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Cardiff Council, formally the County Council of the City and County of Cardiff (Welsh: Cyngor Sir Dinas a Sir Caerdydd) [3] is the governing body for Cardiff, one of the principal areas of Wales. The principal area and its council were established in 1996 to replace the previous Cardiff City Council which had been a lower-tier authority within ...
Cardiff voters also elected councillors to South Glamorgan County Council. Since local government reorganisation in 1996, Cardiff has been governed by the City and County Council of Cardiff, which is based at County Hall in Atlantic Wharf, Cardiff Bay. Voters elect 75 councillors every four years, with the next elections due to be held in 2016.
Mayors of Cardiff (18 P) Pages in category "Councillors in Cardiff" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total.
The post-1996 unitary authority of the City and County of Cardiff has since 1999 been divided into 29 electoral wards returning 75 councillors to Cardiff Council. Many of these wards are coterminous with communities (civil parishes) of the same name. [5]
The number of councillors increased from 75 to 79 at the 2022 election, with a number of ward changes. [4]In October 2021, Cardiff Council accepted a number of ward change proposals for the next election made by the Local Democracy and Boundary Commission for Wales, with only slight modification. [2]
The council is composed of 75 councillors. [2] Between 1974 and 1996 Cardiff Council was a district council of South Glamorgan (the city also electing councillors to the county council). Prior to 1974 Cardiff Council governed a county borough, separate from the county of Glamorgan.
Splott councillor Huw Thomas became leader of the Labour-controlled Cardiff Council in May 2017. [5] Lord Jack Brooks, who became leader of South Glamorgan County Council, was a Splott councillor during the 80s and 90s. [6] Cardiff's first ethnic minority councillor, Manuel Delgado, was elected for Labour in the Splott ward in May 1967. [7]
The ward had elected three Labour county councillors since 1995, when the new unitary authority was created. [6] Cllr Russell Goodway has been an Ely councillor continuously since 1995 and was leader of Cardiff Council until 2004 (prior to 1995 he was a South Glamorgan councillor for the Canton ward).