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Gwyn R. Price
Gwyn R. Price (born 1948) is a former Welsh Labour politician who served as the Member of the Welsh Assembly (AM) for Islwyn from 2011 to 2016. Political carerr Price was first elected to the Welsh Assembly at the 2011 election, representing Islwyn The Borough of Islwyn was one of five local government districts of Gwent from 1974 to 1996. History The borough was formed in 1974 as a local government district of Gwent. It covered the whole area of three former districts and part of a fou .... On 18 February 2014, Price announced his intention to stand down at the elections in 2016. He subsequently faced widespread criticism on social media over his perceived lack of engagement in the Assembly. References Living people Welsh Labour members of the Senedd Wales AMs 2011–2016 Year of birth missing (living people) {{Wales-AM-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Islwyn (Assembly Constituency)
Islwyn () is a United Kingdom constituencies, constituency of the Senedd. It elects one Member of the Senedd by the first past the post method of election. Also, however, it is one of eight constituencies in the South Wales East (Senedd electoral region), South Wales East Senedd constituencies and electoral regions, electoral region, which elects four additional member system, additional members, in addition to eight constituency members, to produce a degree of proportional representation for the region as a whole. Boundaries The constituency was created for the 1999 National Assembly for Wales election, first election to the Assembly, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of the Islwyn (UK Parliament constituency), Islwyn Westminster constituency. The other seven constituencies of the South Wales East electoral region are Blaenau Gwent (National Assembly for Wales constituency), Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly (National Assembly for Wales constituency), Caerphilly, Merthyr Tydfil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irene James
Irene James (born 1952) is a Welsh Labour politician who represented the constituency of Islwyn in the National Assembly for Wales from 2003 to 2011. Personal life James was educated Newbridge Grammar School and the Cardiff College of Music & Drama. She completed her teacher training at Borough Road College, London, after which she became a special needs teacher at Risca Primary School. Her main interests are jobs, education and health. Political Career James was first elected as AM for the Islwyn constituency at the 2003 Welsh Assembly Elections, with a majority of 7320. She regained the traditionally labour constituency from Brian Hancock of Plaid Cymru, who had won the seat in a shock result at the first National Assembly elections. She was reelected in 2007, with a significantly reduced majority of 2218. James announced, in July 2009, that she would be standing down from the National Assembly for Wales in the 2011 election. James was agent to Don Touhig James ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhianon Passmore
Rhianon Passmore is a Welsh Labour and Co-operative politician. Since May 2016, she has been the Member of the Senedd for Islwyn. Political career Passmore was elected to represent Risca east on Caerphilly County Borough Council in 2004, defeating incumbent Plaid Cymru councillor Harry Styles. She was re-elected at elections in 2008 and 2012, before standing down in 2016 after her election to the Senedd. Her daughter, Arianna Passmore, successfully contested the by-election on her resignation. Passmore stood unsuccessfully on Labour party lists for Mid and West Wales at the 2003 Welsh Assembly elections and for South Wales East in the 2007 elections. In July 2015, Passmore was selected as the Welsh Labour and Co-operative Party candidate for the Islwyn constituency of the Senedd. On 5 May 2016, she was elected with 10,050 votes (45.0% of votes cast). She was re-elected in 2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the em ... [...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] |
Member Of The Welsh Assembly
A member of the Senedd (MS; plural: ''MSs''; ; , plural: ) is a representative elected to the Senedd (Welsh Parliament; ). There are sixty members, with forty members chosen to represent individual Senedd constituencies, and twenty to represent the five electoral regions of the Senedd in Wales. Each person in Wales is represented by five MSs: one for their local constituency (encompassing their local area where they reside), and another four covering their electoral region (a large grouping of constituencies). Wales's five electoral regions are Mid and West Wales, North Wales, South Wales Central, South Wales East and South Wales West. A holder of this office was formerly known as an assembly member (AM; plural: AMs; ; , plural: ), under the legislature's former name, the National Assembly for Wales, from its inception in 1999 until 2020 when it adopted its current names, Welsh Parliament, and , simply referred to as Senedd in both English and Welsh. Since 2011, mem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 National Assembly For Wales Election
The 2011 National Assembly for Wales election was an election for the Senedd, National Assembly. The poll was held on 5 May 2011 and decided the incumbency for all the Assembly's seats. It was the fourth election for seats in the National Assembly for Wales (previous elections having been held in 1999 National Assembly for Wales election, 1999, 2003 National Assembly for Wales election, 2003 and 2007 National Assembly for Wales election, 2007), and the second election taken under the rules of the Government of Wales Act 2006. The election resulted in gains for the incumbent Welsh Labour, which gained four seats compared to the previous election and now had 30 seats, exactly half of the assembly. The party also secured a swing in its favour of over 10 percentage points. The Welsh Conservatives emerged as the largest opposition party with 14 seats, a net gain of two, but party leader Nick Bourne lost his seat. The junior party in the government coalition, the nationalist Plaid Cymr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 National Assembly For Wales Election
