Betws yn Rhos By-Election

There was a By-election on Thursday  for the Betws yn Rhos division of Conwy Council

Betws yn Rhos - results

Election Candidate	Party	Votes	%
Ifor Glyn Lloyd	Independent/ Annibynnol	347	46%	Elected
Clwyd Roberts	Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales	197	26%	Not elected
Caroline Mary Evans	Independent/ Annibynnol	127	17%	Not elected
Bryn Jones	Welsh Conservative Party Candidate/Ymgeisydd Plaid Geidwadol Cymru	83	11%	Not elected

There was only a slight change from from the 2012 result.

Election Candidate	Party	Votes	%
Doctor Ahmed Jamil	No party name given/Ni roddwyd enw plaid	340	43%	Elected
Clwyd Roberts	Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales	219	28%	Not elected
Bryn Jones	Independent/ Annibynnol	167	21%	Not elected
Eryl Ellis Williams	Independent/ Annibynnol	40	5%	Not elected
John Oddy	Independent/ Annibynnol	18	2%	Not elected

Again its hard ro read anything in this with the Independents holding of Plaid . The problem of course is we have no idea how different the views of the new Independent is from the previous incumant.

The result leaves the council make up relatively unchanged

				Independent 18 Conservative 13 Plaid Cymru 12 Welsh Labour 9 Welsh Liberal Democrat 5 The Labour and Co-operative Party Candidate 1 No party name given 1
				The Council is led by Plaids Dilwyn Roberts in a coalition with Labour .Libdems and  independents so maybe you would expect the opposition Conservatives to do better