2012 Welsh local elections
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![]() Colours denote the winning party with outright control (left), and the largest party by ward (right) Key:
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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 | +/- | |
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Labour | 304,466 | 35.6% | ![]() |
10 | ![]() |
577 | ![]() | |
Independent | 201,110 | 23.5% | ![]() |
2 | ![]() |
286 | ![]() | |
Plaid Cymru | 134,201 | 15.7% | ![]() |
0 | ![]() |
158 | ![]() | |
Conservative | 108,580 | 12.7% | ![]() |
0 | ![]() |
105 | ![]() | |
Liberal Democrats | 68,619 | 8.0% | ![]() |
0 | ![]() |
72 | ![]() | |
Green | 10,310 | 1.2% | ![]() |
0 | ![]() |
0 | ![]() | |
UKIP | 2,552 | 0.3% | ![]() |
0 | ![]() |
2 | ![]() | |
rowspan="1" style="width: 2px; background-color: #DDDDBB;" data-sort-value="Other"; | | Other | 25,542 | 3.0% | ![]() |
0 | ![]() |
25 | ![]() |
No overall control | n/a | n/a | n/a | 9 | ![]() |
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 | ||
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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 |
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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[]
- ^ "Local Election Results 2012" (PDF). National Assembly for Wales. May 2012. Retrieved 17 November 2016.
- ^ "Local Elections Handbook 2008" (PDF). Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher, Local Government Chronicle Elections Centre, University of Plymouth. 2008. Retrieved 15 December 2016.
- ^ 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
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Year Tables | Elections Centre". electionscentre.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2016-06-18.
External links[]
Categories:
- 2012 Welsh local elections
- 2012 elections in the United Kingdom
- Welsh local elections by year
- 2012 United Kingdom local elections
- Council elections in the United Kingdom
- May 2012 events in the United Kingdom