Creigiau & St Fagans

51.514°N 3.280°W / 51.514; -3.280

Creigiau & St. Fagans
Electoral ward
Population	5,153 (2011 census)
Principal area	Cardiff
Country	Wales
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	CARDIFF
Postcode district	CF5
Dialling code	+44-29
UK Parliament	Cardiff West
Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament	Cardiff West
Councillors	1

Creigiau & St. Fagans was a rural electoral ward on the western edge of Cardiff, Wales.

Description

The ward covered the villages of St. Fagans and Creigiau (in the community of Pentyrch) and the surrounding rural area. The Creigiau/St Fagans ward elected a councillor to Cardiff Council.

The ward fell within the parliamentary constituency of Cardiff West. It was bounded by Rhondda Cynon Taff to the northwest; Pentyrch and Radyr & Morganstown to the northeast; Llandaff and Fairwater to the east; Ely to the southeast; and the Vale of Glamorgan to the southwest.

According to the 2011 census, the population of the ward was 5,153.[1]

Until the 2012 council elections, the ward was represented by the Plaid Cymru Lord Mayor of Cardiff, Delme Bowen.[2]

Election results

2017

2017 Cardiff Council election[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Graham Thomas	948	47%
	Plaid Cymru	Wynford Ellis Owen	644	32%
	Labour	John Yarrow	334	17%
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Borrow	91	5%

2012

In a surprise result, the Conservatives won the seat from Plaid Cymru by 25 votes. The seat had been previously held by Plaid Cymru's Delme Bowen, who stood down after serving a tenure as Cardiff's Lord Mayor.[4] Bowen had been a Plaid Cymru councillor since 1995.[5]

2012 Cardiff Council election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Graham Thomas	648	38%
	Plaid Cymru	Wynford Ellis Owen	623	36%
	Labour	S. Evans	321	19%
	Liberal Democrats	H. Borrow	53	3%
	Green	T. Jones	52	3%

Merger

In October 2021 Cardiff Council accepted a number of ward change proposals made by the Local Democracy and Boundary Commission for Wales. These included the merger of Creigiau/St Fagans with the Pentyrch ward to form a new ward of "Pentyrch and St Fagans". This would take effect from the 2022 council election.[6]

References

1. "Creigiau/St. Fagans - Key Stats". UKcensusdata.com. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
2. Peter Law (2 May 2012) "Key battlegrounds in the race to run Cardiff Council", Wales Online. Retrieved 2016-11-05.
3. "Election results for Creigiau & St Fagans - Cardiff Council Elections 2017 - Thursday, 4th May, 2017". Cardiff Council. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
4. "Cardiff council elections: The story in each ward". yourCardiff. 3 May 2012. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
5. "Delme Bowen becomes first Plaid lord mayor of Cardiff". BBC News. 19 May 2011. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
6. Alex Seabrook (5 October 2021). "Cardiff will get four extra councillors in May as electoral ward boundaries redrawn". Wales Online. Retrieved 22 April 2022.