An election to Ceredigion County Council was held on 10 June 2004 on the same day of the European Elections. [1] It was preceded by the 1999 election and followed by the 2008 election.
The whole council was up for election and following boundary changes the number of seats was reduced to 42. [2] The council remained in a situation of No Overall Control following Plaid Cymru gains at the expense of the Independents. The Independents formed a coalition administration following the previous county council election in May 1999, being largest group on the council along with the Liberal Democrats.
After the election, the composition of the council was:
Sixteen members of the original Council elected in 1995 were again returned.
Three of the elected Independent councilors, namely Gethin James (Aberporth), Ray Quant (Borth) and Haydn Lewis (Penparc) were non-party Independents, in that they did not sit as members of the Independent group of councilors.
Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Plaid Cymru | 16 | 2 | 0 | +2 | 38.10 | 38.92 | 10,198 | - | |
Independent | 12 | 0 | 4 | -4 | 28.57 | 20.69 | 5,423 | - | |
Liberal Democrats | 9 | 2 | 0 | +2 | 21.43 | 20.19 | 5,291 | - | |
Non-party independents | 3 | 0 | 3 | -3 | 7.14 | 9.91 | 2598 | - | |
Labour | 1 | 0 | 0 | = | 2.38 | 3.00 | 785 | - | |
Cymraeg/Welsh1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 2.38 | 2.45 | 643 | - | |
Llais Ceredigion | 0 | 0 | 0 | = | 0.00 | 3.53 | 925 | - | |
Llais Aberaeron UDP Reject2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | = | 0.00 | 0.66 | 172 | - | |
UKIP | 0 | 0 | 0 | = | 0.00 | 0.37 | 96 | - | |
Green | 0 | 0 | 0 | = | 0.00 | 0.18 | 48 | - | |
Conservative | 0 | 0 | 0 | = | 0.00 | 0.10 | 26 | - | |
Total | 42 | -2 | 26,205 |
1Cymraeg/Welsh was the label used by independent councillor John Ivor Williams. In 1999, and again in 2008, he ran with the label Independent.
2Llais Aberaeron UDP Reject was the label used by Mary Elizabeth Davies.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Richard Emlyn Thomas* | 458 | |||
Llais Aberaeron | Mary Elizabeth Davies | 172 | |||
Independent | Steve Harty | 57 | |||
Independent hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Gethin James | 396 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Elfyn Owen Rees* | 326 | |||
Llais Ceredigion | Emyr Hywel | 194 | |||
Independent hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Sarah Mary Morris* | 406 | |||
Plaid Cymru | Thomas John Adams-Lewis* | 286 | |||
Independent win (new seat) |
Boundary Change.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | John Mark Cole | 203 | |||
Plaid Cymru | Tomos Melfydd George | 185 | |||
Liberal Democrats win (new seat) |
Boundary Change.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Alan Wilson* | 226 | |||
Plaid Cymru | David Aidan Lloyd Owen | 57 | |||
Independent win (new seat) |
Boundary Change
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Plaid Cymru | Alun John Wiliams* | 303 | |||
Liberal Democrats | John Paul Maddrell | 120 | |||
Plaid Cymru win (new seat) |
Boundary Change
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Ceredig Wyn Davies | 252 | |||
Plaid Cymru | Vivian Rees-Butterworth | 96 | |||
Independent | Hywel Thomas Jones* | 51 | |||
Conservative | Will Quince | 26 | |||
Liberal Democrats win (new seat) |
Possible Boundary Change
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Edgar Carl Williams* | 264 | |||
Plaid Cymru | John Aled Davies | 239 | |||
Liberal Democrats win (new seat) |
This ward was previously known as Aberystwyth South
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Llewellyn Goronwy Edwards* | 550 | |||
Independent | Owen Henry Jones | 364 | |||
Plaid Cymru | Susan Jane Jones-Davies | 195 | |||
Plaid Cymru | John Michael Jones | 188 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Denise Elizabeth Cole | 149 | |||
Green | Timothy John Foster | 48 | |||
Independent hold | Swing | ||||
Independent hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Eric John Griffiths* | 580 | |||
Plaid Cymru | Jacqueline Mary Taylor | 182 | |||
Liberal Democrats win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Plaid Cymru | William David Lyndon Lloyd | 518 | |||
Llais Ceredigion | Ioan Glyndwr Howells | 191 | |||
Independent hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Raymond Paul Quant* | 490 | |||
Plaid Cymru | Mark Antony Strong | 277 | |||
Independent hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Thomas Peter Lloyd Davies | 420 | |||
Plaid Cymru | Martha Ann Eileen Curry | 181 | |||
Independent hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Plaid Cymru | Ellen Elizabeth ap Gwynn* | 572 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Maurice Roger Brown | 196 | |||
