2008 Welsh local elections

2008 Welsh local elections

1 May 2008 (2008-05-01)
All 1,270 seats to 22 Welsh councils[1]
First party Second party   Leader Rhodri Morgan Ieuan Wyn Jones Party Labour Plaid Cymru Leader since 9 February 2000 16 March 2000 Last election 479 seats, 30.6%[1] 175 seats, 16.4% Seats won 345 206 Seat change 134 31 Popular vote 253,029 159,847 Popular vote (%) 26.6% 16.8% Swing (pp) 4.0% 0.4%   Third party Fourth party   Leader Nick Bourne Michael German Party Conservative Liberal Democrats Leader since August 1999 November 2007 Last election 107 seats, 11.0% 146 seats, 13.9% Seats won 174 165 Seat change 67 19 Popular vote 148,708 123,175 Popular vote (%) 15.6% 13.0% Swing (pp) 4.6% 0.9%
Colours denote the winning party with outright control (left), and the largest party by ward (right)

The 2008 Welsh local elections took place on 1 May 2008 to elect members of all twenty-two local authorities in Wales. They were held alongside other local elections in the United Kingdom. The previous elections were held in 2004.

Party		Votes[1]	%	+/-	Councils[2]	+/-	Seats	+/-
	Labour	253,029	26.6%	4.0%	2	6	345	134
	Independent	217,369	22.9%	0.3%	4	1	334	13
	Plaid Cymru	159,847	16.8%	0.4%	0	1	206	31
	Conservative	148,708	15.6%	4.6%	2	1	174	67
	Liberal Democrats	123,175	13.0%	0.9%	0		165	19
	Blaenau Gwent PV	9,187	1.0%	1.0%	0		8	8
	Llais Gwynedd	7,119	0.7%	0.7%	0		13	13
	Green	6,568	0.7%	0.5%	0		0
	Other	25,214	2.7%	1.6%	0		19	17
	No overall control	n/a	n/a	n/a	14	5	n/a	n/a

In all 22 Welsh councils the whole of the council was up for election.