2012_Neath_Port_Talbot_County_Borough_Council_election

2012 Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council election

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The fifth election to Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council was held on 3 May 2012.^[1] It was preceded by the 2008 election and was followed by the 2017 election. On the same day there were elections to the other 21 local authorities in Wales and community councils in Wales.

Results

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[NPT_website_2012-1] [1]
"County Borough Council Election" (PDF). Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 June 2015. Retrieved 26 June 2015.

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"Local Election Results 2012: Neath Port Talbot". Andrew Teale. Retrieved 19 November 2016.

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Compared with Neath Port Talbot Residents Association in 2008.

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	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
Labour	52			+15	81.3	51.7	21,672	+6.8
Plaid Cymru	8			-3	12.5	20.5	8,630	+0.3
Neath Port Talbot Independents	0			-3	0.0	11.6	4,870	+0.2^[3]
Independent	3			-3	4.7	9.5	4,006	-4.0
Liberal Democrats	0			-4	0.0	2.5	1,057	-2.5
SDP	1			-2	1.6	2.5	1,050	-0.4
Conservative	0			0	0.0	1.6	669	+0.5
New Millennium Bean Party	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-0.8

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ceri Golding	751
	Labour	Mark Jones	740
	SDP	Anthony Taylor*	702
	Labour	Barbara Trahar	613
	SDP	Thomas John Sullivan*	556
	SDP	Jeffrey Dinham*	550
	Plaid Cymru	Paul Nicholls-Jones	185
Turnout			1,511	35.8	-3.4
	Labour gain from SDP		Swing
	Labour gain from SDP		Swing
	SDP hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Doreen Jones*	431
	Plaid Cymru	Ken Thomas	290
Majority			141
Turnout			728	40.8	-8.0
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Lewis*	463
	Plaid Cymru	Huw Evans	210
Majority
Turnout			679	35.9	-7.9
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Peter Denis Richards*	1,190
	Labour	Carol Clement	1,038
	Labour	Paul Greenaway	906
	Independent	David Keith Coslett	881
	Independent	John Cardy Tallamy*	862
	Independent	Mike Lewis	861
	Conservative	T.J. Morgan	186
Turnout			2,218	40.4
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour gain from		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alf Siddley*	363
	Plaid Cymru	Joan Bodman	290
Majority			73
Turnout			654	42.3	-9.3
	Labour gain from Plaid Cymru		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ivor David Williams*	1,321
	Labour	Marian Aerona Lewis*	1,168
	Labour	Dave Whitelock	987
	Independent	Brinley Roblin*	631
	Independent	Vincent Gwynfor Williams	500
	Independent	David James Shepherd	358
Turnout			1,995	38.6	-5.4
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Independent		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Plaid Cymru	John Raymond Bryant*	677
	Labour	Sion Griffiths	178
Majority
Turnout			858	45.8	-7.8
	Plaid Cymru hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rob James	856
	Plaid Cymru	Janice Dudley*	825
	Plaid Cymru	Tony Wyn-Jones*	744
	Labour	Andrew Jenkins	703
Turnout			1,721	37.3	-3.3
	Labour gain from Plaid Cymru		Swing
	Plaid Cymru hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Annette Wingrave	296
	Liberal Democrats	Frank Harvey Little*	185
Majority			111
Turnout			494	35.7	-7.4
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Warman*	949
	Labour	Alan Carter	706
	Liberal Democrats	Desmond James Sparkes*	226
	Independent	John Edgar Williams	183
Turnout			1,194	36.9	-3.6
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Arthur Pendry Hodge Davies*	616
	Labour	Paula Bebell	382
	Independent	Betsan Richards*	297
	Independent	Lee Clifford Saunders	206
	Plaid Cymru	Pauline M. Fellows	125
	Plaid Cymru	Russell G. Morris	90
Turnout			971	32.5	-5.5
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Independent		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mike Harvey	451
	Liberal Democrats	David Keith Davies*	268
Majority
Turnout			727	39.6	-1.4
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Henry Marney Bebell*	406
	Liberal Democrats	Helen Ceri Clarke	317
Majority
Turnout			733	34.2	-7.3
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Karen Pearson	370
	Plaid Cymru	William Edward Morgan*	280
Majority			90
Turnout			651	41.5	-10.2
	Labour gain from Plaid Cymru		Swing

