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	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Labour	32
	Liberal Democrats	19
	Independent	12
	Plaid Cymru	5
	Conservative	4
	Green	0

Results

* = 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		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		Swing
	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		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	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		Swing
	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		Swing
	Plaid Cymru hold		Swing
	Plaid Cymru gain from Labour		Swing
	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		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	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		Swing
	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 1999

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		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		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		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		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		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		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		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		Swing
	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		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		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	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		Swing

Mawr (one seat)

Mawr 2004

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	People's Representative	Ioan Merritt Richard*	620
	Conservative	Simon Jeffrey Trick	82
	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		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		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	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		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	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		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		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		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)

Penllergaer (one seat)

Penllergaer 2004

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Elizabeth Wendy Fitzgerald	595
	Labour	Dennis Joseph Lawlor	205
	Conservative	Janice Birch	99
	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		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		Swing
	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		Swing
	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		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	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		Swing
	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		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	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		Swing
	Liberal Democrats gain from Labour		Swing
	Liberal Democrats gain from Labour		Swing
	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		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		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing