Welsh local elections, 2012

Welsh local elections, 2012

3 May 2012

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 237 41 Popular vote (%) 36.0% 15.8% Swing (pp) 9.0% 1.0%   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 66 91 Popular vote (%) 12.8% 8.1% Swing (pp) 3.1% 5.0%

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%	9.0%	10	8	577	237
	Independent	190,425	22.5%	0.5%	2	1	284	27
	Plaid Cymru	133,961	15.8%	1.0%	0		158	41
	Conservative	108,365	12.8%	3.1%	0	2	105	66
	Liberal Democrat	68,619	8.1%	5.0%	0		72	91
	Green	10,310	1.2%	0.5%	0		0
	Llais Gwynedd	7,326	0.9%	0.1%	0		13
		Other	30,291	2.7%	1.0%	0		28	12
	No overall control	n/a	n/a	n/a	9	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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