2012 Welsh local government election
The fifth election to Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council was held on 3 May 2012.[1] It was preceded by the 2008 election and was followed by the 2017 election. On the same day there were elections to the other 21 local authorities in Wales and community councils in Wales.
Overview
All council seats were up for election. These were the fifth elections held following local government reorganisation. Labour retained its majority. There was a significant fall in the turnout in many wards and this appears to have worked to Labour's advantage in several instances.
Neath and Port Talbot County Borough Council election result 2012[2] Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− |
| Labour | 52 | | | +15 | 81.3 | 51.7 | 21,672 | +6.8 |
| Plaid Cymru | 8 | | | -3 | 12.5 | 20.5 | 8,630 | +0.3 |
| Neath Port Talbot Independents | 0 | | | -3 | 0.0 | 11.6 | 4,870 | +0.2[3] |
| Independent | 3 | | | -3 | 4.7 | 9.5 | 4,006 | -4.0 |
| Liberal Democrats | 0 | | | -4 | 0.0 | 2.5 | 1,057 | -2.5 |
| SDP | 1 | | | -2 | 1.6 | 2.5 | 1,050 | -0.4 |
| Conservative | 0 | | | 0 | 0.0 | 1.6 | 669 | +0.5 |
| New Millennium Bean Party | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -0.8 |
Candidates
The number of candidates increased compared with 1999.
Results
Aberavon (three seats)
Aberavon 2012 Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Ceri Golding | 751 | | |
| Labour | Mark Jones | 740 | | |
| SDP | Anthony Taylor* | 702 | | |
| Labour | Barbara Trahar | 613 | | |
| SDP | Thomas John Sullivan* | 556 | | |
| SDP | Jeffrey Dinham* | 550 | | |
| Plaid Cymru | Paul Nicholls-Jones | 185 | | |
Turnout | 1,511 | 35.8 | −3.4 |
| Labour gain from SDP | Swing | | |
| Labour gain from SDP | Swing | | |
| SDP hold | Swing | | |
Aberdulais (one seat)
Aberdulais 2012 Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Doreen Jones* | 431 | | |
| Plaid Cymru | Ken Thomas | 290 | | |
Majority | 141 | | |
Turnout | 728 | 40.8 | −8.0 |
| Labour hold | Swing | | |
Alltwen (one seat)
Alltwen 2012 Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | David Lewis* | 463 | | |
| Plaid Cymru | Huw Evans | 210 | | |
Majority | | | |
Turnout | 679 | 35.9 | −7.9 |
| Labour hold | Swing | | |
Baglan (three seats)
Tallamy was elected as a Ratepayer in 2008
Baglan 2012 Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Peter Denis Richards* | 1,190 | | |
| Labour | Carol Clement | 1,038 | | |
| Labour | Paul Greenaway | 906 | | |
| Independent | David Keith Coslett | 881 | | |
| Independent | John Cardy Tallamy* | 862 | | |
| Independent | Mike Lewis | 861 | | |
| Conservative | T.J. Morgan | 186 | | |
Turnout | 2,218 | 40.4 | |
| Labour hold | Swing | | |
| Labour hold | Swing | | |
| Labour gain from | Swing | | |
Blaengwrach (one seat)
Blaengwrach 2012 Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Alf Siddley* | 363 | | |
| Plaid Cymru | Joan Bodman | 290 | | |
Majority | 73 | | |
Turnout | 654 | 42.3 | −9.3 |
| Labour gain from Plaid Cymru | Swing | | |
Briton Ferry East (one seat)
Briton Ferry East 2012 Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Colin Morgan* | unopposed | | |
| Labour hold | Swing | | |
Briton Ferry West 2012 Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Hugh Newton James* | unopposed | | |
| Labour hold | Swing | | |
Bryn and Cwmavon 2012 Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Ivor David Williams* | 1,321 | | |
| Labour | Marian Aerona Lewis* | 1,168 | | |
| Labour | Dave Whitelock | 987 | | |
| Independent | Brinley Roblin* | 631 | | |
| Independent | Vincent Gwynfor Williams | 500 | | |
| Independent | David James Shepherd | 358 | | |
Turnout | 1,995 | 38.6 | −5.4 |
| Labour hold | Swing | | |
| Labour hold | Swing | | |
| Labour gain from Independent | Swing | | |
Bryncoch North 2012 Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Plaid Cymru | John Raymond Bryant* | 677 | | |
| Labour | Sion Griffiths | 178 | | |
Majority | | | |
Turnout | 858 | 45.8 | −7.8 |
| Plaid Cymru hold | Swing | | |
Cadoxton (one seat)
Cadoxton 2012 Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Annette Wingrave | 296 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Frank Harvey Little* | 185 | | |
Majority | 111 | | |
Turnout | 494 | 35.7 | −7.4 |
| Labour gain from Liberal Democrats | Swing | | |
John Warman joined Labour since 2008.
