Plaid Cymru is a centre-left to left-wing,Welsh nationalist 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 strong 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 and Gwynfor Evans won the first Westminster seat for the party at the 1966 Carmarthen by-election.
Cynog Glyndwr Dafis is a Welsh politician and member of Plaid Cymru who served as the Member of Parliament for Ceredigion from 1992 to 2000,originally as a joint Plaid Cymru–Green Party MP until 1997 and then only as a Plaid Cymru MP until 2000. He also served as the Member of the Welsh Assembly for Mid and West Wales from 1999 to 2003. Born Cynog Glyndwr Davies at Treboeth in Swansea,Glamorganshire,Wales,he was initially a school teacher and researcher before entering politics.
Elfyn LlwydPC is a Welsh barrister and politician. He was a Member of Parliament,representing Meirionnydd Nant Conwy in the House of Commons from 1992 to 2010 and Dwyfor Meirionnydd from 2010 to 2015. Llwyd was Plaid Cymru's Westminster parliamentary group leader.
Simon George Thomas is a Welsh former politician who was a member of Plaid Cymru. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Ceredigion from 2000 to 2005,and an Assembly Member in the National Assembly for Wales representing the Mid and West Wales list between 2011 and 2018.
Hywel Williams is a Welsh Plaid Cymru politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Arfon,previously Caernarfon,from 2001 to 2024.
Geraint Wyn Howells,Baron Geraint was a Welsh politician of the Liberal Party and its successor,the Liberal Democrats. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Cardigan from 1974 to 1983 and Ceredigion and Pembroke North from 1983 to 1992.
Ceredigion was a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. Created in 1536,the franchise expanded in the late 19th century and on the enfranchisement of women. Its boundaries remained virtually unchanged until 1983. From 1536 until 1885 the area had two seats:a county constituency (Cardiganshire) comprising the rural areas,the other the borough constituency known as the Cardigan District of Boroughs comprising a few separate towns;in 1885 the latter was abolished,its towns and electors incorporated into the former,reduced to one MP. The towns which comprised the Boroughs varied slightly over this long period,but primarily consisted of Cardigan,Aberystwyth,Lampeter and Adpar,the latter now a suburb of Newcastle Emlyn across the Teifi,in Carmarthenshire.
Dafydd Elystan Elystan-Morgan,Baron Elystan-Morgan,known as Elystan Morgan,was a Welsh politician. He sat as a crossbencher in the House of Lords from 1981 to 2020,and served as a Labour MP from 1966 to 1974.
Ceredigion and Pembroke North was a county constituency in southwestern Wales which elected one MP via the first past the post electoral system. It was located in the preserved county of Dyfed.
The Welsh Liberal Democrats is a liberal,federalist political party in Wales,part of UK Liberal Democrats. The party is led by Jane Dodds,who has served as an MS for Mid and West Wales since May 2021. The party currently has one elected member in the Senedd and one Welsh seat in the UK House of Commons. It also has several members of the House of Lords. The party had 69 local councillors serving in principal authorities as of the 2022 local authority elections,up 10 from 2017.
Aberystwyth Town Council is the community council that governs the ancient borough,town and community of Aberystwyth. For electoral purposes,it is divided into five electoral divisions.
These are the results of the 2005 United Kingdom general election in Wales. The election was held on 5 May 2005 and all 40 seats in Wales were contested.
Hawen is a hamlet located 68 miles (109 km) from Cardiff and 187.6 miles (301.9 km) from London in Troedyraur,Ceredigion,Wales. Hawen is represented in the Senedd by Elin Jones and the Member of Parliament is Ben Lake for the Ceredigion Preseli constituency. He won the predecessor seat (Ceredigion) at the 2017 general election,gaining the seat from Liberal Democrat Mark Williams with 11,623 (29.2%) of the vote.
Ben Morgan Lake is a Plaid Cymru politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ceredigion Preseli,formerly Ceredigion,since 2017.
Aberystwyth Rheidol is a electoral ward in the town of Aberystwyth,Ceredigion,Wales. It elects a county councillor to Ceredigion County Council and also elects town councillors to Aberystwyth Town Council.
Gwlad is a centre-right Welsh nationalist and pro-independence political party. Its current leader is Gwyn Wigley Evans.
Rhodri Mabon ap Gwynfor is a Welsh Plaid Cymru politician who has been Member of the Senedd (MS) for Dwyfor Meirionnydd since 2021. He has served as Plaid Cymru's Health,Social Care and Housing Spokesperson and Chief Whip since June 2023.
The 2022 Ceredigion County Council election took place as of 5 May 2022 to elect 38 members to Ceredigion Council. On the same day,elections were held to the other 21 local authorities and to community councils in Wales as part of the 2022 Welsh local elections. The previous all-council election took place in May 2017 and future elections will take place every five years.
The 2024 general election was held on Thursday,4 July 2024. Thirty-two seats were up for election in Wales as the general election occurred after the recently completed boundary review took effect. The Labour Party remained the largest party in Wales,gaining six seats for a total of 27. Both Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats made gains,taking them to four seats and one seat respectively. The Conservatives lost all thirteen seats they had held previously,leaving the party without Westminster representation from Wales for the first time since 2005.
A North–South Wales railway, also known as Traws Link Cymru is a proposed rail service line that would link North and South Wales via a western rail line from Swansea to Bangor. This includes re-opening the Carmarthen–Aberystwyth and the Bangor–Afon Wen line.
