Burry Port (electoral ward)

Burry Port is an electoral ward, representing the community of Burry Port, Carmarthenshire, Wales.

Profile

In 2014, the Burry Port electoral ward had an electorate of 3,387. The total population was 4,240, of whom 80.3% were born in Wales. 32.2% of the population were able to speak Welsh.

Current Representation

The Burry Port Ward is a two-member ward for the purposes of Carmarthenshire County Council elections. It is currently represented by Labour Party councillors Jack James (first elected in 2012) and Amanda Fox (first elected in 2017).

Recent history

The first election to the new unitary Carmarthenshire County Council took place in 1995. Burry Port had two seats, both of which were won by the Liberal Democrats. Keith Evans, the sitting member for the ward on Dyfed County Council, was elected alongside George West, a sitting member on Llanelli Borough Council.

Burry Port

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Keith J. Evans+*	1,014
	Liberal Democrats	George W. West*	693
	Plaid Cymru	David Hywel Nolan	501
	Labour	Lawrence Jenkins	397
	Labour	Paul Malcolm Davies	356
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

At the 1999, Labour gained both seats, having won one in a by-election.

Burry Port 1999

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Patricia Ethel Mary Jones*	1,217
	Labour	Peter Jewell	1,060
	Liberal Democrats	Pamela Georgina Every	589
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Labour lost one of the seats to an Independent in 2004.

Burry Port

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Patricia Ethel Mary Jones*	850
	Independent	Stephen Randall James	754
	Labour	Hugh Shepardson	710
	Plaid Cymru	Joanna Davies	301
	Plaid Cymru	Alexander Anderson	226
	Labour hold		Swing
	Independent gain from Labour		Swing

In 2008, the situation remained unchanged.

Burry Port 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Stephen Randall James*	931
	Labour	Patricia Ethel Mary Jones*	854
	Plaid Cymru	John Jack James	623
	Labour	Andrew Phillips	298
	Independent hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

In 2012, Labour, regained the second seat. Pat Jones, a member of the authority since 1999, was re-elected alongside another Labour candidate who narrowly ousted the sitting Independent member, who had served since 2004. The Conservative candidate had stood as a Liberal Democrat in 1999.

Burry Port 2012

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Patricia Ethel Mary Jones*	741
	Labour	Jack James	634
	Independent	Stephen Randall James*	622
	Plaid Cymru	Gaynor Davies	388
	Conservative	Pam Every	239
Turnout				44.5
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Independent		Swing

Earlier History

County Council Elections

Burry Port first became an electoral ward in the early twentieth century, having initially been part of the Pembrey ward at the formation of Carmarthenshire County Council. In due course two wards were created at Ammanford for county council electionsand these continued to exist until Carmarthenshire was abolished in 1974.

With the formation of Dyfed County Council, Ammanford continued to elect two councillors until the wards were merged in 1989.

When the current Carmarthenshire County Council was formed in 1995, a Burry Port ward based on the community of that name was created.

District Council Elections

From 1987, Burry Port formed an electoral ward for the purposes of elections to Llanelli Borough Council. Burry Port returned three members.

External links

• "Burry Port Ward: Electoral Division Profile" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 July 2014.