Fairwater (Cardiff electoral ward)

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Fairwater ward
Electoral ward
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Location of Fairwater ward within Cardiff
Population12,981 (2011 census) [1]
Community
Principal area
Country Wales
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town CARDIFF
Postcode district CF5
Dialling code +44-29
UK Parliament
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Fairwater is the name of an electoral ward in the west of Cardiff, capital city of Wales. It covers Fairwater and Pentrebane on the outskirts of the urban area.

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The Fairwater ward is bordered to the west by Pentyrch and St Fagans, to the east by Llandaff and to the south by the Ely ward.

Background

Fairwater has elected three councillors to Cardiff Council since 1995, being represented by the Labour Party until May 2008 when all three seats were taken by Plaid Cymru. [2]

Plaid Cymru (Fairwater and Pentrebane Voice) and Labour (Fairwater and Pentrebane Fightback) have both issued local campaigning newsletters containing allegations and counter-allegations against one another. [3] These have included accusations that Cllr Michael Michael, a hairdresser, was profiting from a council leased building [4] and allegations about Cllr McEvoy's expenses. [3]

During the 2008 election campaign former MP Rod Richards, who lived in Fairwater, was arrested after assaulting a fellow Conservative Party campaigner. [5]

Plaid lost a seat in May 2012 [6] but regained it in 2017. Ward representatives have included Labour councillor Michael Michael, who was deputy leader of the Cardiff Council until 2008 [7] and Plaid Cymru's Neil McEvoy, who was deputy leader of the council from 2008 to 2012. McEvoy had previously been a Labour Party councillor for the Riverside ward in the city and was also elected as a Plaid Cymru Assembly Member in the Wales Government in 2016. [8] McEvoy was expelled from Plaid Cymru in 2018 and the remaining two councillors resigned the Plaid Cymru party whip in October 2019 in protest at the treatment of McEvoy. They remained as independent councillors. [9]

McEoy retained his seat in 2022, this time standing for the Propel party. [10]

County councillors

Representation 1995 – date [2]
Year      Labour    Plaid Cymru     Other    
2022 21
2019--3
2018-21
2017 -3-
2012 12-
2008 -3-
2004 3--
1999 3--
1995 3--

Elections

May 2022

Attention was on the Fairwater ward in May 2022, with Neil McEvoy's new political party, Propel, hoping to win the seats previously won by his former party, Plaid Cymru. [11] Plaid stood under the new coalition name of Common Ground. Whist McEvoy retained his seat, [10] the other two seats were won by Labour. [12]

2022 Cardiff Council election [13]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Claudia BOES 1,543 14.2 N/A
Propel Neil McEVOY * 1,478 13.6 N/A
Labour Saleh AHMED 1,455 13.4 N/A
Propel Lisa FORD *1,31812.1N/A
Labour Lorna STABLER1,30012.0N/A
Propel Keith PARRY *1,18510.9N/A
Common Ground Neil ROBERTS4364.0N/A
Conservative David ADAMS4173.8N/A
Common Ground Philip CROXALL3833.5N/A
Conservative Natalie MATTHEWS3833.5N/A
Common Ground Erik WILLIAMS3443.2N/A
Conservative Clive WILLIAMS3433.2N/A
Liberal Democrats Eleri KIBALE1501.4N/A
Liberal Democrats Mark REES1261.2N/A
Turnout 10,861N/A
Registered electors 9,919
Labour gain from Plaid Cymru Swing
Propel gain from Plaid Cymru Swing
Labour gain from Plaid Cymru Swing

May 2017

2017 Cardiff Council election [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Plaid Cymru Neil McEVOY * 2,414
Plaid Cymru Lisa FORD * 2,349
Plaid Cymru Keith PARRY 2,017
Labour Paul MITCHELL *1,160
Labour John BAYLISS1,101
Labour Irene HUMPHREYS1,039
Conservative John WILLIAMS535
Conservative Alan HILL533
Conservative Ronald MICHAELIS450
Liberal Democrats Eleri RANDERSON203
Green Phillip CROXALL190
Liberal Democrats Mark REES92
Liberal Democrats Oliver TOWNSEND92
TUSC Ross SAUNDERS73
Turnout 44.5%

*= sitting councillor prior to the election

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