Electoral wards in the town of Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan

Cornerswell is an

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Penarth Penarth (, ) is a town and Community (Wales), community in the Vale of Glamorgan ( cy, Bro Morgannwg), Wales, exactly south of Cardiff city centre on the west shore of the Severn Estuary at the southern end of Cardiff Bay. Penarth is a weal ...

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. It elects two county councillors to the

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and four town councillors to

Penarth Town Council Penarth Town Council is an elected community council serving the town of Penarth in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. Background Penarth has had a council of one form or another since the 1890s. Penarth Town Council came into existence in 1974 at t ...

Description

The Cornerswell ward covers the residential area west of Penarth town centre including

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and the area of Penarth north of Cornerswell Road. The St Augustine's ward lies to the east,

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to the south and Llandough to the north. Two county councillors are elected from Cornerswell to the

and four town councillors to

.Sharon Harris (5 May 2017
"Town Council election results"
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Election results

Town Council

Three

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councillors (including Rhiannon Birch who was also a county councillor for the ward) and one

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councillor were elected to Penarth Town Council at the May 2017 elections.

County Council

At the May 2017 Vale of Glamorgan council elections both seats were won by

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. Councillors Rhiannon Birch and Peter King had represented the ward since 2012 (Cllr Birch had also represented the ward between 2004 and 2008). Between 1995 and 2012 Cornerswell had elected a mixture of Labour and Conservative councillors to the county council.

References

{{reflist Penarth Vale of Glamorgan electoral wards