The Return of the BBC Wales Election Tour

It’s back! BBC Wales is taking its giant inflatable tent on the road again this year to tell the story of the election campaign across Wales.

BBC Wales’s news and current affairs team will be talking to politicians, party volunteers and most importantly the voters. It’s a chance for people to have their say; what are the make-or-break issues or do people feel untouched by the election process?

We’ll be talking about key battlegrounds and issues affecting voters in different parts of Wales. During the first week we’ll be covering the electoral regions of North Wales and Mid & West Wales, before moving on to the regions of South Wales West, Central and East in the second week.

Our programmes including Wales Today, Newyddion 9, BBC Radio Wales and BBC Radio Cymru and our online and social media services in English and Welsh are all on the tour. And we want to know what people think, and what they want from their politicians.

Over the next fortnight we’ll be visiting Haverfordwest, Machynlleth, Wrexham, Caerphilly, Cardiff and Mumbles. Our stop in Cardiff will build up to the BBC Wales Leaders debate on Wednesday 27 April, at St David’s Hall.

As ever, if you can’t join us on the tour, there’s plenty of election coverage to choose from and our teams will continue to cover stories from across Wales.

BBC Wales’s team of presenters and political experts, Dewi Llwyd, Bethan Rhys Roberts, Nick Servini, Aled ap Dafydd and Vaughan Roderick are amongst our team of experts who’ll tell the election story. There’s also plenty of expert analysis from specialist correspondents from across Wales, visits by our radio and news teams to Llanelli, Anglesey, Brecon and Radnorshire and Merthyr Tydfil and Radio 1 Newsbeat’s Steffan Powell and his back-to-basics animated explainers about How Wales Works.

This year’s election coverage builds on the success of our recent season How Wales Works, which clearly explained to our audiences how our democratic system affects day-to-day life in Wales. In the run up to May 5, our teams will be on the road, bringing all kinds of people together with the election hopefuls to spark some real scrutiny and in-depth debate.

Reporting and analysis of the campaign is underpinned by a comprehensive digital service, offering individual pages covering stories and candidate information from all of the Welsh constituencies.

If you can, please take the chance to visit the tent at one of the named locations and get involved. I also hope you are able to listen, to watch or to read our comprehensive coverage.

If you’d like to remind yourself of what our election tour looks like, take a look behind the scenes at one of last year’s venues: