2017 Vale of Glamorgan Council election

The 2017 Vale of Glamorgan Council election took place on Thursday 4 May 2017 to elect members of Vale of Glamorgan Council in Wales. There were 47 council seats available, across 23 wards. This was the same day as other United Kingdom local elections.^[1]

2017 election results map, showing numbers of councillors per ward and their party affiliations

The council's composition after the elections

The previous full council election took place on 3 May 2012, with the next full council election taking place on 5 May 2022.

Election result

In winning 23 seats the Conservatives had a surprising resurgence, taking back the council from the previous coalition of Labour councillors and Llantwit First Independents. The Conservatives were one seat short of an overall majority.^[2] Labour-held wards such as Barry's Dyfan and Illtyd were taken by the Tories, as was the previous Plaid Cymru stronghold of Dinas Powys.^[2]

Vale of Glamorgan Council Election 2017 ^[3]

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Conservative	23	12	1	+11	48.9	41.7		+10.6
	Labour	14	1	8	-7	29.8	24.1		-10.7
	Plaid Cymru	4	1	4	-3	8.5	14.7		-0.7
	Llantwit First Independent	4	1	0	+1	8.5	7.8		+2.6
	Independent	2	1	2	-1	4.3	8.1		-2.1
	Green	0	0	0	0	0.0	2.0	1,607	+0.9
	Liberal Democrats	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.8		+0.3
	UKIP	0	0	1	-1	0.0	0.3	112	-1.3
	Pirate	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.1	75	+0.1

Ward overview

Ward	Political group		Councillor[3][4]	Change from last election
Baruc (Barry)		Plaid Cymru	Nic Hodges	Plaid Cymru hold
		Plaid Cymru	Steffan Williams	Plaid Cymru hold
Buttrills (Barry)		Labour	Owen Griffiths	Labour hold
		Plaid Cymru	Ian Johnson	Plaid Cymru hold [a]
Cadoc (Barry)		Labour	Anne Moore	Labour hold
		Labour	Neil Moore	Labour hold
		Conservative	Rachel Nugent-Finn	Conservative gain from Labour
Castleland (Barry)		Plaid Cymru	Millie Collins	Plaid Cymru gain from Labour
		Labour	Pamela Drake	Labour hold
Cornerswell (Penarth)		Labour	Rhiannon Birch	Labour hold
		Labour	Peter King	Labour hold
Court (Barry)		Labour	Bronwen Brooks	Labour hold
		Labour	Sandra Perkes	Labour gain from Independent
Cowbridge		Conservative	Geoffrey Cox	Conservative hold
		Conservative	Thomas Jarvie	Conservative hold
		Conservative	Andrew Parker	Conservative hold
Dinas Powys		Conservative	Andy Robertson	Conservative gain from Plaid Cymru
		Conservative	Robert Crowley	Conservative gain from Plaid Cymru
		Conservative	Steve Griffiths	Conservative gain from Plaid Cymru
		Conservative	Vince Driscoll	Conservative gain from Plaid Cymru
Dyfan (Barry)		Conservative	Vincent Bailey	Conservative gain from Labour
		Conservative	Leighton Rowlands	Conservative gain from Labour
Gibbonsdown (Barry)		Labour	Julie Aviet	Labour hold
		Labour	Margaret Wilkinson	Labour hold
Illtyd (Barry)		Conservative	Janice Charles	Conservative gain from Labour
		Conservative	Tony Hampton	Conservative gain from Labour
		Conservative	Marguerita Wright	Conservative gain from Labour
Llandough		Conservative	George Carroll	Conservative gain from Labour
Llandow and Ewenny		Conservative	Christine Cave	Conservative hold
Llantwit Major		Llantwit First Independent	Sally Hanks	Llantwit First Independent hold
		Llantwit First Independent	Gwyn John	Llantwit First Independent hold
		Llantwit First Independent	Jayne Norman	Llantwit First Independent hold
		Llantwit First Independent	Eddie Williams	Llantwit First Independent gain from Conservative [b]
Peterston-super-Ely		Conservative	Michael Morgan	Conservative hold
Plymouth (Penarth)		Conservative	Ben Gray	Conservative hold
		Conservative	Kathryn McCaffer	Conservative hold
Rhoose		Conservative	Gordon Kemp	Conservative hold
		Conservative	Matthew Lloyd	Conservative gain from Independent
St Athan		Conservative	John Thomas	Conservative hold
St Augustine's (Penarth)		Labour	Sivaruby Sivagnanam	Labour hold
		Labour	Neil Thomas	Labour hold
St Brides Major		Conservative	Stewart Edwards	Conservative hold
Stanwell (Penarth)		Labour	Mark Wilson	Labour hold
		Labour	Lis Burnett	Labour hold
Sully		Independent	Bob Penrose	Independent hold
		Independent	Kevin Mahoney	Independent gain from UKIP [c]
Wenvoe		Conservative	Jonathan Bird	Conservative hold

^[a] Plaid Cymru had won a seat from Labour at a by-election on 2 August 2012
^[b] The Conservatives had won a seat from the Llantwit First Independents at a by-election on 26 March 2015
^[c] Cllr Mahoney was elected in 2012 for UKIP but re-designated himself as Independent in February 2016

Ward results

These are the full results.^[3]

Baruc (two seats)

Baruc 2017^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Plaid Cymru	Nic Hodges*	1,137
	Plaid Cymru	Steffan Wiliam*	1,053
	Conservative	Paul James	978
	Conservative	Victoria Roberts	929
	Labour	Brian Mayne	616
Turnout
	Plaid Cymru hold		Swing
	Plaid Cymru hold		Swing

Buttrills (two seats)

Buttrills 2017

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Plaid Cymru	Ian James Johnson	709
	Labour	Owen Griffiths	664
	Labour	Susan Lloyd-Selby	642
	Plaid Cymru	Mark Jonathan Hooper	592
	Conservative	Louis Dawe	421
	Conservative	Evarard Kerslake	352

Cadoc (two seats)

Cadoc 2017^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Anne Moore *	966
	Labour	Neil Moore *	928
	Conservative	Rachel Nugent-Finn	912
	Conservative	Corrie Driscoll	895
	Labour	Michaela Richardson	894
	Conservative	Howard Wright	778
	Plaid Cymru	Larry Bufton	437
	Plaid Cymru	Matthew Morgan	364
	Plaid Cymru	Janet Johnson	357
	Independent	Ade Pitman	118
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Castleland (two seats)

Castleland 2017^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Pamela Drake *	480
	Plaid Cymru	Millie Collins	453
	Plaid Cymru	Barry Shaw	450
	Labour	Helen Payne	411
	Conservative	Peter Woodford	163
	Green	Derek Cozens	139
	Conservative	Jane Burrows	135
	Pirate	Jebediah Hedges	35
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing
	Plaid Cymru gain from Labour		Swing

Cornerswell (two seats)

Cornerswell 2017

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rhiannon Mary BIRCH	829
	Labour	Peter Graham KING	705
	Conservative	Ken LLOYD	671
	Conservative	Dorothy Marianne TURNER	583
	Plaid Cymru	Lewis GREENAWAY	319
	Plaid Cymru	David Rhys WILTON	267
	Liberal Democrats	Martyn David DRANFIELD	148
	Green	Tom BLENKINSOP	122

Court (two seats)

Court 2017^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Bronwen Ellen Brooks*	539
	Labour	Sandra Davies Perkes	463
	Independent	Richard Joel Bertin*	419
	Independent	Andy Griffiths	271
	Conservative	Robert Louis Charles Fisher	204
	Conservative	Jonathan Wignall	165
	Green	Stephen Ross David-Barker	90

Cowbridge (three seats)

Cowbridge 2017^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Geoffrey Addis COX	1807
	Conservative	Thomas Hunter JARVIE	1691
	Conservative	Andrew Carey PARKER	1551
	Independent	Nicola Christine THOMAS	657
	Labour	Jack HAWKINS	544
	Plaid Cymru	Huw LLEWELLYN-MORGAN	511
	Plaid Cymru	Nicola Jane BRANSON	340
	Plaid Cymru	Shirley Ann HODGES	290

Dinas Powys (four seats)

Dinas Powys 2017^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Robert Crowley	1425
	Conservative	Vince Driscoll	1420
	Conservative	Steve Griffiths	1385
	Conservative	Andy Robertson	1303
	Plaid Cymru	Chris Franks *	1270
	Plaid Cymru	Val Hartrey *	1100
	Plaid Cymru	Keith Hatton *	909
	Plaid Cymru	Richard Grigg	806
	Labour	Jill Davies	565
	Independent	Christopher John Williams *	507
	Independent	John Maitland-Evans	438
	Labour	Trevor George Robert Saunders	431
	Labour	Anthony Lewis	413
	Labour	John Boddy	366
	Independent	Thomas Maitland-Evans	365
	Green	Hilary May	323

Dyfan (two seats)

Dyfan 2017

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Vincent James BAILEY	851
	Conservative	Leighton Owen ROWLANDS	837
	Labour	Emma Samantha PRITCHARD	664
	Labour	Anthony Greldon POWELL	658
	Plaid Cymru	Leslie James KELLAWAY	245
	Plaid Cymru	Paul BRIDGEMAN	214

Gibbonsdown (two seats)