Sandfields East 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Leila Helen James*	1,116
	Labour	Edward Victor Latham	1,041
	Labour	Colin Joseph Crowley*	879
	Labour	Patricia Irene Jones	750
	Independent	Captain Beany	669
	Independent	Len Willis*	622
Turnout			2,174	40.1	-1.5
	Independent hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Seven Sisters 2012
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Stephen Karl Hunt*	764
	Labour	Jako Davies	240
Majority			524
Turnout			966	62.9	+5.6
	Independent hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Clifford Eirion Richards*	348
	Plaid Cymru	David Gerald Oswald James	110
Majority			248
Turnout			461	49.8
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Plaid Cymru	David Martyn Peters*	1,000
	Conservative	Peter Damian Jaques	78
Majority			922
Turnout			1,093	44.1	-5.1
	Plaid Cymru hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Horace Glyndwr Rawlins*	271
	Independent	Lindsay David Milsom	201
Majority			70
Turnout			472	56.6	-0.2
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Plaid Cymru	John Delwyn Morgan*	711
	Labour	Eddie Jones	593
	Plaid Cymru	Horace Thomas Lewis*	534
	Labour	Chris Pavett	529
Turnout			899	33.1	-15.4
	Plaid Cymru hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Plaid Cymru		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Plaid Cymru	Rosalyn Davies*	300
	Labour	Jackie Myers	286
Majority			14
Turnout			591	43.8	-1.6
	Plaid Cymru hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Lynda Ghislaine Williams*	484
	Plaid Cymru	Ron Williams	352
Majority			132
Turnout			843	37.7	+0.2
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ralph Thomas	502
	Independent	Jane Jones*	153
Majority
Turnout			655	63.8	+0.4
	Labour gain from Independent		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Robert Jones	402
	Independent	Scott John Sullivan	166
	SDP	George Roy Rideway	129
	Conservative	Caroline Yvonne Jones	110
	Liberal Democrats	Mathew Thomas McCarthy	61
Majority
Turnout			868	38.1	-7.4
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sheila Marlene Penry*	905
	Labour	John Miller*	826
	Labour	Sandra Miller*	808
	Plaid Cymru	Breandan Seosamh Dominic Mac Cathail	452
	Plaid Cymru	Gareth Thomas	391
	Plaid Cymru	Philippa Jane Richards	365
Turnout			1,330	27.2	-5.6
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alan Richard Lockyer	709
	Labour	Mark Protheroe	628
	Independent	Dai Howells	341
	Conservative	Basil Ip	188
Turnout			1,082	34.7	-9.2
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

2012_Neath_Port_Talbot_County_Borough_Council_election

Overview

Candidates

Results

Aberavon (three seats)

Aberdulais (one seat)

Alltwen (one seat)

Baglan (three seats)

Blaengwrach (one seat)

Briton Ferry East (one seat)

Briton Ferry West (one seat)

Bryn and Cwmavon (three seats)

Bryncoch North (one seat)

Bryncoch South (two seats)

Cadoxton (one seat)

Cimla (two seats)

Coedffranc Central (two seats)

Coedffranc North (one seat)

Coedffranc West (one seat)

Crynant (one seat)

Cwmllynfell (one seat)

Cymmer (one seat)

Dyffryn (one seat)

Glyncorrwg (one seat)

Glynneath (two seats)

Godre'r Graig (one seat)

Gwaun Cae Gurwen (one seat)

Gwynfi (one seat)

Lower Brynamman (one seat)

Margam (one seat)

Neath East (three seats)

Neath North (two seats)

Neath South (two seats)

Onllwyn (one seat)

Pelenna (one seat)

Pontardawe (two seats)

Port Talbot (three seats)

Resolven (one seat)

Rhos (one seat)

Sandfields East (three seats)

Sandfields West (three seats)

Seven Sisters (one seat)

Taibach (two seats)

Tonna (one seat)

Trebanos (one seat)

Ystalyfera (one seat)

By-elections 2012-17

Neath South by-election, 2012

Sandfields East by-election, 2014

Sandfields East by-election, 2014

Cwmllynfell by-election 2015

References

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Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Peter Albert Rees*	718
	Labour	Malcolm Bernard Gunter*	665
	Independent	Helen Christine Morgan	207
	Independent	David Hewitt Morgan	190
	Plaid Cymru	Rob Parry	153
	Plaid Cymru	Chris Williams	146
Turnout			1,135	31.1	-3.1
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alan Huw Thomas*	328
	Plaid Cymru	Carolyn Edwards	96
Majority			232
Turnout			431	45.0	-7.1
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Martin Ellis	252
	Plaid Cymru	Jeremy Hurley	227
	Labour	Kelvin George	64
Majority			25
Turnout			545	60.0	+11.0
	Independent gain from Labour		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Plaid Cymru	Linet Margaret Purcell*	911
	Labour	Michael Lloyd James*	729
	Plaid Cymru	Sue Northcott	675
	Labour	Vince Hotten	612
Turnout			1,592	38.6	+12.1
	Plaid Cymru hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ian Ben James*	831
	Labour	Dennis Keogh*	782
	Labour	Saifur Rahaman	707
	Independent	Andrew James Tutton*	592
	Independent	Marge Jones	528
	Independent	Stephen Griffiths	479
	Conservative	Keith James Miller	107
Turnout			1,547	35.0	-3.0
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour gain from		Swing
	Labour gain from		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Desmond William Davies*	729
	Plaid Cymru	Helen Williams	278
Majority
Turnout			1,021	41.1	-2.9
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alex Thomas	394
	Plaid Cymru	Marcia Spooner*	265
	Independent	David Howell Atkins	223
Majority			129
Turnout			883	43.9	-0.8
	Labour gain from Plaid Cymru		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Audrey Chaves	1,173
	Labour	James Stephen Evans	1,088
	Labour	Suzanne Paddison	1,078
	Independent	Keith Suter	377
	Independent	Oliver Stewart Davies	368
	Independent	Joan Targett	368
	Independent	Olga Jones*	242
	SDP	Wayne Morris	219
Turnout			1,853	35.5	-0.7
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Rogers*	1,138
	Labour	Anthony James Taylor*	942
	Independent	Leslie John Davies	494
Turnout			1,507	39.0	-7.5%
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Cari Morgans	558
	Independent	William David Walters*	328
Majority			230
Turnout			894	46.1	+3.6
	Labour gain from Independent		Swing