The second election to the
Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council
Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council is the local authority for the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, one of the 22 principal areas of Wales. The council was controlled by the Labour Party from its creation in 1996 until 2022, when Plaid ...
was held on 6 May 1999.
It was preceded by the
1995 election and followed by the
2004 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 second elections held following local government reorganisation.
Candidates
Most sitting members of West Glamorgan County council sought election to the new authority. A number were also members of the previous district councils but others contested a ward against a sitting district councillor.
Results
Aberavon
Aberavon ( cy, Aberafan) is a town and community in Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales. The town derived its name from being near the mouth of the river Afan, which also gave its name to a medieval lordship. Today it is essentially a distr ...
(three seats)
Aberdulais
Aberdulais is a village and electoral ward in Neath Port Talbot, Wales, lying on the River Neath, in the community of Blaenhonddan. The village grew around the Aberdulais Falls, the site of successive industries and now a hydro-electric statio ...
(one seat)
Alltwen
Alltwen (or Allt-wen; translates to "white wooded slope") is a village in the Swansea Valley (Welsh: ''Cwmtawe'') in Wales. Alltwen forms part of the community of Cilybebyll and is administered separately from adjoining Pontardawe on the opposit ...
(one seat)
Baglan (three seats)
Blaengwrach
Blaengwrach ( ; ) is a community near Glynneath and Resolven in the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, Wales. It is also the name of an electoral ward of Neath Port Talbot county borough, which is a larger area than the Community. The principal ...
(one seat)
Briton Ferry East
Briton Ferry East is an electoral ward of Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales. Briton Ferry West falls within the parish of Briton Ferry and the parliamentary constituency of Aberavon.
Briton Ferry East is bounded by the wards of Brito ...
(one seat)
Briton Ferry West
Briton Ferry West is an electoral ward of Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales. Briton Ferry West falls within the parish of Briton Ferry.
Briton Ferry West consists of some or all of the districts of Brynhyfryd, Giant's Grave, Shelone and ...
(one seat)
Bryn and Cwmavon
Bryn and Cwmavon ( cy, Bryn a Chwmafan) is an electoral ward of Neath Port Talbot county borough, south Wales. The electoral ward comprises the parishes of Bryn and Cwmavon.
Bryn and Cwmavon consists of some or all of the following areas: ...
(three seats)
Bryncoch North
Bryncoch North is an electoral ward of Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales forming part of the parish
A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the past ...
(one seat)
Bryncoch South
Bryncoch South is an electoral ward of Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales forming part of the parish of Blaenhonddan. The ward elects two county councillors to Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council.
Bryncoch South covers some or all of ...
(two seats)
Cadoxton (one seat)
Cimla (two seats)
Coedffranc Central (two seats)
Former Communist Glaslyn Morgan was elected as Democratic Left candidate in 1995 but subsequently joined Plaid Cymru.
Coedffranc North
Coedffranc North is an electoral ward of Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales. is a part of the Coedffranc community and falls within the parliamentary constituency of Aberavon.
Coedffranc North is bounded by the wards of Dyffryn to the nor ...
(one seat)
Coedffranc West
Coedffranc West is an electoral ward of Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales. As of May 2022, it is represented by two councillors from the Welsh Liberal Democrats.
Coedffranc West is bounded by the wards of Llansamlet and Bonymaen of Swan ...
(one seat)
Crynant
Crynant ( cy, Y Creunant) is a village and community in the Dulais Valley in Wales. It lies 7¾ miles north-east from the town of Neath in Neath Port Talbot, situated between the mountains of Mynydd Marchywel to the west, Hirfynydd to the east ...
(one seat)
Cwmllynfell
Cwmllynfell () is the name of a village, community and electoral ward in Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales.
Amenities
Cwmllynfell has its own local rugby union team - Cwmllynfell RFC. Also, a bilingual primary school, supermarket, post o ...
(one seat)
Cymmer (one seat)
Dyffryn (one seat)
Plaid Cymru won the seat in 1995 but lost it at a subsequent by-election.
Glyncorrwg
Glyncorrwg is a village in the Afan Valley, in southern Wales.
