Plaid Cymru is a centre-left to left-wing,Welsh nationalist political party in Wales,committed to Welsh independence from the United Kingdom.
Cynog Glyndwr Dafis is a Welsh politician and member of Plaid Cymru. Born Cynog Glyndwr Davies at Treboeth in Swansea,Glamorganshire,Wales,he was initially a school teacher and researcher before entering politics.
Elfyn Llwyd PC 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.
Adam Robert Price is a Welsh politician who served as Leader of Plaid Cymru from 2018 to 2023. He has been the Member of the Senedd (MS) for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr since 2016,having previously been a Member of Parliament (MP) for the same Westminster constituency from 2001 to 2010.
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.
Helen Mary Jones is a Welsh Plaid Cymru politician,who was a member of the Senedd from 1999 to 2011 and again from August 2018 until 29 April 2021.
Dafydd Elis Elis-Thomas,Baron Elis-Thomas,,is a Welsh politician who served as the leader of Plaid Cymru from 1984 to 1991 and represented the Dwyfor Meirionnydd constituency in the Senedd from 1999 to 2021.
Gwynfor Richard Evans was a Welsh politician,lawyer and author. He was President of the Welsh political party Plaid Cymru for thirty-six years and was the first member of Parliament to represent it at Westminster,which he did twice,from 1966 to 1970,and again from 1974 to 1979.
The Wales Green Party is a semi-autonomous political party within the Green Party of England and Wales (GPEW). It covers Wales,and is the only regional party with semi-autonomous status within the GPEW. The Wales Green Party puts up candidates for council,Senedd,and UK Parliament seats.
Ceredigion is 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.
Mark Fraser Williams. He is a former Member of Parliament (MP) for the Ceredigion constituency,between 2005 and 2017. He sat on the Welsh Affairs Select Committee,and in 2006 he became a Shadow Minister for Wales under Menzies Campbell.
Elin Jones 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.
Thomas Alun Rhys Davies is a Welsh Labour and Co-operative party politician serving as the Member of the Senedd (MS) for Blaenau Gwent since 2011,and formerly Mid and West Wales from 2007 to 2011. He has served in several Welsh government offices,including Cabinet Secretary for Local Government and Public Services,Minister for Lifelong Learning and Welsh Language,and Minister for Natural Resources and Food.
Llŷr Huws Gruffydd,is a Welsh Plaid Cymru politician,serving as a Member of the Senedd (MS) for the North Wales region since 2011. He acted as interim leader of Plaid Cymru from 16 May to 16 June 2023.
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 Ceredigion County Council was held on 3 May 2012 along with elections to 20 of the other 21 local authorities in Wales,community council elections in Wales and other elections elsewhere in the United Kingdom. It was followed by the 2017 election.
Neil John McEvoy is a Welsh politician who is currently the leader of the Welsh nationalist political party Propel. He previously represented the South Wales Central region in the Senedd from 2016 until 2021.
This is a list of Assembly Memberselected to the fifth National Assembly for Wales at the 2016 election. In May 2020,the representatives were renamed to Members of the Seneddin the fifth Senedd,they would be known as the fifth Senedd for the remainder of their term. From the 2021 election members would be elected under this new title of Senedd. There are a total of 60 members elected,40 were elected from first past the post constituencies with a further 20 members being returned from five regions,each electing four AMs 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 2016.
The 2018 election for the leader of the Welsh political party Plaid Cymru began on 7 August. Voting closed at midnight on 27 September. Adam Price was declared the winner on 28 September,defeating the two other candidates.
Aberystwyth Rheidol is the name of a local government 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.
