2004 Welsh local elections

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All 1,263 seats to 22 Welsh councils
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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%

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| Third party  | Fourth party
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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%

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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

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Party  | Votes[2] | %  | +/-  | Councils  | +/-  | Seats  | +/-

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| 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

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

Council  | Previous control  | Result  | Details

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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

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## References

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1. ^ a b "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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