The second election to the City and County of Swansea Council were held in May 2004. [1] It was preceded by the 1999 election and followed by the 2008 election.
The City and County of Swansea Council is the governing body for one of the Principal Areas of Wales covering Swansea, Gower and the surrounding area. The council consists of 72 councillors representing 36 electoral wards.
All council seats were up for election. These were the third elections held following local government reorganisation and the abolition of West Glamorgan County Council. The Labour Party lost their majority on the authority.
The contests were fought by most of the main parties but labour was the only one to contest the majority of seats.
Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | 32 | ||||||||
Conservative | 4 | ||||||||
Liberal Democrat | 19 | ||||||||
Plaid Cymru | 5 | ||||||||
Independent | 12 | ||||||||
Green | 0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Keith Edmund Marsh* | 1,029 | |||
Liberal Democrat | John Philip Bleay | 168 | |||
Green | Larch Ian Albert Frank Juckes Maxey | 143 | |||
Independent hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | John Brian Hague* | 1093 | |||
Labour | Mair Eluned Gibbs* | 936 | |||
Plaid Cymru | Philip Charles Couch | 386 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Vivienne Anne Samuel | 224 | |||
Independent hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Robert Alan Lloyd* | 1,034 | |||
Labour | Barbara Joyce Hynes* | 943 | |||
Labour | Erika Kirchner | 897 | |||
Labour | David Phillips* | 876 | |||
Plaid Cymru | Patrick John Powell | 671 | |||
Plaid Cymru | Hugh Nigel Parsons | 656 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Daniel John Davies | 649 | |||
Plaid Cymru | Farid Ali | 644 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Gareth Peter Jones | 577 | |||
Plaid Cymru | Clive Ian Gary Smith | 548 | |||
Green | Yvonne Marjorie Holley | 534 | |||
Conservative | Philip Malcolm Bray | 477 | |||
Conservative | Warren Michael Charles Jones | 460 | |||
Green | Derek Alexander McBrier | 418 | |||
Independent | David Verson Phillips | 305 | |||
Socialist Alternative | Alec Thraves | 258 | |||
Socialist Alternative | Robert Williams | 227 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Sylvia Lewis had been elected as an Independent in 1999.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Roger Llewellyn Smith* | 1,107 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Sylvia Mary Lewis* | 761 | |||
Plaid Cymru | James Vernon Davies | 595 | |||
Labour | Islwyn Hopkins | 589 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Julie Marlene Davies | 486 | |||
Conservative | Robert Andrew Evans | 172 | |||
Conservative | Jonathan Bray Stockting | 131 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Liberal Democrat hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Plaid Cymru | William Keith Morgan* | 1,452 | |||
Plaid Cymru | Adrian Hugh Rees | 1,406 | |||
Plaid Cymru | John Rhodri Thomas | 1,338 | |||
Plaid Cymru | Enid Vanessa Webb | 1,200 | |||
Labour | Anna Mary Pennock | 1,029 | |||
Labour | Clive Keith Morgan | 954 | |||
Labour | John Abraham | 861 | |||
Labour | Hazel Mary Morris | 820 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Nicola Anne Holley | 652 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Tudor Richard Donne | 555 | |||
Green | Ann Elizabeth Cashman | 331 | |||
Green | Timothy Edward Pope | 314 | |||
Green | John Michael Thomas | 288 | |||
Green | Marguerite Esther White | 287 | |||
Plaid Cymru hold | Swing | ||||
Plaid Cymru hold | Swing | ||||
Plaid Cymru gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Plaid Cymru gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrat | Peter Malcolm Black* | 1,873 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Christopher Ashleigh Holley* | 1,621 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Lewis Graham Thomas* | 1,483 | |||
Labour | John Alun James | 339 | |||
Labour | Terence James Hennegan | 307 | |||
Labour | Malcolm David Smith | 278 | |||
Green | Frederick Keith Coleman | 155 | |||
