Welsh Local Government Make up

The  BBC have presented us with a useful map to show the power structure  on our local councils




Its a bit misleading Labour have only 7 Councillors in Pembroke-shire and the Tories 9 in Wrexham so they are very much Junior partners . Whilst Plaid are only a few seats short of a Majority in Carmarthen , Ceredigion and the Isle of Anglesey ( When are they going to be just Ynys Mon?)

These data were last updated on 9 May 2017.

Council	Majority	Run by	Web	Total	LAB	PC	CON	LD	GRN	Other	Vacant	Last change
Blaenau Gwent	IND	IND	URL	42	13	1	0	0	0	28	0	Election, 4 May 2017
Bridgend	NOC	LAB...	URL	54	26	3	11	1	0	13	0	Election, 4 May 2017
Caerphilly	LAB	maj	URL	73	50	18	0	0	0	5	0	Election, 4 May 2017
Cardiff	LAB	maj	URL	75	39	3	20	8	0	2	0	Election, 4 May 2017
Carmarthenshire	NOC	PC...	URL	74	22	36	0	0	0	16	0	Election, 4 May 2017
Ceredigion	NOC	PC...	URL	42	1	20	0	8	0	13	1	Election, 4 May 2017
Conwy	IND	IND...	URL	59	8	10	16	4	0	21	0	Election, 4 May 2017
Denbighshire	NOC	CON...	URL	47	13	9	16	1	0	8	0	Election, 4 May 2017
Flintshire	NOC	LAB...	URL	70	34	0	6	5	0	25	0	Election, 4 May 2017
Gwynedd	PC	maj	URL	75	1	41	0	1	0	32	0	Election, 4 May 2017
Isle of Anglesey	NOC	PC...	URL	30	2	14	0	1	0	13	0	Election, 4 May 2017
Merthyr Tydfil			URL	33	14	0	0	0	0	16	3	Election, 4 May 2017
Monmouthshire	CON	maj	URL	43	10	0	25	3	0	5	0	Election, 4 May 2017
Neath Port Talbot	LAB	maj	URL	64	43	15	0	1	0	5	0	Election, 4 May 2017
Newport	LAB	maj	URL	50	31	0	12	2	0	5	0	Election, 4 May 2017
Pembrokeshire	IND	IND	URL	60	7	6	11	1	0	35	0	Election, 4 May 2017
Powys	NOC	IND...	URL	73	7	2	19	13	1	30	1	Election, 4 May 2017
Rhondda Cynon Taff	LAB	maj	URL	75	47	18	4	1	0	5	0	Election, 4 May 2017
Swansea	LAB	maj	URL	72	46	0	8	2	0	9	0	Election, 4 May 2017
Torfaen	LAB	maj	URL	44	29	0	4	0	0	11	0	Election, 4 May 2017
Vale of Glamorgan	NOC	CON...	URL	47	14	4	23	0	0	6	0	Election, 4 May 2017
Wrexham	NOC	IND...	URL	52	12	3	9	2	0	26	0	Election, 4 May 2017

Independents now control two councils but not as you could expect rural areas but Labour heartlands  of Merthyr and Torfaen.

But despite numerous scandals and what in the rest of the UK last May Labour have preserved much of their hegemony actually gaining seats in Cardiff and Caerphilly they are (apart from Independents) the only Party to have members on every Welsh Council

The one party that can look at the above Map and data with gloom are the Liberal Democrats . Once in power in Cardiff and Swansea they are hardly registering in local Welsh local Government only getting into double figures  in Powys . Though only just in Gwynedd, Ynys Mon and Ceredigion.

There are too many councils with no Plaid councillors and they do not at the moment look to be reaching their former heights in Rhondda Cynon Taf and Caerphilly.

But who knows? Plaid have not been helped by benefiting from a protest vote against Labour  in power in Westminster.

But that is the problem Plaid need to get a positive Plaid vote not a Anti-Labour vote as they have done in the past.

But anyone making future predictions should be careful . Local Government in wales  has proved volatile  at times and we can expect it to do so again.