2004 Welsh local elections

2004 Welsh local elections

10 June 2004 (2004-06-10)
All 1,263 seats to 22 Welsh councils
First party Second party   Leader Rhodri Morgan Ieuan Wyn Jones Party Labour Plaid Cymru Leader since 9 February 2000 16 March 2000 Seats won 479 175 Seat change 84 30 Popular vote 278,193 149,352 Popular vote (%) 30.6% 16.4% Swing (pp) 3.8% 1.8%   Third party Fourth party   Leader Lembit Opik Nick Bourne Party Liberal Democrats Conservative Leader since 17 September 2001 August 1999 Seats won 146 107 Seat change 48 32 Popular vote 126,135 99,991 Popular vote (%) 13.9% 11.0% Swing (pp) 0.5% 0.9%
Colours denote the winning party with outright control (left), and the largest party by ward (right)

The 2004 Welsh local elections took place on 10 June 2004 to elect members of all twenty-two local authorities in Wales. They were held alongside other local elections in the United Kingdom. The previous elections were held in 1999.

The elections were originally scheduled for May 2003, but were delayed to avoid a conflict with the 2003 Wales Assembly elections. However, this meant they took place on the same day as the 2004 elections to the European Parliament.^[1] 3,135 candidates competed for 1,262 council seats across Wales, in 879 electoral wards.^[1]

Results

Party		Votes[2]	%	+/-	Councils	+/-	Seats	+/-
	Labour	278,193	30.6%	3.8	8		479	84
	Independent	205,722	22.6%	3.5	3	1	321	26
	Plaid Cymru	149,352	16.4%	1.8	1	2	175	30
	Liberal Democrats	126,135	13.9%	0.5	0		146	48
	Conservative	99,991	11.0%	0.9	1	1	107	32
	Green	10,799	1.2%	0.4	0		0	1
	Other	39,492	4.3%	0.5	0		35	2
	No overall control	n/a	n/a	n/a	9	2	n/a	n/a

Councils

In all 22 Welsh councils the whole of the council was up for election.

Council	Previous control		Result		Details
Anglesey		Independent		Independent hold	Details
Blaenau Gwent		Labour		Labour hold	Details
Bridgend		Labour		No overall control gain	Details
Caerphilly		Plaid Cymru		Labour gain	Details
Cardiff		Labour		No overall control gain	Details
Carmarthenshire		No overall control		No overall control hold	Details
Ceredigion		Independent		No overall control gain	Details
Conwy		No overall control		No overall control hold	Details
Denbighshire		No overall control		No overall control hold	Details
Flintshire		Labour		Labour hold	Details
Gwynedd		Plaid Cymru		Plaid Cymru	Details
Merthyr Tydfil		No overall control		Labour gain	Details
Monmouthshire		No overall control		Conservative gain	Details
Neath Port Talbot		Labour		Labour hold	Details
Newport		Labour		Labour hold	Details
Pembrokeshire		Independent		Independent hold	Details
Powys		Independent		Independent hold	Details
Rhondda Cynon Taff		Plaid Cymru		Labour gain	Details
Swansea		Labour		No overall control gain	Details
Torfaen		Labour		Labour hold	Details
Vale of Glamorgan		No overall control		No overall control hold	Details
Wrexham		No overall control		No overall control hold	Details

Notes

References

1. "Analysis of local election results data for Wales 2004 (including turnout and extent of postal voting)" (PDF). Electoral Commission. p. 2. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
2. "Local Elections Handbook 2004" (PDF). Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher, Local Government Chronicle Elections Centre, University of Plymouth. 2004. Retrieved 15 December 2016.

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