Cimla 2012 Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | John Warman* | 949 | | |
| Labour | Alan Carter | 706 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Desmond James Sparkes* | 226 | | |
| Independent | John Edgar Williams | 183 | | |
Turnout | 1,194 | 36.9 | −3.6 |
| Labour gain from Liberal Democrats | Swing | | |
| Labour gain from Liberal Democrats | Swing | | |
Coedffranc Central 2012 Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Arthur Pendry Hodge Davies* | 616 | | |
| Labour | Paula Bebell | 382 | | |
| Independent | Betsan Richards* | 297 | | |
| Independent | Lee Clifford Saunders | 206 | | |
| Plaid Cymru | Pauline M. Fellows | 125 | | |
| Plaid Cymru | Russell G. Morris | 90 | | |
Turnout | 971 | 32.5 | −5.5 |
| Labour hold | Swing | | |
| Labour gain from Independent | Swing | | |
Coedffranc North 2012 Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Mike Harvey | 451 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | David Keith Davies* | 268 | | |
Majority | | | |
Turnout | 727 | 39.6 | −1.4 |
| Labour gain from Liberal Democrats | Swing | | |
Coedffranc West 2012 Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Henry Marney Bebell* | 406 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Helen Ceri Clarke | 317 | | |
Majority | | | |
Turnout | 733 | 34.2 | −7.3 |
| Labour hold | Swing | | |
Crynant 2012 Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Karen Pearson | 370 | | |
| Plaid Cymru | William Edward Morgan* | 280 | | |
Majority | 90 | | |
Turnout | 651 | 41.5 | −10.2 |
| Labour gain from Plaid Cymru | Swing | | |
Cwmllynfell 2012 Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Clifford Eirion Richards* | 348 | | |
| Plaid Cymru | David Gerald Oswald James | 110 | | |
Majority | 248 | | |
Turnout | 461 | 49.8 | |
| Labour hold | Swing | | |
Cymmer 2012 Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Scott Jones* | unopposed | | |
| Labour hold | Swing | | |
Dyffryn 2012 Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Plaid Cymru | David Martyn Peters* | 1,000 | | |
| Conservative | Peter Damian Jaques | 78 | | |
Majority | 922 | | |
Turnout | 1,093 | 44.1 | −5.1 |
| Plaid Cymru hold | Swing | | |
Glyncorrwg 2012 Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Horace Glyndwr Rawlins* | 271 | | |
| Independent | Lindsay David Milsom | 201 | | |
Majority | 70 | | |
Turnout | 472 | 56.6 | −0.2 |
| Labour hold | Swing | | |
Glynneath (two seats)
Godre'rgraig 2012 Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Plaid Cymru | Rosalyn Davies* | 300 | | |
| Labour | Jackie Myers | 286 | | |
Majority | 14 | | |
Turnout | 591 | 43.8 | −1.6 |
| Plaid Cymru hold | Swing | | |
Gwaun Cae Gurwen (one seat)
Gwaun Cae Gurwen 2012 Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Lynda Ghislaine Williams* | 484 | | |
| Plaid Cymru | Ron Williams | 352 | | |
Majority | 132 | | |
Turnout | 843 | 37.7 | +0.2 |
| Labour hold | Swing | | |
Gwynfi 2012 Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Ralph Thomas | 502 | | |
| Independent | Jane Jones* | 153 | | |
Majority | | | |
Turnout | 655 | 63.8 | +0.4 |
| Labour gain from Independent | Swing | | |
Lower Brynamman 2012 Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Arwyn Nigel Woolcock* | unopposed | | |
| Labour hold | Swing | | |
Margam 2012 Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Robert Jones | 402 | | |
| Independent | Scott John Sullivan | 166 | | |
| SDP | George Roy Rideway | 129 | | |
| Conservative | Caroline Yvonne Jones | 110 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Mathew Thomas McCarthy | 61 | | |
Majority | | | |
Turnout | 868 | 38.1 | −7.4 |