Green | Martin William Jones | 129 | |||
Liberal Democrat hold | Swing | ||||
Liberal Democrat hold | Swing | ||||
Liberal Democrat hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrat | John Newbury* | 1,163 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Nicholas John Tregoning* | 915 | |||
Independent | Elizabeth Ann Davies | 445 | |||
Labour | Nigel Mark Rees | 218 | |||
Liberal Democrat hold | Swing | ||||
Liberal Democrat hold | Swing | ||||
Elected as an Independent in 1995, John Bushell successfully defended the seat as a Conservative in 1999 but now again stood, unsuccessfully, as an Independent.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Paxton Richard Hood‐Williams | 470 | |||
Independent | John Gunther Bushell* | 405 | |||
Labour | John Howell Guy | 162 | |||
Green | Rhodri Griffiths John | 138 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Andrew Whitt | 57 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Glyn Seabourne* | 441 | |||
Plaid Cymru | Darren Jeffery Thomas | 207 | |||
Independent | Giuseppe Vittorio Bruno | 181 | |||
Conservative | Carrie Baylis Cooper | 110 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Richard David Lewis* | 883 | |||
Conservative | Marjorie Jennifer Stubbings | 391 | |||
Labour | David Raymond Beech | 186 | |||
Green | David Charles Howells | 185 | |||
Independent hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Ronald Morgan Thomas* | 612 | |||
Conservative | Peter Davies | 494 | |||
Liberal Democrat | William James Cherrington | 328 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrat | Mary Helen Jones* | 699 | |||
Conservative | David Nicholas Thomas | 212 | |||
Labour | Nigel Alan Robins | 103 | |||
Liberal Democrat hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrat | Gerald Glyn Clement* | 798 | |||
Conservative | James Barrington Geen Harding | 165 | |||
Liberal Democrat hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | William Gethin Evans* | 566 | |||
Plaid Cymru | Pauline A. Selvage | 305 | |||
Conservative | Anthony Allan Winchester | 284 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Howard James Rees | 200 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrat | Vivian Nigel Abbott | 821 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Robert Speht | 775 | |||
Labour | Thomas Michael White | 694 | |||
Labour | Nigel Shreeve | 656 | |||
Independent | Gerald Murphy | 193 | |||
Independent | Kenneth Philip Skinner | 122 | |||
Liberal Democrat gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Liberal Democrat gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | David Gareth Sullivan* | 888 | |||
Labour | Geoffrey Archer | 272 | |||
Conservative | Garath Donald John Williams | 223 | |||
Independent hold | Swing | ||||
Elected as an Independent in 1999, June Evans subsequently joined the Independent group.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | June Evans* | 1,176 | |||
Labour | Dennis Henry James* | 1,063 | |||
Labour | Lawrence David Bailey* | 1,062 | |||
Labour | Yvonne Veronica Jardine | 975 | |||
Labour | Penelope Margaret Matthews | 939 | |||
Plaid Cymru | Carolyne Shan Couch | 770 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Christopher Cuff | 598 | |||
Conservative | Stephen Neil Hughes | 566 | |||
Conservative | Christian John Holliday | 509 | |||
Conservative | Andrew David Morgan | 504 | |||
Independent hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Daniel Raymond James* | 218 | |||
Independent | Clive Ernest Watters | 196 | |||
Conservative | Robert John Charles Fisher | 92 | |||
Plaid Cymru | John William Griffiths | 73 | |||
Independent | Richard Gordon Evans | 66 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Margaret Elaine Cherrington | 14 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
People's Representative | Ioan Merritt Richard* | 620 | |||
Conservative | Simon Jeffrey Trick | 82 | |||
Others hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrat | Rene Harwood Kinzett | 708 | |||
Conservative | Dorian Gerald Rowbottom | 206 | |||
Independent | David Charles Evans* | 179 | |||
