Overview
- Wales will elect 96 members to the Senedd on May 7 under a new system that replaces 60 seats with 16 larger constituencies returning six members each.
- North Wales Live published full line-ups and short biographies for the new Gwynedd Maldwyn and Clwyd constituencies, covering towns from Caernarfon and Newtown to Rhyl and Mold.
- Under the new rules, each party submits an ordered list of up to eight candidates in every constituency, and the top names take the seats the party wins by proportional share; independents can also stand.
- Local summaries name lead candidates including Aled Davies for the Welsh Conservatives and Siân Gwenllian for Plaid Cymru in Gwynedd Maldwyn, and Darren Millar leading the Conservative list in Clwyd.
- Independent Russell George, a former Montgomeryshire MS now running in Gwynedd Maldwyn, opposes the Senedd expansion on cost grounds cited at £18 million a year and centers health services and air ambulance base plans in his pitch.