2017 Caerphilly County Borough Council election

4 May 2017
All 73 seats to Caerphilly County Borough Council 37 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party   Leader David Poole Colin Mann Party Labour Plaid Cymru Leader's seat Pengam Llanbradach Seats before 50 20 Seats won 50 18 Seat change 0 2   Third party   Leader Unknown Party Independent (Politician) Leader's seat Unknown Seats before 3 Seats won 5 Seat change 2
Map showing the results of the 2017 Caerphilly County Borough Council election. Red showing Welsh Labour, Green showing Plaid Cymru & grey showing independent candidates.
Council control before election Welsh Labour Council control after election Welsh Labour

The 2017 Caerphilly County Borough Council election was held on 4 May 2017 as part of the national 2017 Welsh local elections. The election was preceded by the 2012 CCBC election and was followed by the 2022 CCBC election.^[1]

Overall results

Plaid Cymru had achieved tremendous growth in the 1999 Caerphilly County Borough Council election gaining a total of 38 seats, This tremendous growth had declined by the 2012 election to just 20 seats.^[2] The Independents in Caerphilly County Borough had also suffered sizable losses in the 2012 election going from 9 in 2008 election to 3 in 2012 election.^[2]

The Labour Party won 50 seats achieving a majority, Plaid Cymru obtained 18 seats and 5 seats were won by independent candidates. One seat (Twyn Carno ward) was elected unopposed.

2017 Caerphilly County Borough Council Election^[3]

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Labour	50	0	0	0	68.49	41.9	20,278	9.1
	Plaid Cymru	18	0	2	2	24.65	33.9	16,423	4.1
	Independent	5	2	0	2	6.84	8.8	4,237	5.9
	Conservative	0	0	0	0	0.00	9.0	4,371	5.1
	UKIP	0	0	0	0	0.00	3.4	1,670	New
	Liberal Democrats	0	0	0	0	0.00	1.5	707	1.2
	CPA	0	0	0	0	0.00	0.8	374	New
	Green	0	0	0	0	0.00	0.5	257	New
	TUSC	0	0	0	0	0.00	0.2	101	0.2
Total		73	0	0	0	100.0	100.0	48,418	0.0

Ward results

References