2017_Neath_Port_Talbot_County_Borough_Council_election

2017 Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council election

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The 2017 election to Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council was held on 4 May 2017 as part of wider local elections across Wales. The election was preceded by the 2012 election. Four candidates (from the sixty four seats available) were elected unopposed.

Labour maintained control of the authority.^[1]

Ward results

Nominations closed on 4 April 2017.^[2]

The following results were announced following the elections. In the case of wards electing more than one councillor the percentage figures reflect the number of ballot papers issued rather than the total number of votes.

By-Elections 2017-2022

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"County Borough Council - Local Elections 2017 - Thursday, 4th May, 2017". Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council. Retrieved 16 May 2017.

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"Notices for County Borough Council elections". Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council. Retrieved 26 April 2017.

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Bradfield, Elizabeth. "Plaid beat Labour in by-election to secure Neath Port Talbot Council seat with overwhelming majority". Retrieved 16 June 2020.

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"Rhos By-Election - Thursday, 3rd October, 2019". Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council. Retrieved 16 June 2020.

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Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Plaid Cymru	Scott Bamsey	543	33.5
	Labour	Steffan ap Dafydd	500	30.8
	Plaid Cymru	Nigel Thomas Hunt	491	30.3
	Plaid Cymru	Diane Thomas	485	29.9
	Labour	Colin Clement	475	29.3
	Labour	Keith Trelease Priddle	442	27.2
	Independent	Ceri P. Golding*	376	23.2
	Independent	John Davies	313	19.3
	Independent	Mark Jones*	307	18.9
	Independent	Marian A. Lewis	265	16.3
	Liberal Democrats	Cen Phillips	260	16.0
Turnout			4,457	40.8	+5.0
	Plaid Cymru gain from Labour		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Plaid Cymru gain from SDP		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Doreen Jones*	344
	Independent	Simon Peter Hopkins	282
	Plaid Cymru	Daniel Mark Thomas	118
Majority			62
Turnout			744	44.6	+3.8
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Christopher John Jones	394
	Plaid Cymru	Sioned Ann Williams	347
	Conservative	Jacob Arron Jones	109
Majority			47
Turnout			850	42.9	+7.0
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Peter Denis Richards*	1,309
	Labour	Carol Clement-Williams*	1,159
	Labour	Susanne Renkes	1,009
	Plaid Cymru	Nicola Louise Butterfield	699
Turnout			1,912	36.5	-3.9
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Plaid Cymru	Carol Edwards	400
	Labour	Phillip John Parfitt	158
	UKIP	Richard Herbert Pritchard	61
Majority			242
Turnout			619	42.3	+0.0
	Plaid Cymru gain from Labour		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Chris James	405
	Independent	Colin Morgan*	318
Majority			87
Turnout			723	34.3	+34.3
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Hugh Newton James*	unopposed
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rhidian Mizen	1,383
	Labour	Charlotte Emma Galsworthy	1,079
	Labour	Dave Whitelock*	1,072
	Plaid Cymru	Ian Bamsey	775
	Plaid Cymru	Lee Felton	673
Turnout			2,114	41.6	+3.0
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Plaid Cymru	Wyndham Fryer Griffiths	410
	Labour	Janet Louise Lockyer	243
	Conservative	Gavin Wycherley	201
Majority			167
Turnout			854	48.1	+2.3
	Plaid Cymru hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Plaid Cymru	Janice Dudley*	848
	Plaid Cymru	Chris Williams	808
	Labour	Emma Denholm-Hill	460
	Labour	Alex Sims	393
	Conservative	Richard Minshull	366
	Conservative	Shadanna Wycherley	290
	Green	Catrin Louise Brock	110
	Liberal Democrats	Frank Harvey Little	102
Turnout			1,802	40.3	+3.0
	Plaid Cymru hold		Swing
	Plaid Cymru gain from Labour		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Annette Wingrave*	253
	Plaid Cymru	Joanna Hale	198
	Conservative	Peter Crocker-Jaques	82
	Independent	Robert Joseph King	65
	Liberal Democrats	Sheila Mary Kingston-Jones	46
Majority			55
Turnout			644	48.4	+12.7
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Warman*	871	79.5
	Labour	Adam McGrath	568	51.9
	Liberal Democrats	Charley Cross	320	29.2
Turnout			1,095	35.6	-1.3
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Arthur Pendry Hodge Davies*	561
	Labour	Angharad Rebecca Aubrey	488
	Independent	Betsan Richards	346
	Plaid Cymru	Pauline M. Fellows	199
	Plaid Cymru	Russell G. Morris	140
Turnout			1,000	35.6	+3.1
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mike Harvey*	434
	Liberal Democrats	David Keith Davies	270
	UKIP	Margaret Duguid	69
Majority			226
Turnout			773	42.6	+3.0
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Helen Ceri Clarke	806
	Labour	Chris Wingrave	268
Majority			538
Turnout			1,074	36.7	+2.5
	Liberal Democrats gain from Labour		Swing

