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Grangetown ward
Grangetown ward
Electoral ward
	Location of Grangetown ward within Cardiff
Population	20,800 (2021 census)
Principal area	Cardiff;
Country	Wales
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	CARDIFF
Postcode district	CF11
Dialling code	+44-29
UK Parliament	Cardiff South & Penarth;
Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament	Cardiff South & Penarth;
Councillors	4
	List of places UK Wales Cardiff

Grangetown is an electoral ward in the city of Cardiff, Wales. It covers its namesake community of Grangetown. The ward was originally created in 1890 as a ward to Cardiff County Borough Council.

Description

The Grangetown ward lies to the south of the city between the rivers Taff and Ely. The ward elects four councillors to Cardiff Council. Traditionally represented by the Labour Party it has, in the 2000s, also elected Liberal Democrat and Plaid Cymru councillors.

According to the 2011 census the population of the ward was 19,385,^[1] this rose to 20,800 by the 2021 census

Following a Cardiff boundary review, intended to give better electoral parity, the number of councillors for the Grangetown ward was increased from 3 to 4, effective from the 2022 Cardiff Council election.^[2]

Election results

2024 by-election

Following the death of Abdul Sattar in February, a by-election was called for 25 April 2024. Seven candidates put themselves forward to fill the vacancy, including Sattar's widow Waheeda Sattar^[3] the eventual winner.

2024 Grangetown by-election^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Waheeda Abdul Sattar	1,470	47.5%	N/A
	Common Ground	Kirstie Kopetzki	573	18.5%	N/A
	Conservative	Zak Weaver	387	12.5%	N/A
	Propel	Sash Patel	292	9.4%	N/A
	Independent	Ahmed Abdillahi Abdi Samater	205	6.6%	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	James Robin Bear	123	3.9%	N/A
	Independent	Andrew Charles Hovord	44	1.4%	N/A
Turnout			3094	20.3
	Labour hold

2022

Following a boundary review the number of seats increased from three to four. The boundaries themselves for this ward remained unchanged.

2022 Cardiff Council election^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ash Lister*	2,885	56.4	*N/A*
	Labour	Sara Elisabeth Robinson	2,733	53.4	*N/A*
	Labour	Abdul Sattar*	2,665	52.1	*N/A*
	Labour	Lynda Doreen Thorne*	2,533	49.5	*N/A*
	Common Ground	Tariq Awan	1,511	29.5	N/A
	Common Ground	Sarah King	1,382	27.0	N/A
	Common Ground	Luke Nicholas	1,312	25.7	N/A
	Common Ground	Frankie-Rose Taylor	1,131	22.1	N/A
	Conservative	Joseph Anyaike	487	9.5	N/A
	Conservative	Conor Holohan	478	9.3	N/A
	Conservative	Llyr Tomos Powell	442	8.6	N/A
	Conservative	Vivienne Ward	425	8.3	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	David Paul Morgan	266	5.2	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Irfan Latif	258	5.0	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Aamir Sheikh	250	4.9	N/A
	Propel	Jonathan Paul Gee	175	3.4	N/A
	Propel	Sailesh Patel	162	3.2	N/A
	Propel	Michael James Voyce	150	2.9	N/A
	TUSC	Joe Fathallah	109	2.1	N/A
Turnout			5,115^[6]	35.8	−1.5
Registered electors			14,304
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour win (new seat)

Abdul Sattar died suddenly aged 53, on 15 February 2024.^[7]

2017

At the May 2017 County Council elections Labour won all three seats, winning back the seat lost to Plaid Cymru in November 2016. Ashley Lister, grandson of the late councillor Chris Lomax (who died in September 2016) topped the poll by a single vote.^[8]

2017 Cardiff Council election^[9]
	Candidate	Votes
Labour	Ashley Lister	2199
Labour	Abdul Sattar	2198
Labour	Lynda Thorne *	2121
Plaid Cymru	Tariq Awan *	1757
Plaid Cymru	Richard Vaughan	1438
Plaid Cymru	Lisa Musa	1310
Conservative	Michael Bryan	671
Conservative	Jenna Malvisi	604
Conservative	Andrew Pike	580
Liberal Democrats	Jahangir Hussain	350
Green	Simon Morton	272
Liberal Democrats	Malcolm Evans	232
Liberal Democrats	Muhammed Latif	194
TUSC	Lianne Francis	65
TUSC	Joe Fathallah	46

