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==1945 Llanelly Borough Council election== ==1945 Llanelly Borough Council election==
At the first post-war election, eight seats were contested, as six councillors retired with two vacancies to be filled.<ref name="LS 27-10-45">{{cite news |title=Twenty-One Candidates for Borough Election. Heavy Polling Expected in Next Thursdays’s Contests.|newspaper=Llanelly Star |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0004711/19451027/001/0001?browse=False|accessdate=17 December 2024|page=1|date=27 October 1945}}</ref> In addition, the term of three aldermen elected in 1935 came to an end, although H.W. Bowen (Lab) had recently died and Daniel Roberts (Ind) decided not to stand. At the first post-war election, eight seats were contested, as six councillors retired with two vacancies to be filled.<ref name="LS 27-10-45">{{cite news |title=Twenty-One Candidates for Borough Election. Heavy Polling Expected in Next Thursdays's Contests.|newspaper=Llanelly Star |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0004711/19451027/001/0001?browse=False|accessdate=17 December 2024|page=1|date=27 October 1945}}</ref> In addition, the term of three aldermen elected in 1935 came to an end, although H.W. Bowen (Lab) had recently died and Daniel Roberts (Ind) decided not to stand.


Labour candidates won a sweeping victory, taking seven of the eight seats and gaining a majority on the borough council for the first time. Three Independents co-opted to fill vacancies during the war years were defeated, as was Alderman W.E. Davies in Ward Two.<ref name="LS 3-11-45">{{cite news |title=Labour Candidates ‘Sweep the Board’. Indepedents Lose Majority for First Time.|newspaper=Llanelly Star |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0004711/19451103/001/0001?browse=False|accessdate=17 December 2024|page=1|date=3 November 1945}}</ref> Labour candidates won a sweeping victory, taking seven of the eight seats and gaining a majority on the borough council for the first time. Three Independents co-opted to fill vacancies during the war years were defeated, as was Alderman W.E. Davies in Ward Two.<ref name="LS 3-11-45">{{cite news |title=Labour Candidates 'Sweep the Board'. Indepedents Lose Majority for First Time.|newspaper=Llanelly Star |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0004711/19451103/001/0001?browse=False|accessdate=17 December 2024|page=1|date=3 November 1945}}</ref>
===Ward One (two seats)=== ===Ward One (two seats)===
{{Election box begin | title= Ward One 1945}} {{Election box begin | title= Ward One 1945}}

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Llanelly Borough Council was a local authority created in 1913 when the existing Urban District Council achieved borough status. The Council consisted of 24 members, eighteen of whom were elected councillors and the remaining six were aldermen. The councillors were elected on a triennial cycle, with a third of councillors retiring each year. Aldermen were elected for a six-year term from within the council membership. It was renamed Llanelli Borough Council in the 1960s.

1945 Llanelly Borough Council election

At the first post-war election, eight seats were contested, as six councillors retired with two vacancies to be filled. In addition, the term of three aldermen elected in 1935 came to an end, although H.W. Bowen (Lab) had recently died and Daniel Roberts (Ind) decided not to stand.

Labour candidates won a sweeping victory, taking seven of the eight seats and gaining a majority on the borough council for the first time. Three Independents co-opted to fill vacancies during the war years were defeated, as was Alderman W.E. Davies in Ward Two.

Ward One (two seats)

Ward One 1945
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Reg John 2,864
Independent Dr H.D. Llewellyn* 2,579
Labour T.M. Price 2,105
Labour D.J. Davies 1,925
Independent Dan Williams* 1,789
Independent D. Cecil Williams 1,675
Communist Enoch Collins 1,111
Independent W. Hughes 984

Ward Two (two seats)

Ward Two 1945
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour D.J. Joseph 3,903
Labour W. Douglas Hughes* 3,744
Independent W.E. Davies** 1,855

Ward Three (two seats)

Ward Three 1945
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour William Thomas 1,875
Labour W.E. Payne 1,818
Labour John Griffiths* 1,779
Independent Ted Howells 1,066
Communist Ernest Leyshon 1,027
Independent D.J. Evans 544
Independent J. Sidney Jones* 538
Independent W.R. Davies 370
Independent J. Stanley Davies 270
Independent J. Bradbury 44
  1. "Twenty-One Candidates for Borough Election. Heavy Polling Expected in Next Thursdays's Contests". Llanelly Star. 27 October 1945. p. 1. Retrieved 17 December 2024.
  2. "Labour Candidates 'Sweep the Board'. Indepedents Lose Majority for First Time". Llanelly Star. 3 November 1945. p. 1. Retrieved 17 December 2024.
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