Pontardawe (electoral ward)

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Pontardawe ward
Population5,421 (2011 census)
Principal area
Preserved county
Country Wales
Sovereign state United Kingdom
UK Parliament
Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament
Councillors
  • Linet Purcell(Plaid Cymru)
  • Anthony John Richards(Plaid Cymru)
List of places
UK
Wales
Neath Port Talbot

Pontardawe is an electoral ward of Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales. It is a division of the Pontardawe community and falls within the parliamentary constituency of Neath.

Contents

The greater part of the geographical area of the ward is made up of mountainous grassland and open moorland with a scattering of farms. However, the majority of the population is concentrated in the town of Pontardawe in the south of the ward.

In clockwise order the ward is bounded

Local council elections

In the 2017 local council elections, the voter turnout was 44%. The results were: [1]

CandidatePartyVotesStatus
Linet Purcell Plaid Cymru 992elected – Plaid Cymru hold
Anthony John RichardsPlaid Cymru635elected – Plaid Cymru gain
Vince Hotten Labour 622
Mike JamesLabour609
Sascha Lopez Conservative 260
Kieran DaviesConservative233

Key demographics

References

  1. "Election results for Pontardawe: County Borough Council - Ordinary Elections - Thursday, 4th May, 2017". Neath Port Talbot Council. Retrieved 15 February 2019.
  2. Neath Port Talbot County Borough statistics 2008

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