The fifth election to the City and County of Swansea Council was held in May 2012.[1] It was preceded by the 2008 election and will be followed by the 2017 election.
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
The contests were fought by most of the main parties but Labour was the only one to contest all of the seats.
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 |
* = sitting councillor in this ward prior to election
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 |
Long-serving Labour councillor Mair Gibbs was de-selected and failed to be returned as an Independent.
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 |
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 |
Roger Llewellyn Smith had been elected as a Labour councillor in 2008.
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 |
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.
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 |
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 |
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.
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Ron Thomas narrowly failed in his bid to win back the seat he lost in 2008.
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 |
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 |
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 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | William Evans* | 889 | |||
Independent | Pat Griffiths | 285 | |||
Turnout | 36.3 | −9.7 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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.[2]
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 |
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.[3]
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 |