# 2004 City and County of Swansea Council election

The third election to the City and County of Swansea Council was held in May 2004. It was preceded by the 1999 election and followed by the 2008 election.

## Overview

All council seats were up for election. These were the third elections held following local government reorganisation and the abolition of West Glamorgan County Council. The Labour Party lost their majority on the authority.

## Candidates

The contests were fought by most of the main parties but Labour was the only one to contest the majority of seats.

## Overall Result

City and County of Swansea Council election result 2004 :
| Party | Seats |
| Labour | 32 |
| Liberal Democrats | 19 |
| Independent | 12 |
| Plaid Cymru | 5 |
| Conservative | 4 |
| Green | 0 |

## Results by ward

* = sitting councillor in this ward prior to election

### Bishopston (one seat)

Bishopston 2004 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Independent | Keith Edmund Marsh* | 1,029 |
| Liberal Democrats | John Philip Bleay | 168 |
| Green | Larch Ian Albert Frank Juckes Maxey | 143 |
| Independent hold | Independent hold | Swing |

### Bonymaen (two seats)

Bonymaen 2004 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Independent | John Brian Hague* | 1093 |
| Labour | Mair Eluned Gibbs* | 936 |
| Plaid Cymru | Philip Charles Couch | 386 |
| Liberal Democrats | Vivienne Anne Samuel | 224 |
| Independent hold | Independent hold | Swing |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |

### Castle (four seats)

Castle 2004 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Labour | Robert Alan Lloyd* | 1,034 |
| Labour | Barbara Joyce Hynes* | 943 |
| Labour | Erika Kirchner | 897 |
| Labour | David Phillips* | 876 |
| Plaid Cymru | Patrick John Powell | 671 |
| Plaid Cymru | Hugh Nigel Parsons | 656 |
| Liberal Democrats | Daniel John Davies | 649 |
| Plaid Cymru | Farid Ali | 644 |
| Liberal Democrats | Gareth Peter Jones | 577 |
| Plaid Cymru | Clive Ian Gary Smith | 548 |
| Green | Yvonne Marjorie Holley | 534 |
| Conservative | Philip Malcolm Bray | 477 |
| Conservative | Warren Michael Charles Jones | 460 |
| Green | Derek Alexander McBrier | 418 |
| Independent | David Verson Phillips | 305 |
| Socialist Alternative | Alec Thraves | 258 |
| Socialist Alternative | Robert Williams | 227 |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |

### Clydach (two seats)

Sylvia Lewis had been elected as an Independent in 1999.
Clydach 2004 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Labour | Roger Llewellyn Smith* | 1,107 |
| Liberal Democrats | Sylvia Mary Lewis* | 761 |
| Plaid Cymru | James Vernon Davies | 595 |
| Labour | Islwyn Hopkins | 589 |
| Liberal Democrats | Julie Marlene Davies | 486 |
| Conservative | Robert Andrew Evans | 172 |
| Conservative | Jonathan Bray Stockting | 131 |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |
| Liberal Democrats hold | Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |

### Cockett (four seats)

Cockett 2004 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Plaid Cymru | William Keith Morgan* | 1,452 |
| Plaid Cymru | Adrian Hugh Rees | 1,406 |
| Plaid Cymru | John Rhodri Thomas | 1,338 |
| Plaid Cymru | Enid Vanessa Webb | 1,200 |
| Labour | Anna Mary Pennock | 1,029 |
| Labour | Clive Keith Morgan | 954 |
| Labour | John Abraham | 861 |
| Labour | Hazel Mary Morris | 820 |
| Liberal Democrats | Nicola Anne Holley | 652 |
| Liberal Democrats | Tudor Richard Donne | 555 |
| Green | Ann Elizabeth Cashman | 331 |
| Green | Timothy Edward Pope | 314 |
| Green | John Michael Thomas | 288 |
| Green | Marguerite Esther White | 287 |
| Plaid Cymru hold | Plaid Cymru hold | Swing |
| Plaid Cymru hold | Plaid Cymru hold | Swing |
| Plaid Cymru gain from Labour | Plaid Cymru gain from Labour | Swing |
| Plaid Cymru gain from Labour | Plaid Cymru gain from Labour | Swing |