Glyncorrwg is also the name of an electoral ward and formerly a community covering the village and surrounding countryside, in Neath Port Talbot county borough. Glyncorrwg community c ...
(one seat)
Glynneath
Glynneath ( cy, Glyn-nedd "valley of the River Neath"), also spelt ''Glyn-neath'' and ''Glyn Neath'', is a small town, community and electoral ward lying on the River Neath in the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, Wales. It was formerly in th ...
(two seats)
Godre'r Graig
Godre'r Graig is a village and an electoral ward of Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales.
The village developed alongside the coal workings at the Tarenni Colliery, which closed in 1949.
In 2008 the community came together at a public meeti ...
(one seat)
Gwaun Cae Gurwen (one seat)
Gwynfi (one seat)
Lower Brynamman
Lower Brynamman is an electoral ward of Neath Port Talbot county borough in Brynamman, Wales.
Electoral ward
The electoral ward of Lower Brynamman forms part of the parish of Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen. The ward consists of some or all of the settle ...
(one seat)
Margam
Margam is a suburb and community of Port Talbot in the Welsh county borough of Neath Port Talbot, Wales, close to junction 39 of the M4 motorway. The community had a population of 3,017 in 2011; the built up area being larger and extending into ...
(one seat)
Neath East (three seats)
Neath North (two seats)
Clive Thomas had captured a seat from Labour at a by-election.
Neath South (two seats)
Onllwyn
Onllwyn () is a small village and community in Neath Port Talbot, Wales, near Seven Sisters.
History
First developed by the Romans, the local village Banwen is confined to the Roman Road of Sarn Helen. There are two Roman forts and the remai ...
(one seat)
Pelenna
Pelenna is a community (civil parish) in Neath Port Talbot, Wales. It largely covers the valleys of the rivers Pelenna and the Blaenpelenna, to the east of the town of Neath.
The community includes the villages of Efail-fach, Tonmawr and Pont ...
(one seat)
Pontardawe
Pontardawe () is a town and a community in the Swansea Valley (Welsh: ''Cwmtawe'') in Wales. With a population of 6,832, it comprises the electoral wards of Pontardawe and Trebanos. A town council is elected. Pontardawe forms part of the county ...
(two seats)
Port Talbot
Port Talbot (, ) is a town and community in the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, Wales, situated on the east side of Swansea Bay, approximately from Swansea. The Port Talbot Steelworks covers a large area of land which dominates the south ...
(three seats)
Resolven
Resolven ( cy, Resolfen) is a small village and community in Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales. It is located in the Vale of Neath.
Location
The village is situated in the Vale of Neath, north east of the town of Neath, next to the A465 ...
(one seat)
Rhos (one seat)
Sandfields East
Sandfields East ( cy, Dwyrain Traethmelyn) is an electoral ward and a community of Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales. It is part of the parliamentary constituency of Aberavon. The ward elects three county councillors to Neath Port Talbot ...
(three seats)
Sandfields West
Sandfields West ( cy, Gorllewin Traethmelyn) is an electoral ward and a community of Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales. It is part of the parliamentary constituency of Aberavon. The ward elects three county councillors to Neath Port Ta ...
(three seats)
Patricia Jane Thomas had held the seat in a by-election since 1995.
Seven Sisters (one seat)
Taibach
Taibach or Tai-bach ( en, Little Houses) is a community and suburban district of Port Talbot, Wales. It is a settlement centered on the main A48 road, sandwiched between the river Ffrwdwyllt and Margam. Parts of Margam are within the community b ...
(two seats)
Tonna (one seat)
Trebanos
Trebanos ( cy, Trebannws) is a village in the Swansea Valley, Wales. With Craig Trebanos and a part of Pontardawe, it forms the Trebanos electoral ward in the Neath Port Talbot county borough.
Controversy and opposition concerning the South Wal ...
(one seat)
Ystalyfera
Ystalyfera is a former industrial village and community (Wales), community in the upper Swansea Valley, on the River Tawe, about northeast of Swansea. It is an ward (politics), electoral ward and a community (Wales), community in the unitary a ...
(one seat)
References
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