44 candidates are fighting for your vote in Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion in the forthcoming Senedd elections.

For the May 7 elections, Wales will have 16 constituencies instead of the current 40.

Democracy and Boundary Commission Cymru created the new constituencies for Wales and the Senedd will have 96 members instead of 60, each constituency electing six members.

For Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion, the new Ceredigion Penfro constituency is made up of the Ceredigion Preseli UK Parliamentary constituency and the Mid and South Pembrokeshire UK Parliamentary constituency, stretching from north of Aberystwyth to Angle in the southwest and Llanteg in the southeast.

The new voting system is based on a ‘closed proportional list system’; you vote for a political party (rather than individuals) or an independent candidate, the ballot paper showing the full list of candidates in your constituency.

If a party wins enough votes, they will win one or more seats in the Senedd; if an independent candidate wins enough votes, they will win a seat in the Senedd.

Seats will reflect the percentage of votes each party or independent candidate gets.

The six Welsh Conservatives candidates are: Paul Windsor Davies, Samuel Deri Kurtz, Claire Victoria George, Brian Andrew Murphy, Gill Evans, and Claire Malaina Jones.

Plaid Cymru – The Party of Wales has eight candidates as follows: Elin Jones, Kerry Ferguson, Anna Nicholl, Cris Tomos, Colin Nosworthy, Clive Davies, Owain Jones, and Matt Adams.

Wales Green Party has six candidates: Amy Nicholass, Tomass Jereminovics, James Henry Purchase, Morgan Hope Phillips, Rosie O’Toole, and Kezia Autumn Hine.

Reform UK also has six candidates, who are: Susan Claire Archibald, Paul Marr, Michael Timothy Allen, Elisa Bessie Gonzalez Randall, Peter Martin John, and Bernard Holton.

Welsh Labour/Llafur Cymru is fielding seven candidates: Eluned Morgan (Wales’ current First Minister), Marc Tierney, Joshua Phillips, Margaret Greenaway, Tansaim Hussain-Gul, Luke Davies-Jones, and Peter Huw Jenkins.

Welsh Liberal Democrats have six candidates: Sandra Louise Jervis, Alistair Ronald Cameron, Tom Hughes, Lee Dennis Thomas John Herring, Andrew Christopher Lye, and Maggie Robinson.

One candidate Gwyn Wigley Evans is standing for Gwlad – Gall Cymru Fod Yn Well/Gwlad – Wales Can Be Better, and one, Elizabeth Davies, for Heritage Party – Keep Our Countryside Green.

Also standing as Independents are: Aaron Carey, George Alexander Chadzy, and former county councillor for Pembrokeshire, Paul Haywood Dowson.

Several candidates are listed as: “If a candidate has been a member of any registered political party, other than the party on whose list they appear as a candidate, at any time during the period of 12 months ending on the day on which the notice of election was published (March 23, 2026).”

Those are: Eluned Morgan, Margaret Greenaway, and Tansaim Hussain-Gul all listed under the Co-operative Party; George Alexander Chadzy listed under Advance UK and Paul Haywood Dowson under Restore Britain.

Ceredigion chief executive Eifion Evans is the Constituency Returning Officer; the May 7 polling day running from 7am to 10pm.

If you’re aged 16 or over and live in Wales, you can vote in the 2026 Senedd Election.