The 2024 recreation comprises the City of Cardiff electoral wards of Adamsdown, Cyncoed, Pentwyn, Penylan, Plasnewydd, Llanrumney, Rumney, and Trowbridge Trowbridge ( ) is the county town of Wiltshire, England; situated on the River Biss in the west of the county, close to the border with Somerset. The town lies south-east of Bath, Somerset, Bath, south-west of Swindon and south-east of Brist .... The new seat is made up of the whole of the abolished Cardiff Cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pentwyn (electoral Ward)
Pentwyn is an electoral ward in the northeast of Cardiff, capital city of Wales. It covers the communities of Pentwyn and Llanedeyrn (which was created from the southern part of Pentwyn in 2016). The ward has elected councillors to the post-1996 Cardiff Council and the pre-1996 Cardiff City Council. Description The Pentwyn ward is bordered to the north by the Pontprennau & Old St Mellons, to the west by Cyncoed and to the south by the Penylan ward. To the east the border is defined by the River Rhymney. The Pentwyn ward elected three councillors to Cardiff Council in 1995 and has elected four councillors since 1999. It has been represented by the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats, with the Liberal Democrats dominating the ward since 2004. Councillor Judith Woodman, who won her Pentwyn seat at a 2003 by-election and had been deputy leader of the council and leader of the Liberal Democrat group, stood down at the May 2017 election. Between 1983 and 1996 Pentwyn was a war ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UK Parliament
The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, and may also legislate for the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories. It meets at the Palace of Westminster in London. Parliament possesses legislative supremacy and thereby holds ultimate power over all other political bodies in the United Kingdom and the Overseas Territories. While Parliament is bicameral, it has three parts: the sovereign, the House of Lords, and the House of Commons. The three parts acting together to legislate may be described as the King-in-Parliament. The Crown normally acts on the advice of the prime minister, and the powers of the House of Lords are limited to only delaying legislation. The House of Commons is the elected lower chamber of Parliament, with elections to 650 single-member constituencies held at least every five years under the first-past-the-post system. By constitutional convention, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 Review Of Westminster Constituencies
The 2023 review of Westminster constituencies was the most recent cycle of the process to redraw the constituency map for the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The new constituency boundaries were approved by the Privy Council on 15 November 2023 and came into law on 29 November. It is the first review of Westminster boundaries to be successfully implemented since 2010. These constituencies were first contested at the 2024 general election. Legal basis The process for periodic reviews of parliamentary constituencies in the United Kingdom is governed by the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986, as amended by the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 and subsequently by the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 2020. Individual registration The 2023 review was the successor to the 2018 periodic review of Westminster constituencies, which was abandoned after it failed to pass into law. After abandonment of several previous reviews since 2015, the 2023 r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 United Kingdom General Election
The 2019 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 12 December 2019, with 47,074,800 registered voters entitled to vote to elect 650 Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons. The governing Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party, led by Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, won a landslide victory with a majority of 80 seats, a net gain of 48, on 43.6 per cent of the popular vote, the highest percentage for any party since the 1979 United Kingdom general election, 1979 general election, though with a narrower popular vote margin than that achieved by the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party over the Conservatives at the 1997 United Kingdom general election, 1997 general election. This was the second national election to be held in 2019 in the United Kingdom, the first being the 2019 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom, 2019 European Parl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodney Berman
Rodney Simon Berman OBE is a Liberal Democrat politician, currently a councillor for the Penylan ward of Cardiff. He was formerly a councillor for Plasnewydd ward, and was also leader of Cardiff Council between 2004 and 2012. Early life Born and raised in Glasgow, Berman studied at the University of Glasgow where he helped run Glasgow University Liberal Democrats, before moving to Wales to study towards a PhD. Political career Berman stood for election to Parliament as Welsh Liberal Democrat candidate for Rhondda and Cardiff South and Penarth in 1997 and 2001, respectively, coming third on each occasion. His agent for the Rhondda seat was Professor Russell Deacon. In 2004 Berman became leader of a minority administration on Cardiff Council. In 2006, Berman was the first winner of the Local Politician of the Year award. The local elections of 2008 saw the Liberal Democrats increase their representation, winning new seats in the east (Trowbridge), west (Llandaff) and sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Welsh Labour
