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Members Of The National Assembly For Wales 2016-2021
This is a list of Member of the National Assembly for Wales, Assembly Members (AMs; , ) elected to the fifth National Assembly for Wales at the 2016 National Assembly for Wales election, 2016 election. In Senedd and Elections (Wales) Act 2020, May 2020, the representatives were renamed to Members of the Senedd (MSs; ; ) in the fifth Senedd, they would be known as the fifth Senedd for the remainder of their term. From the 2021 Senedd election, 2021 election members would be Members of the 6th Senedd, elected under this new title of Senedd. There are a total of 60 members elected, 40 were elected from first past the post National Assembly for Wales constituencies and electoral regions, constituencies with a further 20 members being returned from five National Assembly for Wales constituencies and electoral regions, regions, each electing four AMs through mixed-member proportional representation. In between elections, members of the legislature may not necessarily be of the same par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
4th National Assembly For Wales
This is a list of Member of the National Assembly for Wales, Assembly Members (AMs; , ) elected to the fourth National Assembly for Wales at the 2011 National Assembly for Wales election, 2011 election. There are a total of 60 members elected, 40 were elected from first past the post National Assembly for Wales constituencies and electoral regions, constituencies with a further 20 members being returned from five National Assembly for Wales constituencies and electoral regions, regions, each electing four AMs through mixed-member proportional representation. 20 AMs were elected for the first time. Current composition Government parties denoted with bullets (•) Constituency AMs Regional AMs See also * 1999 National Assembly for Wales election and Members of the 1st National Assembly for Wales * 2003 National Assembly for Wales election and Members of the 2nd National Assembly for Wales * 2007 National Assembly for Wales election and Members of the 3rd National A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elin Jones
Elin Jones (born 1 September 1966), is a Welsh politician who has served as the Llywydd of the Senedd since 2016. A member of Plaid Cymru, Jones has been the Member of the Senedd (MS) for Ceredigion since 1999. Background Jones attended Llanwnnen Primary School and Lampeter Comprehensive. She graduated from University of Wales, Cardiff with a BSc in Economics and took a post-graduate MSc in Agricultural Economics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1989. Previously she was employed as an Economic Development officer for the Development Board for Rural Wales. She is a former Shadow Environment, Planning and Countryside Minister. Jones speaks Welsh and English. She is also a former director of Radio Ceredigion and of Wes Glei Cyf, a television production company. She lives in Aberaeron and enjoys music, film, reading and formerly sang with the Welsh singing group Cwlwm. Political career Elin Jones served on Aberystwyth Town Council from 1992 to 1999 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Welsh Conservatives
The Welsh Conservatives (), also known as the Welsh Conservative Party (), is the branch of the United Kingdom Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party that operates in Wales. At United Kingdom general elections, Westminster elections, it is the second-most popular political party in Wales by vote share, having obtained the second-largest share of the vote at every general election since 1931. In List of Senedd elections, Senedd elections, the Conservatives are currently the second-most supported party but have at times been third. , they hold none of the 32 Welsh seats in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and 16 of the 60 seats in the Senedd. At the 2021 Senedd election, the Welsh Conservatives won eight constituency seats, taking Vale of Clwyd (Senedd constituency), Vale of Clwyd from Welsh Labour and Brecon and Radnorshire (Senedd constituency), Brecon and Radnorshire from the Welsh Liberal Democrats and 26.1 per cent of the constituency vote across Wales, their best co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plaid Cymru
Plaid Cymru ( ; , ; officially Plaid Cymru – the Party of Wales, and often referred to simply as Plaid) is a centre-left, Welsh nationalist list of political parties in Wales, political party in Wales, committed to Welsh independence from the United Kingdom. It campaigns on a platform of social democracy and civic nationalism. The party is a supporter of the European Union and is a member of the European Free Alliance (EFA). The party holds 4 of 32 Welsh seats in the UK Parliament, 12 of 60 seats in the Senedd, and 202 of 1,231 principal local authority councillors. Plaid was formed in 1925 under the name ''Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru'' (English: The National Party of Wales) and Gwynfor Evans won the first Westminster seat for the party at the 1966 Carmarthen by-election. In 1999 National Assembly for Wales election, 1999 (in the first devolved Senedd, Welsh Assembly election), Plaid Cymru gained considerable ground in traditionally Labour heartlands. These breakthroughs were pa ... [...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] |
Mixed-member Proportional Representation
