POLLS are now open across Powys, as Wales gets set to elect its sixth parliament.

There are three separate ballots for Mid Wales residents to vote on in today’s elections – including two for the Senedd elections and one more for picking a Police and Crime Commissioner.

In the Senedd election there are two ballot papers, one to choose a constituency member and the other to elect a regional list member.

Voters will elect 40 Members of the Senedd (MSs) representing local constituencies, and 20 representing five large regions – North Wales, Mid and West Wales, South Wales West, South Wales Central and South Wales East.

The County Times will be bringing you election updates as they happen throughout Powys today via our live blog.

10.35am: Here are your Senedd MS candidates for Montgomeryshire: 

Alison Alexander (Liberal Democrats)

Kait Duerden (Labour)

Gwyn Evans (Gwlad - The Welsh Independence Party)

Russell George (Conservatives)

Oliver Lewis (Reform UK)

Elwyn Vaughan (Plaid Cymru)

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10.25am: Here are your Senedd MS candidates for Brecon and Radnorshire: 

Emily Durrant (Green Party)

James Evans (Conservatives)

Grenville Ham (Plaid Cymru)

Sam Holwill (Gwlad - The WelshIndependence Party)

Gethin Jones (Labour)

Karen Laurie-Parry (Independent)

Claire Mills (Abolish the Assembly)

John Muir (Reform UK)

William Powell (Liberal Democrats)

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10.04am: In south Powys it will be all change as Kirsty Williams, the education minister, is standing down from her role as a Brecon and Radnorshire representative at this election. She has represented the constituency since the birth of Wales’ parliament 22 years ago. William Powell is this year’s Liberal Democrat candidate and the race for the area is expected to come down to him and Conservative rival James Evans, who is running for his first Senedd post.

Meanwhile, in Montgomeryshire, Tory MS Russell George will be hoping to strengthen his position in north Powys, with Montgomeryshire turning blue over the last decade since Mr George was first elected in 2011 – having initially been a Lib Dem area for the first 12 years of the Assembly.

9.45am: Five parties had Members of the Senedd (MSs, formerly Assembly Members – AMs) elected at the last election: Welsh Labour, the Welsh Conservatives, Plaid Cymru, the UK Independence Party (UKIP) and the Welsh Liberal Democrats. Seven political parties are currently represented in the Senedd.

7.30am: Happy to be busy again in Llandrindod Wells

7am: And, they're open. Voters have until 10pm this evening to have their say.

Wales goes to the polls today to elect 60 members of the sixth Welsh Parliament, on an historic day for Welsh politics.

The 2021 elections is the sixth general election since the Senedd (formerly the National Assembly for Wales) was established in 1999.

It will be the first election in which 16 and 17-year-olds and legally resident foreign nationals are allowed to vote in Wales, the largest extension of the system in Wales since 1969. Both changes were a result of the Senedd and Elections (Wales) Act 2020.