2012 Welsh local elections

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2012 Welsh local elections
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All 1,235 seats to 21 of 22 Welsh councils[1]
  First party Second party
  Carwyn Jones 2011 (cropped).jpg Leanne Wood 2011 (cropped).tif
Leader Carwyn Jones Leanne Wood
Party Labour Plaid Cymru
Leader since 10 December 2009 16 March 2012
Last election 340 seats, 27.0%[2][3] 198 seats, 16.7%
Seats won 577 158
Seat change Increase237 Decrease40
Popular vote 304,466 134,201
Popular vote (%) 35.6% 15.7%
Swing (pp) Increase8.6% Decrease1.0%
  Third party Fourth party
  Andrew R. T. Davies 2011 (cropped).jpg Kirsty Williams 2011 (cropped).jpg
Leader Andrew R. T. Davies Kirsty Williams
Party Conservative Liberal Democrats
Leader since 14 July 2011 8 December 2008
Last election 172 seats, 15.9% 163 seats, 13.2%
Seats won 105 72
Seat change Decrease67 Decrease92
Popular vote 108,580 68,619
Popular vote (%) 12.7% 8.0%
Swing (pp) Decrease3.2% Decrease5.2%
2012 Welsh Local Elections - Ward and Council Control.svg
Colours denote the winning party with outright control (left), and the largest party by ward (right)
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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.[4]

Wales-Wide Results[]

Party Votes[5] % +/- Councils +/- Seats +/-
Labour 304,466 35.6% Increase8.6% 10 Increase8 577 Increase237
Independent 201,110 23.5% Increase1.5% 2 Decrease1 286 Decrease25
Plaid Cymru 134,201 15.7% Decrease1.0% 0 Steady 158 Decrease40
Conservative 108,580 12.7% Decrease3.2% 0 Decrease2 105 Decrease68
Liberal Democrats 68,619 8.0% Decrease5.2% 0 Steady 72 Decrease92
Green 10,310 1.2% Increase0.5% 0 Steady 0 Steady
UKIP 2,552 0.3% Increase0.1% 0 Steady 2 Increase2
rowspan="1" style="width: 2px; background-color: #DDDDBB;" data-sort-value="Other"; | Other 25,542 3.0% Decrease1.3% 0 Steady 25 Decrease15
No overall control n/a n/a n/a 9 Decrease5 n/a n/a

For comparative purposes, the table above shows changes since 2008 excluding Anglesey, which was not up for election.

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
Monmouthshire Conservative No overall control gain
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

Opinion polling[]

Date(s)
conducted 		Polling organisation/client Sample size Lab Con PC Lib Dem Others Lead
3 May 2012 2012 Election Results 853,593 36.0% 12.8% 15.8% 8.1% 27.3% 20.2%
12-16 Apr 2012 YouGov 1039 48% 17% 14% 7% 14% 31%
1 May 2008 2008 Election Results 950,216 27.0% 15.9% 16.7% 13.2% 28.2% 11.1%

Notes[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Local Election Results 2012" (PDF). National Assembly for Wales. May 2012. Retrieved 17 November 2016.
  2. ^ "Local Elections Handbook 2008" (PDF). Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher, Local Government Chronicle Elections Centre, University of Plymouth. 2008. Retrieved 15 December 2016.
  3. ^ Note that these 2008 results exclude Anglesey for the purposes of comparison and thus do not match up exactly to the 2008 Wales-wide results
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ "Year Tables | Elections Centre". electionscentre.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2016-06-18.

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