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Vikki Howells

Vikki Howells
MS
Howells in 2021
Member of the Senedd
for Cynon Valley
Assumed office
6 May 2016
Preceded byChristine Chapman
Majority7,468 (36.4%)
Personal details
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom
NationalityWelsh
Political partyWelsh Labour
EducationSt John the Baptist School, Aberdare
Alma materUniversity of Wales, Cardiff

Vikki Howells is a Welsh Labour and Co-operative politician and former teacher. Since May 2016, she has been the Member of the Senedd for Cynon Valley.

Background and personal life

Howells was brought up in Cwmbach, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales.[1] She was educated at St John the Baptist School, a Church in Wales secondary school in Aberdare.[2] She studied International and Welsh history at the University of Wales, Cardiff, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree.[2] She remained at Cardiff to undertake postgraduate study in Modern Welsh History, and graduated with a Master of Arts degree.[2]

Her partner is Hefin David, MS for the neighbouring Caerphilly constituency.[3]

Career

Teaching career

Before her election to the Senedd, Howells was a history teacher and the assistant head of sixth form at St Cenydd Comprehensive School in Caerphilly, South Wales.

Political career

Howells has been a Member of the Labour Party since she was 17.[2] In December 2015, it was announced that Howells had been selected as the Welsh Labour candidate for the Cynon Valley constituency of the Senedd.[4] On 5 May 2016, she was successfully elected as a Member of the Welsh Assembly, she received 9,830 votes (51.1% of the votes cast, and a majority of 5,994).[1]

She was re-elected as a Labour and Co-operative Party candidate[5] at the 2021 Senedd election with an increased majority of 7,468 votes.[6]

Howells supported Vaughan Gething in the 2018 and February–March 2024 Welsh Labour leadership elections.[7][8]

Howells chairs the Welsh Labour Group of MSs.[9] She is also president of the mental health charity Friends R Us and vice-president of Cwmbach Male Voice Choir.[9][3] Vikki is also a member of the Cynon Valley History Society, the social justice thinktank the Bevan Foundation, the Co-operative Party, the GMB and USDAW.[9][3]

Howells chairs the Senedd Standards of Conduct Committee.[10]

References

  1. ^ a b Tegeltija, Sam (6 May 2016). "Assembly Election 2016: Labour holds Cynon as Vikki Howells succeeds Christine Chapman". Wales Online. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
  2. ^ a b c d "Vikki Howells MS". senedd.wales. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
  3. ^ a b c "Register of interests for Vikki Howells MS - Sixth Senedd". business.senedd.wales. 2 June 2021. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
  4. ^ Tegeltija, Sam (8 December 2015). "Teacher Vikki Howells announced as Labour's Cynon Valley candidate for National Assembly election". Walses Online. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
  5. ^ "Annual Review 2021" (PDF). Co-operative Party. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
  6. ^ "Election results for Cynon Valley, 6 May 2021". business.senedd.wales. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
  7. ^ "Labour AMs back Vaughan Gething for Welsh Labour leadership in open letter". ITV Wales. 25 May 2018. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
  8. ^ "Vaughan Gething announces Welsh first minister bid". BBC News. 14 December 2023. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
  9. ^ a b c "About Vikki". Vikki Howells MS. Archived from the original on 10 June 2023.
  10. ^ "Standards of Conduct Committee". senedd.wales. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
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Preceded by Member of the Senedd for Cynon Valley
2016 to present 		Incumbent
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