An election to the Carmarthen Rural District Council in Wales was held on 1 April 1935. [1] The election was held following the merger of the Carmarthen and Whitland rural districts and the need to reduce the total number of members on the new authority from 53 to 35. Following a recommendation made in 1932, it was decided that the rural districts of Carmarthen and Whitland would be merged. [2] A more drastic proposal to combine the rural districts of Carmarthen, Llanybydder, Newcastle Emlyn and Whitland, together with Newcastle Emlyn UDC, was rejected. [2] Elections were held in wards that had been amalgamated and also in wards where the number of councillors had been reduced.
It was preceded by the 1934 election and followed by the 1937 election which would be the first time that a whole council would be elected for the merged authority.
A number of boundary changes resulted from the amalgamation of Whitland RDC into Carmarthen RDC. [3]
In addition the whole of the Whitland RDC area was amalgamated with Carmarthen RDC. There were ternty members on the former Whitland RDC but following the amalgamation of parishes this was reduced to nine members of the new authority.
Most of the candidate who contested the election were sitting members. There were unopposed returns in eight wards. [4]
There was no change to the political composition of the authority as a result of the election. A woman member was elected to the council for the first time. [5]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Independent | Thomas Duncan Dempster* | Unopposed | |||
Independent win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Independent | John Walter Lloyd Harries* | 357 | |||
Independent | George Sidney Cole | 79 | |||
Independent win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Independent | Henry Rhys Jones* | 187 | |||
Independent | George Alfred Lewis* | 91 | |||
Independent | Evan Morris Williams | 61 | |||
Independent win (new seat) | |||||
Independent win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Independent | William David Lewis* | Unopposed | |||
Independent win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Independent | John Jones | Unopposed | |||
Independent win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Independent | Evan Wilkins* | 303 | |||
Independent | William Morgan* | 207 | |||
Independent win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Independent | Simon Owen Thomas* | Unopposed | |||
Independent hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Independent | David Garrick Protheroe* | Unopposed | |||
Independent win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Independent | Joseph Howells* | Unopposed | |||
Independent win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Independent | James Howells | 95 | |||
Independent | Benjamin E. Williams | 63 | |||
Independent win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Independent | ' | Unopposed | |||
Independent hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Independent | John Jones* | Unopposed | |||
Independent win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Independent | John Devonald Williams* | Unopposed | |||
Independent win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Independent | Hannah Mary Rees* | 330 | |||
Independent | William Hughes Mathias* | 270 | |||
Independent | William Sandbrook Cole* | 250 | |||
Independent | Joseph R. Thomas | 152 | |||
Independent win (new seat) | |||||
Independent win (new seat) |
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