Sandfields West 2017
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Suzanne Paddison*	851
	Labour	Oliver Stewart Davies	838
	Labour	Robert William Wood	749
	Plaid Cymru	Andrew Leonard John Bennison	430
	Independent	Audrey Chaves*	395
	Plaid Cymru	Sam Wright	364
	Plaid Cymru	Victoria Griffiths	360
	Independent	James Stephen Evans*	339
	Liberal Democrats	Taz Taylor	95
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Sian Harris	448
	Labour	Karen Elizabeth Pearson*	250
	Plaid Cymru	Suzanne Waldron	147
Majority			198
Turnout			845	56.6	+15.1
	Independent gain from Labour		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Plaid Cymru	Hugh Jones	283
	Labour	Kris Lloyd*	194
Majority			89
Turnout			477	51.7	+1.9
	Plaid Cymru gain from Labour		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Scott Jones*	673
	Independent	Jeff Jones	370
Majority			303
Turnout			1,043	51.4
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Plaid Cymru	David Martyn Peters*	826
	Labour	Debbie Harvey	299
Majority			527
Turnout			1,125	47.4	+3.3
	Plaid Cymru hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Nicola-Jayne Elsie Davies	276
	Labour	Robert Joyce	239
Majority			37
Turnout			515	65.9	+9.3
	Independent gain from Labour		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Simon Anthony Knoyle	852
	Plaid Cymru	John Delwyn Morgan*	498
	Independent	John Evans	316
	Plaid Cymru	Philippa Jane Richards	281
	Labour	Gerry Reynolds	267
	Labour	Eddie Jones*	239
Turnout			1,403	54.6	+21.5
	Independent gain from Labour		Swing
	Plaid Cymru hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Plaid Cymru	Rosalyn Davies*	409
	Labour	Brian Hastie	185
	Independent	Reg Atherton	69
Majority			224
Turnout			663	44.8	+1.0
	Plaid Cymru hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sonia Helen Reynolds	523
	Plaid Cymru	Meirion Owen Jordan	357
Majority			166
Turnout			880	40.3	+2.6
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ralph Thomas*	273
	Independent	Jane Jones	214
Majority			59
Turnout			487	54.6	-9.2
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Arwyn Nigel Woolcock*	439
	Plaid Cymru	Robert Howard Smith	93
Majority
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

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Ward 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 2017-2022

Bryncoch South by-election 2017

Gwynfi by-election 2018

Resolven by-election 2019

Pelenna by-election 2019

Rhos by-election 2019

Aberavon by-election 2021

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Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Robert Jones*	610
	Conservative	Robert Jon Smith	279
Majority
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Sheila Marlene Penry*	587
	Labour	Sandra Miller*	575
	Labour	John Miller*	527
	Plaid Cymru	Breandan Seosamh Dominic Mac Cathail	375
	Plaid Cymru	Paul Sambrook	325
	Plaid Cymru	Dani Robertson	294
	Conservative	Nicky Boyce	253
	Independent	Ian Richard Thomas	232
	Independent	Shaz Hughes	230
	Conservative	Robert Paul Harris	173
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Alan Richard Lockyer*	560
	Labour	Mark Protheroe*	517
	Independent	Andy Lodwig	515
	Conservative	Orla Sarah Lowe	378
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Plaid Cymru	Jamie Evans	631
	Labour	Peter Albert Rees*	614
	Labour	Andrew Jenkins	600
	Plaid Cymru	Ann Rees-Sambrook	437
Turnout
	Plaid Cymru gain from Labour		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	George Martin Dean Cawsey	273
	Independent	Peter John Westall	248
Majority			25
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Independent	Martin Ellis*	133
	Plaid Cymru	Hywel Alwyn Miles	132
	Independent	Peter Edward Hughes	114
	Labour	Andrew Richard Jones	90
Majority			1
Turnout
	Independent hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Plaid Cymru	Linet Margaret Purcell*	992
	Plaid Cymru	Anthony John Richards	635
	Labour	Vince Hotten	622
	Labour	Michael Lloyd James*	609
	Conservative	Sascha Lopez	260
	Conservative	Kieran John Davies	233
Turnout
	Plaid Cymru hold		Swing
	Plaid Cymru gain from Labour		Swing

	Candidate	Votes
Labour	Sharon Elizabeth Freeguard	unopposed
Labour	Dennis Keogh*	unopposed
Labour	Saifur Rahaman*	unopposed
Labour hold		Swing
Labour hold		Swing
Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Desmond William Davies*	461
	Independent	Darren Lee Bromham-Nichols	388
	Plaid Cymru	David Trefor Jones	265
Majority
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Alex Thomas*	440
	Plaid Cymru	Marcia Spooner	297
	Conservative	Amanda Wycherley	227
Majority			143
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing