1966 Cardiff City Council election

Local election in Cardiff, Wales April 2022 The 1966 Cardiff City Council election was held on Thursday 12 May 1966 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 1965 and the next elections would be in May 1967. The election saw the Labour Party lose control of the council to the Conservatives.Tories in big poll come-back South Wales Echo 13 May 1966 1 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 council also included aldermen who were elected for a six-year period by the councillors. At the 1965 Cardiff election the Conservatives had won seven seats from Labour and the Liberal Party, leaving Labour in control of the City Council as a result of the Lord Mayor's casting vote.South Wales goes to the polls - Socialists on the defensive South Wales Echo 12 May 1966 9 Overview of the result Seventeen seats in 17 electoral wards were up for election in May 1966. All seats were contested by Labour and the Conservatives, three seats were contested by the Liberals, Independents stood in Grangetown and Gabalfa (where the Tories had won seats in 1965) and a sole Plaid Cymru candidate stood in Splott. In Grangetown, the sitting Labour councillor Maxwell Christie was deselected by the Cardiff Labour Party, but stood as an Independent Labour candidate.Poll split widens as Coun. Christie again refuses to quit South Wales Echo 5 May 1966 4 The Conservatives won two seats from Labour, in Grangetown and Canton, giving them a majority on the Council. Council composition Prior to the election the council had been divided with 34 seats held by Labour and 34 by the Conservatives. By dint of winning two seats, the Conservatives now had a majority of 36 to 32. Ward results Contests took place in every ward at this election.How South Wales Voted South Wales Echo 13 May 1966 8 Adamsdown Adamsdown ward 1966 Labour Party (UK) John Iorwerth Jones * 1,485 Conservative Party (UK) Jeffrey Paul Sainsbury 647 Liberal Party (UK) Henry Charles Edwards 483 838 Labour Party (UK) Canton Canton ward 1966 Conservative Party (UK) William Albert John Adams 1,753 Labour Party (UK) George Thomas Cashman * 1,473 280 Conservative Party (UK) Labour Party (UK) Cathays Cathays ward 1966 Labour Party (UK) Emyr Currie-Jones * 2,057 Conservative Party (UK) Thomas H. Ablett 1,617 Liberal Party (UK) George Parsons 1,489 440 Labour Party (UK) Central Central ward 1966 Conservative Party (UK) Cecil Herbert Rapport * 2,021 Labour Party (UK) Manuel C. Delgado 1,149 872 Conservative Party (UK) Ely Ely ward 1966 Labour Party (UK) Blanche Adelaide McDonald * 1,955 Conservative Party (UK) Roger Hambleton 1,265 690 Labour Party (UK) Gabalfa Gabalfa ward 1966 Labour Party (UK) Gertrude Louise Baines * 1,762 Conservative Party (UK) Henry Peter Farthing 1,528 Independent Labour John Francis O'Sullivan 546 234 Labour Party (UK) Grangetown Grangetown ward 1966 Conservative Party (UK) Norman William Henry Leworthy 1,345 Labour Party (UK) David Joseph Seligman 1,289 Independent Labour Maxwell Christie * 1,147 56 Conservative Party (UK) Labour Party (UK) Councillor Maxwell Christie was deselected by the Cardiff Labour Party, but stood as an Independent Labour candidate. He had been a Grangetown councillor since 1962. The local Labour Party threatened to expel him and his two main supporters. Llandaff Llandaff ward 1966 Conservative Party (UK) (Sir) Charles Hallinan * 3,018 Labour Party (UK) Elizabeth Diane Toogood 836 2,182 Conservative Party (UK) Llanishen Llanishen ward 1966 Conservative Party (UK) Joseph Gerald Gaskell * 3,349 Labour Party (UK) William John Phillips 1,375 Liberal Party (UK) John Evan Lee 1,086 1,974 Conservative Party (UK) Penylan Penylan ward 1966 Conservative Party (UK) Gerard Alan Smith Turnbull * 4,295 Labour Party (UK) Armour Bernard Matthewson 920 3,375 Conservative Party (UK) Plasmawr Plasmawr ward 1966 Labour Party (UK) William Campbell-Belfour 2,096 Conservative Party (UK) Robert Clive Mogridge 1,447 649 Labour Party (UK) Plasnewydd Plasnewydd ward 1966 Labour Party (UK) Margaret Sylvia Jacobs * 1,928 Conservative Party (UK) Desmond Griffith Rees 1,748 180 Labour Party (UK) Riverside Riverside ward 1966 Conservative Party (UK) Sidney William Doxsey * 1,853 Labour Party (UK) Doris Elizabeth Cashman 1,114 739 Conservative Party (UK) Roath Roath ward 1966 Conservative Party (UK) Norman Lloyd-Edwards * 3,339 Labour Party (UK) David Melville Porter 843 2,496 Conservative Party (UK) Rumney Rumney ward 1966 Labour Party (UK) Lilian Clarice Scrivens * 2,463 Conservative Party (UK) Joan Taylor 1,802 661 Labour Party (UK) South South ward 1966 Labour Party (UK) Philip Dunleavy 1,724 Conservative Party (UK) John Anthony Clarke 1,165 559 Labour Party (UK) Splott Splott ward 1966 Labour Party (UK) David Myfyr Evans * 2,207 Conservative Party (UK) Brian Sandford Hill 1,471 Plaid Cymru Donald Arthur Nicholson 387 736 Labour Party (UK) * = 'retiring' ward councillor for re-election References collapsed Category:Council elections in Cardiff Category:1960s in Cardiff Category:1966 Welsh local elections