Plaid Cymru is a centre-left to left-wing,Welsh nationalist political party in Wales,committed to Welsh independence from the United Kingdom.
John Marek is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wrexham from 1983 to 2001,and the Member of the Welsh Assembly (AM) for Wrexham from 1999 to 2007. A member of the Labour Party until 2003,he successfully stood for re-election to the Welsh Assembly as a John Marek Independent Party candidate. Marek founded and led Forward Wales from 2003 until 2010,when the party was disbanded and he joined the Conservatives.
Ieuan Wyn Jones is a Welsh politician who was the Deputy First Minister in the Welsh Government from 2007 to 2011. He was the Member of the National Assembly for Wales for the Ynys Môn constituency from 1999 to 2013,and he was also leader of Plaid Cymru from 2000 to 2012. Jones served as Member of Parliament for Ynys Môn constituency from 1987 to 2001,when he retired to focus on his work in the Welsh Assembly. In 2007,Jones was named Wales' "Politician of the Year" by the BBC Wales am.pm programme. He resigned from the Welsh Assembly on 20 June 2013. In 2017 he unsuccessfully sought to return to the House of Commons for his former constituency.
Llangefni is the county town of Anglesey in Wales. At the 2011 census,Llangefni's population was 5,116,making it the second-largest town in the county. The community includes the village of Rhosmeirch.
Ynys Môn is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. It is one of five 'protected constituencies' within the UK,with boundaries defined by the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 2020 to be fixed to those of Isle of Anglesey County Council.
Roderick Richards was a British politician. He was a Conservative before joining UKIP in 2013. He was the Conservative Member of Parliament for Clwyd North West,in Wales,from 1992 to 1997,when he lost his seat in the Labour Party landslide. He was also the first Leader of the Welsh Conservatives in 1999,after being elected as an Assembly Member for North Wales.
The Anglesey Coastal Path is a 200-kilometre (124 mi) long-distance footpath around the island of Anglesey in North Wales. The route is part of the Wales Coast Path.
North Wales is an electoral region of the Senedd,consisting of nine constituencies. The region elects thirteen members,nine directly elected constituency members and four additional members. The electoral region was first used in the 1999 Welsh Assembly election,when the National Assembly for Wales was created.
The Isle of Anglesey County Council is the local authority for the Isle of Anglesey,a principal area with county status in Wales. Since 2022 the council has 35 councillors who represent 11 multi-member electoral wards.
Alyn and Deeside 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 nine constituencies in the North Wales electoral region,which elects four additional members,in addition to nine constituency members,to produce a degree of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
Ynys Môn 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 nine constituencies in the North Wales electoral region,which elects four additional members,in addition to nine constituency members,to produce a degree of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
Nick Ramsay is a British politician who served as the Member of the Senedd (MS) for Monmouth from 2007 to 2021. Originally a member of the Welsh Conservatives,he served as Shadow Minister of Finance under Conservative Leader in the Senedd,Paul Davies,but lost the position in January 2021 under the new leadership of Andrew RT Davies. Ramsay sat as an Independent member before unsuccessfully seeking reelection as an Independent in the 2021 Senedd election.
Anglesey is an island off the north-west coast of Wales. It forms the bulk of the county known as the Isle of Anglesey,which also includes Holy Island and some islets and skerries. The county borders Gwynedd across the Menai Strait to the southeast,and is otherwise surrounded by the Irish Sea. Holyhead is the largest town,and the administrative centre is Llangefni. The county is part of the preserved county of Gwynedd.
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.
An election to the Isle of Anglesey County Council was held as part of the 2013 United Kingdom local elections and took place on 2 May 2013. Anglesey was the only Welsh authority voting in 2013,the election having been postponed from 2012 by the Welsh Government,in order to allow an electoral review to take place. The next full council election took place on 4 May 2017.
A by-election for the Welsh Assembly constituency of Ynys Môn was held on 1 August 2013,The by-election was triggered following the resignation on 20 June 2013 of its sitting Assembly Member,Ieuan Wyn Jones.
Rhun ap Iorwerth is a Welsh journalist and politician serving as the Leader of Plaid Cymru since June 2023. He has been the Member of the Senedd (MS) for Ynys Môn since 2013.
Nathan Lee Gill is a British former politician who was the Leader of Reform UK Wales from March to May 2021,when he resigned from the party. He previously served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Wales from 2014 to January 2020.
Virginia Ann Crosbie is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ynys Môn since the 2019 general election. Prior to her political career,she worked as a director at UBS and HSBC before retraining as a mathematics teacher.
The next United Kingdom general election is scheduled to be held no later than 28 January 2025. 32 seats will be up for election in Wales as the general election will occur after the recently completed boundary review took effect.