Labour | Jeffrey William Walton | 64 | |||
Plaid Cymru | Eiry Miles | 56 | |||
Green | Philip Joel Swinnerton | 33 | |||
Liberal Democrat gain from Independent | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Michael John Hedges* | 1,958 | |||
Labour | Robert John Lloyd* | 1,813 | |||
Labour | William John Francis Davies* | 1,758 | |||
Labour | Robert Francis-Davies* | 1,738 | |||
Labour | Robert Charles Stewart | 1,726 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Helen Ceri Jones | 1,443 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Debra Louise Anthony | 1,414 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Steven John Moss | 1,300 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Stuart Anthony Vaughan | 1,234 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Jacob Mbu Oben | 1,051 | |||
Plaid Cymru | Charlotte Aull Davies | 732 | |||
Conservative | William Hughes | 691 | |||
Conservative | Thomas Patrick Morgan | 576 | |||
Conservative | Paul Raymond Morris | 462 | |||
Conservative | Sonya Winifred Rachel Morris | 446 | |||
Green | Deborah James | 398 | |||
Green | Colin Keith Donnan | 337 | |||
Green | John Rasbridge | 308 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Audrey Rose Ann Clement | 1,512 | |||
Labour | Ceinwen Thomas* | 1,141 | |||
Independent | Austin Raymond Welsby | 1,119 | |||
Labour | Byron George Owen* | 1,081 | |||
Labour | Charles Glyndwr White* | 925 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Lesley Jayne Price | 628 | |||
Independent gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Independent gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrat | Susan Mary Waller* | 652 | |||
Conservative | Anthony Charles Saunders Colburn | 636 | |||
Green | Karen Anne Laurence | 112 | |||
Liberal Democrat hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Joan Thyrza Gwenllian Peters* | 702 | |||
Labour | John Roger Warren Evans | 383 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Zoe Francesca James‐Williams | 252 | |||
Green | Paul Stewart Wimbush | 145 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | David Paul Tucker | 890 | |||
Labour | Terence John Snell | 386 | |||
Conservative | Gordon Howells | 126 | |||
Green | Walter Raymond Stock | 95 | |||
Independent hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | June Elizabeth Burtonshaw* | 913 | |||
Labour | Grenville Phillips* | 871 | |||
Labour | Doreen Jones* | 870 | |||
Green | James Anthony Young | 472 | |||
Green | Linda Beynon | 423 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Gaynor Meehan | 402 | |||
Green | Christine Mary Norman | 349 | |||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Elizabeth Wendy Fitzgerald | 595 | |||
Labour | Dennis Joseph Lawlor | 205 | |||
Conservative | Janice Birch | 99 | |||
Independent hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Margaret Smith* | 574 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Andrew Crawford Thomas | 402 | |||
Green | Lawrence Daniel Fancourt | 161 | |||
Labour | Andrew John Jones | 101 | |||
Independent hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Alison Marsha Seabourne | 694 | |||
Labour | David Islwyn Elfed Jones* | 676 | |||
Independent | Peter William Woollard | 564 | |||
Liberal Democrat | David Anthony Griffiths | 321 | |||
Conservative | Paul Curtis De La Mare | 304 | |||
Conservative | Eleanor Mary Davies | 270 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John Treharne Miles* | 1,239 | |||
Labour | Philip Downing | 983 | |||
Plaid Cymru | Eifion Davies | 959 | |||
Conservative | Lyndon Richard Jones | 299 | |||
Conservative | Margaret Chegwin Jones | 231 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrat | Rosina June Stanton* | 2,366 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Arthur Michael Day* | 1,940 | |||
Conservative | Thomas Huw Rees* | 1,628 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Cheryl Lynne Philpott | 1,445 | |||
Conservative | Anthony Trevor Lloyd* | 1,398 | |||
Conservative | Keith Houston Meyrick Crawford | 1,322 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Paul Michael Meara | 1,316 | |||
