2022 Carmarthenshire County Council election

2022 Carmarthenshire County Council election
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All 75 (previously 74) seats to Carmarthenshire County Council
38 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Ind
Leader Emlyn Dole Rob James Jane Tremlett
Party Plaid Cymru Labour Independent
Leader's seat Llannon Lliedi Laugharne
Last election 36 seats 22 seats 16 seats
Seats before 37 17 13
Seats won 38 23 8
Seat change Increase1 Increase6 Decrease5
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Ind
Con
Ind
Leader Jeff Edmunds Shahana Najmi N/A
Party New Independent Conservative Independent (Unaffiliated)
Leader's seat Bigyn Lliedi
Seats before 4 1 1
Seats won 3 0 3
Seat change Decrease1 Decrease1 Increase2
Council control before election

Plaid Cymru and Independent coalition

 Council control after election

Plaid Cymru and Independent coalition

The 2022 Carmarthenshire County Council election took place on Thursday 5 May 2022[1] to elect 75 members to Carmarthenshire Council. On the same day, elections were held to the other 21 local authorities and to community councils in Wales as part of the 2022 Welsh local elections.

Plaid Cymru won a majority of seats for the first time, whilst losing their leader, Emlyn Dole. [2] Welsh Labour regained some ground in Carmarthenshire by winning seats in the Amman Valley and Llanelli constituency from Plaid Cymru. New Independent lost one seat overall and their leader, Jeff Edmunds and the Conservatives' only councillor, Shahana Najmi, also lost her seat.

Despite winning a majority of seats, Plaid Cymru formed a coalition with eight independent councillors.

  1. ^ "Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021". legislation.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 22 April 2021.
  2. ^ "Leader of Carmarthenshire Council Emlyn Dole loses his seat". Wales Online. Retrieved 24 May 2022.