2016 by-election

Following the death of Labour councillor Chris Lomax a by-election was held on 3 November 2016 which was won by Plaid Cymru candidate Tariq Awan, though by only 114 votes.^[10]

2016 Grangetown by-election ^[11]
	Candidate	Votes
Plaid Cymru	Tariq Awan	1163
Labour	Maliika Kaaba	1049
Conservative	Michael Bryan	287
UKIP	Richard Lewis	141
Liberal Democrats	Ashgar Ali	127

2012

In May 2012 Labour won back from the Liberal Democrats the three seats they had previously lost in 2004, with Plaid Cymru having a strong surge.^[12]

2012 Cardiff Council elections^[13]
	Candidate	Votes
Labour	Ashley Govier	1,812
Labour	Chris Lomax	1,709
Labour	Lynda Doreen Thorne	1,704
Plaid Cymru	Abdul Sattar	1,511
Plaid Cymru	Mohammed Tariq Awan	1,467
Plaid Cymru	Luke Nicholas	1,391
Liberal Democrats	Francesca Eva Sara Montemaggi *	505
Liberal Democrats	David Morgan *	501
Liberal Democrats	Paul Harding	489
Conservative	Vincent Bailey	308
Conservative	Axel Kaehne	266
Conservative	Karys Oram	251
Green	Sian Best	215
Green	Ken Barker	205
Christian	Clive Stanley Bate	84
Communist	Rick Newnham	77

2008

In May 2008, the Liberal Democrats successfully defended their three seats.

2008 Cardiff Council elections
	Candidate	Votes
Liberal Democrats	Francesca Montemaggi *	1,357
Liberal Democrats	Asghar Ali *	1,319
Liberal Democrats	David Morgan	1,317
Labour	Lynda Doreen Thorne	1,138
Labour	Stephen Brooks	1,131
Labour	David Collins	1,104
Plaid Cymru	Farida Alsam	1,099
Plaid Cymru	Patrick Daley	1,009
Plaid Cymru	Ioan Bellin	920
Conservative	Benjamin Green	546
Conservative	Mark Jones	533
Conservative	Michael Wallbank	482
Communist	Rick Newnham	111

2004

In May 2004 the Liberal Democrats won all three seats from the Labour Party. Labour councillor Peter Perkins had represented the area since 1981, initially for the Marl ward before it became part of Grangetown.^[14]

2004 Cardiff Council elections^[15]
	Candidate	Votes
Liberal Democrats	Margaret Winifred Jones	1,424
Liberal Democrats	Francesca Montemaggi	1,417
Liberal Democrats	Asghar Ali	1,404
Labour	Lynda Doreen Thorne *	1,122
Labour	Iftakhar Mohammad Khan	1,113
Labour	Peter George Perkins *	1,072
Plaid Cymru	Patrick Daley	838
Plaid Cymru	Abul Faiz M. Belal	764
Plaid Cymru	Jason Scott Toby	749
Conservative	Jean Summerhayes	427
Conservative	Adrian John Spinola	420
Conservative	Richard Peter Mendelssohn	369

Cardiff County Borough Council

1970

At the last elections to the pre-1974 county borough council on 7 May 1970, Labour's Bernard Matthewson returned to the council, defeating Grangetown's sitting Conservative councillor after a recount.^[16]

1970 Cardiff City Council election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Armour Bernard Matthewson	1,260
	Conservative	Anthea Jean Thomas *	1,249
	Plaid Cymru	Peter Stayeley McMullen	315
Turnout
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

1890

At the first Grangetown election on 1 November 1890, John Jenkins, a shipwright and a nominee of Cardiff Trades Council, was declared to be the first genuine working man's representative elected to the council. There were a large number of seafaring households in the south of the ward.^[17]

1890 Cardiff City Council election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Lib-Lab	John Jenkins	484
	Conservative	Robert Upham	260
Turnout			753	61.4

Ward creation

In July 1890, following the creation of Cardiff County Borough Council, Grangetown was the name of one of the ten new electoral wards created in the county borough.^[18] Each of the three councillors took turns to stand for re-election, on a three-yearly cycle.

* = sitting councillor prior to the election