2012 City and County of Swansea Council election

The fifth election to the City and County of Swansea Council was held in May 2012. It was preceded by the 2008 election and will be followed by the 2017 election.

Overview

All council seats were up for election. These were the fifth elections held following local government reorganisation and the abolition of West Glamorgan County Council. The Labour Party made substantial gains and won back control of the authority, having lost their majority in 2004

Candidates

The contests were fought by most of the main parties but Labour was the only one to contest all of the seats.

Overall Result

City and County of Swansea Council election result 2012

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Labour	49			+19	68.1	45.5	30,173	+19.6
	Liberal Democrats	12			-11	16.7	15.4	10,226	-6.5
	Independent	3			-4	4.2	14.6	9,692	+4.3
	Conservative	4			0	5.6	10.9	7,228	-5.8
	Plaid Cymru	0			-1	0.0	5.4	3,564	-3.1
	Independents @ Swansea	3			-3	4.2	5.0	3,297	-4.2
	Green	0			0	0.0	2.1	1,404	-1.8
	TUSC	0			0	0.0	0.6	401	New
	People's Representative	1			0	1.4	0.4	295	-0.2
	National Front	0			0	0.0	0.1	92	New
	BNP	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-2.6
	Socialist Alternative	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-0.2
	Communist	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-0.1
	Left List	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-0.1

Results

* = sitting councillor in this ward prior to election

Bishopston (one seat)

Bishopston 2012

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Keith Edmund Marsh*	645
	Conservative	Gareth Davies	267
	Labour	David Dorsett	175
Majority
Turnout				40.1	−9.6
	Independent hold		Swing

Bonymaen (two seats)

Long-serving Labour councillor Mair Gibbs was de-selected and failed to be returned as an Independent.

Bonymaen 2012

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Paul Lloyd	959
	Labour	Mandy Evans	893
	Independent	Mair Eluned Gibbs*	514
	Independent	John Brian Hague*	493
	National Front	Sion Lynford Owens	92
Turnout				32.2	−2,0
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Independent		Swing

Castle (four seats)

Castle 2012

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Erika Theresa Kirchner*	1,629
	Labour	Sybil Edith Crouch	1,623
	Labour	David Phillips*	1,610
	Labour	Fiona Margaret Gordon	1,582
	Liberal Democrats	Gareth Peter Jones	533
	Liberal Democrats	Alan Jeffery	531
	Liberal Democrats	Tanya Auxiliadora May	511
	Liberal Democrats	Vicky Lewis	440
	Plaid Cymru	Patrick John Powell	274
	Plaid Cymru	Geraint Couch	261
	Plaid Cymru	Harri Llwyd Roberts	254
	Green	Steve Clegg	248
	Plaid Cymru	Damian Paul Martin	248
	Conservative	Paul Raymond Morris	241
	Conservative	Stephen Joseph Gallagher	230
	Conservative	Sonya Winifred Rachel Morris	228
	Conservative	Natasha Rhian Tomaszewski	207
	Independent	Phil Crayford	207
	Green	Ross Walters	193
	TUSC	Martin John White	148
Turnout				29.0	+0.7
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Clydach (two seats)

Roger Llewellyn Smith had been elected as a Labour councillor in 2008.

Clydach 2012

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Paulette Bradley Smith*	1,055
	Independent	Gordon David Walker	1,040
	Independent	Roger Llewellyn Smith*	915
	Labour	Gillian Wakeman	702
Turnout				36.4	−1.7
	Labour hold		Swing
	Independent gain from Labour		Swing

Cockett (four seats)

Labour captured all four seats from the Liberal Democrats by a substantial margin. One of the four Lib Dems elected in 2008 stood as an Independent.

Cockett 2012

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ann Cook	1,949
	Labour	Andrew John Jones	1,913
	Labour	Geraint Owens	1,707
	Labour	Mitchell Theaker	1,601
	Plaid Cymru	David Rhys Lloyd	895
	Liberal Democrats	Nicola Anne Holley*	728
	Liberal Democrats	William Keith Morgan*	723
	Liberal Democrats	James Bernard Kelleher*	637
	Liberal Democrats	Hazel Morgan	580
	Plaid Cymru	Patricia Christine Sanderson	533
	Plaid Cymru	Enid Vanessa Webb	498
	Plaid Cymru	John Rhodri Thomas	484
	Independent	Veronyca Anne Bates Hughes*	248
	Conservative	Matthew David Johnson	192
	Conservative	Liam Kelly	166
	Conservative	Victoria Steventon	155
	Conservative	Michael Overthrow	154
Turnout				32.9	−0.6
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Cwmbwrla (three seats)

