Category: Wales2016

Official Constituency Candidates Announced

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The official constituency candidates have been published by Cardiff Council. We weren’t expecting any surprises but it looks like UKIP Wales are fielding a candidate. They told us they were a few weeks ago but then went very quiet.

Haydn Rushworth is the Creative Marketing Director at Exposure UK, a marketing company based in Penarth. We’ll have more details on the site soon.

So the final line up is:

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Two New Constituency Candidates Announced

With less then a month to polling day, the Liberal Democrats have announced that John Dixon will stand for them as a constituency candidate in Cardiff North.

Fiona Burt recently announced that she’s standing as an independent candidate.

UKIP told us a few weeks ago that they would announce a candidate soon but we have yet to hear anything official.

We’ve offered the candidates another chance to tell us why we should vote for them in our “Candidate Comments” series.

Introducing Candidate Comments

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In order to help you decide who to vote for in the upcoming Assembly Election, we’ve asked all the constituency candidates to write for us.

The candidates were asked to submit 500 – 750 words about any subject of their choice.

Three candidates sent us articles for the first series and six for the second. We’ll have a final series just before polling day.

Series 1

Series 2

Series 3

coming soon

In the coming months we’re going to host a tweet chat where you’ll get the chance to have a live discussion with the candidates. Subscribe to this blog for updates.