### Cwmbwrla (three seats)

Cwmbwrla 2004 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Liberal Democrats | Peter Malcolm Black* | 1,873 |
| Liberal Democrats | Christopher Ashleigh Holley* | 1,621 |
| Liberal Democrats | Lewis Graham Thomas* | 1,483 |
| Labour | John Alun James | 339 |
| Labour | Terence James Hennegan | 307 |
| Labour | Malcolm David Smith | 278 |
| Green | Frederick Keith Coleman | 155 |
| Green | Martin William Jones | 129 |
| Liberal Democrats hold | Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
| Liberal Democrats hold | Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
| Liberal Democrats hold | Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |

### Dunvant (two seats)

Dunvant 2004 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Liberal Democrats | John Newbury* | 1,163 |
| Liberal Democrats | Nicholas John Tregoning* | 915 |
| Independent | Elizabeth Ann Davies | 445 |
| Labour | Nigel Mark Rees | 218 |
| Liberal Democrats hold | Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
| Liberal Democrats hold | Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |

### Fairwood (one seat)

Elected as an Independent in 1995, John Bushell successfully defended the seat as a Conservative in 1999 but now again stood, unsuccessfully, as an Independent.
Fairwood 2004 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Conservative | Paxton Richard Hood‐Williams | 470 |
| Independent | John Gunther Bushell* | 405 |
| Labour | John Howell Guy | 162 |
| Green | Rhodri Griffiths John | 138 |
| Liberal Democrats | Andrew Whitt | 57 |
| Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing |

### Gorseinon (one seat)

Gorseinon 2004 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Labour | Glyn Seabourne* | 441 |
| Plaid Cymru | Darren Jeffery Thomas | 207 |
| Independent | Giuseppe Vittorio Bruno | 181 |
| Conservative | Carrie Baylis Cooper | 110 |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |

### Gower (one seat)

Gower 2004 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Independent | Richard David Lewis* | 883 |
| Conservative | Marjorie Jennifer Stubbings | 391 |
| Labour | David Raymond Beech | 186 |
| Green | David Charles Howells | 185 |
| Independent hold | Independent hold | Swing |

### Gowerton (one seat)

Gowerton 2004 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Labour | Ronald Morgan Thomas* | 612 |
| Conservative | Peter Davies | 494 |
| Liberal Democrats | William James Cherrington | 328 |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |

### Killay North (one seat)

Killay North 2004 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Liberal Democrats | Mary Helen Jones* | 699 |
| Conservative | David Nicholas Thomas | 212 |
| Labour | Nigel Alan Robins | 103 |
| Liberal Democrats hold | Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |

### Killay South (one seat)

Killay South 2004 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Liberal Democrats | Gerald Glyn Clement* | 798 |
| Conservative | James Barrington Geen Harding | 165 |
| Liberal Democrats hold | Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |

### Kingsbridge (one seat)

Kingsbridge 2004 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Labour | William Gethin Evans* | 566 |
| Plaid Cymru | Pauline A. Selvage | 305 |
| Conservative | Anthony Allan Winchester | 284 |
| Liberal Democrats | Howard James Rees | 200 |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |

### Landore (two seats)

Landore 2004 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Liberal Democrats | Vivian Nigel Abbott | 821 |
| Liberal Democrats | Robert Speht | 775 |
| Labour | Thomas Michael White | 694 |
| Labour | Nigel Shreeve | 656 |
| Independent | Gerald Murphy | 193 |
| Independent | Kenneth Philip Skinner | 122 |
| Liberal Democrats gain from Labour | Liberal Democrats gain from Labour | Swing |
| Liberal Democrats gain from Labour | Liberal Democrats gain from Labour | Swing |