The 2016 National Assembly for Wales election was held on Thursday 5 May 2016, to elect members (AMs) of the National Assembly for Wales, now known as the Senedd (Welsh Parliament; ). It was the fifth election for the National Assembly, the third election taken under the rules of the Government of Wales Act 2006 and the first since the Wales Act 2014. The governing Welsh Labour, Labour Party's share of the vote fell by over 7% and 29 Labour AMs were elected, one fewer than in 2011 National Assembly for Wales election, 2011 and two short of an overall majority. Plaid Cymru became the Assembly's second largest party and the official opposition to the Welsh Government with 12 seats, one more than before. The 11 Welsh Conservatives, Conservative AMs were elected, three fewer than in 2011. Although they did not win a single constituency, the UK Independence Party (UKIP) had 7 members elected through the regional lists vote. The Welsh Liberal Democrats, Liberal Democrats had only one A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Welsh Assembly
The Senedd ( ; ), officially known as the Welsh Parliament in English and () in Welsh, is the devolved, unicameral legislature of Wales. A democratically elected body, Its role is to scrutinise the Welsh Government and legislate on devolved matters that are not reserved to the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It is a bilingual institution, with both Welsh and English being the official languages of its business. From its creation in May 1999 until May 2020, the Senedd was officially known as the National Assembly for Wales () and was often simply called the Welsh Assembly. The Senedd comprises 60 members who are known as members of the Senedd (), abbreviated as "MS" (). Since 2011, members are elected for a five-year term of office under an Additional-member system, in which 40 MSs represent smaller geographical divisions known as "constituencies" and are elected by first-past-the-post voting, and 20 MSs represent five "electoral regions" using the D'Hondt method of p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Islwyn (Senedd Constituency)
Islwyn () is a constituency of the Senedd. It elects one Member of the Senedd by the first past the post method of election. Also, however, it is one of eight constituencies in the South Wales East electoral region, which elects four additional members, in addition to eight constituency members, to produce a degree of proportional representation for the region as a whole. Boundaries The constituency was created for the first election to the Assembly, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of the Islwyn Westminster constituency. The other seven constituencies of the South Wales East electoral region are Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney, Monmouth, Newport East, Newport West and Torfaen. Voting In general elections for the Senedd, each voter has two votes. The first vote may be used to vote for a candidate to become the Member of the Senedd for the voter's constituency, elected by the first past the post system. The second vote may be used to vote fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of The National Assembly For Wales
A member of the Senedd (MS; plural: ''MSs''; ; , plural: ) is a representative elected to the Senedd (Welsh Parliament; ). There are sixty members, with forty members chosen to represent individual Senedd constituencies, and twenty to represent the five electoral regions of the Senedd in Wales. Each person in Wales is represented by five MSs: one for their local constituency (encompassing their local area where they reside), and another four covering their electoral region (a large grouping of constituencies). Wales's five electoral regions are Mid and West Wales, North Wales, South Wales Central, South Wales East and South Wales West. A holder of this office was formerly known as an assembly member (AM; plural: AMs; ; , plural: ), under the legislature's former name, the National Assembly for Wales, from its inception in 1999 until 2020 when it adopted its current names, Welsh Parliament, and , simply referred to as Senedd in both English and Welsh. Since 2011, mem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Islwyn (National Assembly For Wales Constituency)
Islwyn () is a constituency of the Senedd. It elects one Member of the Senedd by the first past the post method of election. Also, however, it is one of eight constituencies in the South Wales East electoral region, which elects four additional members, in addition to eight constituency members, to produce a degree of proportional representation for the region as a whole. Boundaries The constituency was created for the first election to the Assembly, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of the Islwyn Westminster constituency. The other seven constituencies of the South Wales East electoral region are Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney, Monmouth, Newport East, Newport West and Torfaen. Voting In general elections for the Senedd, each voter has two votes. The first vote may be used to vote for a candidate to become the Member of the Senedd for the voter's constituency, elected by the first past the post system. The second vote may be used to vote fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 National Assembly For Wales Election
The 2011 National Assembly for Wales election was an election for the Senedd, National Assembly. The poll was held on 5 May 2011 and decided the incumbency for all the Assembly's seats. It was the fourth election for seats in the National Assembly for Wales (previous elections having been held in 1999 National Assembly for Wales election, 1999, 2003 National Assembly for Wales election, 2003 and 2007 National Assembly for Wales election, 2007), and the second election taken under the rules of the Government of Wales Act 2006. The election resulted in gains for the incumbent Welsh Labour, which gained four seats compared to the previous election and now had 30 seats, exactly half of the assembly. The party also secured a swing in its favour of over 10 percentage points. The Welsh Conservatives emerged as the largest opposition party with 14 seats, a net gain of two, but party leader Nick Bourne lost his seat. The junior party in the government coalition, the nationalist Plaid Cymr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
