By Jonathan Isaby
Simon Baynes has been selected this week to contest Dwyfor Meirionnydd at May's Welsh Assembly election.
The seat was created for the 2007 Welsh Assembly election (being represented by Daffydd Elis-Thomas, the Plaid Cymru Presiding Officer at Cardiff Bay, who also represented much of the area under previous boundaries) and Simon fought the newly-created Westminster seat on the same boundaries at last year's general election. On that occasion he attained an impressive 7.3% swing from Plaid to the Conservatives, overtaking Labour to take second place.
Simon is a Powys County Councillor and a Deputy Chairman of the Welsh Conservatives and you can read more about him on his website.
