2008 City and County of Swansea Council election

The fourth election to the City and County of Swansea Council was held in May 2008.^[1] It was preceded by the 2004 election and followed by the 2012 election.

Overview

All council seats were up for election. These were the fourth elections held following local government reorganisation and the abolition of West Glamorgan County Council. The Council remained under no overall control, the Labour Party having lost their majority on the authority in 2004

Candidates

The contests were fought by most of the main parties, with Labour and the Conservatives contesting all but one or two of the seats.

Overall Result

City and County of Swansea Council election result 2008

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Labour
	Conservative
	Liberal Democrats
	Plaid Cymru
	Independent
	Green	0

Results

* = sitting councillor in this ward prior to election

Bishopston (one seat)

Bishopston 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Keith Edmund Marsh*	730
	Conservative	Carole Maureen Hyde	516
	Green	Rashid Malik	110
Turnout				49.7
	Independent hold		Swing

Bonymaen (two seats)

Bonymaen 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mair Eluned Gibbs*	1,052
	Independent	John Brian Hague*	893
	BNP	Sion Lynford Owens	447
Turnout				34.2
	Labour hold		Swing
	Independent hold		Swing

Castle (four seats)

Castle 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Robert Alan Lloyd*	1,105
	Labour	David Phillips*	1,029
	Labour	Erika Theresa Kirchner*	1,009
	Labour	Barbara Joyce Hynes*	999
	Liberal Democrats	Gareth Peter Jones	735
	Liberal Democrats	Stephanie David	726
	Liberal Democrats	Tanya Auxiliadora May	724
	Liberal Democrats	David Gerald Joseph	702
	Plaid Cymru	Rhys Aeron Jones	520
	Plaid Cymru	Hugh Nigel Parsons	484
	Plaid Cymru	Patrick John Powell	478
	Conservative	Harri Lloyd Davies	432
	Plaid Cymru	Harri Lloyd Roberts	411
	Conservative	Paul Raymond Morris	388
	Conservative	Sonya Winifred Rachel Morris	353
	Conservative	Alexander Stonor	350
	Socialist Alternative	Alec Thraves	172
	Independent	Colin John Davies	151
	Independent	David Mark Davies	115
	Communist	Michael Carty	112
	The Left Party	Moodie Rachid Khaldi	95
Turnout				28.3
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Clydach (two seats)

Clydach 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Roger Llewellyn Smith*	1,115
	Labour	Paulette Bradley Smith	820
	Liberal Democrats	Sylvia Mary Lewis*	710
	Independent	Julie Marlene Davies	509
	Liberal Democrats	Janice Maureen Jarman	322
	Conservative	Janice Birch	248
	Conservative	Barry John Stubbings	226
Turnout				38.1
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Cockett (four seats)

Cockett 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Keith Morgan*	1,102
	Liberal Democrats	Nicola Anne Holley	1,047
	Liberal Democrats	James Bernard Kelleher	996
	Liberal Democrats	Veronyca Anne Bates Hughes	993
	Labour	Anna Mary Pennock	985
	Labour	Andrew John Jones	946
	Labour	Susan Grace Lewis	932
	Plaid Cymru	John Rhodri Thomas*	879
	Labour	John Abraham	878
	Plaid Cymru	Adrian Hugh Rees*	870
	Plaid Cymru	Enid Vanessa Webb*	866
	Plaid Cymru	Jonathan Clive Howes	835
	Conservative	Lisa Emma Gilmore	363
	Conservative	David William Turner	360
	Conservative	Craig James Robert Lawton	348
	Conservative	William Mathew Ogborne	345
Turnout				33.5
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats gain from Plaid Cymru		Swing
	Liberal Democrats gain from Plaid Cymru		Swing
	Liberal Democrats gain from Plaid Cymru		Swing

Plaid councilor Keith Morgan had defected to the Liberal Democrats since the previous election.

