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1995 Powys County Council Election
The first election to the Powys County Council following local government reorganisation was held in May 1995. It was followed by the 1999 election. Results Overview No Overall Control Ward Results (Brecknockshire) Aber-craf (one seat) Builth (one seat) Bwlch (one seat) Crickhowell (two seats) Cwmtwrch (one seat) Felin-fach (one seat) Gwernyfed (one seat) Hay (one seat) Llanafanfawr, Erwood (one seat) Llanfyrnach, Talybont-on-Usk (one seat) Llangammarch, Llanwrtyd Wells (one seat) Llangattock (one seat) Llangors (one seat) Llangynidr (one seat) Maescar / Llywel (one seat) St Davids Within (one seat) St John (two seats) St Mary (two seats) Talgarth (two seats) Tawe Uchaf (one seat) Ynyscedwyn (one seat) Yscir (one seat) Ystradgynlais (two seats) Ward Results (Montgomeryshire) Banwy (one seat) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Powys County Council
Powys County Council ( cy, Cyngor Sir Powys) is the local authority for Powys, one of the administrative areas of Wales. The County Hall is in Llandrindod Wells. History The county of Powys was created on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, covering the area of the three administrative counties of Brecknockshire, Montgomeryshire, and Radnorshire, which were abolished at the same time. From 1974 until 1996 there were two principal tiers of local government, with Powys County Council as the upper tier authority and three district councils below it, each of which corresponded to one of the pre-1974 counties: Brecknock Borough Council, Montgomeryshire District Council, and Radnorshire District Council. The three districts were abolished under the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994, with Powys County Council becoming a unitary authority with effect from 1 April 1996, taking on the functions formerly performed by the district councils. Political control The first el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1999 Powys County Council Election
The second election to the Powys County Council following local government reorganisation was held in May 1999. It was preceded by the 1995 election and followed by the 2004 election. The election resulted once again in a majority of Independent councillors. Results Overview Ward results (Brecknockshire) Aber-craf (one seat) Bronllys (one seat) Boundary Change. Builth (one seat) Bwlch (one seat) Crickhowell (one seat) Boundary Change. Cwmtwrch (one seat) Felin-fach (one seat) Gwernyfed (one seat) No valid nominations were received. Hay (one seat) James Gibson-Watt represented a different ward on the previous council. Llanafanfawr (one seat) Llangattock (one seat) Llangors (one seat) Llangynidr (one seat) Llanwrtyd Wells (one seat) Maescar / Llywel (one seat) St Davids Within (one seat) St John (one seat) The number of seats were reduced from two to one. St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Booth
Richard George William Pitt Booth (12 September 1938 – 20 August 2019) was a British people, British bookseller, known for his contribution to the success of Hay-on-Wye as a centre for second-hand bookselling. He was also the self-proclaimed "King of Hay". Biography Booth was born in Plymouth, Devon. He was educated at Rugby School and Merton College, Oxford, yet he dreaded seeing how young men like himself left their hometown for the city, and wondered what trade could save this small rural economy. Having inherited the Brynmelyn estate from his uncle, Major Willie Booth, he opened a second-hand bookshop in Hay-on-Wye, in the old fire station, and took the strongest men of Hay to America, where libraries were closing fast. They bought and shipped books in containers back to Hay-on-Wye. His example was followed by others, so that by the 1970s Hay had become internationally known as the "Town of Books". In 1973, he appeared on the American game show ''To Tell the Truth'', hos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Williams (British Politician)
Roger Hugh Williams, Order of the British Empire, CBE (born 22 January 1948) is a Welsh Liberal Democrats, Welsh Liberal Democrat politician who was the Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Brecon and Radnorshire (UK Parliament constituency), Brecon and Radnorshire from 2001 to 2015 United Kingdom general election, 2015. Early life Born in the town of Crickhowell, Williams studied at Christ College, Brecon, and Selwyn College, Cambridge. On graduating in Natural Sciences he returned to Breconshire becoming a livestock farmer on the family farm at Llanfilo. During the mid-1980s he was elected Chairman of the Brecon and Radnorshire branch of the National Farmers Union (England and Wales), National Farmers Union. Political career Williams joined the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party in 1969, but left to join the Social Democratic Party (UK), SDP at the formation of the party in 1981, representing it and subsequently the Liberal Democrats on Powys Count ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Mary (Brecon Electoral Ward)
