Welsh local elections, 2012

Welsh local elections, 2012

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All 1,224 seats to 21 of 22 Welsh councils
First party Second party   Leader Carwyn Jones Leanne Wood Party Labour Plaid Cymru Leader since 10 December 2009 16 March 2012 Last election 340 seats, 26.6% 199 seats, 16.8% Seats won 576 158 Seat change 237 39 Popular vote 304,296 133,961 Popular vote (%) 36.0% 15.8% Swing (pp) 9.4% 1.0%   Third party Fourth party   Leader Andrew R. T. Davies Kirsty Williams Party Conservative Liberal Democrats Leader since 14 July 2011 8 December 2008 Last election 171 seats, 15.6% 163 seats, 13.0% Seats won 105 72 Seat change 67 92 Popular vote 108,365 68,619 Popular vote (%) 12.8% 8.1% Swing (pp) 2.8% 4.9%
Colours denote the winning party with outright control (left), and the largest party by ward (right) Key:   Labour   Independent   Plaid Cymru   Conservative   No Overall Control   No election held

The 2012 Welsh local elections, were held on 3 May, in 21 out of 22 local authorities. The Labour Party made gains at the expense of the other 3 major parties and of independents. Labour won majority control of 10 councils, up 8 from the 2008 local elections, while 2 remained under the control of independents and 9 councils had no overall control.

On 17 January 2012, the Welsh Government announced that elections for Anglesey council had been postponed to May 2013.

Above table uses information sourced from the Welsh Assembly's summary of the 2012 local elections, the Electoral Commission's summary of the 2008 elections, as well as voting totals sourced from the Local Elections Archive Project