Cwmbwrla (three seats)

Cwmbwrla 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Black*	1,804
	Liberal Democrats	Christopher Holley*	1,662
	Liberal Democrats	Lewis Graham Thomas*	1,335
	Labour	Cyril Anderson	526
	Labour	Peter David Meehan	453
	Labour	Malcolm David Smith	403
	Conservative	Peter James Demery	139
	Conservative	Martin William Jones	111
	Conservative	Margaret Jones	103
Turnout				38.8
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Dunvant (two seats)

Dunvant 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	John Newbury*	992
	Liberal Democrats	Nicholas John Tregoning*	855
	Independent	Roy Thomas Adams	262
	Labour	Christine Mary Hosgood-Jones	254
	Labour	Peter Leonard Rowlands	198
	Conservative	James Barrington Geen Harding	192
	Independent	Rowland Bevan	165
	Conservative	David Rudolf Heinrich	143
Turnout				45.8
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Fairwood (one seat)

Fairwood 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Paxton Hood‐Williams*	607
	Liberal Democrats	David Henry Owen Elliott	304
	Independent	John Gunther Bushell	158
	Independent	Elisabeth Ann Davies	66
	Green	Ana Rosa Boyain-Y-Goitia Griffiths	48
Turnout				52.3
	Conservative hold		Swing

Gorseinon (one seat)

Gorseinon 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Glyn Seabourne*	315
	Independent	Gillian Nansi Evans	229
	Plaid Cymru	Darren Jeffery Thomas	210
	Independent	Diane Christine Freeman	148
	Conservative	William John Verney Ley	119
Turnout				35.3
	Labour hold		Swing

Gower (one seat)

Gower 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Richard David Lewis*	771
	Conservative	Marjorie Jennifer Stubbings	587
	Labour	Michael John Shaw	144
	Green	David Charles Howells	136
Turnout				53.4
	Independent hold		Swing

Gowerton (one seat)

Gowerton 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Susan Mary Jones	535
	Conservative	Lyndon Richard Jones	491
	Labour	Ronald Morgan Thomas*	475
	Liberal Democrats	Michael John Sheehan	181
Turnout				41.9
	Independent gain from Labour		Swing

Killay North (one seat)

Killay North 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Mary Helen Jones*	646
	Conservative	Gareth Raymond Milne	236
	Labour	Jason James Sannegadu	192
Turnout				34.3
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Killay South (one seat)

Killay South 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Jeffrey William Jones	463
	Conservative	Martyn Ford	247
	Labour	Michael Edward Harper	168
	Green	Peter Kenneth Jones	119
Turnout				50.5
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Kingsbridge (one seat)

Kingsbridge 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Evans*	541
	Independent	Catherine Emma Maiden	458
	Plaid Cymru	Pauline Ann Selvage	184
	Conservative	Phillip Edward Sillick	314
Turnout				46.0
	Labour hold		Swing

Landore (two seats)

Landore 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Vivian Nigel Abbott*	836
	Liberal Democrats	Robert Speht*	793
	Labour	Thomas Michael White	585
	Labour	John Alun James	552
	BNP	Susan Josephine Harwood	189
	Conservative	Mark Anthony Burnett	95
	Conservative	Henri Lloyd Davies	71
Turnout				35.9
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Llangyfelach (one seat)

Llangyfelach 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	David Gareth Sullivan*	894
	Conservative	Louise Margaret Alabaster	306
	Green	John Edward Rasbridge	180
Turnout				36,2
	Independent hold		Swing

Llansamlet (four seats)

Llansamlet 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Penelope Matthews	1,119
	Labour	Dennis Henry James*	1,109
	Labour	Christopher Ryland Doyle	919
	Independent	June Evans*	912
	Labour	Royston Richards	877
	Independent	Carl William Lewis	753
	Independent	Margaret Lydia Harris	722
	BNP	Clive Bennett	635
	Plaid Cymru	Carolyne Shan Couch	616
	Conservative	Janine Michelle Ida Barnes	520
	Conservative	Jonathan Kieth Barnes	511
	Conservative	Christian John Holliday	475
	Liberal Democrats	Rosemarie Bridgeman	411
	Liberal Democrats	Mathew James Reacord	379
	Conservative	Geoffrey Raymond Lloyd	361
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Independent hold		Swing
Turnout				31.2

Lower Loughor (one seat)

Lower Loughor 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Julie Christine Richards	284
	Independent	Clive Ernest Watters	141
	Conservative	Andrew Froude Fritche	120
	Plaid Cymru	James Michael Dunckley	110
	Labour hold		Swing
Turnout				36.7

Mawr (one seat)

Mawr 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	People's Representative	Ioan Merritt Richard*	450
	Plaid Cymru	Linda Mary Frame	156
	Labour	Howard Owen Griffiths	65
	Conservative	Andrew Patrick Sivertsen	56
	Others hold		Swing
Turnout				48.6

Mayals (one seat)

Mayals 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Rene Harwood Kinzett	545
	Independent	Peter Geoffrey Birch	465
	Labour	Juliet Anne Fortey	190
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
Turnout				54.7

Elected as a Lib Dem in 2004, Rene Kinzett joined the Conservatives.