Cwmbwrla 2012

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Black*	1,028
	Liberal Democrats	Christopher Holley*	1,045
	Liberal Democrats	Lewis Graham Thomas*	1,023
	Labour	Cyril Anderson	965
	Labour	Peter David Meehan	824
	Labour	Joy Richards	807
Turnout				35.2	−3.6
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Dunvant (two seats)

Lib Dem councilor Nick Tregoning stood unsuccessfully as an Independent, leading to the loss of one seat to Labour who increased their vote significantly compared to 2008.

Dunvant 2012

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	John Newbury*	575
	Labour	Jennifer Anne Raynor	420
	Labour	Mick Harper	354
	Independent	Nicholas John Tregoning*	351
	Liberal Democrats	Graham Isted	302
	Independent	Rowland Bevan	231
	Independent	Lis Davies	213
	Conservative	Jordan Slater	100
	Conservative	Robert Thornton Dowdle	89
Turnout				38.9	−6.9
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Fairwood (one seat)

Fairwood 2012

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Paxton Richard Hood‐Williams*	583
	Liberal Democrats	John Gunther Bushell	317
	Labour	Mike Durke	247
Turnout				49.7	−2.6
	Conservative hold		Swing

Gorseinon (one seat)

Gorseinon 2012

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Lewis	538
	Plaid Cymru	Darren Jeffery Thomas	275
	Independent	Beverley Howard	184
	Conservative	Elizabeth Grace Thomas	58
Turnout				32.7	−2.6
	Labour hold		Swing

Gower (one seat)

Sitting member Richard Lewis switched from the Independents to the Lib Dems.

Gower 2012

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Richard David Lewis*	826
	Labour	Roy Collins	358
	Conservative	Robert Fisher	232
Turnout				47.55	−5.9
	Liberal Democrats gain from Independent		Swing

Gowerton (one seat)

Ron Thomas narrowly failed in his bid to win back the seat he lost in 2008.

Gowerton 2012

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Susan Mary Jones*	660
	Labour	Ronald Morgan Thomas	608
	Conservative	Gordon Howells	163
	TUSC	Les Woodward	58
Turnout				37.0	−4.9
	Independent hold		Swing

Killay North (one seat)

Killay North 2012

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Mary Helen Jones*	435
	Labour	Hannah Farrar	198
	Conservative	Gareth Raymond Milne	127
Turnout				22.7	−11.6
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Killay South (one seat)

Killay South 2012

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Jeffrey William Jones	429
	Labour	Peter Kenneth Jones	327
	Conservative	Graham Richard Coombs	111
Turnout				43.7	−6.8
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Kingsbridge (one seat)

Kingsbridge 2012

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Evans*	889
	Independent	Pat Griffiths	285
Turnout				36.3	−9.7
	Labour hold		Swing

Landore (two seats)

Landore 2012

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Beverley Hopkins	1,040
	Labour	Thomas Michael White	1,030
	Liberal Democrats	Vivian Nigel Abbott*	472
	Liberal Democrats	Robert Speht*	423
	Independent	Roger Berry	77
	Conservative	Kate Horton	39
	Conservative	Henri Lloyd Davies	28
Turnout				35.1	−0.8
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Llangyfelach (one seat)

Llangyfelach 2012

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	David Gareth Sullivan*	776
	Labour	Richard Simpson	344
	Green	John Edward Rasbridge	72
Turnout				29.9	−6.3
	Independent hold		Swing

Llansamlet (four seats)

Llansamlet 2012

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Christopher Ryland Doyle*	2,185
	Labour	Penelope Margaret Matthews*	2,154
	Labour	Uta Clay	2,051
	Labour	Dennis Henry James*	1,971
	Independent	June Evans*	952
	Conservative	Roger George Campbell Evans	354
	Conservative	Joshua Mark Gaskell	335
	Conservative	Leigh Kristyn Moss	328
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Independent		Swing
Turnout				30.3	−0.9

Lower Loughor (one seat)

Lower Loughor 2012

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Julie Christine Richards*	436
	Liberal Democrats	Mike Sheehan	100
	Plaid Cymru	Leigh Richards	56
Turnout				33.0	−3.7
	Labour hold		Swing

Mawr (one seat)

Mawr 2012

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	People's Representative	Ioan Merritt Richard*	295
	Labour	Rhys Aeron Jones	213
	Plaid Cymru	Linda Mary Frame	149
Turnout				44.8	−3.8
	People's Representative hold		Swing

Mayals (one seat)

Mayals 2012

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Linda Tyler-Lloyd	283
	Independent	Peter Geoffrey Birch	264
	Liberal Democrats	Keith Jones	257
	Labour	Peter Rowlands	163
	Independent	David Charles Evans	29
Turnout				46.1	−8.6
	Conservative hold		Swing

Morriston (five seats)

Morriston 2012

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Davies	2,599
	Labour	Robert Stewart*	2,500
	Labour	Robert Francis-Davies*	2,342
	Labour	Andrea Sharon Harrington	2,302
	Labour	Yvonne Veronica Jardine	2,190
	Independent	Adrian Davies	869
	Plaid Cymru	Richard Jones Jones	800
	Conservative	James Peter Hatton	504
	Conservative	William Hughes	501
	Conservative	Sheila Morgan	467
	Conservative	Richard James Strick-Jenkins	404
	Liberal Democrats	Ken Anderson	351
	Conservative	Jennifer Margaret Bickerstaff	341
	Liberal Democrats	Rosemarie Bridgeman	276
	Liberal Democrats	Owen John Roberts	254
	Liberal Democrats	Anjali Kadam	187
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
Turnout				30.0	−4.7

Mynyddbach (three seats)

Mynyddbach 2012

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ceinwen Thomas*	1,348
	Labour	Byron George Owen*	1,321
	Labour	Gloria Jean Tanner	1,190
	Independent	Austin Raymond Welsby	699
	Independent	Audrey Rose Ann Clement*	683
	Independent	Noel Gordon West	476
	Liberal Democrats	Ann Amina Jamal	215
	Conservative	John Ward	199
	Conservative	Emma Alice Lynall	135
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Independent		Swing
Turnout				34.9	−1.8

Newton (one seat)

Newton 2012

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Crawshay Miles Thomas	625
	Liberal Democrats	Simon Hugh Arthur	423
	Labour	Greg Kaminaris	228
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
Turnout				45.9	−2.0

Oystermouth (one seat)

Oystermouth 2012

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Anthony Charles Saunders Colburn*	500
	Labour	Pam Erasmus	444
	Independent	Dorian Davies	311
	Conservative hold		Swing
Turnout				47.2	−5.7

Penclawdd (one seat)

Penclawdd 2012

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mark Thomas	819
	Independent	David Paul Tucker*	493
	Conservative	Carole Maureen Hyde	89
	Labour gain from Independent		Swing
Turnout				46.6	−3.0

Penderry (three seats)

Penderry 2012

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Terry Hennegan	1,216
	Labour	June Elizabeth Burtonshaw*	1,182
	Labour	Hazel Mary Morris*	1,092
	Green	James Anthony Young	470
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
Turnout				22.2	−1.0

Penllergaer (one seat)

Penllergaer 2012

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Elizabeth Wendy Fitzgerald*	744
	Labour	Tom Hoyles	183
	Conservative	Lyndon Richard Jones	25
	Independent hold		Swing
Turnout				42.5	−3.1

Pennard (one seat)

Pennard 2012

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Lynda James	442
	Independent	Peter Hugh Lanfear	215
	Conservative	Patrick Morgan	211
	Labour	Terry Scales	131
	Plaid Cymru	Arthur John Rogers	116
	Liberal Democrats	Andrew Crawford Thomas	35
	Independent gain from Conservative		Swing
Turnout				52.3	−4.9

Penyrheol (two seats)

Penyrheol 2012

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David William Cole	1,036
	Labour	Jan Curtice	904
	Plaid Cymru	Jim Dunckley	346
	Plaid Cymru	Hannah Lowe	248
	Independent	Victor Bruno	200
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Independent		Swing
Turnout				34.2

Pontarddulais (two seats)

Pontarddulais 2012

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Philip Downing	837
	Labour	Jane Harris	657
	Independent	Byron Calvin Lewis	495
	Independent	Don Richards	452
	Independent	Valerie Anne Hedges	437
	Independent	Dai Beynon	346
	Independent	David Thomas Howells*	227
	Conservative	Garath Williams	124
	Conservative	Glen Brian Routledge	92
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Independent		Swing
Turnout				39.0	−8.2

Sketty (five seats)

