Penrhiw-ceibr (formerly Penrhiwceiber) is the name of an

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in the

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. Its boundaries are coterminous with the village and community of

Penrhiwceiber Penrhiwceiber is a small Welsh village and community (and electoral ward) in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf that lies south of the town Aberpennar and north of the village of Tyntetown, and is one of many villages that lies within the C ...

. The ward elects two councillors to

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Background

Penrhiwceiber was created in 1898 as a ward to Mountain Ash Urban District Council. Penrhiwceiber was a ward to Cynon Valley Borough Council from 1973, electing two district councillors until 1983 when the representation increased to four councillors. In 1988 a county ward of Penrhiwceiber was created, electing one councillor to

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at the 1989 and 1993 elections. Since 1995 the ward has elected two county councillors to Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council. The ward has been represented since 1995 by councillors from both Labour Party and

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, though both councillors were from Labour between 2004 and 2017. A review of electoral arrangements by the

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resulted in the ward being officially renamed 'Penrhiw-ceibr', effective from the May 2022 local elections.

Election results

Incumbent councillors are marked below with an asterisk (*)

2017

In a surprise result at the May 2017 council elections, veteran Labour councillor Jane Ward lost her seat to Gavin Williams, of the new Cynon Valley Party. Williams lost his seat in March 2021, due to not attending a council meeting for over 6 months. The council declared his seat vacant and a by-election was arranged to fill the vacancy.

2021 by-election

A by-election was held on 6 May 2021 to fill the vacancy left by former councillor Gavin Williams' lack of attendance at council meetings. Gavin Williams stood as an

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at this election, but was beaten into second place by the winning Labour candidate, Ross Williams. Ross Williams was born and raised in Penrhiwceiber.

2022

At the May 2022 council elections the two seats were held for the Labour Party by Adam Fox and Ross Williams, who beat the Plaid Cymru candidate into third place.

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