On May 5 Wales will go to the polls for the Welsh Assembly election and for the referendum on changing how Mps are elected to the UK Parliament.
Caerphilly County Borough covers three constituencies – Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney, Caerphilly and Islwyn.
At the polling booth, voters will get three ballot papers. One to vote for their constituency Assembly Member, one to vote for their Regional Assembly Members, in this instance South Wales East, and another for the referendum on voting reform in the UK Parliament.
The referendum will ask whether to ditch the first-past-the-post system for electing MPs in favour of the Alternative Vote system. The referendum will not change the way Assembly Members are chosen in Wales.
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List of candidates and parties for May 5 – Click on the links for related stories about the candidates
Caerphilly
Jeff Cuthbert – Labour
Kay David – Liberal Democrat
Ron Davies – Plaid Cymru
Anthony King – British National Party
Owen Meredith – Conservative
Islwyn
David Chipp – Conservative
Steffan Lewis – Plaid Cymru
Gwyn Price – Labour
Tom Sullivan – Liberal Democrat
Peter Whalley – British National Party
Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney
Amy Kitcher – Liberal Democrat
Huw Lewis – Labour
Chris O’Brien – Conservative
Tony Rogers – Independent
Noel Turner – Plaid Cymru
To the Residents of Caerphilly
IT IS A PITY that the 2 main parties in Wales are raging against each other i wonder how the citizens of Caerphilly would benefit if they all worked together. Even today we still have poverty within this borough eg children going hungary turning up for school in dirty, smelly clothing, thats if they even get to school as they may be careing for a parent or a relative. The gap of social deprevation widens everyday what are they going to do to sort it out??? The Plaid Council have laid off staff from Social Services, closed the rent offices, turned our street lights off, the grass and hedges remain uncut,and the promised regeneration of our town is still stalled. But Plaid have used this to their advantage as a disused building is now plastered with pictures of Ron Davies on the lower tier and the conservative canditate on the top tier (ironic if you ask me)……Caerphilly Town is now fulled with pubs and fast food take aways on a friday and saturday the urine, vomit soaked pavements are a great advert for our wonderful town I feel sorry for the Council Workers and shop owners who clean up this degrading mess. Shop keepers often having to clean their doorways before they can open to the public for trading (what a beautifil start to the day)They say for us to tighten our belts we guess what we can not tighten them anymore. Let the rich Tories/Liberal Dem take another pay cut, it doesnt matter to them 75% of the cabnet are millionaries anyway raise their tax bill they won't notice another few thousand on their bill.Parliament was supposed to be elected for the people by the people, well I would like to live in a nice semi rural house in Nant Ddu, have a excellent pension because, i supposily cant work anymore, and yet this person is standing for election in my town. Come on Plaid you do have a better candiate for us.
Labour got us into this mess on a national level, so now the Tory/Liberal Dem motto is slash the cost of everything. leaving funding at a dangerous all time low. Plaid have got us into this mess on a local level, where or when will it stop
once agen someone seams determind to blame labour for a world wide banking crisis. even thow it was labour intervenchen thas saved the homes and jobs of millions of peaple in the uk when the WORLD BANKING crisis that STARTED IN AMERICA (well out side a uk goverment duristiction) hit the uk
We're not blaming New Labour for the banking crisis. We're blaming them for being daft enough to hand over £trillions of our money to the people who own the banks, thereby landing the country into a massive debt. In effect, the British people are being shafted by the government on behalf of the rich.
We should be calling on the government to stop bailing out those idiots who run the banks, and to stop cutting our public services to subsidise the luxurious lifestyles of the bankers.