Gareth Jones | |
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&sq=&lang=&file=File:Gareth_Jones_(53964509022)_(cropped).jpg) Official portrait, 2007 | |
| Member of the Welsh Assembly for Aberconwy | |
| In office 3 May 2007 – 30 March 2011 | |
| Preceded by | New Constituency |
| Succeeded by | Janet Finch-Saunders |
| Majority | 1,693 (8.2%) |
| Member of the Welsh Assembly for Conwy | |
| In office 6 May 1999 – 1 May 2003 | |
| Preceded by | New Assembly |
| Succeeded by | Denise Idris Jones |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 14 May 1939 Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales |
| Political party | Plaid Cymru (until 2018) Independent (since 2018) |
| Alma mater | Swansea University |
| Occupation | Politician |
Gareth Jones OBE (born 14 May 1939) is a Welsh politician. He was a member of the National Assembly for Wales for the Conwy from 1999 until 2003 when he lost by 72 votes. He sought a successful re-election to the newly created Aberconwy constituency in 2007 before retiring in 2011. He was also Leader of Conwy County Borough Council, from 2017 to 2019, and a Llandudno town councillor representing the Craig-y-Don ward. He was formerly a member of Plaid Cymru, but left in 2017 after attempting to form a council administration in Conwy containing Welsh Conservatives,[1] which the national party would not allow. He ran an independent administration of the council until 2019, when the Conservatives took control of the council.
In July 2007 he was elected Chair of the Assembly's new Enterprise and Learning Committee.[2]
Prior to winning the Aberconwy constituency he was the cabinet member for finance and resources and the leader of the Plaid Cymru party group on Conwy County Borough Council.
- ^ "Conwy council leader Gareth Jones leaves Plaid Cymru group". BBC News. 20 June 2017. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
- ^ "National Assembly for Wales | Enterprise and Learning Committee". Archived from the original on 26 September 2007. Retrieved 17 July 2007.