1972 Cardiff City Council election

Local election in Cardiff, Wales April 2022 The 1972 Cardiff City Council election was held on Thursday 4 May 1972 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 1971. The 1972 election would be the final all-Cardiff election to this council 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, to cut the Conservative Party majority. 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. The councillors elected in 1972 would only serve for less two years, before the dissolution of the Council in April 1974. There were a total of 76 seats on the council, including 19 aldermen.Lady Mayoress loses city council seat to Labour The Western Mail 8 May 1970 4 Overview of the result Nineteen seats in 19 electoral wards were up for election in May 1972. The Labour Party won an additional ten seats on the council, mainly from the ruling Conservative Party, cutting the Tory majority to 12.Labour sweep in with big gains South Wales Echo 5 May 1972 1 One of the gains was in the Whitchurch ward, which until last year had been a Tory stronghold. Ward results Contests for one ward councillor seat took place in each of the nineteen wards at this election.South Wales Results In Detail - Cardiff South Wales Echo 5 May 1972 6 Adamsdown Adamsdown ward 1972 Labour Party (UK) John Iorwerth Jones * 1,316 Conservative Party (UK) Christopher Paterson 391 Independent politician Thelma Mackie 57 925 Labour Party (UK) Canton Canton ward 1972 Labour Party (UK) George E. Bayliss 1,396 Conservative Party (UK) William Albert J. Adams * 1,316 80 Labour Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) Cathays Cathays ward 1972 Labour Party (UK) Derek Allinson 1,988 Conservative Party (UK) David John Evans * 1,587 Plaid Cymru Gareth Ap Sion 430 People's Candidate Morris W. Bradshaw 165 401 Labour Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) Central Central ward 1972 Labour Party (UK) John D. Leonard * 1,535 Conservative Party (UK) Bernard H. Rees 932 603 Labour Party (UK) Ely Ely ward 1972 Labour Party (UK) Thomas Clifford Lee 2,674 Conservative Party (UK) John F. G. Phillips * 775 Plaid Cymru Charles Stephen Cravos 524 1,899 Labour Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) Gabalfa Gabalfa ward 1972 Labour Party (UK) Michael Jn. Parry 2,290 Conservative Party (UK) Gwilym Haydn Jones * 1,405 885 Labour Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) Grangetown Grangetown ward 1972 Labour Party (UK) (Mrs) E. M. Matthewson 1,543 Conservative Party (UK) Lawrence Charles Johnson * 876 667 Labour Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) Llandaff Llandaff ward 1972 Conservative Party (UK) Keith Flynn * 2,041 Labour Party (UK) Carys Meinir Evans 727 Plaid Cymru Gwen Humphreys 614 1,314 Conservative Party (UK) Llanishen Llanishen ward 1972 Conservative Party (UK) Jeffrey P. Sainsbury * 2,579 Labour Party (UK) Leslie Bernard Goodrum 2,131 Liberal Party (UK) Olive Mary Langdon 924 448 Conservative Party (UK) Penylan Penylan ward 1972 Conservative Party (UK) Stefan Terlezki 4,087 Labour Party (UK) Violet Jones 2,007 2,080 Conservative Party (UK) Plasmawr Plasmawr ward 1972 Labour Party (UK) Fred George Tyrrell 2,385 Plaid Cymru (Dr) Dafydd Hughes* 1,584 Conservative Party (UK) Doreen Muriel Norman 859 801 Labour Party (UK) Plaid Cymru Plasnewydd Plasnewydd ward 1972 Conservative Party (UK) Geoffrey Donald Edmunds * 1,489 Labour Party (UK) Patrick Joseph Troy 1,361 Plaid Cymru Philip Brian Richards 431 Liberal Party (UK) Henry Charles Edwards 358 128 Conservative Party (UK) Rhiwbina Rhiwbina ward 1972 Conservative Party (UK) William John A. Bain * 2,145 Plaid Cymru H. Lloyd Davies 964 Liberal Party (UK) Howard John O'Brien 803 Labour Party (UK) Mervyn G. Powell-Davies 785 1,191 Conservative Party (UK) Riverside Riverside ward 1972 Conservative Party (UK) Alec Johnson * 1,219 Labour Party (UK) John A. Hennessey 1,013 Plaid Cymru Roy A. Lee 315 Liberal Party (UK) Richard M. James 131 206 Conservative Party (UK) Roath Roath ward 1972 Conservative Party (UK) Gerald Michael Brinks * 2,093 Labour Party (UK) Fred Hodges 802 Plaid Cymru Paul Anthony Cravos 379 1,291 Conservative Party (UK) Rumney Rumney ward 1972 Labour Party (UK) John Randall Phillips 3,122 Conservative Party (UK) David Howard Burnett 1,071 Independent politician (Dr) Bryan Sandford-Hill * 514 2,051 Labour Party (UK) Independent politician South South ward 1972 Labour Party (UK) Frederick John Smith 2,011 Conservative Party (UK) David Stanley Cooper * 779 1,232 Labour Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) Splott Splott ward 1972 Labour Party (UK) Dermot R. Ormond 2,239 Conservative Party (UK) Cyril Frederick Hutchings * 1,128 Communist Party of Great Britain Stella Garrett Jones 94 1,111 Labour Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) Whitchurch Whitchurch ward 1972 Labour Party (UK) Philip Norton 2,569 Conservative Party (UK) John Meurig Davies * 2,399 170 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