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Gwynedd Council, which calls itself by its Welsh name Cyngor Gwynedd, is the governing body for the county of Gwynedd, one of the principal areas of Wales. The council administrates internally using the Welsh language .
County of Gwynedd from 1974. This list of electoral wards in Gwynedd includes council wards which elect (or have elected) councillors to the local authorities in the county of Gwynedd, Wales. Gwynedd was created with the merger of Anglesey with Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire in 1974, led by Gwynedd County Council.
The 2022 Gwynedd Council election took place on 5 May 2022 [1] to elect 69 members from 65 wards to Gwynedd Council. On the same day, elections were held to the other 21 local authorities and to community councils in Wales as part of the 2022 Welsh local elections .
The remainder of the county was constituted as a principal area, with the name Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire, as it covers most of the areas of those two historic counties. As one of its first actions, the Council renamed itself Gwynedd on 2 April 1996. The present Gwynedd local government area is governed by Gwynedd Council.
The 2017 Gwynedd Council election took place on 4 May 2017 to elect members of Gwynedd Council in Wales. [1] Seventy five council seats were up for re-election. In twenty one seats, the candidates were elected unopposed. The Gwynedd election was on the same day as other 2017 Welsh local elections.
Between 1973 and 1989 Ogwen was the name of a ward to Gwynedd County Council, electing two county councillors (one of only two county wards to elect more than one). [3] From 1995 Ogwen became a ward to the new Gwynedd Council, electing one county councillor.
Gwynedd Council in North Wales is elected, as a whole, every 4 years. In 2014 the National Assembly for Wales deferred all local elections in Wales to 2017. [ 1 ] The council is composed of 74 councillors.
The Council Offices (Welsh: Swyddfa'r Cyngor) is a municipal facility at Shirehall Street in Caernarfon, Wales. The structure, which is the headquarters of Gwynedd Council, is a Grade II listed building. [1]