1971 Cardiff City Council election

Local election in Cardiff, Wales April 2022 The 1971 Cardiff City Council election was held on Thursday 13 May 1971 to elect councillors to Cardiff City Council in Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales. It took place on the same day as several other county borough elections in Wales and England. The previous elections to this one were in May 1970 and the next elections would be in May 1972. The 1971 election would be the penultimate all-Cardiff election before the dissolution of the unitary authority and the creation of the new second-tier district authority of Cardiff City Council in 1974. The election saw the Labour Party taking a significant number of seats back from the Conservatives. Background Cardiff County Borough Council had been created in 1889. Cardiff became a city in 1905. Elections to the local authority were held annually, though not all council seats were included in each contest, because each of the three councillors in each ward stood down for election in rotation.All eyes on Whitchutch and Rhiwbina - newcomers hold the key to power South Wales Echo 9 May 1967 6 For to bring the election procedure into line with that in the city's other wards, whoever tops the poll in the two new wards goes to City Hall for a full three-year term. The runners-up will serve for two years, while those in third place ...must face the electorate again in 12 months time... In this way the added areas will in future elect one member every year from 1968. The councillors elected in 1971 would serve for less than three years, before the dissolution of the present Council in April 1974. The local government elections took place in the context of Edward Heath's new Conservative UK government (which had been elected only 11 months previously) and rising prices and unemployment.Gordon Jackson Labour joy as Tories tumble South Wales Echo 14 May 1971 1 Overview of the result Nineteen seats in 19 electoral wards were up for election in May 1971. In what was described as a "night of disaster for the Conservatives" the Labour Party more than recovered the position they had been in Cardiff prior to the 1967 elections. Labour gained a total of 11 seats, including one in the previous Tory stronghold of Whitchurch.Labour landslide turns Town Hall tables South Wales Echo 14 May 1971 13 A number of former Cardiff Labour councillors won their seats back, including Eva Davies, Emyr Currie-Jones, Philip Dunleavy, Harold Bartlett and Dengar Evans. Council composition Following the May 1970 election the balance on the city council was 57 Conservatives, 18 Labour and one Plaid Cymru.Lady Mayoress loses city council seat to Labour The Western Mail 8 May 1970 4 With 11 out of 19 seats changing hands in May 1971, Cardiff Labour chairman Cllr Jack Brooks called for the other two thirds of Cardiff seats to be put up for election, saying it was unfair that the Conservatives should remain in control. Ward results Contests took place in every ward at this election.All the S. Wales results South Wales Echo 14 May 1971 13 Adamsdown Adamsdown ward 1971 Labour Party (UK) Eva Davies 1,706 Conservative Party (UK) Christopher Matthew Peterson * 663 Liberal Party (UK) Henry Charles Edwards 153 1,043 Labour Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) Canton Canton ward 1971 Labour Party (UK) Dengar Robinson Evans 1,807 Conservative Party (UK) Anthea Jean Thomas * 1,294 Liberal Party (UK) Richard Michael James 205 513 Labour Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) Cathays Cathays ward 1971 Labour Party (UK) Emyr Currie-Jones 2,730 Conservative Party (UK) Hubert George Nunn * 1,726 1,004 Labour Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) Central Central ward 1971 Labour Party (UK) Gordon William Fish 1,563 Conservative Party (UK) William Lawford Gower * 1,118 445 Labour Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) Ely Ely ward 1971 Labour Party (UK) Albert William Buttle * 3,376 Conservative Party (UK) Leslie Albert Roderick 770 Plaid Cymru Charles Stephen Craves 598 2,606 Labour Party (UK) Gabalfa Gabalfa ward 1971 Labour Party (UK) Arthur William George Brown 2,290 Conservative Party (UK) Bernard Hugh Rees 1,243 Independent Labour Gertrude Louise Baines 688 Liberal Party (UK) Alan Edward Hiscock 170 1,047 Labour Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) Grangetown Grangetown ward 1971 Labour Party (UK) Harold George Bartlett 1,750 Conservative Party (UK) Tim Cronin * 987 Plaid Cymru Peter Staveley McMullen 324 763 Labour Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) Llanishen Llanishen ward 1971 Conservative Party (UK) Henry Peter Farthing * 2,447 Labour Party (UK) Leslie Bernard Goodrum 2,108 Liberal Party (UK) Olive Mary Langdon 905 339 Conservative Party (UK) Llandaff Llandaff ward 1971 Conservative Party (UK) Beti Jones * 2,128 Labour Party (UK) Lionel John James 813 Plaid Cymru Gwen Humphreys 724 1,315 Conservative Party (UK) Penylan Penylan ward 1971 Conservative Party (UK) William Vaughan Barraby 3,674 Labour Party (UK) George Ewart Baylis 1,386 Liberal Party (UK) John Evan Lee 536 2,288 Conservative Party (UK) Plasmawr Plasmawr ward 1971 Labour Party (UK) Albert Arthur Huish 2,909 Plaid Cymru David Eurig Davies 1,329 Conservative Party (UK) Doreen Muriel Norman * 1,032 1,580 Labour Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) Plasnewydd Plasnewydd ward 1971 Conservative Party (UK) Tony Lewis * 1,554 Labour Party (UK) Michael John Parry 1,429 Plaid Cymru Philip Brian Richards 312 Liberal Party (UK) Elizabeth Davina Forrest 158 125 Conservative Party (UK) Rhiwbina Rhiwbina ward 1971 Conservative Party (UK) William Davies * 2,269 Labour Party (UK) William Michael Walker 1,155 Plaid Cymru Gwynfor Hughes 676 1,114 Conservative Party (UK) Riverside Riverside ward 1971 Conservative Party (UK) Joseph Donovan * 1,271 Labour Party (UK) Thomas Clifford Lee 1,019 Plaid Cymru Roy Adam Lee 326 252 Conservative Party (UK) Roath Roath ward 1971 Conservative Party (UK) Ian Hermer * 2,257 Labour Party (UK) John Scrivens 945 1,312 Conservative Party (UK) Rumney Rumney ward 1971 Labour Party (UK) David Myfr Evans 3,895 Conservative Party (UK) Samuel Parker * 1,593 Plaid Cymru Michael Coughlin 433 2,302 Labour Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) South South ward 1971 Labour Party (UK) Philip Dunleavy 2,165 Conservative Party (UK) Stefan Terlezki * 1,198 167 Labour Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) Splott Splott ward 1971 Labour Party (UK) John Edward Brooks 2,600 Conservative Party (UK) Robert Edward Glover 1,342 Communist Party of Great Britain Richard Horatio Spencer 59 258 Labour Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) Whitchurch Whitchurch ward 1971 Labour Party (UK) Henry Gordon Howell 2,100 Conservative Party (UK) Victor Riley 2,024 Liberal Party (UK) Alexander Thomas Reeves 316 Plaid Cymru David Gareth Williams 247 76 Labour Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) * = 'retiring' ward councillor for re-election See also 1973 Cardiff City Council election References collapsed Cardiff Category:Council elections in Cardiff Category:1970s in Cardiff