1999 Welsh local elections

The 1999 Welsh local elections, were held on 6 May in 22 local authorities, as part of the wider 1999 UK local elections.

6 May 1999 (1999-05-06)

All 1,270 seats to 22 Welsh councils

	First party	Second party

Leader	Alun Michael	Dafydd Wigley
Party	Labour	Plaid Cymru
Leader since	20 February 1999	1991
Seats won	563	205
Seat change	163	92
Popular vote	338,470	179,212
Popular vote (%)	34.4%	18.2%
Swing (pp)	9.2%	5.7%

	Third party	Fourth party

Leader	Richard Livsey	William Hague
Party	Liberal Democrats	Conservative
Leader since	1997	19 June 1997
Seats won	98	75
Seat change	19	33
Popular vote	132,091	99,565
Popular vote (%)	13.4%	10.1%
Swing (pp)	3.2%	2.0%

Wales-Wide Results

	Votes[1]	%	+/-	Councils	+/-	Seats	+/-
Labour	338,470	34.4%	9.2%	8	6	563	163
Independent	187,345	19.1%	1.2%	3	1	295	3
Plaid Cymru	179,212	18.2%	5.7%	3	2	205	92
Liberal Democrats	132,091	13.4%	3.2%	0		98	19
Conservative	99,565	10.1%	2.0%	0		75	33
Green	8,328	0.8%	0.3%	0		1	1
Other	37,788	3.8%	0.2%	0		33	13
No overall control	n/a	n/a	n/a	8	5	n/a	n/a

Result

In all 22 Welsh councils the whole of the council was up for election.

Council			Details
Blaenau Gwent	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Bridgend	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Caerphilly	Labour	Plaid Cymru gain	Details
Cardiff	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Carmarthenshire	No overall control	No overall control hold	Details
Ceredigion	Independent	No overall control gain	Details
Conwy	No overall control	No overall control hold	Details
Denbighshire	No overall control	No overall control hold	Details
Flintshire	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Gwynedd	Plaid Cymru	Plaid Cymru hold	Details
Isle of Anglesey	Independent	Independent hold	Details
Merthyr Tydfil	Labour	No overall control gain	Details
Monmouthshire	Labour	No overall control gain	Details
Neath Port Talbot	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Newport	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Pembrokeshire	Independent	Independent hold	Details
Powys	Independent	Independent hold	Details
Rhondda Cynon Taf	Labour	Plaid Cymru gain	Details
Swansea	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Torfaen	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Vale of Glamorgan	Labour	No overall control gain	Details
Wrexham	Labour	No overall control gain	Details

References

"Local Elections Handbook 1999" (PDF). Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher, Local Government Chronicle Elections Centre, University of Plymouth. 2004. Retrieved 15 December 2016.

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