← Thursday 3 September 2026

Llantwit Fardre

Rhondda Cynon Taf · polling day Thursday 3 September
Conservative defending

The Conservatives won both seats when the ward last voted, in May 2022, with 49 per cent of the vote. Earlier contests were won by the Conservatives in 2021 and led by the Conservatives in 2017. 5 candidates are standing.

Chance of winning
72 in 100
simulated outcomes
Conservative: Favourite
Conservative72 in 100
Labour12 in 100
Reform UK10 in 100

Independent, Plaid Cymru: fewer than 5 wins in 100 each.

How often each candidate wins the seat across 10,000 simulations of this contest - chances of winning, not vote shares.

How this ward has voted
ResultConservativeLabourLiberal DemocratsPlaid CymruIndependents
May 202249%35%-16%-
May 202141%27%3%19%10%
May 201759%19%3%11%9%
May 201235%34%-14%18%

Winning share of all votes cast in bold. Multi-member wards elect several councillors at once. Includes any county-division contest covering the same ground.

On the ballot
Worth knowing
  • The Conservative candidate, Joel James, won this ward in 2017 (1,311 votes), and is standing again.
The council

Rhondda Cynon Taf is a Welsh council: it runs every local service. Current control: Labour.

Current composition of 75 seats
Conservative 1Labour 57Green 1Plaid Cymru 8Independents and others 7Vacant 1

Seats under the independents-and-others heading here have been won by independents at elections since 2022.

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Wards coloured by the party that last won them; the by-election ward is outlined. Hover a ward for its last result.

Ward profile
Degree-educated38%
Owner-occupied87%
Social renting2%
In Westminster

The ward is part of the Pontypridd constituency. Labour MP Alex Davies-Jones won it at the 2024 general election with 41 per cent of the vote.

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Council composition from Open Council Data. Candidates, candidate histories and polling-day information from Democracy Club. Historical ward results from the Local Elections Archive Project and Democracy Club. Boundary data contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right.