Sketty 2012

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Rosina June Stanton*	1,860
	Liberal Democrats	Arthur Michael Day*	1,624
	Liberal Democrats	Cheryl Lynne Philpott*	1,573
	Liberal Democrats	Thomas Huw Rees*	1,433
	Liberal Democrats	Paul Michael Meara*	1,293
	Labour	Paul Elliott	1,286
	Labour	Carolyn Brown	1,272
	Labour	Ian James	1,253
	Labour	Paula Pritchard	1,172
	Labour	Ashaa Rasul Iftikhar	1,082
	Conservative	Anthony Trevor Lloyd	1,014
	Conservative	Steve Jenkins	866
	Conservative	Craig James Robert Lawton	848
	Conservative	Daniel Stephen Boucher	771
	Conservative	Dayne Ryan Powell	665
	Independent	Ian Anthony McCloy	600
	Plaid Cymru	Carl Harris	529
	Plaid Cymru	Thomas Caldas	450
	Plaid Cymru	Shan Couch	412
	Plaid Cymru	Jon Howes	411
	TUSC	Rob Williams	195
	TUSC	Ronnie Job	147
Turnout				38.0	−5.5
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

St Thomas (two seats)

St Thomas 2012

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Joe Hale	1,116
	Labour	Clive Lloyd	968
	Independent	David Alan Robinson*	554
	Independent	Terry Porter	301
	Conservative	Ruth Lloyd	73
	Conservative	Owain James Thomas	64
	Labour gain from Independent		Swing
	Labour gain from Independent		Swing
Turnout				29.9	−8.5

Townhill (three seats)

Townhill 2012

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Nicholas Stuart Bradley*	1,116
	Labour	Lesley Virginia Walton	1,110
	Labour	David Henry Hopkins*	1,093
	Independent	Samantha Jayne Davies	225
	Liberal Democrats	Douglas Hunt	191
	Liberal Democrats	Christopher McColgan	173
	Liberal Democrats	Samuel Rees	144
	Conservative	Myles Langstone	72
	Conservative	David Helliwell	67
	Conservative	Amir Akhtar	54
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
Turnout				25.7	−1.3

Uplands (four seats)

Uplands 2012

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Nick Davies	1,302
	Labour	John Bayliss	1,207
	Labour	Neil Ronconi-Woollard	1,161
	Labour	Pearleen Sangha	1,099
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Nicholas May*	1,089
	Liberal Democrats	Stuart James Rice*	975
	Liberal Democrats	Janet Mary Thomas*	812
	Liberal Democrats	Jayne Woodman*	782
	Green	Keith Malcolm Ross	614
	Green	Andrew Russell Lumley Smith	465
	Conservative	Millie Elizabeth Balkan	319
	Conservative	Christian Peter Bickerstaff	313
	Conservative	Thomas Giffard	306
	Conservative	Sarah Anne Bickerstaff	301
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
Turnout				26.8	−3.0

Upper Loughor (one seat)

Upper Loughor 2012

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Robert Smith	488
	Liberal Democrats	John Carpenter	162
	Plaid Cymru	Rob Lowe	124
	Labour gain from Plaid Cymru		Swing
Turnout				35.8	−6.9

West Cross (two seats)

West Cross 2012

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mark Clive Child*	1,276
	Labour	Desmond Wilfred William Thomas*	1,249
	Conservative	Lynne Davies	723
	Conservative	Rebecca Taylor	608
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
Turnout				38.9

By-Elections 2012-2017

Llansamlet by-election 2013

A by-election was held in Llansamlet on 4 July 2013 following the death of Labour councilor Dennis James. A former Labour MP held the seat.

Llansamlet 2014 by-election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Robert Clay	1,368	75.0
	Conservative	James Hatton	236	12.9
	Liberal Democrats	Samuel Rees	113	6.2
	National Front	Claire Thomas	108	5.9
Majority
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

Uplands by-election 2014

A by-election was held in Uplands ward on 20 November 2014 following the resignation of Labour councillor Pearleen Sangha. Peter May who lost the seat by 10 votes in 2012 won the seat back as an Independent.

Uplands by-election 2015

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Peter May	671	32.8
	Labour	Fran Griffiths	533	26.1
	Liberal Democrats	Janet Thomas	215	10.5
	Green	Ashley Wakeling	179	8.8
	Independent	Pat Dwan	158	7.7
	Conservative	Josh Allard	154	7.5
	Plaid Cymru	Rhydian Fitter	104	5.1
	TUSC	Ronnie Job	31	1.5
Majority
Turnout
	Independent gain from Labour		Swing