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Creigiau & St Fagans

Coordinates: 51°30′50″N 3°16′48″W / 51.514°N 3.280°W / 51.514; -3.280
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51°30′50″N 3°16′48″W / 51.514°N 3.280°W / 51.514; -3.280

Creigiau & St. Fagans
Electoral ward
Population5,153 (2011 census)
Principal area
CountryWales
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townCARDIFF
Postcode districtCF5
Dialling code+44-29
UK Parliament
Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament
Councillors1
List of places
UK
Wales
Cardiff

Creigiau & St. Fagans was a rural electoral ward on the western edge of Cardiff, Wales.

Description

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The ward covered the villages of St. Fagans and Creigiau (in the community of Pentyrch) and the surrounding rural area. The Creigiau/St Fagans ward elected a councillor to Cardiff Council.

The ward fell within the parliamentary constituency of Cardiff West. It was bounded by Rhondda Cynon Taff to the northwest; Pentyrch and Radyr & Morganstown to the northeast; Llandaff and Fairwater to the east; Ely to the southeast; and the Vale of Glamorgan to the southwest.

According to the 2011 census, the population of the ward was 5,153.[1]

Until the 2012 council elections, the ward was represented by the Plaid Cymru Lord Mayor of Cardiff, Delme Bowen.[2]

Election results

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2017

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2017 Cardiff Council election[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Graham Thomas 948 47%
Plaid Cymru Wynford Ellis Owen 644 32%
Labour John Yarrow 334 17%
Liberal Democrats Peter Borrow 91 5%

2012

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In a surprise result, the Conservatives won the seat from Plaid Cymru by 25 votes. The seat had been previously held by Plaid Cymru's Delme Bowen, who stood down after serving a tenure as Cardiff's Lord Mayor.[4] Bowen had been a Plaid Cymru councillor since 1995.[5]

2012 Cardiff Council election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Graham Thomas 648 38%
Plaid Cymru Wynford Ellis Owen 623 36%
Labour S. Evans 321 19%
Liberal Democrats H. Borrow 53 3%
Green T. Jones 52 3%

Merger

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In October 2021 Cardiff Council accepted a number of ward change proposals made by the Local Democracy and Boundary Commission for Wales. These included the merger of Creigiau/St Fagans with the Pentyrch ward to form a new ward of "Pentyrch and St Fagans". This would take effect from the 2022 council election.[6]

References

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  1. ^ "Creigiau/St. Fagans - Key Stats". UKcensusdata.com. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
  2. ^ Peter Law (2 May 2012) "Key battlegrounds in the race to run Cardiff Council", Wales Online. Retrieved 2016-11-05.
  3. ^ "Election results for Creigiau & St Fagans - Cardiff Council Elections 2017 - Thursday, 4th May, 2017". Cardiff Council. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
  4. ^ "Cardiff council elections: The story in each ward". yourCardiff. 3 May 2012. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
  5. ^ "Delme Bowen becomes first Plaid lord mayor of Cardiff". BBC News. 19 May 2011. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
  6. ^ Alex Seabrook (5 October 2021). "Cardiff will get four extra councillors in May as electoral ward boundaries redrawn". Wales Online. Retrieved 22 April 2022.