| Labour hold | Swing | | |
Neath East 2012 Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Sheila Marlene Penry* | 905 | | |
| Labour | John Miller* | 826 | | |
| Labour | Sandra Miller* | 808 | | |
| Plaid Cymru | Breandan Seosamh Dominic Mac Cathail | 452 | | |
| Plaid Cymru | Gareth Thomas | 391 | | |
| Plaid Cymru | Philippa Jane Richards | 365 | | |
Turnout | 1,330 | 27.2 | −5.6 |
| Labour hold | Swing | | |
| Labour hold | Swing | | |
| Labour hold | Swing | | |
Neath North 2012 Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Alan Richard Lockyer | 709 | | |
| Labour | Mark Protheroe | 628 | | |
| Independent | Dai Howells | 341 | | |
| Conservative | Basil Ip | 188 | | |
Turnout | 1,082 | 34.7 | −9.2 |
| Labour hold | Swing | | |
| Labour hold | Swing | | |
Neath South 2012 Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Peter Albert Rees* | 718 | | |
| Labour | Malcolm Bernard Gunter* | 665 | | |
| Independent | Helen Christine Morgan | 207 | | |
| Independent | David Hewitt Morgan | 190 | | |
| Plaid Cymru | Rob Parry | 153 | | |
| Plaid Cymru | Chris Williams | 146 | | |
Turnout | 1,135 | 31.1 | −3.1 |
| Labour hold | Swing | | |
| Labour hold | Swing | | |
Onllwyn 2012 Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Alan Huw Thomas* | 328 | | |
| Plaid Cymru | Carolyn Edwards | 96 | | |
Majority | 232 | | |
Turnout | 431 | 45.0 | −7.1 |
| Labour hold | Swing | | |
Pelenna 2012 Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Independent | Martin Ellis | 252 | | |
| Plaid Cymru | Jeremy Hurley | 227 | | |
| Labour | Kelvin George | 64 | | |
Majority | 25 | | |
Turnout | 545 | 60.0 | +11.0 |
| Independent gain from Labour | Swing | | |
Pontardawe (two seats)
Pontardawe 2012 Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Plaid Cymru | Linet Margaret Purcell* | 911 | | |
| Labour | Michael Lloyd James* | 729 | | |
| Plaid Cymru | Sue Northcott | 675 | | |
| Labour | Vince Hotten | 612 | | |
Turnout | 1,592 | 38.6 | +12.1 |
| Plaid Cymru hold | Swing | | |
| Labour hold | Swing | | |
Port Talbot (three seats)
Keogh and Tutton were elected as Ratepayers in 2008.
Port Talbot 2012 Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Ian Ben James* | 831 | | |
| Labour | Dennis Keogh* | 782 | | |
| Labour | Saifur Rahaman | 707 | | |
| Independent | Andrew James Tutton* | 592 | | |
| Independent | Marge Jones | 528 | | |
| Independent | Stephen Griffiths | 479 | | |
| Conservative | Keith James Miller | 107 | | |
Turnout | 1,547 | 35.0 | −3.0 |
| Labour hold | Swing | | |
| Labour gain from | Swing | | |
| Labour gain from | Swing | | |
Resolven (one seat)
Resolven 2012 Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Desmond William Davies* | 729 | | |
| Plaid Cymru | Helen Williams | 278 | | |
Majority | | | |
Turnout | 1,021 | 41.1 | −2.9 |
| Labour hold | Swing | | |
Rhos 2012 Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Alex Thomas | 394 | | |
| Plaid Cymru | Marcia Spooner* | 265 | | |
| Independent | David Howell Atkins | 223 | | |
Majority | 129 | | |
Turnout | 883 | 43.9 | −0.8 |
| Labour gain from Plaid Cymru | Swing | | |
Sandfields East 2008 Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Independent | Leila Helen James* | 1,116 | | |
| Labour | Edward Victor Latham | 1,041 | | |
| Labour | Colin Joseph Crowley* | 879 | | |
| Labour | Patricia Irene Jones | 750 | | |
| Independent | Captain Beany | 669 | | |
| Independent | Len Willis* | 622 | | |
Turnout | 2,174 | 40.1 | −1.5 |
| Independent hold | Swing | | |
| Labour hold | Swing | | |
| Labour hold | Swing | | |
Olga Jones and Len Willis were deselected and stood as Independents (Willis in a neighboring ward).
