{"id":38951,"date":"2025-10-10T20:49:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T20:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/why-is-there-an-senedd-by-election-happening-caerphilly\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T20:49:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T20:49:02","slug":"why-is-there-an-senedd-by-election-happening-caerphilly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/why-is-there-an-senedd-by-election-happening-caerphilly\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is there an Senedd by-election happening Caerphilly?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">People in Caerphilly will vote for a new representative in the Welsh Parliament after the sudden death of the area&#8217;s Member of the Senedd (MS), Labour&#8217;s Hefin David in August. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">On 23 October voters in Caerphilly will decide who will be their MS for the next six months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">It will fill a vacancy until May 2026 when another election will decide the make-up of the newly expanded Welsh Parliament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">BBC Wales&#8217; Terel Edmunds tells us more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">BBC Wales is holding a live debate for the candidates of the Caerphilly by-election on 15 October. Click <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/send\/u217076230\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 jZoZnB\">here<\/a> to apply to be in the audience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/c77d2g5mgelo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People in Caerphilly will vote for a new representative in the Welsh Parliament after the sudden death of the area&#8217;s Member of the Senedd (MS), Labour&#8217;s Hefin David in August. On 23 October voters in Caerphilly will decide who will be their MS for the next six months. It will fill a vacancy until May [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[2498,5964,3430,3418],"class_list":["post-38951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wales","tag-byelection","tag-caerphilly","tag-happening","tag-senedd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38953,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38951\/revisions\/38953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}