Senedd election candidates confirmed

Current Member of the Senedd, Russell George’s late bombshell that he is standing for the Senedd elections on May 7 has ensured that you have the choice of nine parties/independents to choose from next month.

We go to the polls across Wales for a new-look election that sees us vote for parties instead of actual candidates (apart from the independents running), with six people to represent us in the massively expanded constituency of Gwynedd Maldwyn.

It is also the first election where 16 and 17-year-olds have the chance to vote and MyTown Media will ensure you are kept up to date with our MyVote Matters campaign.

How it will work:

Wales is divided into 16 constituencies at the election on May 7, and each constituency will elect six Members of the Senedd using a closed-list proportional voting system. You will get one ballot paper and can vote for either a political party or an individual candidate.

This voting system means that the number of seats a party wins in a constituency will roughly match its share of the vote. For example, if a party gets 50% of the vote, they’ll win three out of the six seats available.

In each constituency, political parties were allowed to name up to eight candidates to stand in the election. Individual candidates can also stand as independents.

In total, 675 candidates have put themselves forward for election for the 96 seats available in the next Senedd.

These candidates represent 16 political parties, while 30 people are standing as independents.

Here is the full list for Gwynedd Maldwyn:

Ceidwadwyr Cymreig / Welsh Conservatives

Aled Wyn Davies, Henrietta Elizabeth Hensher, Pete Lewington, Hedd Vaughan Thomas, Daniel Lewis Spilsbury, Roger Francis Cracknell

Gwlad-Gall Cymru Fod Yn Well / Gwlad-Wales Can Be Better

Jeremy Davies

Heritage Party - Plaid Treftadaeth

Mattie Ginsberg

Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales

Sian Gwenllian, Mabon ap Gwynfor, Beca Brown, Elwyn Vaughan, Elin Hywel, Donna O'Brien, Victoria Evans, Elfed Wyn ap Elwyn

Plaid Werdd / Green Party

Nathan Jarvis, Nicole Wait, Sue MacFarlane, Sian Thomas, Curtis Wilford, Ed Mason

Reform UK

Andrew Charles Griffin, Claire Victoria Johnson-Wood, Robert Karl Lewis, Peter Phillip Robinson, Mark Phillip Blake, Richard Charles Pendry

Welsh Labour/ Llafur Cymru

Ian Pryce Parry, Dawn McGuinness, Steffan William Chambers, Dana Davies, Mathew James Norman, Morgan Peters

Welsh Liberal Democrats- Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol Cymru

Glyn Preston, Steve Churchman, Richard Wilfrid Church, Pete Roberts, Carol Elaine Robinson, Manny Akpoteni

Russell George

Monty Kennard

More information:

There is a comprehensive list, as well as an explanation of how it all works and where you can vote, at www.vote.wales, a new website managed by the Electoral Management Board for Wales, part of the Democracy and Boundary Commission Cymru.