North Wales local elections 2017: Conwy constituency profile
Council services are sure to be the big issue at the polls in Conwy .
Over the last five years there has been outrage at cuts to bin collections and increases in council tax.
The area saw the introduction of monthly bin collections beginning in 2016, becoming the first county in Wales to do so.
The move was aimed to save the authority £558,000 a year.
The council then voted to increase council tax by almost 5% starting this month.
Last year the council had to defend a controversial decision to dump thousands of tonnes of stones onto the popular North Shore beach, saying it was vital to minimise the risk of flooding
Whatever the outcome of the local elections there will be a change at the top of the council as leader, Dilwyn Roberts, has decided to step down after nine years in the role.
Current make up of the council:
Conservative: 13
Labour: 10
Liberal Democrat: 4
Plaid Cymru: 12
Conwy First Ind: 15
Independents: 5
European referendum:
Conwy voted to leave the European Union in last summer’s referendum. brexit won the day by 35,357 votes to 30,147 votes.
Welsh language
In the last census 30,600 people were recorded as being able to speak Welsh with 67,716 saying they could not speak the language.
Population
In the 2011 census the population of the county was 115,228.
There are 130 canididates running for 59 seats in next week’s election. The number of candidate standing for each party is:
Conservative – 37
Independent – 43
Labour – 24
Liberal Democrat – 10
Plaid Cymru – 14
There are two constituencies covering this council area for both the UK parliament and the Welsh Assembly, Abercowny and Clwyd West.
General Election 2015: Aberconwy
Conservative, Guto Bebb, 12,513
Labour, Mary Wimbury, 8,514
Plaid Cymru, Dafydd Meurig, 3,536
UKIP, Andrew Haigh, 3,467
Liberal Democrats, Victor Babu, 1,391
Green, Petra Haig, 727
General Election 2015: Clwyd West
Conservative, David Jones,16,463
Labour, Gareth Thomas, 9,733
UKIP, Warwick Nicholson, 4,988
Plaid Cymru, Marc Jones, 4,651
Liberal Democrat, Sarah Lesiter-Burgess, 1,387
Socialist Labour, Bob English, 612
Above and Beyond, Rory Jepson, 194
Welsh Assembly Election 2016 result: Aberconwy
Conservative Janet Finch-Saunders 7,646
Plaid Cymru Trystan Lewis 6,892
Labour Mike Priestley 6,039
Liberal Democrat Sarah Lesiter-Burgess 781
Green Petra Haig 680
Welsh Assembly Election 2016 result: Clwyd West
Conservative Darren Millar 10,831
Plaid Cymru Llyr Huws Gruffydd 5,768
Labour Jo Thomas 5,246
UKIP David Edwards 2,985
Liberal Democrat Victor Babu 831
Green Julian Mahy 565