Gibbonsdown 2017

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Julie AVIET	672
	Labour	Margaret WILKINSON	626
	Conservative	Mandy CADDY	298
	Conservative	Russell Spencer DOWNE	247
	Plaid Cymru	Oriel Anita JONES	179
	Plaid Cymru	Alexander MUIRHEAD	154

Illtyd (three seats)

Illtyd 2017

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Tony HAMPTON	1,359
	Conservative	Janice CHARLES	1,352
	Conservative	Marguerita WRIGHT	1,262
	Labour	John HARTLAND	924
	Labour	Howard HAMILTON	917
	Labour	Camilla BEAVEN	826
	Plaid Cymru	Taif BALL	447
	Plaid Cymru	Timothy John PEARCE	350
	Plaid Cymru	Timothy Patrick JOHNSON	342

Llandough (one seat)

Llandough 2017

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Dennis David CARROLL	538
	Labour	Elliot PENN	325
	Green	Liz ROSSER	31

Llandow/Ewenny (one seat)

Llandow / Ewenny 2017

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Christine Ann CAVE	869	76.0
	Labour	Huw James POWELL	275	24.0
Majority			594	51.9
Turnout			1,144

Llantwit Major (four seats)

Llantwit Major 2017

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Llantwit First Independent	Gwyn John *	2209
	Llantwit First Independent	Sally Margaret Hanks	1984
	Llantwit First Independent	Eddie Williams *	1588
	Llantwit First Independent	Jayne Margaret Norman	1527
	Conservative	Tony Bennett *	1360
	Conservative	John Colin Deakin	1154
	Conservative	Bob Gant	999
	Conservative	Gordon Wilkie	908
	Labour	James Cullinane	670
	Independent	Ceri Malessa-Thompson	254
	UKIP	Melanie J. Hunter-Clarke	112
	UKIP	Robin Hunter-Clarke	112
	UKIP	Anthony Frederick Raybould	78

Peterston-super-Ely (one seat)

Peterston-super-Ely 2017

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Morgan, Michael John Griffith	734	77.7
	Labour	Cubbage, Eleri	206	21.8

Plymouth (two seats)

Plymouth 2017

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ben Gray	894
	Conservative	Kathryn Frances McCaffer	796
	Labour	Angela Thomas	643
	Independent	Anthony Ernest	505
	Independent	Clive Williams *	443
	Independent	Victoria Humphries	302
	Green	Tony Cooke	288
	Plaid Cymru	Gareth Clubb	240
	Liberal Democrats	Roger Pinkham	169

Rhoose (two seats)

Rhoose 2017

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Matthew LLOYD	1,097
	Conservative	Gordon KEMP	1,067
	Independent	Adam Peter RILEY	809
	Labour	Graham Matthew LOVELUCK-EDWARDS	587
	Independent	Samantha Angela CAMPBELL	565
	Liberal Democrats	Daniel David PARROTT	187

St Athan (one seat)

St Athan 2017

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Thomas	566	56.9%	−1.4%
	Labour	Julie Lynch-Wilson	349	35.1%	−6.6%
	Pirate	David A Elston	75	7.6%	New
Majority
Turnout			993	38.43%
	Conservative hold		Swing

St Augustine's (two seats)

St Augustine's 2017

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ruba Sivagnanam	967
	Labour	Neil Christopher Thomas	827
	Conservative	Martin James Turner	737
	Conservative	Wendy van den Brom	633
	Green	Anthony Slaughter	436
	Independent	Paul Church	312
	Plaid Cymru	Anne Greagsby	288
	Plaid Cymru	Aled Thomas	217
	Independent	Graham Humphries	186
	Green	Gareth Snaith	157
	Liberal Democrats	Robin Lynn	138
	Liberal Democrats	Heath John Marshall	121

St Brides Major (one seat)

St Bride's Major 2017

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Stewart Thomas EDWARDS	865
	Labour	Andrew HENNESSY	287

Stanwell (two seats)

Stanwell 2017

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Lis BURNETT	704
	Labour	Mark Robert WILSON	631
	Conservative	Natalie WILLIAMS	402
	Conservative	Ben DRISCOLL	388
	Independent	Anthony John HARRIS	198
	Green	Paul BESWICK	178
	Plaid Cymru	Sandy CLUBB	139

Sully (two seats)

Sully 2017

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Bob PENROSE *	904
	Independent	Kevin Phillip MAHONEY *	782
	Conservative	Rod THOMAS	763
	Conservative	Chris THORNE	726
	Labour	Laura ROCHEFORT	293
	Plaid Cymru	John RIMINGTOM	137
	Independent hold		Swing
	Independent gain from UKIP		Swing

Wenvoe (one seat)

Wenvoe 2017

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jonathan Charles BIRD	753
	Labour	Sian Frances BROOKS	195
	Plaid Cymru	Ian Anthony Neil PERRY	190
	Independent	Russell Edward GODFREY	165