Sandfields West 2008 Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Audrey Chaves | 1,173 | | |
| Labour | James Stephen Evans | 1,088 | | |
| Labour | Suzanne Paddison | 1,078 | | |
| Independent | Keith Suter | 377 | | |
| Independent | Oliver Stewart Davies | 368 | | |
| Independent | Joan Targett | 368 | | |
| Independent | Olga Jones* | 242 | | |
| SDP | Wayne Morris | 219 | | |
Turnout | 1,853 | 35.5 | −0.7 |
| Labour hold | Swing | | |
| Labour hold | Swing | | |
| Labour hold | Swing | | |
Seven Sisters (one seat)
Seven Sisters 2012 Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Independent | Stephen Karl Hunt* | 764 | | |
| Labour | Jako Davies | 240 | | |
Majority | 524 | | |
Turnout | 966 | 62.9 | +5.6 |
| Independent hold | Swing | | |
Taibach 2012 Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | John Rogers* | 1,138 | | |
| Labour | Anthony James Taylor* | 942 | | |
| Independent | Leslie John Davies | 494 | | |
Turnout | 1,507 | 39.0 | −7.5% |
| Labour hold | Swing | | |
| Labour hold | Swing | | |
Tonna 2012 Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Cari Morgans | 558 | | |
| Independent | William David Walters* | 328 | | |
Majority | 230 | | |
Turnout | 894 | 46.1 | +3.6 |
| Labour gain from Independent | Swing | | |
Trebanos (one seat)
Trebanos 2012 Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Plaid Cymru | Rebecca Lewis | 302 | | |
| Labour | Andrea Paula Davies* | 166 | | |
| Independent | Jonathan Hywel Jones | 53 | | |
Majority | 72 | | |
Turnout | 523 | 47.5 | +7.0 |
| Plaid Cymru gain from Labour | Swing | | |
Ystalyfera 2012 Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Plaid Cymru | Alun Llywelyn* | 591 | | |
| Labour | Noir James | 422 | | |
Majority | | | |
Turnout | 1,154 | 49.1 | +3.7 |
| Plaid Cymru hold | Swing | | |
By-elections 2012-17
A by-election took place in the Neath South ward on 6 December 2012.
Neath South by-election 2012 Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Andrew Jenkins | 399 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Charlotte May Cross | 130 | | |
Turnout | | | |
| Labour hold | Swing | | |
A by-election took place in the Sandfields East ward on 30 October 2014, following the death of Colin Crowley.
Sandfields East by-election 2014 Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Mike Davies | 718 | | |
| Port Talbot Residents | Barry Howard Kirk | 222 | | |
| UKIP | Keith Suter | 154 | | |
| Plaid Cymru | Daniel Mark Thomas | 69 | | |
| Conservative | Richard James Minshull | 40 | | |
Turnout | 1,205 | 23.3 | −16.9 |
| Labour hold | Swing | | |
A further by-election took place in the Sandfields East ward on 30 October 2014, following the death of Mike Davies.
Sandfields East by-election 2014 Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Matthew Crowley | 641 | | |
| UKIP | Keith Suter | 361 | | |
| Conservative | Richard James Minshull | 47 | | |
Turnout | 1,064 | 20.7 | −2.6 |
| Labour hold | Swing | | |
A by-election took place in the Cwmllynfell ward on 7 May 2015 following the death of Clifford Richards.
Cwmllynfell by-election 2015 Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Kris Lloyd | 365 | | |
| Plaid Cymru | Meirion Owen Jordan | 222 | | |
| Green | Jude Bailey‐Murfin | 52 | | |
Majority | 143 | | |
Turnout | 641 | 68.9 | +19.1 |
| Labour hold | Swing | | |
References
- ^ "County Borough Council Election" (PDF). Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 June 2015. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
- ^ "Local Election Results 2012: Neath Port Talbot". Andrew Teale. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
- ^ Compared with Neath Port Talbot Residents Association in 2008.