# 1999 City and County of Swansea Council election

The second election to City and County of Swansea Council was held in May 1999. It was preceded by the 1995 election and followed by the 2004 election.

## Overview

All council seats were up for election. These were the second elections held following local government reorganisation and the abolition of West Glamorgan County Council.

## Boundaries

There were some changes in ward boundaries for this election. The numbers of councillors changed in some wards, resulting in an overall increase in councillors to 72, as a result of The City and County of Swansea (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1998.

## Candidates

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

## Results and election summary

City and County of Swansea Council election result 1999 :
| Party | Seats | Seats % | Votes |
| Labour | 47 | 65.2 | |
| Liberal Democrats | 10 | 13.8 | |
| Conservative | 4 | 5.5 | |
| Plaid Cymru | 2 | 2.7 | |
| Independent | 7 | 9.7 | |
| Independent Labour | 1 | 1.3 | |
| Other Parties | 1 | 1.3 | |
| Green | 0 | 0.0 | 1,616 |

## Results by ward

* = sitting councillor in this ward prior to election

### Bishopston (one seat)

Bishopston 1999 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Independent | Keith Edmund Marsh | Unopposed | Unopposed | Unopposed |
| | Independent gain from Liberal Democrats | Independent gain from Liberal Democrats | Independent gain from Liberal Democrats | Independent gain from Liberal Democrats | Independent gain from Liberal Democrats |

### Bonymaen (two seats)

The Independent candidate had captured the seat from Labour at a by-election.
Bonymaen 1999 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Independent | John Brian Hague* | 1,246 |
| Labour | Mair Eluned Gibbs* | 1,240 |
| Labour | Wyndham Parry Davies | 632 |
| Liberal Democrats | Nora Maria O'Sullivan | 311 |
| Independent hold | Independent hold | Swing |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |

### Castle (four seats)

Possible boundary change. The number of seats increased from three to four. David Phillips had previously represented the Uplands ward.
Castle 1999 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Robert Alan Lloyd* | 1,622 | | |
| Labour | Barbara Joyce Hynes* | 1,579 | | |
| Labour | David Phillips | 1,477 | | |
| Labour | Dereck John Roberts* | 1,440 | | |
| Plaid Cymru | Yvonne Marie Davies | 1,111 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Yvonne Marjorie Holley | 937 | | |
| Green | Benjamin David Grigg | 632 | | |
| Conservative | Paul Raymond Morris | 503 | | |
| Conservative | Sonya Winifred R. Morris | 477 | | |
| United Socialists | David Richard Warren | 273 | | |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | | |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | | |
| Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | | |

### Clydach (two seats)

Possible boundary change. The number of seats increased from one to two.
Clydach 1999 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Independent | Sylvia Mary Lewis* | 963 | | |
| Labour | Roger Llewellyn Smith | 845 | | |
| Labour | Bryan Edwin Ayres* | 844 | | |
| Plaid Cymru | James Vernon Davies | 764 | | |
| Plaid Cymru | Diana Owen | 697 | | |
| Independent | Denise Preece | 509 | | |
| Independent win (new seat) | Independent win (new seat) | Independent win (new seat) | Independent win (new seat) | Independent win (new seat) |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | | |

### Cockett (four seats)

Dai Lloyd had won a seat from Labour at a by-election.
Cockett 1999 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Plaid Cymru | David Rhys Lloyd* | 2,366 |
| Labour | Lilian Maud Hopkin* | 1,902 |
| Plaid Cymru | William Keith Morgan | 1,581 |
| Labour | Victor Cyril Alexander* | 1,528 |
| Plaid Cymru | Adrian Hugh Rees | 1,478 |
| Plaid Cymru | Nicholas Walsh | 1,381 |
| Labour | Ann Pennock | 1,343 |
| Labour | Clive Keith Morgan* | 1,231 |
| Liberal Democrats | Tudor Richard Donne | 639 |
| Plaid Cymru hold | Plaid Cymru hold | Swing |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |
| Plaid Cymru gain from Labour | Plaid Cymru gain from Labour | Swing |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |

### Cwmbwrla (three seats)

Possible boundary change. The number of seats increased from two to three.
Cwmbwrla 1999 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Liberal Democrats | Peter Malcolm Black* | 2,172 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Christopher Ashleigh Holley* | 1,909 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Lewis Graham Thomas | 1,722 | | |
| Labour | Carolyn Harris | 867 | | |
| Labour | Brian Trevor George Ludlam | 722 | | |
| Labour | Robert Mark Ludlam | 657 | | |
| Liberal Democrats hold | Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | | |
| Liberal Democrats hold | Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | | |
| Liberal Democrats win (new seat) | Liberal Democrats win (new seat) | Liberal Democrats win (new seat) | Liberal Democrats win (new seat) | Liberal Democrats win (new seat) |

