2012 Caerphilly County Borough Council election

(Redirected from Caerphilly Council election, 2012) 2012 Welsh local government election

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All 73 seats to Caerphilly County Borough Council
37 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party

Leader	Unknown	Unknown
Party	Labour	Plaid Cymru
Leader's seat	Unknown	Unknown
Seats before	32	32
Seats won	50	20
Seat change	18	12

	Third party

Leader	Unknown
Party	Independent (Politician)
Leader's seat	Unknown
Seats before	9
Seats won	3
Seat change	6

Map showing the results of the 2012 Caerphilly County Borough Council election. Red showing Welsh Labour, Green showing Plaid Cymru & grey showing independent candidates.

Council control before election

Welsh Labour

Council control after election

Welsh Labour

The 2012 Caerphilly County Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2012 to elect members of Caerphilly County Borough Council in Wales. This was on the same day as other Welsh local elections.

Election results

The Labour Party won control of the council from Plaid Cymru, after gaining an additional 18 seats. Four council candidates were elected unopposed.

Among the notable Plaid Cymru defeated councillors were the current mayor, Vera Jenkins (Crumlin ward) and Ron Davies, the ex-Labour Secretary of State for Wales (Bedwas, Trethomas and Machen ward).

Caerphilly County Borough Council Election 2012
	Seats	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
Labour	50	+18	68.5	51.0	23,886	+13.7
Plaid Cymru	20	-12	27.4	29.8	13,970	-6.5
Independent	3	-6	4.1	14.7	6,906	-2.9
TUSC	0	0	0.0	0.4	174	New
Liberal Democrats	0	0	0.0	0.3	121	-1.9
Communist	-	-	-	-	-	-0.2

References

"Local elections 2012". BBC News. Retrieved 30 April 2012.
^ Novaczyk, Wayne (5 May 2012). "Ron's gone with Plaid". South Wales Echo (2012 elections special supplement). pp. 4–5.
Teale, Andrew. "Local Election Results 2012: Caerffili - Caerphilly". Retrieved 23 June 2020.
Teale, Andrew. "Local Election Results 2012: Caerffili - Caerphilly". Retrieved 15 November 2016.

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