Electoral wards in the town of Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan

Plymouth is an

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in the town of

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 covers the more affluent part of the town south of the town centre. It stretches either side of Lavernock Road which includes Lower Penarth and Cosmeston (including

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and Cosmeston Lakes). The ward elects two county councillors to

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and four 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 ...

. A majority of its councillors represent the

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. The name of the ward refers to Plymouth Road, and to the Earls of Plymouth, who were major landowners in the area. According to the 2011 census, the population of the ward was 5,836.

Background

Following ''The County Borough of The Vale of Glamorgan (Electoral Changes) Order 2002'' the county ward of

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was divided to become St Augustine's and Plymouth wards, effective from October 2003 for preliminary electoral proceedings, but fully effective at the May 2004 Vale of Glamorgan Council elections. However, Plymouth had been a community ward for elections to

prior to that.

County council elections

* = sitting councillor prior to the election

Town Council elections

At the

election on 4 May 2017, two long-standing councillors, Anthony Ernest and Clive Williams, lost their seats after choosing to stand as Independents. Williams had been de-selected by the Conservatives in favour of Martin Turner and Kathryn McCaffer. Two other sitting councillors, Ian Courtney (Labour) and Wendy van den Brom (Conservative), were also replaced by the voters. * = sitting councillor prior to the election

References

{{reflist Vale of Glamorgan electoral wards Penarth