Mixed-member proportional representation (MMP or MMPR) is a type of representation provided by some mixed electoral system, mixed electoral systems which combine local Winner-take-all system, winner-take-all elections with a Compensation (electoral systems), compensatory tier with Party-list proportional representation, party lists, in a way that produces proportional representation overall. Like proportional representation, MMP is not a single system, but a principle and goal of several similar systems. Some systems designed to achieve proportionality are still called mixed-member proportional, even if they generally fall short of full proportionality. In this case, they provide semi-proportional representation. In typical MMP systems, voters get two votes: one to decide the legislator, representative for their single-seat electoral district, constituency, and one for a political party, but some countries use Mixed single vote#Proportional systems, single vote variants. Seat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Assembly For Wales Constituencies And Electoral Regions
The Senedd constituencies and electoral regions () are the electoral districts used to elect members of the Senedd (MS; ) to the Senedd (Welsh Parliament; ), and have been used in some form since the first election of the then ''National Assembly for Wales'' in 1999. There are currently forty single-member constituencies and five four-member regions. The five electoral regions are: Mid and West Wales, North Wales, South Wales Central, South Wales East, and South Wales West, with the forty constituencies listed below. Voting last took place in all districts in the 2021 Senedd election, and is not used for local government. The current boundaries were introduced for the 2007 Assembly election. The constituencies were created through the Government of Wales Act 1998, which established the National Assembly for Wales. The Assembly's constituencies were initially linked to the boundaries used for UK Parliament constituencies in Wales, set by the UK Parliament's Boundary Commi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Past The Post
First-past-the-post (FPTP)—also called choose-one, first-preference plurality (FPP), or simply plurality—is a single-winner voting rule. Voters mark one candidate as their favorite, or First-preference votes, first-preference, and the candidate with more first-preference votes than any other candidate (a Plurality (voting), ''plurality'') is elected, even if they do not have more than half of votes (a ''majority''). FPP has been used to elect part of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, British House of Commons since the Middle Ages before spreading throughout the British Empire. Throughout the 20th century, many countries that previously used FPP have abandoned it in favor of other electoral systems, including the former British colonies of Australia and New Zealand. FPP is still De jure, officially used in the majority of U.S. state, US states for most elections. However, the combination of Partisan primary, partisan primaries and a two-party system in these jurisd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of The 6th Senedd
This is a list of Members of the Senedd elected to the sixth Senedd at the 2021 Senedd election, 2021 election. There are a total of 60 members elected, 40 were elected from first past the post Senedd constituencies and electoral regions, constituencies with a further 20 members being returned from five Senedd constituencies and electoral regions, regions, each electing four members through mixed-member proportional representation. In between elections, members of the legislature may not necessarily be of the same party or the same candidate elected in 2021. Composition of the Senedd Government parties denoted with bullets (•) Senedd members by party following 2021 election Senedd members by constituency and region following 2021 election See also *1999 National Assembly for Wales election and Members of the 1st National Assembly for Wales *2003 National Assembly for Wales election and Members of the 2nd National Assembly for Wales *2007 National Assembly fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 Senedd Election
The 2021 Senedd election took place on Thursday 6 May 2021 to elect 60 members to the Senedd (Welsh Parliament; ). It was the sixth Devolution in the United Kingdom, devolved general election since the Senedd (formerly the National Assembly for Wales) was established in 1999. The election was held alongside the 2021 Scottish Parliament election, Scottish Parliament election, 2021 United Kingdom local elections, English local elections, 2021 London Assembly election, London Assembly and 2021 London mayoral election, mayoral election and the 2021 Hartlepool by-election, Hartlepool by-election. It was the first election in which 16- and 17-year-olds and legally resident foreign nationals were allowed to vote in Wales, the largest extension of the franchise in Wales since 1969. Both changes were a result of the Senedd and Elections (Wales) Bill 2019, Senedd and Elections (Wales) Act 2020. It was also the first election for the legislature under its new name – 'Senedd Cymru' or 'the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Senedd And Elections (Wales) Act 2020
The Senedd and Elections (Wales) Act 2020 (anaw 1) () is an Act of the National Assembly for Wales that was given royal assent Royal assent is the method by which a monarch formally approves an act of the legislature, either directly or through an official acting on the monarch's behalf. In some jurisdictions, royal assent is equivalent to promulgation, while in othe ... on 15 January 2020. It was first detailed in February 2019 by way of an Explanatory Memorandum. Summary The Act allowed for the first time in Wales afford 16 and 17 year olds the right to vote, beginning with the 2021 Senedd election. The decision is the largest franchise extension in Wales since 1969, when the Representation of the People Act 1969 reduced the voting age from 21 to 18. The franchise will also be extended to "eligible foreign nationals". The Act also changed the name of the legislature to "Senedd Cymru" or "the Welsh Parliament". The decision was controversial and saw much debate in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Member 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] |
