 Davies and Law re-wrote the votong book in Blaenau Gwent |
It was amongst the biggest political shocks in recent Welsh history.
Later this week it will be 100 days since the Blaenau Gwent by-election caused by the death of former AM and MP Peter Law.
Mr Law's wife, Trish, triumphed in the Assembly seat, and his agent Dai Davies won the Parliamentary poll.
But how are the new representatives finding their roles?
And what will their success mean for the Labour Party, which has long regarded Blaenau Gwent as one of its heartlands?
Chief among the headaches that Dai Davies and Trish Law must deal with, are plans to close residential homes, anti-social behaviour and housing shortages.
Mrs Law said: "We have so many homes in Blaenau Gwent that are boarded up, and we have so many people waiting for housing.
"That can never be right with a New Labour Government. Y'know, it's absolutely cruel."
 Two lots of Blaenau Gwent votes were counted in Ebbw Vale |
Employment concerns
Blaenau Gwent's new MP wants to reconnect politics to people and to take their ideas forward.
He is concerned that low pay, given to newly arrived Eastern European workers, might be pricing indigenous workers out of the jobs market.
Dai Davies also wants people to consider the merits of the Labour Government's idea of child curfew zones for young people.
He said: "There was an issue some months ago now about curfew.
"And I think we need to look at that very, very carefully where perhaps we need to look at parental control and encouraging parents to take interest of where their children are of a night.
"So there are issues around anti-social behaviour.
But the answer to that is not just simply to lock up or even ASBOs."
Losing both the Assembly and the Parliamentary seat in Blaenau Gwent was a body blow to Welsh Labour which still rankles.
 Wayne David was scathing at their victory... |
'No impact'
Labour MP for Caerphilly Wayne David criticised both the new Independent members.
He claimed Mrs Law had aligned herself with the with Conservatives and Plaid Cymru in the Assembly and that Dai Davies had made "no impact whatsoever".
Such claims are denied by the new MP and AM. Trish Law said: "Labour supporters congratulated me. I'm under no duvet with any other party down there."
Labour Party members have admitted that losing three elections in a traditional heartland in quick succession poses difficult questions about their organisation.
Their unsuccessful Parliamentary candidate at the by-election, Owen Smith, said: "I think they probably need to reorganise the party in order to reconnect with people, but I think that's a lesson that's been learned in the Labour Party in Blaenau Gwent.
"They know, he continued, "that we lost people's trust, they know we've got to win it back, they know they're going to have to work very hard to do that."
The nightmare for Labour is that the Blaenau Gwent result gave disaffection amongst its traditional supporters a focus - and that it might grow.
Dai Davies says he and his colleagues in Blaenau Gwent People's Voice are a movement of likeminded individuals, not a political party.
But he claims that movement now has over 140 members with groups newly started in Torfaen and Caerphilly, and contacts as far away as Swansea and Flintshire.
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