Welsh Labour (), formerly known as the Labour Party in Wales (), is an autonomous section of the United Kingdom Labour Party (UK), Labour Party in Wales and the largest party in modern Welsh politics. Welsh Labour and its forebears have won a plurality of the Welsh vote at every UK general election since 1922, every National Assembly for Wales, Assembly and Senedd election since 1999, and all elections to the European Parliament in the period 1979–2004 and in 2014. Welsh Labour holds 27 of the 32 Welsh seats in the UK Parliament, 30 of the 60 seats in the Welsh Senedd and 576 of the 1,264 councillors in Local government in Wales, principal local authorities including overall control of 10 of the 22 principal local authorities. It has longest winning streak of any political party in the world and has been described as "by some distance the democratic world's most successful election-winning machine". Structure Welsh Labour is formally part of the Labour Party, not separately ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cathays
Cathays ( ; standardised ; sometimes , 'the constant meadow') is a district and community in the centre of Cardiff, capital of Wales. It is an old suburb of Cardiff established in 1875. It is densely populated and contains many Victorian terraced houses. The area falls into the Cathays ward. It is the third most populous community in Cardiff, having a population of 18,002 in 2011. Etymology The area that is now Cathays was formerly known in Welsh as and in English as Little Heath (to distinguish it from Great Heath). The name Cathays first appeared in 1699 as ''Catt Hays'' and originally denoted a tract of common land north-east of Cardiff, now represented by Cathays Park. The second element is a derivative of Old English , meaning 'park or enclosure', while the first element has been variously traced to the Welsh word , meaning 'battle', and the Old English word , meaning 'wildcat'. History By the medieval period farmland outside the old Cardiff Castle, Cathays takes i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wales Online
Media Wales Ltd. is a publishing company based in Cardiff, Wales. As of 2009 it was owned by Reach plc (formerly known as the Trinity Mirror Group). It was previously known as the Western Mail & Echo Ltd. History The ''Western Mail'' was founded in 1869 by the 3rd Marquess of Bute as a Conservative newspaper. In 1893, the original building in St. Mary Street was destroyed by fire and a new building was opened also in St Mary Street two years later. In 1928 the Western Mail Ltd amalgamated with David Duncan & Sons, who published the ''South Wales Daily News'' and the '' South Wales Echo'', which was established in 1884. The merged company became Western Mail and Echo Ltd. and because of the merger ''Evening Express'' and ''South Wales Daily'' News closed. In 1960, the newspapers left St Mary Street and moved to Thomson House, Cardiff. On 1 October 2007 Western Mail and Echo Ltd changed its name to Media Wales, and in 2008 Media Wales moved from Thomson House in Havelock Str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boundary Commission For Wales
In the United Kingdom, the boundary commissions are non-departmental public bodies responsible for determining the boundaries of parliamentary constituencies for elections to the House of Commons. There are four boundary commissions: one each for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Each commission comprises four members, three of whom take part in meetings. The speaker of the House of Commons chairs each of the boundary commissions ''ex officio'' but does not play any part in the review, and a High Court judge is appointed to each boundary commission as deputy chair. Considerations and process The boundary commissions, which are required to report every eight years, must apply a set series of rules when devising constituencies. These rules are set out in the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986, as amended by the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 and subsequently by the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 2020. Firstly, each proposed const ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trowbridge, Cardiff
Trowbridge is a district, Community (Wales), community and coterminous electoral ward on the eastern edge of the city of Cardiff, capital of Wales. The community and electoral ward includes some or all of the areas of the St Mellons estate and Trowbridge, as well as part of the Wentlooge Levels between the mainline railway and the coast. It is bounded by the village of Old St Mellons to the north; Marshfield, Newport, Marshfield (in Newport, Wales, Newport Principal areas of Wales, principal area) to the east; and Splott and Rumney, Cardiff, Rumney to the west. History Trowbridge largely dates from the second half of the 20th century, when housing spread east from Rumney, Cardiff, Rumney onto the farmland of the area. Until 1938, the area was part of the civil parish of Rumney, in the historic county of Monmouthshire (historic), Monmouthshire. Governance Trowbridge is both an ward (politics), electoral ward, and a community (Wales), community of the City of Cardiff Council, Cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rumney, Cardiff
Rumney () is a district and Community (Wales), community in the east of the city of Cardiff, Wales. It lies east of the Rhymney River, and was historically part of Monmouthshire (historic), Monmouthshire. On 1 April 1938 the Cardiff Extension Act 1937 incorporated it into the county borough of Cardiff, although it became part of Glamorganshire in the 1880's. Description This is a predominantly residential area with a variety of social and private housing. There are many places of worship in the area, local shops, beauty salons and Cafés, Rumney has a community charity based at Brachdy House called Rumney Forum, which is also home to the charity A Better Fit-School Uniform Donation.There are many shopping outlets on Newport Road as well as local shops at the top of Rumney Hill. New industrial and business estates have been developed alongside existing ones on Lamby Way providing employment opportunities. Within the older sectors of the Rumney area are places of interest, such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
