Dyfed is a preserved county in southwestern Wales. It is a mostly rural area with a coastline on the Irish Sea and the Bristol Channel.
Alun Edward Michael is a Welsh Labour and Co-operative politician serving as South Wales Police and Crime Commissioner since 2012. He served as Secretary of State for Wales from 1998 to 1999 and then as the first First Secretary of Wales and Leader of Welsh Labour from 1999 to 2000.
Simon George Thomas is a Welsh former politician who was a member of Plaid Cymru. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Ceredigion from 2000 to 2005,and an Assembly Member in the National Assembly for Wales representing the Mid and West Wales list between 2011 and 2018.
Dyfed–Powys Police is the territorial police force in Wales policing Carmarthenshire,Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire and the unitary authority of Powys. The force was formed in 1968,with the merger of the Carmarthenshire and Cardiganshire Constabulary,the Pembrokeshire Constabulary and the Mid Wales Constabulary.
North Wales Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing North Wales. Its headquarters are in Colwyn Bay. As of March 2020,the force has 1,510 police officers,170 special constables,182 police community support officers (PCSO),71 police support volunteers (PSV),and 984 staff.
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. Since the passing of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 for UK general elections,all four types of elections are held after fixed periods,though early elections to the UK parliament can occur in certain situations,with Senedd elections being postponed to avoid elections to the UK parliament and Senedd coinciding with each other.
The Welsh Conservatives 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,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. They hold 14 of the 40 Welsh seats in the UK Parliament,and 16 of the 60 seats in the Senedd.
Angela Jane Burns is a British businesswoman and politician who was elected as Conservative AM for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire from 2007 to 2021.
Jeffrey Hambley Cuthbert is a Welsh politician serving as Gwent Police and Crime Commissioner since 2016. Cuthbert served as a Labour Party member of the National Assembly for Wales for Caerphilly from 2003 to 2016. He began his career in the mining industry and later worked for the Welsh Joint Education Committee as head of the Asset to Industry Unit.
Margaret Delyth Evans is a Welsh former politician and charity director who served as Deputy Minister for Rural Affairs,Culture and Environment in the National Assembly for Wales from 2000 to 2003. A member of the Labour Party,she was Assembly Member (AM) for Mid and West Wales from 2000 to 2003.
The 2007 National Assembly for Wales election was held on Thursday 3 May 2007 to elect members to the National Assembly for Wales. It was the third general election. On the same day local elections in England and Scotland,as well as the Scottish Parliament election took place. This election was preceded by the previous Assembly election in 2003.
The 2012 police and crime commissioner elections were polls held in most police areas in England and Wales on Thursday 15 November. The direct election of police and crime commissioners (PCCs) was originally scheduled for May 2012 but was postponed in order to secure the passage of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 through the House of Lords. The government considers the elected commissioners to have a stronger mandate than the "unelected and invisible police authorities that they replace". The elections took place alongside by-elections for the House of Commons in Cardiff South and Penarth,Corby and Manchester Central,and a mayoral election in Bristol.
Christopher Salmon is a Conservative politician,who served as Dyfed-Powys Police and Crime Commissioner,the largest police area in England and Wales,from November 2012 until May 2016. He was the first person to hold the post and was elected on 15 November 2012.
The 2016 United Kingdom local elections held on Thursday 5 May 2016 were a series of local elections which were held in 124 local councils and also saw 4 mayoral elections in England which also coincided with elections to the Scottish Parliament,the Welsh Assembly,the Northern Ireland Assembly,the London Assembly,the London mayoral election and the England and Wales Police and crime commissioners. By-elections for the Westminster seats of Ogmore and Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough were also held. These proved to be David Cameron's last local elections as leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister as he resigned two months later following the defeat of Remain in the referendum on Britain's continuing membership of the European Union which was held seven weeks later.
Elections of police and crime commissioners in England and Wales were held on 5 May 2016.
Dafydd Llywelyn is a Welsh Plaid Cymru politician. Since May 2016,he has served as the Dyfed-Powys Police and Crime Commissioner.
The 2018 Welsh Labour Party leadership election took place between 9 November and 6 December 2018 to elect a successor to Carwyn Jones as leader of the Welsh Labour Party.
Cairn Frederick Newton,known as Cairn Newton-Evans,is a former Welsh volunteer police officer and academic.
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.
