Welsh local elections, 2012

Welsh local elections, 2012
Wales
3 May 2012 (2012-05-03)
All 1,224 seats to 21 of 22 Welsh councils[1]
  First party Second party
 
Leader Carwyn Jones Leanne Wood
Party Labour Plaid Cymru
Leader since 10 December 2009 16 March 2012
Last election 340 seats, 26.9%[2] 199 seats, 16.8%
Seats won 576 158
Seat change Increase237 Decrease41
Popular vote (%) 36.0% 15.8%
Swing (pp) Increase9.0% Decrease1.0%
  Third party Fourth party
 
Leader Andrew R. T. Davies Kirsty Williams
Party Conservative Liberal Democrats
Leader since 14 July 2011 8 December 2008
Last election 171 seats, 15.9% 163 seats, 13.2%
Seats won 105 72
Seat change Decrease66 Decrease91
Popular vote (%) 12.8% 8.1%
Swing (pp) Decrease3.1% Decrease5.0%

Colours denote the winning party with outright control
Key:
  Labour control
  Independent control
  No Overall Control
  No election held

The 2012 Welsh local elections, were held on 3 May, in 21 out of 22 local authorities. The Labour Party made gains at the expense of the other 3 major parties and of independents. Labour won majority control of 10 councils, up 8 from the 2008 local elections, while 2 remained under the control of independents and 9 councils had no overall control.

On 17 January 2012, the Welsh Government announced that elections for Anglesey council had been postponed to May 2013.[3]

Wales-Wide Results

Party Votes[4] % +/- Councils +/- Seats +/-
Labour 304,296 36.0% Increase9.0% 10 Increase 8 577 Increase237
Independent 190,425 22.5% Increase0.5% 2 Decrease 1 284 Decrease 27
Plaid Cymru 133,961 15.8% Decrease1.0% 0 Steady 158 Decrease 41
Conservative 108,365 12.8% Decrease3.1% 0 Decrease 2 105 Decrease 66
Liberal Democrat 68,619 8.1% Decrease5.0% 0 Steady 72 Decrease 91
Green 10,310 1.2% Increase0.5% 0 Steady 0 Steady
Llais Gwynedd 7,326 0.9% Increase0.1% 0 Steady 13 Steady
Other 30,291 2.7% Decrease1.0% 0 Steady 28 Decrease 12
No overall control n/a n/a n/a 9 Decrease 5 n/a n/a

Above table uses information sourced from the Welsh Assembly's summary of the 2012 local elections, the Electoral Commission's summary of the 2008 elections, as well as voting totals sourced from the Local Elections Archive Project

Individual Council Results

Council 2008 Result 2012 Result Details
Blaenau Gwent No overall control Labour gain Details
Bridgend No overall control Labour gain Details
Caerphilly No overall control Labour gain Details
Cardiff No overall control Labour gain Details
Carmarthenshire No overall control No overall control hold Details
Ceredigion No overall control No overall control hold Details
Conwy No overall control No overall control hold Details
Denbighshire No overall control No overall control hold Details
Flintshire No overall control No overall control hold Details
Gwynedd No overall control No overall control hold Details
Merthyr Tydfil Independent Labour gain Details
Monmouthshire Conservative No overall control gain Details
Neath Port Talbot Labour Labour hold Details
Newport No overall control Labour gain Details
Pembrokeshire Independent Independent hold Details
Powys Independent Independent hold Details
Rhondda Cynon Taff Labour Labour hold Details
Swansea No overall control Labour gain Details
Torfaen No overall control Labour gain Details
Vale of Glamorgan Conservative No overall control gain Details
Wrexham No overall control No overall control hold Details

Notes

    References

    1. ↑ "Local Election Results 2012" (PDF). National Assembly for Wales. May 2012. Retrieved 17 November 2016.
    2. ↑ "Local Election Results 2008" (PDF). National Assembly for Wales. May 2008. Retrieved 17 November 2016.
    3. ↑ "Anglesey council election postponed for year to 2013". BBC News. 17 January 2012. Retrieved 7 February 2012. Local government elections on Anglesey have been delayed for a year. It will mean people on the island will elect their new council in May 2013, 12 months later than in the rest of Wales.
    4. ↑ Excludes Anglesey in vote and seat data. See individual detailed articles below for the breakdown; this is a summary of the overall result.

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