### Llangyfelach (one seat)

Llangyfelach 2004 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Independent | David Gareth Sullivan* | 888 |
| Labour | Geoffrey Archer | 272 |
| Conservative | Garath Donald John Williams | 223 |
| Independent hold | Independent hold | Swing |

### Llansamlet (four seats)

Elected as an Independent in 1999, June Evans subsequently joined the Independent group.
Llansamlet 2004 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Independent | June Evans* | 1,176 |
| Labour | Dennis Henry James* | 1,063 |
| Labour | Lawrence David Bailey* | 1,062 |
| Labour | Yvonne Veronica Jardine | 975 |
| Labour | Penelope Margaret Matthews | 939 |
| Plaid Cymru | Carolyne Shan Couch | 770 |
| Liberal Democrats | Christopher Cuff | 598 |
| Conservative | Stephen Neil Hughes | 566 |
| Conservative | Christian John Holliday | 509 |
| Conservative | Andrew David Morgan | 504 |
| Independent hold | Independent hold | Swing |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |

### Lower Loughor (one seat)

Lower Loughor 2004 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Labour | Daniel Raymond James* | 218 |
| Independent | Clive Ernest Watters | 196 |
| Conservative | Robert John Charles Fisher | 92 |
| Plaid Cymru | John William Griffiths | 73 |
| Independent | Richard Gordon Evans | 66 |
| Liberal Democrats | Margaret Elaine Cherrington | 14 |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |

### Mawr (one seat)

Mawr 2004 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| People's Representative | Ioan Merritt Richard* | 620 |
| Conservative | Simon Jeffrey Trick | 82 |
| Others hold | Others hold | Swing |

### Mayals (one seat)

Mayals 2004 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Liberal Democrats | Rene Harwood Kinzett | 708 |
| Conservative | Dorian Gerald Rowbottom | 206 |
| Independent | David Charles Evans* | 179 |
| Labour | Jeffrey William Walton | 64 |
| Plaid Cymru | Eiry Miles | 56 |
| Green | Philip Joel Swinnerton | 33 |
| Liberal Democrats gain from Independent | Liberal Democrats gain from Independent | Swing |

### Morriston (five seats)

Morriston 2004 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Labour | Michael John Hedges* | 1,958 |
| Labour | Robert John Lloyd* | 1,813 |
| Labour | William John Francis Davies* | 1,758 |
| Labour | Robert Francis-Davies* | 1,738 |
| Labour | Robert Charles Stewart | 1,726 |
| Liberal Democrats | Helen Ceri Jones | 1,443 |
| Liberal Democrats | Debra Louise Anthony | 1,414 |
| Liberal Democrats | Steven John Moss | 1,300 |
| Liberal Democrats | Stuart Anthony Vaughan | 1,234 |
| Liberal Democrats | Jacob Mbu Oben | 1,051 |
| Plaid Cymru | Charlotte Aull Davies | 732 |
| Conservative | William Hughes | 691 |
| Conservative | Thomas Patrick Morgan | 576 |
| Conservative | Paul Raymond Morris | 462 |
| Conservative | Sonya Winifred Rachel Morris | 446 |
| Green | Deborah James | 398 |
| Green | Colin Keith Donnan | 337 |
| Green | John Rasbridge | 308 |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |

### Mynyddbach (three seats)

Mynyddbach 2004 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Independent | Audrey Rose Ann Clement | 1,512 |
| Labour | Ceinwen Thomas* | 1,141 |
| Independent | Austin Raymond Welsby | 1,119 |
| Labour | Byron George Owen* | 1,081 |
| Labour | Charles Glyndwr White* | 925 |
| Liberal Democrats | Lesley Jayne Price | 628 |
| Independent gain from Labour | Independent gain from Labour | Swing |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |
| Independent gain from Labour | Independent gain from Labour | Swing |

### Newton (one seat)

Newton 2004 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Liberal Democrats | Susan Mary Waller* | 652 |
| Conservative | Anthony Charles Saunders Colburn | 636 |
| Green | Karen Anne Laurence | 112 |
| Liberal Democrats hold | Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |

