Wrexham and Clwyd South candidates announced for Senedd election

The official candidate lists for Wrexham and Clwyd South have been released, along with the wider North Wales region candidates.

The names, listed in full below, are the candidates for the Senedd election on May 6th.

When voting for members of the Senedd, you will have two votes.

One for a member to represent your constituency, and one to represent your Welsh region – also known as ‘list’ candidates. There are 20 people elected to represent five regions of Wales, with the North Wales region returning four representatives.

The constituency vote is run as first past the post, with a straightforward who gets the most votes wins system.

The second box you will mark is for the regional seat, and you vote for a party. Each party has submitted a list of candidates in order (below) and a formula called the Additional Member System is used to determine who is elected, the aim is to help to overcome the imbalance often associated with first-past-the-post elections. It is important to look at the candidate lists on the table below, as they are the people you are voting for!
Here’s how the regional system works:

• each party or group in a region presents a list of candidates;
• electors vote for the person they want to represent their region;
• the votes for the regions are usually counted after the constituency votes have been decided;
• each party’s total is divided by 1 + the number of Members of the Senedd it already has in that region;
• the party with the highest total after this calculation gets the next seat and the person on top of its list is elected;
• the same pattern is repeated until all four regional seats have been decided.

Make sure you are registered to vote ( https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote ) before midnight on April 19th, and you should get a “poll card” through the post telling you where to vote, however you don’t need one to take part.

As usual Wrexham.com has invited every constituency candidate to take part in a Q&A, and along with the North.Wales and Deeside.com team we are conducting a similar exercise with every constituency candidate across North Wales.

There is also a Police and Crime Commissioner election taking place on the same day, and Q&As have been sent to all candidates as well and will be published on North.Wales/PCC2021

The candidates for Wrexham and Clwyd South are below, and all have been sent Q&As and we will be updating Wrexham.com/election2021 as and when they return them:

The profiles and Q&As:
You can jump to a constituency or candidate list from the below:

• Clwyd South
• Wrexham

All candidates standing are listed below, you can click to read their profile and Q&A: (^Top)

All candidates standing are listed below, you can click to read their profile and Q&A: (^Top)

The following are the candidates for the North Wales regional lists, in order selected by the party they are standing for. Some may have taken part in the North.Wales Q&A’s if they are standing for a constituency as well.

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