Plaid Cymru have held Gwynedd Council and gained Ynys Môn in the local council elections.
The people of Gwynedd and Anglesey cast their votes in the Local Elections 2022. Voting ended at 10pm on Thursday (May 5) when polling stations across the UK closed.
This is the first council election in Wales in which 16 and 17-year-olds are allowed to vote, plus there’s been a big shake up to electoral ward boundaries.
In Gwynedd Plaid Cymru gained four seats from 2017, three of their gained seats came at the expense of independent councillors and one from Welsh Labour. The total makeup of Gwynedd Council is:
Plaid Cymru: 44 councillors (+4)
Independent: 23 (-3)
Labour: 1 (+1)
Liberal Democrats: 1 (same)
In Bangor the elected councillors for the newly defined wards are:
Canol: Medwyn Hughes (Plaid Cymru)
Canol: Huw Wyn Jones (Plaid Cymru)
Dewi: Gareth Roberts (Plaid Cymru)
Dwyrain: Dylan Fernley (Independent)
Dwyrain: Nigel Pickavance (Independent)
Glyder: Elin Walker Jones (Plaid Cymru)
Ynys Môn
Plaid Cymru has taken control of Ynys Môn council. The party had been working in a coalition with independents since the previous election. Plaid has now managed to win 21 of the 35 seats, crossing the threshold for a majority, which is 18 members, which was five more than they won in 2017.
The independents had a poor results day, losing six seats in 2022 and ending on 10. Labour gained one additional seat this time round to bring it to three, while the Lib Dems took the remaining seat.
Despite fielding 35 candidates, the Welsh Conservatives failed to win a single seat on the island.
