Seiont is an

electoral ward A ward is a local authority area, typically used for electoral purposes. In some countries, wards are usually named after neighbourhoods, thoroughfares, parishes, landmarks, geographical features and in some cases historical figures connected to t ...

in the town of

Caernarfon Caernarfon (; ) is a royal town, community and port in Gwynedd, Wales, with a population of 9,852 (with Caeathro). It lies along the A487 road, on the eastern shore of the Menai Strait, opposite the Isle of Anglesey. The city of Bangor is ...

Gwynedd Gwynedd (; ) is a county and preserved county (latter with differing boundaries; includes the Isle of Anglesey) in the north-west of Wales. It shares borders with Powys, Conwy County Borough, Denbighshire, Anglesey over the Menai Strait, and C ...

, Wales, electing councillors to the town council and

Gwynedd Council Cyngor Gwynedd ( en, Gwynedd Council) is the governing body for the county of Gwynedd, one of the principal areas of Wales. The council administrates internally using the Welsh language. History The county of Gwynedd was created in 1974 under ...

Description

The Seiont ward covers an area either side of the

Afon Seiont Afon Seiont (Welsh, meaning ''River Seiont'' in English) is a river in Gwynedd, Wales which runs into the Menai Strait. Its source is the outflow of Llyn Padarn near Llanberis, and it flows out in a generally northwest direction. Between the ...

in the southern part of the

community A community is a social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as place, norms, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given geographical area (e.g. a country, village, tow ...

. The ward includes the southern part of Caernarfon town centre, including

Caernarfon Castle Caernarfon Castle ( cy, Castell Caernarfon ) – often anglicised as Carnarvon Castle or Caernarvon Castle – is a medieval fortress in Caernarfon, Gwynedd, north-west Wales cared for by Cadw, the Welsh Government's historic environ ...

Caernarfon railway station Caernarfon Station is the northern terminus of the narrow gauge Welsh Highland Railway, located in the town of Caernarfon. It was opened on 11 October 1997 when the line was constructed from Dinas. History The railway between Caernarfon and ...

and the housing estates south of the A4085. Seiont is bordered to the north by the A4085 (Constantine Road) and Caernarfon High Street, to the northwest by the

Menai Strait The Menai Strait ( cy, Afon Menai, the "river Menai") is a narrow stretch of shallow tidal water about long, which separates the island of Anglesey from the mainland of Wales. It varies in width from from Fort Belan to Abermenai Point to from ...

and is surrounded to the southeast and southwest by the Bontnewydd ward. The ward population, according to the 2011 Census, was 3,038.

Town ward

Seiont is an

Caernarfon Town Council Caernarfon (; ) is a royal town, community and port in Gwynedd, Wales, with a population of 9,852 (with Caeathro). It lies along the A487 road, on the eastern shore of the Menai Strait, opposite the Isle of Anglesey. The city of Bangor is t ...

electing four of the seventeen town councillors.

District ward

Seiont was a ward to Arfon Borough Council (abolished 1996), electing two councillors (

Independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s * Independ ...

and

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 ...

) at the 1987 and 1991 elections.

Gwynedd county ward

Seiont has been an electoral ward to

since 1995, electing two county councillors, a mixture of Independent,

, Labour Party and

Llais Gwynedd (, Voice of Gwynedd) is a small regionalist political party based in Gwynedd in North Wales. The party formed following the Plaid Cymru executive's proposal to more than halve the number of primary schools in Gwynedd by closing rural schools. M ...

representatives. Following the death of Independent councillor Bob Anderson, a by-election was held on 7 October 2010. It was won by

's Endaf Cooke with a majority of 120 over the Plaid Cymru candidate. Cooke retained his seat at the May 2012 county council election. At the 2017 elections Plaid Cymru regained their seat. * = sitting councillor prior to the election Seiont's Independent councillor Roy Owen was leader of the Independent group for ten years on the county council, until he resigned from the group in May 2017 to form the Gwynedd United Independents. Cllr Owen made the news in 2018 when he personally filled in over 90

pothole A pothole is a depression in a road surface, usually asphalt pavement, where traffic has removed broken pieces of the pavement. It is usually the result of water in the underlying soil structure and traffic passing over the affected area. Water ...

s in the ward's highways, though Gwynedd Council advised him to stop.

References

{{reflist Caernarfon Gwynedd electoral wards

Description

Town ward

District ward

Gwynedd county ward

See also

References