Creigiau & St Fagans

Coordinates: 51°30′50″N 3°16′48″W / 51.514°N 3.280°W / 51.514; -3.280

Creigiau & St. Fagans
Electoral ward
Population 5,153 (2011 census)
Principal area
Country Wales
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town CARDIFF
Postcode district CF5
Dialling code +44-29
EU Parliament Wales
UK Parliament
Welsh Assembly
Councillors 1

Creigiau & St. Fagans is a rural electoral ward on the western edge of Cardiff, Wales.

Description

The ward covers the villages of St. Fagans and Creigiau and the surrounding rural areas (though Creigiau is in the community of Pentyrch it is not in the Pentyrch ward). The Creigiau/St Fagans ward elects a councillor to Cardiff Council.

The ward falls within the parliamentary constituency of Cardiff West. It is bounded by Rhondda Cynon Taff to the northwest; Pentyrch and Radyr & Morganstown to the northeast; Llandaff and Fairwater to the east; Ely to the southeast; and the Vale of Glamorgan to the southwest

According to the 2011 census the population of the ward was 5,153.[1]

Until the 2012 council elections the ward was represented by the Plaid Cymru Lord Mayor of Cardiff, Delme Bowen.[2]

Election results

2017

2017 Cardiff Council election [3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Graham Thomas 948 47%
Plaid Cymru Wynford Ellis Owen 644 32%
Labour John Yarrow 334 17%
Liberal Democrat Peter Borrow 91 5%

2012

In a surprise result, the Conservatives won the seat from Plaid Cymru by 25 votes. The seat had been previously held by Plaid Cymru's Delme Bowen, who stood down after serving a tenure as Cardiff's Lord Mayor.[4] Bowen had been a Plaid Cymru councillor since 1995.[5]

2012 Cardiff Council election
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Graham Thomas 648 38%
Plaid Cymru Wynford Ellis Owen 623 36%
Labour S. Evans 321 19%
Liberal Democrat H. Borrow 53 3%
Green T. Jones 52 3%

References

  1. ↑ "Creigiau/St. Fagans - Key Stats". UKcensusdata.com. Retrieved 2017-11-08.
  2. ↑ Peter Law (2 May 2012) "Key battlegrounds in the race to run Cardiff Council", Wales Online. Retrieved 2016-11-05.
  3. ↑ "Election results for Creigiau & St Fagans - Cardiff Council Elections 2017 - Thursday, 4th May, 2017". Cardiff Council. Retrieved 2017-11-08.
  4. ↑ "Cardiff council elections: The story in each ward". yourCardiff. 3 May 2012. Retrieved 2017-11-08.
  5. ↑ "Delme Bowen becomes first Plaid lord mayor of Cardiff". BBC News. 19 May 2011. Retrieved 2017-11-08.
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