Brecon East' ( cy, Dwyrain Aberhonddu), formerly St Mary, is the name of an Wards and electoral divisions of the United Kingdom, electoral ward in the town of Brecon, Powys, Wales. It covers the town centre and elects councillors to Brecon Town Council, Brecon Town Council and Powys County Council. Description The Brecon East ward covers the town centre of Brecon, the residential areas stretching east to the junction with the A470 road, A470 and the rural area around Slwch Farm. The southern border is defined by the River Usk. Brecon West lies to the west, Yscir with Honddu Isaf and Llanddew to the north and Talybont-on-Usk to the southwest. Since the 1999 elections the St Mary ward elected one county councillor to Powys County Council (prior to this it had elected two county councillors). It covers the St Mary community ward, represented by up to five town councillors on Brecon Town Council, and the St John East ward represented by 3 town councillors. According to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Llanfihangel (Powys Electoral Ward)
Llanfihangel was the name of an electoral wards in the north of Powys, Wales. It covered the community of Llanfihangel (which gives it its name) as well as the neighbouring community of Llangyniew. The ward elected a county councillor to Powys County Council. According to the 2011 census the population of the ward was 1,049. Following a boundary review, Llanfihangel was merged to become part of the larger ward of Banwy, Llanfihangel and Llanwddyn, effective from the 2022 local elections. County councillors Independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s * Independ ... councillor Barry Thomas represented the ward on Powys County Council for 20 years until May 2017. He was leader of Powys County Council from January 2014 until he stepped down. He had previously been chairman of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newtown Central
Newtown Central was the name of a county electoral ward in the town of Newtown, Powys, Wales. It remains as a community ward to Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn Town Council. Description Newtown Central ward covered the area west of Newtown town centre and immediately south of the River Severn. The ward elected two councillors to Montgomeryshire District Council and Powys County Council, but since the May 1999 election it elected one county councillor to Powys County Council. Newtown Central is a community ward and is represented by three town councillors on Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn Town Council. According to the 2011 UK Census the population of the ward was 3,278. Effective from the 2022 local elections, Newtown Central was merged with Newtown South to become Newtown Central and South, which elected two councillors to Powys County Council. County elections At the May 2017 Powys County Council elections four of the five sitting councillors in Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bufton
John Andreas Bufton (born 31 August 1962 in Llanidloes) is a former UK Independence Party (UKIP) Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Wales, from 2009 to 2014, when he stood down. Early life Bufton was educated at Elan Village Primary School and Llandrindod Wells High School, and joined the family haulage business before embarking on a career managing a residential care home for the elderly with the local authority. Political career Bufton's political career began when he was elected onto Rhayader Town Council in 1987. In 1995, he was elected to Powys County Council. In the 1997 General Election, he ran for the Referendum Party in the Montgomeryshire constituency. In 2000, he ran as UKIP candidate in the Ceredigion by-election, coming fifth with 1.9% of the vote. He also ran for UKIP in the 2005 General Election, 2007 Welsh Assembly Elections and 2008 Powys County Council election. In 2009, Bufton became UKIP's first MEP for Wales, picking up the fourth available s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Powys County Council Elections
Powys (; ) is a county and preserved county in Wales. It is named after the Kingdom of Powys which was a Welsh successor state, petty kingdom and principality that emerged during the Middle Ages following the end of Roman rule in Britain. Geography Powys covers the historic counties of Montgomeryshire and Radnorshire, most of Brecknockshire, and part of historic Denbighshire. With an area of about , it is now the largest administrative area in Wales by land and area ( Dyfed was until 1996 before several former counties created by the Local Government Act 1972 were abolished). It is bounded to the north by Gwynedd, Denbighshire and Wrexham County Borough; to the west by Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire; to the east by Shropshire and Herefordshire; and to the south by Rhondda Cynon Taf, Merthyr Tydfil County Borough, Caerphilly County Borough, Blaenau Gwent, Monmouthshire and Neath Port Talbot. The largest towns are Newtown, Ystradgynlais, Brecon, Welshpool, Llandrindo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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