Plaid Cymru hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Stanley Meredith Thomas* | 451 | |||
Plaid Cymru | Arthur John Moelfryn Maskell | 367 | |||
UKIP | Iain James Sheldon | 96 | |||
Independent hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | John Erfyl Roberts | 450 | |||
Plaid Cymru | Alan Lloyd Evans | 316 | |||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Robert George Harris* | 785 | |||
Independent | John Ivor Williams* | 643 | |||
Plaid Cymru | Andrew Gerald Carter | 350 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Independent hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Thomas Eurfyl Evans* | 396 | |||
Plaid Cymru | Dafydd Ieuan Jones | 208 | |||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Boundary Change
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Plaid Cymru | Gareth Davies | 223 | |||
Independent | Benjamin Lewis Davies* | 187 | |||
Plaid Cymru win (new seat) |
Boundary Change
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Plaid Cymru | Paul James | 316 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Heather Fievet Stitt | 42 | |||
Plaid Cymru win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Plaid Cymru | Benjamin Towyn Evans | 395 | |||
Independent | Derrick Richards | 358 | |||
Plaid Cymru gain from Independent | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Plaid Cymru | Cen Llwyd* | unopposed | |||
Plaid Cymru hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Evan John Keith Evans* | unopposed | |||
Independent hold | Swing |
Alun Lloyd Jones had left the Plaid Cymru group and joined the Independents after the 1999 election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Alun Lloyd Jones* | 340 | |||
Plaid Cymru | Rhodri Mabon ap Gwynfor | 318 | |||
Independent hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Plaid Cymru | Owen Llywelyn | 593 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Matthew George Cooper Lewes Gee | 380 | |||
Plaid Cymru hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | David John Evans* | 540 | |||
Plaid Cymru | Dafydd Wyn Morse | 197 | |||
Independent hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Plaid Cymru | John Timothy Odwyn Davies* | 454 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Rodney Edmund George Parish | 169 | |||
Plaid Cymru hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | David Rowland Rees-Evans | 392 | |||
Independent | Emyr Morgan Jones | 217 | |||
Plaid Cymru | Mari Luned Llwyd | 207 | |||
Llais Ceredigion | David John Williams | 15 | |||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Plaid Cymru | Daniel Meurig James* | 583 | |||
Independent | Dafydd Wyn Edwards | 309 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Carol Ann Kolczak | 260 | |||
Plaid Cymru hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Plaid Cymru | Samuel Haydn Richards* | unopposed | |||
Plaid Cymru hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | David Lloyd Evans* | 682 | |||
Llais Ceredigion | Gwilym ab Ioan | 319 | |||
Independent hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Fred Williams* | 540 | |||
Plaid Cymru | Gweirydd Gwyndaf | 357 | |||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Sarah Gillian Hopley* | 363 | |||
Plaid Cymru | Julian Raymond Evans | 185 | |||
Independent hold | Swing |
Plaid Cymru had won the seat in a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Plaid Cymru | Ian ap Dewi* | 661 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Thomas Sean Fievet Stitt | 145 | |||
Plaid Cymru hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Thomas Haydn Lewis* | 755 | |||
Llais Ceredigion | Raymond Michael Dawe | 205 | |||
Independent hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Plaid Cymru | Wiliam Penri James* | 465 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Paul Buckingham James Hinge | 185 | |||
Plaid Cymru hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Plaid Cymru | David Suter | 375 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Evan Daniel Jones | 241 | |||
Independent | John Dilwyn Lewis | 93 | |||
Plaid Cymru gain from Independent | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Plaid Cymru | Catherine Jane Hughes | 349 | |||
Independent | Nerys Ann Evans | 314 | |||
Plaid Cymru gain from Independent | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Gerallt Wynford Jones | unopposed | |||
Plaid Cymru gain from Independent | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | John David Rowland Jones* | unopposed | |||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
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