Morriston (five seats)

Morriston 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Michael Hedges*	2,159
	Labour	Robert John Lloyd*	1,776
	Labour	Robert Charles Stewart	1,768
	Labour	William John Francis Davies*	1,741
	Labour	Robert Francis-Davies*	1,669
	Liberal Democrats	Helen Ceri Clarke	1,528
	Liberal Democrats	Jonathan Clarke	1,427
	Liberal Democrats	Owen Roberts	1,223
	Liberal Democrats	Rachael Elizabeth Hitchinson	1,214
	Liberal Democrats	Robert Morrison Samuel	1,142
	Plaid Cymru	Richard Jones Jones	778
	BNP	Alan Bateman	678
	Plaid Cymru	Hywel Rhys Couch	619
	Conservative	Michael James Byrne	584
	Conservative	Robert Ivor James	574
	Conservative	Paul Frank Briggs	557
	Conservative	Thomas Patrick Caradog Morgan	523
	Conservative	Sheila Morgan	500
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
Turnout				34.7

Mynyddbach (three seats)

Mynyddbach 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ceinwen Thomas*	1,077
	Labour	Byron George Owen	930
	Independent	Audrey Rose Ann Clement*	911
	Independent	Austin Raymond Welsby*	861
	Labour	Charles Glyndwr White	855
	Independent	John Evans	626
	Independent	Oswyn Clement	589
	Conservative	Karan Cheryl Sivertsen	362
	Conservative	Glyndwr Jones	281
	Conservative	Martha Jones	258
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Independent		Swing
	Independent hold		Swing
Turnout				36.7

Newton (one seat)

Newton 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Susan Mary Waller*	718
	Conservative	David Nicholas Thomas	497
	Green	Stephanie Cuff	115
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
Turnout				47.9

Oystermouth (one seat)

Oystermouth 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Anthony Charles Saunders Colburn	556
	Liberal Democrats	Roger Barnabas Beynon	436
	Green	Rhodri Griffiths	263
	Independent	Joan Thyrza Gwenllian Peters*	241
	Conservative hold		Swing
Turnout				42.9

The former Conservative councillor Joan Peters stood as an Independent, but was defeated.

Penclawdd (one seat)

Penclawdd 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	David Paul Tucker*	676
	Labour	John Hywel Guy	499
	Conservative	Gordon Howells	201
	Plaid Cymru	Robin Lowe	112
	Independent hold		Swing
Turnout				49.6

Penderry (three seats)

Penderry 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Grenville Phillips*	931
	Labour	June Elizabeth Burtonshaw*	921
	Labour	Hazel Mary Morris	850
	Green	James Anthony Young	470
	Liberal Democrats	Vivienne Anne Samuel	455
	Green	Linda Beynon	411
	Liberal Democrats	Matthew James O'Grady	387
	Liberal Democrats	Claire Margaret Smalley	328
	Labour win (new seat)
	Labour win (new seat)
	Labour win (new seat)
Turnout				23.2

Penllergaer (one seat)

Penllergaer 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Elizabeth Wendy Fitzgerald*	873
	Labour	Nigel Mark Rees	56
	Conservative	Paul Sivertsen	48
	Green	Carol Smith	27
	Independent hold		Swing
Turnout				45.6

Pennard (one seat)

Pennard 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Margaret Smith*	432
	Independent	Christopher Bede James	288
	Independent	Alexander Richard Lewis	183
	Independent	Andrew Crawford Thomas	151
	Plaid Cymru	Dewi Richard Evans	135
	Green	Peter John Middleton	101
	Conservative gain from Independent		Swing
Turnout				57.2

Margaret Smith previously sat as an Independent.

