The

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of Aberavon electoral ward includes the communities of Baglan and

Baglan Bay Baglan Bay ''( Welsh: Bae Baglan)'' is a part of the Swansea Bay coastline and a district of Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales. Baglan Bay is also the name of a local government community. Baglan Bay is served by the M4 Motorway and the A ...

, in

Neath Port Talbot Neath Port Talbot ( cy, Castell-nedd Port Talbot) is a county borough in the south-west of Wales. Its principal towns are Neath, Port Talbot, Briton Ferry and Pontardawe. The county borough borders Bridgend County Borough and Rhondda Cynon Taf ...

county borough,

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. Baglan falls within the

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Aberavon Aberavon ( cy, Aberafan) is a town and community in Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales. The town derived its name from being near the mouth of the river Afan, which also gave its name to a medieval lordship. Today it is essentially a distri ...

Overview

It is based upon the historic town of

. Aberavon Ward is bounded by the wards of

Sandfields West Sandfields West ( cy, Gorllewin Traethmelyn) is an electoral ward and a community of Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales. It is part of the parliamentary constituency of Aberavon. The ward elects three county councillors to Neath Port Ta ...

and

Sandfields East Sandfields East ( cy, Dwyrain Traethmelyn) is an electoral ward and a community of Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales. It is part of the parliamentary constituency of Aberavon. The ward elects three county councillors to Neath Port Talbot ...

to the south-west; Baglan to the north;

Port Talbot Port Talbot (, ) is a town and community in the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, Wales, situated on the east side of Swansea Bay, approximately from Swansea. The Port Talbot Steelworks covers a large area of land which dominates the south ...

to the east and

Margam Margam is a suburb and community of Port Talbot in the Welsh county borough of Neath Port Talbot, Wales, close to junction 39 of the M4 motorway. The community had a population of 3,017 in 2011; the built up area being larger and extending into T ...

to the south. The ward boundaries are defined by the roads surrounding it: the

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to the north east; the A4241 to the north-west; Afan Way to the south-west and the

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to the south-east. The Aberavon Ward can be roughly divided into two parts. There is the residential area to the southeastern part of the ward beside the

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. The north western area consists of areas of

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land called the Baglan Industrial Park which includes a number of out of town retail premises as well as business and manufacturing premises. Aberavon is currently a ward for the purposes of

Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council is the local authority for the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, one of the 22 principal areas of Wales. The council was controlled by the Labour Party from its creation in 1996 until 2022, when Plaid ...

elections. Since 1995 it has been represented by

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and

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councillors.

County council elections

2020 by-election

Sitting Labour councillor, Steffan ap Dafydd, died suddenly on 10 July 2020. The by-election for his replacement took place on 6 May 2021, the turnout was 44.6% and the results were as follows:

2017

In the 2017 local council elections, the results were:

2012

In the 2012 local council elections, the electorate turnout for Aberavon was 35.84%. The results were: Following the election all three elected councillors left their respective parties and sat as unaffiliated councillors. Jones and Golding were deselected as candidates prior to the following May 2017 election, and decided to stand as Independents.

History 1889-1974

Aberavon first became an electoral ward in the late nineteenth century with the formation of

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Glamorgan County Council, 1889-1974 Glamorgan County Council was established in 1889 together with the administrative county of Glamorganshire under the Local Government Act 1888. The first elections to the council were held in January 1889. The council was abolished under the Local ...

1889 Events January–March * January 1 ** The total solar eclipse of January 1, 1889 is seen over parts of California and Nevada. ** Paiute spiritual leader Wovoka experiences a vision, leading to the start of the Ghost Dance movement in the ...

, Richard Jenkins, a local tinplate manufacturer became the first

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member for Aberavon, defeating John Morgan Smith. Following Jenkins's elevation to the aldermanic bench, Smith won the seat. Smith held the seat at the elections of

1892 Events January–March * January 1 – Ellis Island begins accommodating immigrants to the United States. * February 1 - The historic Enterprise Bar and Grill was established in Rico, Colorado. * February 27 – Rudolf Diesel applies for ...

, 1895, 1898, 1901, 1904 and 1907.

Aberavon Borough Council

Aberavon was also an electoral ward of the Aberavon Borough Council which was reformed and extended in 1861. In 1921, the old borough was merged with Margam Urban District Council, formed in 1894 to create the Port Talbot Municipal Borough.

References

{{Neath Port Talbot electoral wards Electoral wards of Neath Port Talbot