Ifor Huw Irranca-Davies is a Welsh Labour and Co-operative politician who has served as Deputy First Minister of Wales since August 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.
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.
Politics in Wales forms a distinctive polity in the wider politics of the United Kingdom,with Wales as one of the four constituent countries of the United Kingdom (UK).
Victoria Kirstyn Williams is a Welsh politician who served as Minister for Education in the Welsh Government from 2016 to 2021. She was a Member of the Senedd (MS) from 1999 to 2021. She previously served as the Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats from December 2008 to May 2016 and subsequently from June 2017 to November 2017 in an acting capacity.
Mark Allan Isherwood is a Welsh Conservative Party politician,who has served as a Member of the Senedd (MS) for the North Wales region since 2003. He is currently Shadow Counsel General and Shadow Minister for Housing and Planning. Isherwood has held a number of Shadow Ministerial positions for the Welsh Conservatives since he was first elected,at various points holding portfolios for Finance,Social Justice,North Wales,Europe,Housing,Communities and Local Government,among others. He is also particularly notable for his advocacy for people with both physical and learning disabilities and impairments. He is himself deaf,and chairs cross party groups on disability,deaf issues and Autism,among others.
There are four types of elections in Wales:elections to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom,elections to the devolved Senedd,local elections to community councils and the 22 principal areas,and the Police and Crime Commissioner elections. In addition there are by-elections for each aforementioned election. Elections are held on Election Day,which is conventionally a Thursday. Three of these four types of elections are held after fixed periods;the exception is UK general elections,the timing of which is at the discretion of the prime minister of the United Kingdom. Senedd elections may be postponed to avoid elections to the UK parliament and Senedd coinciding with each other.
The Welsh Conservatives,also known as the Welsh Conservative Party,is the branch of the United Kingdom Conservative Party that operates in Wales. At 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 Senedd elections,the Conservatives are currently the second-most supported party but have at times been third. As of 2024,they hold none of the 32 Welsh seats in the Parliament of the United Kingdom,and 16 of the 60 seats in the Senedd.
The Welsh Liberal Democrats are a branch of the United Kingdom Liberal Democrats that operates in Wales. 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 councilors serving in principal authorities as of the 2022 local authority elections,up 10 from 2017.
Andrew Robert Tudor Davies CBE is a Welsh politician serving as Leader of the Welsh Conservative Group in the Senedd since 2021,previously holding the position from 2011 to 2018. He has been a Member of the Senedd (MS) since 2007.
William Powell is a Welsh Liberal Democrat politician. He has been a Powys County Councillor since 2004,and was a member of the Member of the Welsh Assembly (AM) for the Mid and West Wales Region from 2011 to 2016.
David Rees is a Welsh Labour politician who has served as the Deputy Presiding Officer of the Senedd since 2021. He has served as the Member of the Senedd (MS) for Aberavon since 2011.
The Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party,or in Wales,simply Abolish,is a registered single issue political party in Wales. It campaigns for the abolition of the Senedd,formerly known as the "National Assembly for Wales",the devolved legislature of Wales. Abolish advocates that devolved powers be returned to the Secretary of State for Wales within the UK Central Government and the Parliament of the United Kingdom at Westminster.
The 2021 Senedd election took place on Thursday 6 May 2021 to elect 60 members to the Senedd. It was the sixth devolved general election since the Senedd was established in 1999. The election was held alongside the Scottish Parliament election,English local elections,London Assembly and mayoral election and the Hartlepool by-election.
Jane Winifred Dodds is a Welsh politician who has served as Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats since 2017. She was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Brecon and Radnorshire at the seat's 2019 by-election,but was an MP for only three months before being defeated in the general election later the same year. In May 2021,Dodds was elected to the Senedd on the Mid and West Wales list. She is the only Liberal Democrat MS in the Senedd.
Events from the year 2019 in Wales.
A by-election was held in the UK Parliament constituency of Brecon and Radnorshire on 1 August 2019 after Chris Davies,who had held the seat for the Conservatives since the 2015 general election,was unseated by a recall petition. The by-election was won by Jane Dodds of the Liberal Democrats.
James Evans is a Welsh Conservative Party politician and farmer,who has served as the Member of the Senedd (MS) for Brecon and Radnorshire since the 2021 Senedd election. He previously served as councillor for Gwernyfed ward on Powys County Council.
Sioned Williams is a Welsh politician and a Member of the Senedd (MS) for the South Wales West region since 2021. Williams is a member of Plaid Cymru.
Tom Giffard is a Welsh Conservative politician who has served as Member of the Senedd (MS) for the region of South Wales West since 2021.
The 2024 United Kingdom 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 won a landslide victory of Welsh MPs,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.