### Dunvant (two seats)

Possible boundary change. The number of seats increased from one to two. Labour had held the single seat ward in 1995.
Dunvant 1999 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Liberal Democrats | John Newbury | 1,083 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Nicholas John Tregoning | 627 | | |
| Independent | Elizabeth Ann Davies | 491 | | |
| Labour | Hardev Aswani | 395 | | |
| Labour | Diana Samuel | 370 | | |
| Conservative | David Nicholas Thomas | 219 | | |
| Liberal Democrats gain from Labour | Liberal Democrats gain from Labour | Swing | | |
| Liberal Democrats win (new seat) | Liberal Democrats win (new seat) | Liberal Democrats win (new seat) | Liberal Democrats win (new seat) | Liberal Democrats win (new seat) |

### Fairwood (one seat)

Elected as an Independent in 1995, John Bushell successfully defended the seat as a Conservative.
Fairwood 1999 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Conservative | John Gunther Bushell* | 655 |
| Labour | John Sydney Mills | 514 |
| Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing |

### Gorseinon (one seat)

The former wards of Gorseinon Central and Gorseinon East were combined. Glyn Seabourne was councillor for Gorseinon East prior to this election.
Gorseinon 1999 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Labour | Glyn Seabourne* | 558 |
| Plaid Cymru | Darren Jeffery Thomas | 401 |
| Conservative | Eleanor Mary Davies | 89 |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |

### Gower (one seat)

Gower 1999 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Independent | Richard David Lewis* | 770 |
| Labour | Anthont John Beddow | 366 |
| Liberal Democrats | Hildegarde Ann Roberts | 296 |
| Conservative | Gordon Howells | 185 |
| Independent hold | Independent hold | Swing |

### Gowerton (one seat)

The former wards of Gowerton East and Gowerton West were combined. Ronald Thomas was councillor for Gowerton East prior to this election.
Gowerton 1999 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Labour | Ronald Morgan Thomas* | 722 |
| Plaid Cymru | Alan Morgan Griffiths | 395 |
| Independent | Peter Davies | 335 |
| Conservative | Keith Roberts | 121 |
| Green | David Charles Howells | 68 |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |

### Killay North (one seat)

Killay North 1999 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Liberal Democrats | Mary Helen Jones | 396 |
| Labour | Perry Stephen Buck* | |
| Independent | George Smith Gunn | 292 |
| Independent | Stuart James Rice | 230 |
| Conservative | Philip David Helliwell | 167 |
| Liberal Democrats gain from Labour | Liberal Democrats gain from Labour | Swing |

### Killay South (one seat)

Killay South 1999 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Liberal Democrats | Gerald Glyn Clement* | 790 |
| Labour | Jeffrey William Walton | 203 |
| Conservative | Sarah Jane Cadogan | 131 |
| Liberal Democrats hold | Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |

### Kingsbridge (one seat)

Possible boundary change. The number of seats reduced from two to one. Labour had held both seats in 1995.
Kingsbridge 1999 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Labour | William Gethin Evans* | 650 |
| Plaid Cymru | Katherine Mary Stock | 590 |
| Liberal Democrats | Michael John Barry | 220 |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |

### Landore (two seats)

Landore 1999 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Labour | Derek Herbert Cox* | 913 |
| Labour | Holland William Ayres* | 900 |
| Liberal Democrats | Robert Speht | 516 |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |

### Llangyfelach (one seat)

Possible boundary change. The number of seats reduced from two to one. Independents had held both seats in 1995. Phil Downing had been elected for the now-abolished
Llangyfelach 1999 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Independent | David Gareth Sullivan* | 644 |
| People's Representative | Audrey R.A. Clement* | 538 |
| Labour | Philip Downing* | 283 |
| Conservative | William H.E. Alabaster | 65 |
| Independent hold | Independent hold | Swing |

### Llansamlet (four seats)

Possible boundary change. The number of seats increased from three to four.
Llansamlet 1995 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Lawrence David Bailey* | 1,682 | | |
| Labour | June Evans* | 1,646 | | |
| Labour | Paul Lloyd* | 1,410 | | |
| Labour | Dennis Henry James | 1,260 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Richard David George | 903 | | |
| Community First | Kevin Adrian John | 747 | | |
| Community First | Margaret Lydia Harris | 686 | | |
| Community First | Peter Gilbert Harris | 558 | | |
| Community First | Frederick S. Lewis | 552 | | |
| Conservative | Robert William Megson | 471 | | |
| 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) |
| Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) |

