Dyfed-Powys Police Crime and Commissioner Dafydd Llywelyn has been re-elected. THE Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) for Dyfed-Powys has once again pledged to put policing before politics after being re-elected to the role. Plaid Cymru s Dafydd Llywelyn was re-elected on Sunday, beating his Conservative opponent Jon Burns with vastly-superior number of second preference votes. Mr Llywelyn thanked all those who supported and campaigned for him in the vote that had been delayed from May 2020 because of Covid19. “I am extremely pleased to be re-elected as your PCC, he said. As your current Commissioner, operational, front-line policing has, and always will come before party politics.
The new Police and Crime Commissioners elected in Wales
The results have been announced after the Police and Crime Commissioner elections took place on Thursday
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Wales four Police and Crime Commissioners have been elected.
The results were announced on Sunday afternoon as the last of the counting came to an end after Thursday s elections.
Candidates fro the Police and Crime Commissioner post As the excitement of the Senedd election calms electoral staff will be back by their ballot boxes on Sunday (May 9) to count the votes for the region’s police and crime commissioner. There are four candidates in the running for the Dyfed-Powys position including the incumbent Dafydd Llywelyn from Llandysul, hoping to return as the Plaid Cymru candidate. Also bidding for votes on May 6 were Conservative candidate Jon Burns, whose address is given as Brecon and Radnorshire; Welsh Liberal Democrats Glyn Preston from Montgomeryshire and Labour and Co-operative Party candidate – Philippa Ann Thompson who lives in the Preseli Pembrokeshire constituency.
. IT has been confirmed that the Dyfed-Powys Police and Crime Commissioner Election Count will take place on Sunday, 9 May, following the election on Thursday. The swearing of the oath will also take place on Sunday, and the elected Police and Crime Commissioner s new term in office will start on 13 May. The Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Declaration of Acceptance of Office) Order prescribes the form of words that the elected Police and Crime Commissioners will be required to declare before they take office, said a PCC spokesperson. The term of a person elected as a PCC at an ordinary election begins on the seventh (calendar) day after the day of the poll, and ends with the sixth (calendar) day following the subsequent poll.
The Ceredigion election count is under way. The counting for the Senedd Cymru election s Ceredigion constituency, along with the regional list for Mid Wales and West Wales, is now under way. Polls opened at 7am on Thursday and closed at 10pm in the first election since the legislature was renamed from the National Assembly of Wales. This year s election is different to any other, and we are working in line with Covid-19 guidelines, said a spokesperson for Ceredigion Council. The ballot boxes and the postal votes are in and election staff are busy verifying the papers for the Senedd Cymru Ceredigion constituency, the Mid and West Wales region and the Police and Crime Commissioner for the Dyfed-Powys area.