Blaenau Gwent is a county borough in the south-east of Wales. It borders the unitary authority areas of Monmouthshire and Torfaen to the east,Caerphilly to the west and Powys to the north. Its main towns are Abertillery,Brynmawr,Ebbw Vale and Tredegar. Its highest point is Coity Mountain at 1,896 feet (578 m).
Gisela Stuart,Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston is a British-German politician and life peer who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Edgbaston from 1997 to 2017. A former member of the Labour Party,she now sits as a crossbencher in the House of Lords.
Ifor Huw Irranca-Davies is a Welsh Labour and Co-operative politician who has served as Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs since 2024. He has been the Member of the Senedd (MS) for Ogmore since 2016. Irranca-Davies was previously the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ogmore from 2002 to 2016.
Angela Lavinia Bray,Baroness Bray of Coln is a British Conservative Party politician who was the Member of the London Assembly for West Central from 2000 to 2008,and Member of Parliament (MP) for Ealing Central and Acton from 2010 to 2015.
Dafydd Wynne Wigley,Baron Wigley,is a Welsh politician who served as the leader of Plaid Cymru from 1981 to 1984 and again from 1991 to 2000. He served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Caernarfon from 1974 to 2001 and as the Member of the Welsh Assembly for Caernarfon from 1999 to 2003. In 2010,Wigley was granted life peerage,taking his seat in the House of Lords in 2011.
Mair Eluned Morgan,Baroness Morgan of Ely,is a Welsh Labour politician who has been the Leader of Welsh Labour since 2024,and is set to become the next First Minister of Wales. She also served as Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care in the Welsh Government from 2021 to 2024.
Laura Anne Jones is a Conservative politician who has been the Member of the Senedd (MS) for the South Wales East electoral region since July 2020,having previously held the same seat as an Assembly Member (AM) in the National Assembly for Wales between 2003 and 2007. Jones also served as a county councillor for the Wyesham ward in Monmouthshire County Council from 2017 to 2022.
Blaenau Gwent was a constituency in South Wales,that was represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament from 2010 to 2024 by Nick Smith of the Labour Party.
Peter John Law was a Welsh politician. For most of his career Law sat as a Labour councillor and subsequently Labour Co-operative Assembly member (AM) for Blaenau Gwent. Latterly he sat as an independent member of Parliament (MP) and AM for the same constituency.
Jennifer Elizabeth Randerson,Baroness Randerson is a Welsh Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords. She is a former junior minister in the Wales Office serving in the Cameron–Clegg coalition. Prior to her peerage she was an Assembly Member for Cardiff Central from 1999 to 2011 when she served in the Welsh Labour-Lib Dem administration of the 2000–2003 Welsh Assembly Government.
Eirene Lloyd White,Baroness White was a British Labour politician and journalist.
Two by-elections were held for the constituency of Blaenau Gwent in Wales following the death of Member of Parliament and Assembly Member Peter Law on 25 April 2006. As Law was the MP and Assembly Member (AM),his death required by-elections in both the parliamentary seat and the equivalent Welsh Assembly constituency. The two elections polled on the same day,29 June,as a by-election in Bromley and Chislehurst. A win by the Labour Party in the AM by-election would have restored their majority in the Welsh Assembly,which was lost when Law was expelled from the party.
Patricia Law is a Welsh politician who was the Blaenau Gwent People's Voice AM for Blaenau Gwent in Wales between 2006 and 2011.
Sandip K. Verma,Baroness Verma known until 1977 as Sandip K. Rana,is an Indian-British politician in the United Kingdom. An appointed member of the House of Lords,she is Ministerial Champion for Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Overseas,a role who chairs the UN Women's national committee. Verma was the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development,from 2015 to 2016.
Margaret Delyth Evans is a Welsh former politician who served as Deputy Minister for Rural Affairs,Culture and Environment in the National Assembly for Wales from 2000 to 2003. A member of the Labour Party,she was Assembly Member (AM) for Mid and West Wales from 2000 until her retirement from the National Assembly in 2003. Since 2019,she has sat on the board of Sport Wales.
The representation of women in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom has been an issue in the politics of the United Kingdom at numerous points in the 20th and 21st centuries. Originally debate centred on whether women should be allowed to vote and stand for election as Members of Parliament. The Parliament Act 1918 gave women over 21 the right to stand for election as a Member of Parliament. The United Kingdom has had three female Prime Ministers:Margaret Thatcher (1979–1990),Theresa May (2016–2019),and Liz Truss (2022). The publication of the book Women in the House by Elizabeth Vallance in 1979 highlighted the under-representation of women in Parliament. In more modern times concerns about the under-representation of women led the Labour Party to introduce and,decades later,abandon all-women short lists,something which was later held to breach discrimination laws.
Nicholas Desmond John Smith is a Welsh politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney,previously Blaenau Gwent,since 2010. A member of the Labour Party,he served as a Member of Camden Council from 1998 to 2006.
The 2007 National Assembly for Wales election was held on Thursday 3 May 2007 to elect members to the National Assembly for Wales. It was the third general election. On the same day local elections in England and Scotland,as well as the Scottish Parliament election took place. This election was preceded by the previous Assembly election in 2003.
Mick Antoniw is a Welsh Labour and Co-operative politician,who was Counsel General for Wales from 2021 to 2024,having previously served in the position from 2016 to 2017. He previously served as Minister for the Constitution from 2021 to 2024. He has been the Member of the Senedd (MS) for Pontypridd since 2011.
Susan Mary Hayman,Baroness Hayman of Ullock is a British politician and life peer who has served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment,Food and Rural Affairs since July 2024. A member of the Labour Party,she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Workington from 2015 to 2019. Hayman served as an Opposition Whip from 2015 to 2016 and Shadow Minister for Flooding and Coastal Communities from 2016 to 2017,then as Shadow Secretary of State for Environment,Food and Rural Affairs from 2017 to 2019 and was appointed to the House of Lords in 2020.