### Lower Loughor (one seat)

Lower Loughor 1999 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Labour | Daniel Raymond James* | unopposed | | |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | | |

### Mawr (one seat)

Mawr 1999 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| People's Representative | Ioan Merritt Richard* | 646 |
| Labour | Brian Charles Kennedy | 164 |
| Liberal Democrats | Michael Haller | 61 |
| People's Representative gain from Plaid Cymru | People's Representative gain from Plaid Cymru | |

### Mayals (one seat)

Mayals 1999 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Independent | David Charles Evans | 386 |
| Conservative | Michael George Shellard | 358 |
| Liberal Democrats | Neil Sinclair Lewis | 273 |
| Labour | David Ian Collins | 209 |
| Independent gain from Liberal Democrats | Independent gain from Liberal Democrats | Swing |

### Morriston (five seats)

Possible boundary change. The number of seats increased from four to five.
Morriston 1999 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Michael John Hedges* | 2,939 | | |
| Labour | William John F. Davies* | 2,869 | | |
| Labour | Robert Francis-Davies* | 2,798 | | |
| Labour | Robert John Lloyd* | 2,687 | | |
| Labour | Valerie Lloyd | 2,576 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | John Philip Bleay | 1,527 | | |
| Conservative | William Hughes | 1,201 | | |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | | |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | | |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | | |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | | |
| Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) |

### Mynyddbach (three seats)

Mynyddbach 1999 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Labour | Ceinwen Thomas* | 1,984 |
| Labour | Byron George Owen* | 1,826 |
| Labour | Charles Glyndwr White | 1,616 |
| Plaid Cymru | Laurence Douthwaite John | 1,082 |
| Liberal Democrats | Elwyn Vernon Jones | 759 |
| Conservative | Martyn Ford | 490 |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |

### Newton (one seat)

Newton 1999 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Liberal Democrats | Susan Mary Waller* | 745 |
| Conservative | Anthony Charles Saunders Colburn | 475 |
| Labour | Jane Melanie Thomas | 259 |
| Liberal Democrats hold | Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |

### Oystermouth (one seat)

Oystermouth 1999 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Conservative | Joan Thyrza Peters* | 709 |
| Labour | Aubrey Jones | 482 |
| Liberal Democrats | Alexander James | 211 |
| Plaid Cymru | Mari Elin Waddington | 206 |
| Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing |

### Penclawdd (one seat)

Penclawdd 1999 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Independent | Howard John Morgan* | 975 |
| Labour | Owen James Guy | 671 |
| Independent hold | Independent hold | Swing |

### Penderry (three seats)

Possible boundary change. The number of seats reduced from four to three. Doreen Jones represented Mynyddbach from 1995 until 1999
Penderry 1999 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Labour | Doreen Jones* | 1,461 |
| Labour | June Elizabeth Burtonshaw* | 1,422 |
| Labour | Grenville Phillips* | 1,414 |
| Liberal Democrats | Gaynor Meehan | 611 |
| Conservative | Jason Peter Morgan | 348 |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |

### Penllergaer (one seat)

Penllergaer 1999 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Dennis Lawlor | 581 | 71.0 | +11.8 |
| Conservative | J. Lowe | 237 | 29.0 | +29.0 |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | | |

### Pennard (one seat)

Pennard 1999 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Independent | Margaret Smith* | unopposed | | |
| | Independent hold | Independent hold | Swing | | |

### Penyrheol (two seats)

Penyrheol 1995 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Labour | David Thomas Vernon Davies* | 950 |
| Labour | David Islwyn Elfed Jones* | 772 |
| Independent | Carloine Ann Arthur | 703 |
| Liberal Democrats | Stephen Josef Neesmann | 431 |
| Conservative | John Timothy | 181 |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |

### Pontarddulais (two seats)

Boundary Change. The number of seats increased from one to two. John Miles represented the Talybont ward which was abolished.
Pontarddulais 1999 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Gareth Williams* | 1,355 | | |
| Labour | John Treharne Miles* | 1,278 | | |
| Independent | David Thomas Howells | 791 | | |
| Independent | Owen Leroy Evans | 677 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Janine Linda Evans | 252 | | |
| Conservative | Dorothy Roberta Gardiner | 121 | | |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | | |
| Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) |