Conservative | Hayden Edward Jones | 1,305 | |||
Conservative | David William Helliwell | 1,274 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Edward Whittaker | 1,156 | |||
Labour | Joseph Brian Cainen | 889 | |||
Labour | Geraint Owens | 840 | |||
Labour | Parvaiz Arshad Ali | 793 | |||
Labour | Maureen Clough‐Stuckey* | 762 | |||
Labour | Peter Leonard Rowlands | 726 | |||
Plaid Cymru | Sian Thomas | 592 | |||
Green | Heather Brooks | 407 | |||
Green | Sandra Christina Shrewsbury | 367 | |||
Green | Nicholas Gregory Gaylor | 358 | |||
Green | Neil Robert Hooper | 270 | |||
Green | Howard John Jago | 231 | |||
Liberal Democrat hold | Swing | ||||
Liberal Democrat hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Liberal Democrat hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | David Alan Robinson | 1,150 | |||
Labour | Alan Rees Richards* | 742 | |||
Labour | Cyril Frederick Johnstone* | 648 | |||
Green | Teresa Brzoza | 521 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Jonathan Clarke | 277 | |||
Independent gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | David Henry Hopkins* | 689 | |||
Labour | Geoffrey Hugh Burtonshaw | 665 | |||
Labour | William Edwin Alan Jones | 653 | |||
Independent | Terence Porter | 444 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Andrew Paul Jones | 344 | |||
Plaid Cymru | Gregory Lee Evans | 299 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Phillip Richard Stanford | 284 | |||
Plaid Cymru | Hazel Pauline McKnight | 259 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Forbes Neil Lopez | 216 | |||
Green | Christopher Scott Warwick | 122 | |||
Green | Kingsley Vincent Evans | 120 | |||
Green | Marcus Kit Petz | 85 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrat | Peter May | 1,373 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Stuart James Rice | 1,354 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Claire Margaret Waller | 1,230 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Jayne Woodman | 1,120 | |||
Labour | Derek James* | 769 | |||
Labour | Gwion Iqbal Malik | 710 | |||
Labour | Hardev Aswani | 692 | |||
Labour | Moira Ann Singh* | 676 | |||
Independent | Dick Phillips | 649 | |||
Green | Martyn John Shrewsbury | 616 | |||
Independent | Angela Lewis | 600 | |||
Conservative | Richard Oliver John | 507 | |||
Independent | Susan Rosemary Sturgess | 493 | |||
Independent | Lavinia Gay Mitchell | 493 | |||
Independent | Phillip Norman Stapleton | 482 | |||
Conservative | Philip David Helliwell | 472 | |||
Green | 463 | 816 | |||
Plaid Cymru | Christian Downing | 440 | |||
Plaid Cymru | Omer Williams | 436 | |||
Plaid Cymru | Nicholas Atkin‐Walsh | 419 | |||
Plaid Cymru | Harri Llwyd Roberts | 414 | |||
Green | Andrew Niel Hammond | 376 | |||
Green | Mary Roberta Marquand | 352 | |||
Democratic Alliance | Nortridge Perrott | 83 | |||
Liberal Democrat gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Liberal Democrat gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Liberal Democrat gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Liberal Democrat gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Possible boundary change. the number of seats was reduced from two to one
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Plaid Cymru | Darren Price | 404 | |||
Labour | David Alcwyn Evans* | 305 | |||
Liberal Democrat | James Bernard Kelleher | 113 | |||
Conservative | Nigel Thomas Packer | 79 | |||
Plaid Cymru gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Desmond Wilfred William Thomas | 909 | |||
Labour | Mark Clive Child* | 939 | |||
Conservative | Vera Margaret Duncan | 702 | |||
Conservative | David Monro Donaldson | 688 | |||
Independent | Christopher Leonard McNeff | 474 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Christopher Gareth Davies | 354 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Jonathan Owain Burchell | 309 | |||
Green | Steve Heydon | 166 | |||
Green | Geraldine Sara Noott | 147 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
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