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Cymraeg

ELECTORAL REVIEWS

The Commission have a duty to regularly review the electoral arrangements for principal areas in Wales. The intervals between reviews are set at not less than ten or more than fifteen years from the submission of the last report of the Commission on the previous review. The reports on the previous electoral reviews were submitted between September 1996 and March 2001. It is likely therefore (unless otherwise directed by the Welsh Assembly Government) that the next round of electoral reviews will commence in early 2008. The Commission may also undertake a review of a particular principal area at the request of a local authority.

The existing electoral arrangements for the 22 principal areas in Wales are as follows:

Unitary Authority

Electorate 2008

Councillors

Electoral Divisions

Electoral Arrangements

Blaenau Gwent 53,242 42 16 HTML / PDF
Bridgend 106,720 54 39 HTML / PDF
Caerphilly 130,386 73 33 HTML / PDF
Cardiff 248,689 75 29 HTML / PDF
Carmarthenshire 132,819 74 58 HTML / PDF
Ceredigion 55,309 42 40 HTML / PDF
Conwy 88,984 59 38 HTML / PDF
Denbighshire 74,066 47 30 HTML / PDF
Flintshire 114,167 70 57 HTML / PDF
Gwynedd* 86,924 75 71 HTML / PDF
Isle of Anglesey 51,478 40 40 HTML / PDF
Merthyr Tydfil* 42,111 33 11 HTML / PDF
Monmouthshire 67,744 43 42 HTML / PDF
Neath Port Talbot 110,165 64 42 HTML / PDF
Newport 101,372 50 20 HTML / PDF
Pembrokeshire 91,798 60 60 HTML / PDF
Powys 103,701 73 73 HTML / PDF
Rhondda, Cynon, Taff 172,636 75 52 HTML / PDF
Swansea 185,296 72 36 HTML / PDF
The Vale of Glamorgan 89,547 47 23 HTML / PDF
Torfaen 70,162 44 24 HTML / PDF
Wrexham 99,174 52 47 HTML / PDF
TOTAL 2,276,490 1,264 881

Electoral statistics supplied by the Council.

* 2007

24/6/2008