Pontardawe (electoral ward)

Pontardawe ward
Pontardawe ward
Population	5,421 (2011 census)
Principal area	Neath Port Talbot;
Preserved county	West Glamorgan;
Country	Wales
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
UK Parliament	Neath;
Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament	Neath;
Councillors	Linet Purcell (Plaid Cymru); Anthony John Richards (Plaid Cymru);
	List of places UK Wales Neath Port Talbot

Pontardawe is the name of an electoral ward of Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales. It is a division of the Pontardawe community and falls within the parliamentary constituency of Neath.

The greater part of the geographical area of the ward is made up of mountainous grassland and open moorland with a scattering of farms. However, the majority of the population is concentrated in the town of Pontardawe in the south of the ward.

In clockwise order the ward is bounded

to the north by the wards of Glanamman (in Carmarthenshire), Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, and Cwmllynfell
to the east by the wards of Ystalyfera and Godre'r Graig
to the southeast by the ward of Rhos
to the south by the wards of Alltwen and Trebanos
to the west by the wards of Clydach and Mawr (both in Swansea)