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. In population terms, it is the largest ward in the Welsh Assembly constituency of Swansea East and it is the largest ward the City and County of Swansea.

The electoral ward consists of some or all of the following geographical areas: Caemawr

Caemawr

Caemawr is a hilly area in the electoral ward of Morriston, Swansea, Wales located just ½ mile east of Morriston town centre.Caemawr is best known for being the home of Bishop Vaughan Catholic Comprehensive School....

, Cwmrhydyceirw

Cwmrhydyceirw

Cwmrhydyceirw is a village in Morriston, based in the City and County of Swansea, south Wales. The village is located about 1 mile north of Morriston town centre. It is home to the main campus of Morriston Hospital, Morriston Comprehensive School and Cwmrhydyceirw Primary School...

, Graig Felen, Morriston

Morriston

Morriston is a community in the City and County of Swansea, Wales and falls within the Morriston ward. Morriston is sometimes referred to as a distinct town , however Morriston never had a town charter, and is now part of the continuous urban area around Swansea, the centre of which lies three...

, Parc Gwernfadog, Pant-lasau, Ynysforgan

Ynysforgan

Ynysforgan is a village near Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales. It lies just off Junction 45 of the M4 motorway, geographically between Morriston and Ynystawe. The origins of its name are not known for certain but ynys is Welsh for a river-meadow Ynysforgan is a village near Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales. It...

 and Ynystawe

Ynystawe

Ynystawe is a small village in the City and County of Swansea in Wales, falling in the electoral ward of Morriston. It is situated approximately half a mile North of Junction 45 of the M4 motorway, between Ynysforgan and Clydach in the lower Swansea Valley...

, 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...

. The ward is bounded by the wards of Llansamlet and Clydach

Clydach (electoral ward)

Clydach is the name of an electoral ward, a community and a town in the City and County of Swansea, Wales, UK. The town has its own elected community council serving the community....

 to the east; 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...

 and Landore to the south; Mynydd-Bach and Llangyfelach

Llangyfelach (electoral ward)

Llangyfelach is the name of an electoral ward, a community in the county of Swansea, Wales, UK. The community has its own elected community council....

 to the west; and Mawr

Mawr

Mawr is both an electoral ward and a community of the City and County of Swansea, in south Wales, U.K. Mawr has its own elected community council.Mawr falls within in the parliamentary constituency of Gower...

 to the north.

The ward is broken down into a number of polling districts by the local council. These are: Parc-y-Duc, Glantawe, Pentrepoeth, Tircanol, Caemawr, Cwmrhydyceirw East, Cwmrhydyceirw West, Parc Gwernfadog and Ynystawe.

Morriston is one of only two wards in Swansea which returns five councillors to the local council. The other being Sketty. Morriston currently returns five Labour

Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...

 councillors: Mike Hedges

Mike Hedges (Welsh Politician)

Michael John Hedges AM is a Welsh Labour politician, who has represented the constituency of Swansea East since the 2011 National Assembly for Wales election with a majority of 8,281 and with 58.36% of the total vote.-Personal History:...

, Robert Francis-Davies, John Davies, Bob Lloyd and Rob Stewart.

In the 2008 local election the Ward will be contested by all five incumbent Labour Councillors, and by five Liberal Democrats

Liberal Democrats

The Liberal Democrats are a social liberal political party in the United Kingdom which supports constitutional and electoral reform, progressive taxation, wealth taxation, human rights laws, cultural liberalism, banking reform and civil liberties .The party was formed in 1988 by a merger of the...

, five Conservatives

Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...

, two Plaid Cymru

Plaid Cymru

' is a political party in Wales. It advocates the establishment of an independent Welsh state within the European Union. was formed in 1925 and won its first seat in 1966...

 candidates and one British National Party

British National Party

The British National Party is a British far-right political party formed as a splinter group from the National Front by John Tyndall in 1982...

 candidate. The poll will take place on 1 May 2008, along with elections in every other ward of Swansea.

The turnout of the 2008 local elections in Morriston was 34.53%. The results were:

Candidate	Party	Votes	Status
Michael John Hedges Mike Hedges (Welsh Politician) Michael John Hedges AM is a Welsh Labour politician, who has represented the constituency of Swansea East since the 2011 National Assembly for Wales election with a majority of 8,281 and with 58.36% of the total vote.-Personal History:...	Labour	2159	Labour hold
Robert John Lloyd	Labour	1776	Labour hold
Robert Charles Stewart	Labour	1768	Labour hold
William John Francis Davies	Labour	1741	Labour hold
Robert Francis-Davies	Labour	1669	Labour hold
Helen Ceri Clarke	Liberal Democrats	1528
Jonathan Clarke	Liberal Democrats	1427
Owen Roberts	Liberal Democrats	1223
Rachael Elizabeth Hitchinson	Liberal Democrats	1214
Robert Morrison Samuel	Liberal Democrats	1142
Richard Jones Jones	Plaid Cymru	778
Alan Bateman	BNP	678
Hywel Rhys Couch	Plaid Cymru	619
Michael James Byrne	Conservatives	584
Robert Ivor James	Conservatives	574
Paul Frank Briggs	Conservatives	557
Thomas Patrick Caradog Morgan	Conservatives	523
Sheila Morgan	Conservatives	500

External links

• Morriston statistics