Bridgend Central ( cy, Canol Pen-y-bont) is the name of an
electoral ward in
Bridgend County Borough
Bridgend County Borough ( cy, Bwrdeistref Sirol Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr) is a county borough in the south-east of Wales. The county borough has a total population of 139,200 people, and contains the town of Bridgend, after which it is named. I ...
, Wales. It covers part of the county town of
Bridgend
Bridgend (; cy, Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr or just , meaning "the end of the bridge on the Ogmore") is a town in Bridgend County Borough in Wales, west of Cardiff and east of Swansea. The town is named after the medieval bridge over the River Og ...
. The ward elects three councillors to
Bridgend County Borough Council.
The ward was created following the recommendations of a 2019 local government boundary review, with the merger of the former county wards of
Morfa and
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.
According to the 2011 UK Census, the population of the Morfa ward was 4,692 and in the Newcastle ward it was 5,421. The boundary review predicted an electorate of 8,103.
2022 local election
Two of the three seats were won by
Independents and the third by
Labour
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's Stuart Baldwin. Independent Steve Bletsoe was already a Bridgend Town councillor and pledged to use his position to tackle the communal waste problem in the town.
Only a few days after the election, Stuart Baldwin announced he was stepping away from politics and would not be taking up his seat. A by-election was required to fill the vacancy. Baldwin cited the increasinging toxicity of local politics and said he'd been attacked online, followed home after meetings and physically confronted for his views and his sexuality.
2022 by-election
A by election was arranged for 11 August 2022 to elect a replacement for Labour's Stuart Baldwin. It was won by independent candidate Steve Easterbrook with 716 votes, beating Labour's Ceri Evans by 126 votes.
See also
*
List of electoral wards in Bridgend County Borough
*
List of electoral wards in Wales
References
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Bridgend
Wards of Bridgend County Borough
2022 establishments in Wales