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The 1995 Vale of Glamorgan Council election was held on 4 May 1995 to the new Vale of Glamorgan Council unitary authority in Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. It took place on the same day as other council elections in Wales and England. These were the first elections since the re-organization of local government in Wales.

Though the Conservative Party had led the previous council, their representation was decimated at the 1995 election, with Labour winning a majority.

The next full elections took place in 1999.

Overview

These were the first elections held following local government reorganisation, which created new 'super authorities' and would lead to the abolition of South Glamorgan County Council on 1 April 1996. Vale of Glamorgan councillors would act in a shadow capacity to the new Vale of Glamorgan Council, until the following April.

47 council seats across 22 electoral wards were up for election. The ward boundaries for the new authority were based primarily on the previous Vale of Glamorgan Borough Council, though there were some boundary changes. Ewenny transferred to the Vale, with the Llandow ward becoming Llandow/Ewenny. The St Brides Major and Wick communities, was which was previously within the Borough of Ogwr, transferred to become a new Vale ward of St Brides Major, increasing the number of Vale councillors by one.

Election result

Twenty Conservative councillors had been elected at the 1991 election. At the 1995 election their number was reduced to six, in what the South Wales Echo described as an unanticipated "annihilation" at the hands of the Labour Party. All five seats in the previously 'safe' Conservative Alexandra ward were won by Labour, as were two of the three 'safe' Conservative seats in Cowbridge. Plaid Cymru also took seats from the Conservatives, increasing their numbers to five.

Ward Results

Contests took place in every ward, the first time this had happened in the Vale since 1973.

Alexandra (five seats)

Baruc (two seats)

Buttrills (two seats)

Cadoc (three seats)

Castleland (two seats)

Cornerswell (two seats)

Court (two seats)

Cowbridge (three seats)

Dinas Powys (four seats)

Dyfan (two seats)

Gibbonsdown (two seats)

Illtyd (three seats)

Llandough (one seat)

Llandow/Ewenny (one seat)

Llantwit Major (four seats)

Peterston-super-Ely (one seat)

Rhoose (two seats)

St Athan (one seat)

St Brides Major (one seat)

Stanwell (two seats)

Sully (one seat)

Wenvoe (one seat)

(a) Elections Centre source compares the percentage vote of the lead candidate for each party in the ward. It also indicates which candidates are female.

councillor elected to the Borough Council in 1991, standing for re-election
councillor elected to South Glamorgan County Council in 1993

References

1. ^ Peter Collins (5 May 1995). "Disaster for Tories". South Wales Echo. p. 8. The Conservatives could not have anticipated the anihilation they received at the hands of Labour in the Vale of Glamorgan...
2. "Voters go to the polls". South Wales Echo. 4 May 1995. p. 3. Voters went to the polls today as local government in Wales undergoes its biggest shake up for 21 years. Twenty two new super-councils will take over the functions of 37 district and eight county authorities, which are being abolished from April next year... Until April next year, the councillors will act in a shadow capacity and many will serve on two or three authorities at the same time.
3. ^ "Vale of Glamorgan Council Election Results 1995-2012" (PDF). The Elections Centre (Plymouth University). Retrieved 20 July 2019.
4. ^ "Vale of Glamorgan Welsh District Council Election Results 1973-1991" (PDF). The Elections Centre (Plymouth University). Retrieved 20 July 2019.
5. "Disaster for Tories - Results". South Wales Echo. 5 May 1995. p. 8.
6. "South Glamorgan County Council Election Results 1973-1991" (PDF). The Elections Centre (Plymouth University). Retrieved 20 July 2019.

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