### Oystermouth (one seat)

Oystermouth 2004 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Conservative | Joan Thyrza Gwenllian Peters* | 702 |
| Labour | John Roger Warren Evans | 383 |
| Liberal Democrats | Zoe Francesca James‐Williams | 252 |
| Green | Paul Stewart Wimbush | 145 |
| Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing |

### Penclawdd (one seat)

Penclawdd 2004 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Independent | David Paul Tucker | 890 |
| Labour | Terence John Snell | 386 |
| Conservative | Gordon Howells | 126 |
| Green | Walter Raymond Stock | 95 |
| Independent hold | Independent hold | Swing |

### Penderry (three seats)

Penderry 2004 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | June Elizabeth Burtonshaw* | 913 | | |
| Labour | Grenville Phillips* | 871 | | |
| Labour | Doreen Jones* | 870 | | |
| Green | James Anthony Young | 472 | | |
| Green | Linda Beynon | 423 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Gaynor Meehan | 402 | | |
| Green | Christine Mary Norman | 349 | | |
| Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) |
| Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) |
| Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) |

### Penllergaer (one seat)

Penllergaer 2004 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Independent | Elizabeth Wendy Fitzgerald | 595 |
| Labour | Dennis Joseph Lawlor | 205 |
| Conservative | Janice Birch | 99 |
| Independent hold | Independent hold | Swing |

### Pennard (one seat)

Pennard 2004 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Independent | Margaret Smith* | 574 |
| Liberal Democrats | Andrew Crawford Thomas | 402 |
| Green | Lawrence Daniel Fancourt | 161 |
| Labour | Andrew John Jones | 101 |
| Independent hold | Independent hold | Swing |

### Penyrheol (two seats)

Penyrheol 2004 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Labour | Alison Marsha Seabourne | 694 |
| Labour | David Islwyn Elfed Jones* | 676 |
| Independent | Peter William Woollard | 564 |
| Liberal Democrats | David Anthony Griffiths | 321 |
| Conservative | Paul Curtis De La Mare | 304 |
| Conservative | Eleanor Mary Davies | 270 |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |

### Pontarddulais (two seats)

Pontarddulais 2004 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Labour | John Treharne Miles* | 1,239 |
| Labour | Philip Downing | 983 |
| Plaid Cymru | Eifion Davies | 959 |
| Conservative | Lyndon Richard Jones | 299 |
| Conservative | Margaret Chegwin Jones | 231 |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |

### Sketty (five seats)

Sketty 2004 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Liberal Democrats | Rosina June Stanton* | 2,366 |
| Liberal Democrats | Arthur Michael Day* | 1,940 |
| Conservative | Thomas Huw Rees* | 1,628 |
| Liberal Democrats | Cheryl Lynne Philpott | 1,445 |
| Conservative | Anthony Trevor Lloyd* | 1,398 |
| Conservative | Keith Houston Meyrick Crawford | 1,322 |
| Liberal Democrats | Paul Michael Meara | 1,316 |
| Conservative | Hayden Edward Jones | 1,305 |
| Conservative | David William Helliwell | 1,274 |
| Liberal Democrats | Edward Whittaker | 1,156 |
| Labour | Joseph Brian Cainen | 889 |
| Labour | Geraint Owens | 840 |
| Labour | Parvaiz Arshad Ali | 793 |
| Labour | Maureen Clough‐Stuckey* | 762 |
| Labour | Peter Leonard Rowlands | 726 |
| Plaid Cymru | Sian Thomas | 592 |
| Green | Heather Brooks | 407 |
| Green | Sandra Christina Shrewsbury | 367 |
| Green | Nicholas Gregory Gaylor | 358 |
| Green | Neil Robert Hooper | 270 |
| Green | Howard John Jago | 231 |
| Liberal Democrats hold | Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
| Liberal Democrats hold | Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
| Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing |
| Liberal Democrats hold | Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
| Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing |

