Heath ( Welsh: ''Y Mynydd Bychan'') is the name of an electoral ward in the north of the city of

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, which covers its namesake

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. The ward elects three county councillors to the County Council of the City and County of Cardiff.

Description and history

The Heath ward boundaries are coterminous with the community. It is bordered to the north by Ty-wern Road ( Rhiwbina ward) and the Cardiff City Line ( Llanishen ward), to the east by the Cardiff to Caerphilly railway line (

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ward), to the south by the Western by-pass (

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ward) and to the west by the

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( Whitchurch & Tongwynlais ward). The Heath ward includes the

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and the large adjacent area of greenery, Heath Park. According to the 2011 census the population of the Heath ward was 12,629. Since the creation of the Cardiff

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in 1995, Heath has elected councillors from the Labour Party, Liberal Democrats,

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and, since 2012, the Heath and Birchgrove Independents. The ward was created following ''The City of Cardiff (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1982'', coming into effect with the city council elections in 1983.

Cardiff Council elections

2021 by-election

Long-standing councillor Fenella Bowden, retired for health reasons in September 2021, leading to a by-election seen as an important sign of voter intentions ahead of the 2022 Cardiff Council election. The by-election took place on 11 November 2021 and was won by Labour candidate, Julie Sangani, with 47.1% of the vote.

2012/2017

Liberal Democrat councillor, Fenella Bowden, left her party in November 2010 to sit on the Council as an Independent councillor. At the subsequent 2012 and

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elections the ward elected Bowden standing as a Heath and Birchgrove Independent, Lyn Hudson for the Conservatives and Graham Hinchey for the Labour Party. * = sitting councillor prior to the election Following the May 2004 elections all three councillors were Liberal Democrat, with Graham Hinchey losing his seat. Hinchey had previously been a Labour councillor for the ward since 1995. After the 1995 elections there were two Labour councillors and one Liberal Democrat. After the 1999 elections there were two Liberal Democrats and one Labour councillor.

Cardiff City Council elections

The Heath ward was created in 1982. Prior to 1995 Heath was an electoral ward to Cardiff City Council (a district council of

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). The ward elected three city councillors. All three city councillors were from the Conservative Party, from the 1983 council elections until the creation of the new Cardiff unitary authority. Councillors included Ron Watkiss, Conservative leader of the council from 1983.

References

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