Landore
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Landore is the name of an electoral ward, a community
Community council
A community council is a public representative body in Great Britain.In England they may be statutory parish councils by another name, under the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007, or they may be non-statutory bodies...

 in the City and County of Swansea
Swansea
Swansea is a coastal city and county in Wales. Swansea is in the historic county boundaries of Glamorgan. Situated on the sandy South West Wales coast, the county area includes the Gower Peninsula and the Lliw uplands...

, Wales
Wales
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, UK
United Kingdom
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. The community does not have a community council.

Landore is bounded by the wards of Castle
Castle, Swansea
Castle is an electoral ward and community in the City and County of Swansea, Wales, UK. Castle covers most of the heart of the City of Swansea...

 to the south west; Cwmbwrla
Cwmbwrla (electoral ward)
Cwmbwrla is the name of an electoral ward, a community and a suburb in the City and County of Swansea, Wales. The community does not have a community council....

 to the west; Mynydd-Bach to the north west; Morriston
Morriston (electoral ward)
Morriston is an electoral ward in Swansea, Wales. Morriston is one of two five member wards in the City and County of Swansea local authority area...

 to the north; Bonymaen
Bonymaen (electoral ward)
Bon-y-maen is the name of an electoral ward, a community and a village in the City and County of Swansea, Wales, UK.The ward is bounded by Neath Port Talbot county borough to the east and the Swansea wards of Llansamlet and Morriston to the north; St...

 to the east; and St. Thomas
St. Thomas (electoral ward)
St. Thomas is the name of an electoral ward and a community of Swansea, Wales.The electoral ward of St. Thomas consists of the following areas: Dan-y-graig, Port Tennant, SA1 Swansea Waterfront, St. Thomas, Swansea Docks, Kilvey Hill and the Grenfell Park Area, in the parliamentary constituency of...

 to the south east.

The electoral ward consists of some or all of the following areas: Castle Graig, Brynhyfryd
Brynhyfryd, Swansea
Brynhyfryd is a small village in Swansea, Wales mostly falling within the Cwmbwrla ward. The area is mostly residential. Brynhyfryd approximates to the area around Llangyfelach Road where it intersects with Brynhyfryd Road....

, Hafod
Hafod
Hafod is a district of the city of Swansea, Wales and lies just outside the city centre in the north of the city. It falls within the Landore ward....

, Landore
Landore
Landore is the name of an electoral ward, a community in the City and County of Swansea, Wales, UK. The community does not have a community council....

, Morfa
Morfa, Swansea
Morfa is a district of Swansea, Wales. It straddles the Bon-y-maen and Landore wards and generally covers the eastern part of the district of Landore. Morfa was mainly an area of light industry in the late 20th Century...

 and Plasmarl
Plasmarl
Plasmarl, or Plas-Marl, is a suburban district and historically a village of the City and County of Swansea, Wales. It falls within the old copper quarter of Landore electoral ward.-Location:...

, in the parliamentary constituency of Swansea East
Swansea East (UK Parliament constituency)
Swansea East is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.- Boundaries :The constituency comprises the electoral wards of Bonymaen, Cwmbwrla, Landore, Llansamlet, Morriston, Mynydd-Bach, Penderry, and St.Thomas...

. However the Landore ward can be split into three chief areas from north to south: Plasmarl, Landore and Hafod.

For electoral purposes, Landore is divided into a number of polling districts: Plasmarl, Cnap Llwyd, Glandwr and Hafod.

The Elected Councillors for the Landore Ward are Cllr Viv Abbott (Liberal Democrat
Liberal Democrats
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) and Cllr Rob Speht (Liberal Democrat).

2008 local council elections

For the 2008 local council elections, the turnout in Landore was 66.82%. The results were:
Candidate Party Votes Status
Vivian Abbott Liberal Democrats 836 Liberal Democrats hold
Robert Speht Liberal Democrats 793 Liberal Democrats hold
Thomas Michael White Labour 585
John Alun James Labour 552
Susan Josephine Harwood BNP 189
Mark Anthony Burnett Conservatives 95
Henri Lloyd Davies Conservatives 71

Landore

Landore
Landore
Landore is the name of an electoral ward, a community in the City and County of Swansea, Wales, UK. The community does not have a community council....

 is a residential area. It has seen a number of new developments during the early millennium decade, such as the new Liberty Stadium
Liberty Stadium, Swansea
The Liberty Stadium is a purpose-built sports stadium and conferencing venue in the Landore area of Swansea, Wales. The stadium is all-seated, with a capacity of 20,532 making it the largest purpose-built venue in Swansea and the third largest stadium in Wales after the Millennium Stadium and the...

, which opened in 2005 and a new out-of-town retail park built around the same time.

Morfa

Morfa
Morfa, Swansea
Morfa is a district of Swansea, Wales. It straddles the Bon-y-maen and Landore wards and generally covers the eastern part of the district of Landore. Morfa was mainly an area of light industry in the late 20th Century...

is a former area of light industry, which is now dominated by a retail park in the north western part of the ward.

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