All four candidates from the main parties are women, offering the certainty of a unique result in the first ever assembly elections.

Alison Halford, Labour

With just four women out of 40 MPs in Wales and only 18% of local council seats filled by women, the future of Welsh politics promises something very different.

Labour pledge women would have a fair say in the selection of its own candidates.

It would seem the other main parties have also taken a leaf out of Labour's book.

Meg Ellis, Plaid Cymru

Divided as they are on key policies, all four Delyn candidates share the same optimism that the assembly can offer women a new voice in Wales.

"When you get full representation, that will bring about a huge sea change in the sort of things and policies the Welsh Assembly can generate," said Alison Halford, Labour's candidate and a former Assistant Chief Constable of Merseyside Police.

Eleanor Burnham, the Liberal Democrat candidate and a business advisor, was equally upbeat as her campaign entered its final few days.

Eleanor Burnham, Liberal Democrat

"It has been recognised that women work differently and I think there is a feeling going around that women will function hopefully in more of a consensus than adverse way."

Meg Ellis, Plaid Cymru's candidate and a translator by profession, said the fact that assembly members could work closer to home was a definite attraction to women.

"They will spend more time in the constituencies, not having a break, far from it. That will attract women."

Karen Lumley Conservative

Karen Lumley, the Conservative candidate and a company secretary, said the prospect of one of the four women getting into the assembly was exciting.