### St. Thomas (two seats)

St Thomas 2004 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Independent | David Alan Robinson | 1,150 |
| Labour | Alan Rees Richards* | 742 |
| Labour | Cyril Frederick Johnstone* | 648 |
| Green | Teresa Brzoza | 521 |
| Liberal Democrats | Jonathan Clarke | 277 |
| Independent gain from Labour | Independent gain from Labour | Swing |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |

### Townhill (three seats)

Townhill 2004 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Labour | David Henry Hopkins* | 689 |
| Labour | Geoffrey Hugh Burtonshaw | 665 |
| Labour | William Edwin Alan Jones | 653 |
| Independent | Terence Porter | 444 |
| Liberal Democrats | Andrew Paul Jones | 344 |
| Plaid Cymru | Gregory Lee Evans | 299 |
| Liberal Democrats | Phillip Richard Stanford | 284 |
| Plaid Cymru | Hazel Pauline McKnight | 259 |
| Liberal Democrats | Forbes Neil Lopez | 216 |
| Green | Christopher Scott Warwick | 122 |
| Green | Kingsley Vincent Evans | 120 |
| Green | Marcus Kit Petz | 85 |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |

### Uplands (four seats)

Uplands 2004 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Liberal Democrats | Peter May | 1,373 |
| Liberal Democrats | Stuart James Rice | 1,354 |
| Liberal Democrats | Claire Margaret Waller | 1,230 |
| Liberal Democrats | Jayne Woodman | 1,120 |
| Labour | Derek James* | 769 |
| Labour | Gwion Iqbal Malik | 710 |
| Labour | Hardev Aswani | 692 |
| Labour | Moira Ann Singh* | 676 |
| Independent | Dick Phillips | 649 |
| Green | Martyn John Shrewsbury | 616 |
| Independent | Angela Lewis | 600 |
| Conservative | Richard Oliver John | 507 |
| Independent | Susan Rosemary Sturgess | 493 |
| Independent | Lavinia Gay Mitchell | 493 |
| Independent | Phillip Norman Stapleton | 482 |
| Conservative | Philip David Helliwell | 472 |
| Green | 463 | 816 |
| Plaid Cymru | Christian Downing | 440 |
| Plaid Cymru | Omer Williams | 436 |
| Plaid Cymru | Nicholas Atkin‐Walsh | 419 |
| Plaid Cymru | Harri Llwyd Roberts | 414 |
| Green | Andrew Niel Hammond | 376 |
| Green | Mary Roberta Marquand | 352 |
| Democratic Alliance | Nortridge Perrott | 83 |
| Liberal Democrats gain from Labour | Liberal Democrats gain from Labour | Swing |
| Liberal Democrats gain from Labour | Liberal Democrats gain from Labour | Swing |
| Liberal Democrats gain from Labour | Liberal Democrats gain from Labour | Swing |
| Liberal Democrats gain from Labour | Liberal Democrats gain from Labour | Swing |

### Upper Loughor (two seats)

Possible boundary change. the number of seats was reduced from two to one
Upper Loughor 2004 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Plaid Cymru | Darren Price | 404 |
| Labour | David Alcwyn Evans* | 305 |
| Liberal Democrats | James Bernard Kelleher | 113 |
| Conservative | Nigel Thomas Packer | 79 |
| Plaid Cymru gain from Labour | Plaid Cymru gain from Labour | Swing |

### West Cross (two seats)

West Cross 2004 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Labour | Desmond Wilfred William Thomas | 909 |
| Labour | Mark Clive Child* | 939 |
| Conservative | Vera Margaret Duncan | 702 |
| Conservative | David Monro Donaldson | 688 |
| Independent | Christopher Leonard McNeff | 474 |
| Liberal Democrats | Christopher Gareth Davies | 354 |
| Liberal Democrats | Jonathan Owain Burchell | 309 |
| Green | Steve Heydon | 166 |
| Green | Geraldine Sara Noott | 147 |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |