Dinas Powys is the name of an

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in the

Vale of Glamorgan The Vale of Glamorgan ( cy, Bro Morgannwg ), often referred to as The Vale, is a county borough in the south-east of Wales. It borders Bridgend County Borough to the west, Cardiff to the east, Rhondda Cynon Taf to the north, and the Bristol C ...

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. It covers its namesake

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Dinas Powys Dinas Powys (; also spelt "Dinas Powis" in English) is a small town and community (Wales), community in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales. Its name means "fort of the provincial place" and refers to the Dinas Powys hillfort, Iron Age hillfort wh ...

and the neighbouring

Michaelston-le-Pit and Leckwith Michaelston-le-Pit and Leckwith is a Community (Wales), community in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. It is located immediately southwest of the city of Cardiff (bounded by the A4232 road) and to the north of the Vale of Glamorgan villages of Llandou ...

to the north. The ward elects four county councillors to the

Vale of Glamorgan Council The Vale of Glamorgan Council is the governing body for the Vale of Glamorgan, one of the Principal Areas of Wales. It was run by the Conservative Party after the 2008 United Kingdom local elections, taking over the council from no overall contr ...

. According to the 2011 census the population of the ward was 7,799.

Election results

At the May 2017 County Council elections all four seats were won by the

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. One of the losing councillors was

Plaid Cymru Plaid Cymru ( ; ; officially Plaid Cymru – the Party of Wales, often referred to simply as Plaid) is a centre-left to left-wing, Welsh nationalist political party in Wales, committed to Welsh independence from the United Kingdom. Plaid wa ...

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, who had represented the ward since 2001 and had been leader of the Plaid Cymru group on the County Council. Prior to May 2017 the ward was known as "The People’s Republic of Plaid", having been represented by three Plaid Cymru councillors and one Independent (Christopher Williams had been elected initially for Plaid Cymru but changed to Independent in 2014). * = sitting councillor prior to the election Plaid Cymru had held all four county council seats since 1995.Vale of Glamorgan Council Election Results 1995-2012
The Election Centre. Retrieved 2018-04-08.

References

{{reflist Vale of Glamorgan electoral wards