1972 Cardiff City Council election

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The 1972 Cardiff City Council election was held on Thursday 4 May 1972 to elect councillors to Cardiff City Council in Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales. It took place on the same day as several other county borough elections in Wales and England.

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The previous elections to this one were in May 1971. The 1972 election would be the final all-Cardiff election to this council before the dissolution of the unitary authority and the creation of the new second-tier district authority of Cardiff City Council in 1974.

The election saw the Labour Party taking a significant number of seats, to cut the Conservative Party majority.

Background

Cardiff County Borough Council had been created in 1889. Cardiff became a city in 1905. Elections to the local authority were held annually, though not all council seats were included in each contest, because each of the three councillors in each ward stood down for election in rotation. The councillors elected in 1972 would only serve for less two years, before the dissolution of the Council in April 1974.

There were a total of 76 seats on the council, including 19 aldermen. [1]

Overview of the result

Nineteen seats in 19 electoral wards were up for election in May 1972. The Labour Party won an additional ten seats on the council, mainly from the ruling Conservative Party, cutting the Tory majority to 12. [2] One of the gains was in the Whitchurch ward, which until last year had been a Tory stronghold. [2]

Ward results

Contests for one ward councillor seat took place in each of the nineteen wards at this election. [3]

Adamsdown

Adamsdown ward 1972
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour John Iorwerth Jones * 1,316
Conservative Christopher Paterson391
Independent Thelma Mackie57
Majority925
Labour hold Swing

Canton

Canton ward 1972
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour George E. Bayliss 1,396
Conservative William Albert J. Adams *1,316
Majority80
Labour gain from Conservative Swing

Cathays

Cathays ward 1972
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Derek Allinson 1,988
Conservative David John Evans *1,587
Plaid Cymru Gareth Ap Sion430
People's CandidateMorris W. Bradshaw165
Majority401
Labour gain from Conservative Swing

Central

Central ward 1972
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour John D. Leonard * 1,535
Conservative Bernard H. Rees932
Majority603
Labour hold Swing

Ely

Ely ward 1972
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Thomas Clifford Lee 2,674
Conservative John F. G. Phillips *775
Plaid Cymru Charles Stephen Cravos524
Majority1,899
Labour gain from Conservative Swing

Gabalfa

Gabalfa ward 1972
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Michael Jn. Parry 2,290
Conservative Gwilym Haydn Jones *1,405
Majority885
Labour gain from Conservative Swing

Grangetown

Grangetown ward 1972
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour (Mrs) E. M. Matthewson 1,543
Conservative Lawrence Charles Johnson *876
Majority667
Labour gain from Conservative Swing

Llandaff

Llandaff ward 1972
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Keith Flynn * 2,041
Labour Carys Meinir Evans727
Plaid Cymru Gwen Humphreys614
Majority1,314
Conservative hold Swing

Llanishen

Llanishen ward 1972
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Jeffrey P. Sainsbury * 2,579
Labour Leslie Bernard Goodrum2,131
Liberal Olive Mary Langdon924
Majority448
Conservative hold Swing

Penylan

Penylan ward 1972
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Stefan Terlezki 4,087
Labour Violet Jones2,007
Majority2,080
Conservative hold Swing

Plasmawr

Plasmawr ward 1972
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Fred George Tyrrell 2,385
Plaid Cymru (Dr) Dafydd Hughes* 1,584
Conservative Doreen Muriel Norman859
Majority801
Labour gain from Plaid Cymru Swing

Plasnewydd

Plasnewydd ward 1972
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Geoffrey Donald Edmunds * 1,489
Labour Patrick Joseph Troy1,361
Plaid Cymru Philip Brian Richards431
Liberal Henry Charles Edwards358
Majority128
Conservative hold Swing

Rhiwbina

Rhiwbina ward 1972
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative William John A. Bain * 2,145
Plaid Cymru H. Lloyd Davies964
Liberal Howard John O'Brien803
Labour Mervyn G. Powell-Davies785
Majority1,191
Conservative hold Swing

Riverside

Riverside ward 1972
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Alec Johnson * 1,219
Labour John A. Hennessey1,013
Plaid Cymru Roy A. Lee315
Liberal Richard M. James131
Majority206
Conservative hold Swing

Roath

Roath ward 1972
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Gerald Michael Brinks * 2,093
Labour Fred Hodges802
Plaid Cymru Paul Anthony Cravos379
Majority1,291
Conservative hold Swing

Rumney

Rumney ward 1972
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour John Randall Phillips 3,122
Conservative David Howard Burnett1,071
Independent (Dr) Bryan Sandford-Hill *514
Majority2,051
Labour gain from Independent Swing

South

South ward 1972
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Frederick John Smith 2,011
Conservative David Stanley Cooper *779
Majority1,232
Labour gain from Conservative Swing

Splott

Splott ward 1972
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Dermot R. Ormond 2,239
Conservative Cyril Frederick Hutchings *1,128
Communist Stella Garrett Jones94
Majority1,111
Labour gain from Conservative Swing

Whitchurch

Whitchurch ward 1972
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Philip Norton 2,569
Conservative John Meurig Davies *2,399
Majority170
Labour gain from Conservative Swing

*= 'retiring' ward councillor for re-election

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References

  1. ↑ "Lady Mayoress loses city council seat to Labour". The Western Mail . 8 May 1970. p. 4.
  2. 1 2 "Labour sweep in with big gains". South Wales Echo . 5 May 1972. p. 1.
  3. ↑ "South Wales Results In Detail - Cardiff". South Wales Echo. 5 May 1972. p. 6.
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