Penyrheol (two seats)

Penyrheol 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Islwyn Elfed Jones*	574
	Independent	Alan Jopling	553
	Labour	Alison Marsha Seabourne*	531
	Independent	Peter William Woollard	502
	Plaid Cymru	Sandra Eileen Monk	349
	Conservative	Martin Werner Sivertsen	233
	Conservative	Robert Bradshaw Wilkinson	215
	Labour hold		Swing
	Independent gain from Labour		Swing
Turnout

Pontarddulais (two seats)

Pontarddulais 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Treharne Miles*	656
	Independent	David Thomas Howells	641
	Labour	Philip Downing*	593
	Independent	Byron Calvin Lewis	514
	Plaid Cymru	Eifion Davies	479
	Plaid Cymru	Eiry Miles	405
	Independent	John Mathias	289
	Conservative	Glen Brian Routledge	164
	Conservative	Robert Fisher	123
	Labour hold		Swing
	Independent gain from Labour		Swing
Turnout				47.2

Sketty (five seats)

Sketty 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Rosina June Stanton*	2,604
	Liberal Democrats	Arthur Michael Day*	2,201
	Liberal Democrats	Thomas Huw Rees*	2,084
	Liberal Democrats	Cheryl Lynne Philpott	2,076
	Liberal Democrats	Paul Michael Meara	1,601
	Conservative	Anthony Trevor Lloyd*	1,593
	Conservative	Lavinia Gay Mitchell	1,443
	Conservative	David William Helliwell	1,347
	Conservative	Alice Christina Sumner	1,340
	Conservative	Robert Thornton Dowdle	1,126
	Labour	Ian Anthony James	888
	Labour	Jennifer Louise White	723
	Labour	James Harwood White	705
	Plaid Cymru	Sian Thomas	693
	Labour	Ashaa Rasul Iftikhar	686
	Labour	Yvonne Veronica Jardine	666
	Green	Patricia Emma Helena Jones	599
Turnout				43.5
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing

Huw Rees was elected as a Conservative in 2004 but subsequently joined the Liberal Democrats.

St Thomas (two seats)

St Thomas 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Mervyn Rhys Jones	1,049
	Independent	David Alan Robinson*	1,009
	Labour	Alan Rees Richards*	780
	Labour	Patricia Mary Richards	548
	Conservative	Jonathan Owain Burchell	84
	Conservative	Darren Robert Hann	82
	Independent gain from Labour		Swing
	Independent hold		Swing
Turnout				38.4

Townhill (three seats)

Townhill 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Henry Hopkins*	772
	Labour	Nicholas Stuart Bradley	749
	Labour	William Edwin Alan Jones*	682
	Liberal Democrats	Jacqueline Church	382
	Liberal Democrats	James Sheridan	375
	Independent	Terence Porter	330
	Liberal Democrats	Thomas Caldas	284
	Plaid Cymru	Hazel Pauline McKnight	235
	Independent	Susan Rosemary Sturgess	183
	Conservative	Simon David Clason Bevan	119
	Conservative	Vincent Bishop	109
	Conservative	Dayne Ryan Powell	91
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
Turnout				27.0

Uplands (four seats)

Uplands 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Nicholas May*	1,828
	Liberal Democrats	Stuart James Rice*	1,706
	Liberal Democrats	Jayne Woodman*	1,495
	Liberal Democrats	Janet Mary Thomas	1,488
	Labour	Sybil Edith Crouch	817
	Labour	Andrew Daniel Connell	792
	Labour	Ian William James Ross	765
	Labour	Derek James	729
	Conservative	Dick Phillips	593
	Green	Andrew Russell Lumley Smith	561
	Conservative	Simon Keith Bickley Bright	500
	Conservative	David John Rodway	472
	Plaid Cymru	Annest Wiliam	404
	Conservative	Norman Thomas Whitlock	403
	Green	Steven Mark Clegg	391
	Green	Holly Machin	346
	Independent	Jane Elizabeth McCarthy	275
	Independent	Jeffrey Stuart Sampson	236
	Independent	Nortridge Perrott	165
	Independent	Nigel Alan Robins	107
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
Turnout				29.8

Upper Loughor (one seat)

Upper Loughor 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Plaid Cymru	Darren Price*	531
	Labour	Harding John Richards	199
	Independent	Wynford Jones	105
	Conservative	Alan Thomas Protheroe	89
	Plaid Cymru hold		Swing
Turnout			42.7

West Cross (two seats)

West Cross 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mark Clive Child*	1,050
	Labour	Desmond Thomas*	1,034
	Conservative	Elaine Hughes	894
	Conservative	Philip Joel Swinnerton	771
	Liberal Democrats	Simon Hugh Arthur	440
	Liberal Democrats	William Keith Jones	377
	Green	Marion Williams	187
	Green	Erica Georgina Powell	144
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
Turnout

References

1. "City and County Elections 2008". City and County of Swansea. Retrieved 28 February 2015.