Sandfields West


Sandfields West is an electoral ward and a community of Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales. It is part of the parliamentary constituency of Aberavon. The ward elects three county councillors to Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council.

Description

The community boundaries are coterminous with the electoral ward. Sandfields West is bounded by the wards of Baglan to the northwest, Aberavon to the northeast, and Sandfields East to the southeast.
Sandfields West is a mostly urbanised ward consisting of council housing inland, private housing on the coast and areas of light industry and business park use.
At the 2011 UK Census the population of the ward was 6,725.

County council elections

In the 2012 local council elections, the electorate turnout was 35.47%. The councillors who were elected were:
CandidatePartyVotesStatus
Andre ChavisLabour1173Labour hold
James EvansLabour1088Labour hold
Susan PaddisonLabour1078Labour hold
Keith SuterNPT Independent Party377
Oliver DaviesNPT Independent Party368
Joan TargettNPT Independent Party363
Olga JonesIndependent242
Wayne MorrisSocial Democratic Party219

In February 2017, Councillor James Evans and Councillor Andre Chavis left the Labour party. They sat as Independent councillors.
In the 2017 local council elections, the councillors who were elected were:
CandidatePartyVotesStatus
Suzanne PaddisonLabour851Labour hold
Oliver DaviesLabour838Labour hold
Robert WoodLabour749Labour hold
Andrew BennisonPlaid Cymru430
Audrey ChavesIndependent395
Sam WrightPlaid Cymru364
Victoria GriffithsPlaid Cymru360
James EvansIndependent339
Taz TaylorLiberal Democrats97