### Sketty (five seats)

Possible boundary change. The number of seats increased from four to five. June Stanton was elected as an Independent in 1995 but subsequently joined the Liberal Democrats.
Sketty 1999 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Liberal Democrats | Rosina June Stanton* | 3,037 | | |
| Labour | Mehar Chand Verma* | 1,853 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Arthur Michael Day | 1,725 | | |
| Conservative | Thomas Huw Rees | 1,526 | | |
| Conservative | John Philip Glew | 1,465 | | |
| Labour | Gordon Carruthers* | 1,426 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Tracey Anne Dunford | 1,274 | | |
| Labour | Anthea Priscilla Symonds | 1,247 | | |
| Labour | Patrick Richard Ellis | 1,142 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Lilian Mary Pritchard | 1,132 | | |
| Independent | Anthony Trevor Lloyd | 1,129 | | |
| Conservative | Philip Malcolm Bray | 1,111 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Dyfed E.F. Alsop | 1,105 | | |
| Conservative | Mark Roy Burgess | 1,101 | | |
| Labour | Leonard Bayzile Howell* | 1,060 | | |
| Plaid Cymru | Ian Richard Titherington | 1,043 | | |
| Plaid Cymru | Sara Eirwen Reid | 1,036 | | |
| Liberal Democrats win (new seat) | Liberal Democrats win (new seat) | Liberal Democrats win (new seat) | Liberal Democrats win (new seat) | Liberal Democrats win (new seat) |
| Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) |
| Liberal Democrats win (new seat) | Liberal Democrats win (new seat) | Liberal Democrats win (new seat) | Liberal Democrats win (new seat) | Liberal Democrats win (new seat) |
| Conservative win (new seat) | Conservative win (new seat) | Conservative win (new seat) | Conservative win (new seat) | Conservative win (new seat) |
| Conservative win (new seat) | Conservative win (new seat) | Conservative win (new seat) | Conservative win (new seat) | Conservative win (new seat) |

### St Thomas (two seats)

St Thomas 1995 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Labour | Cyril Frederick Johnstone* | 1,154 |
| Labour | Alan Rees Richards* | 1,124 |
| Independent | David Alan Robinson | 747 |
| Liberal Democrats | Paul Courtney Jones | 268 |
| Conservative | Jonathan Geoffrey Bidmead | 195 |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |

### Townhill (three seats)

Possible boundary change. The number of seats increased from two to three.
Townhill 1999 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Tyssul Lewis* | 968 | | |
| Labour | David Hopkins* | 913 | | |
| Labour | William Frederick Stuckey | 724 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Beryl Edwards | 693 | | |
| Plaid Cymru | Gregory Lee Evans | 377 | | |
| Independent | Anthony Roper | 351 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Gordon C. Manning | 338 | | |
| Independent | Margaret Louvane Abraham | 297 | | |
| 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) |

### Uplands (four seats)

Uplands 1999 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Labour | Jennifer Caryl Hood | 1,352 |
| Labour | Derek James | 1,349 |
| Labour | Maureen Clough Stuckey* | 1,336 |
| Labour | Moira Ann Singh | 1,302 |
| Conservative | Dick Phillips | 1,226 |
| Plaid Cymru | Harri Lloyd Roberts | 1,126 |
| Plaid Cymru | Clive Ian Gary Smith | 1,062 |
| Conservative | Jean Margaret Taverner | 1,010 |
| Liberal Democrats | Peter Richard Brooks | 1,002 |
| Independent | Susan Rosemary Sturgess | 882 |
| Neighbourhood Independent | Peter May | 877 |
| Conservative | Robert James Buckland | 875 |
| Conservative | Brian Hill-Mackintosh | 846 |
| Green | Simon Mark Clegg | 816 |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |

### Upper Loughor (two seats)

Possible boundary change. the number of seats was reduced from two to one
Upper Loughor 1999 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Labour | David Alcwyn Evans* | 516 |
| Plaid Cymru | John Griffiths | 390 |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |

### West Cross (two seats)

The Liberal Democrats won a by-election following the election of previous member Martin Caton as MP for Gower.
West Cross 1999 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Labour | Desmond Wilfred W. Thomas | 1,094 |
| Labour | Mark Clive Child | 1,004 |
| Liberal Democrats | Rene Harood Kinzett* | 649 |
| Conservative | Lynne Davies | 609 |
| Liberal Democrats | Reginald C. Edwards | 565 |
| Conservative | Vera Margaret Duncan | 512 |
| Plaid Cymru | Dafydd Rhys Robert | 367 |
| Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing |
| Labour gain from Liberal Democrats | Labour gain from Liberal Democrats | Swing |