Council profile

Caerphilly

Data through 26 October 2026

Welsh council · Wales · 69 seats in 31 wards · All seats elected every five years · Next election 6 May 2027

Labour have a majority on Caerphilly Council. The council has 69 councillors in 31 wards. Seats by party: Labour 41, Plaid Cymru 19, Other 7, Green 1. The next election is on 6 May 2027.

Seats by party

Labour (Majority)
69 seats - 35 for a majority
41
1
19
7
1
Labour 41Green 1Plaid Cymru 19Other 7Vacant 1
Seat changes since the 5 May 2022 election Green +1 Plaid Cymru +1 Other +1 Labour −4 1 vacant
Vote share at the 5 May 2022 election (69 seats, all wards)
ShareSeats won
Labour40.0%45
Other27.5%6
Plaid Cymru26.0%18
Conservative5.1%0
Lib Dem1.1%0
Green0.4%0
Next election
6 May 2027
all 69 seats up, then every five years
Largest party
Labour 41
majority of 13; 35 needed
Closest result
Plaid Cymru won the last seat by 21 votes over Labour, 5 May 2022
Latest by-election
Plaid Cymru hold, 6 August 2026 (5 since 2021)
Constituencies
2024Now
Voted Leave in 2016
58%
GB 52%

Who holds each ward

Aber ValleyAberbargoed and BargoedAbercarnArgoedBedwas and TrethomasBlackwoodCefn Fforest and PengamCrosskeysCrumlinDarran ValleyGilfachHengoedLlanbradachMachen and RudryMaesycwmmerMorgan JonesMoriah and PontlottynNelsonNew TredegarNewbridgePenmaenPenyrheolPontllanfraithRisca EastRisca WestSt CattwgSt MartinsTwyn CarnoVanYnysdduYstrad Mynach
LabourPlaid CymruIndependent

Coloured by the party holding most of the ward's seats today; where seats are split evenly, by the party with the higher share at the last election.

Councillors and last results

Select a ward for its full results, candidates and last by-election.

Ward and councillorsLast election
Aber Valley
John Taylor, Charlotte Bishop, John Roberts
5 May 2022
Plaid Cymru 67.2% lead 34.4 pts
Aberbargoed and Bargoed
Dawn Ingram-Jones, Chris Bissex-Foster, Tudor Davies
5 May 2022
Labour 42.5% lead 7.5 pts
Abercarn
Andrew Whitcombe, Denver Preece
5 May 2022
Labour 60.6% lead 21.2 pts
Argoed
Walter Williams
5 May 2022
Labour 61.3% lead 40.5 pts
Bedwas and Trethomas
Elizabeth Aldworth, Lisa Phipps, Jill Winslade
5 May 2022
Labour 58.4% lead 35.5 pts
Blackwood
Andrew Farina-Childs, Nigel Dix, Kevin Etheridge
5 May 2022
Independent 31.6% lead 3.1 pts
Cefn Fforest and Pengam
Shane Williams, Marina Chacon-Dawson, Teresa Heron
5 May 2022
Labour 32.5% lead 12.1 pts
Crosskeys
Julian Simmonds
5 May 2022
Labour 51.5% lead 10.1 pts
Crumlin
Kristian Woodland, Carl Thomas
5 May 2022
Labour 56.0% lead 18.8 pts
Darran Valley
Robert Chapman
5 May 2022
Labour 89.5% lead 79.0 pts
Gilfach
Carol Andrews
5 May 2022
Labour 72.7% lead 45.4 pts
Hengoed
Anthony Cook, Teresa Parry
5 May 2022
Plaid Cymru 54.8% lead 9.6 pts
Llanbradach
Gary Enright, Colin Mann
5 May 2022
Plaid Cymru 66.3% lead 32.6 pts
Machen and Rudry
Amanda McConnell, Chris Morgan
5 May 2022
Labour 50.5% lead 21.0 pts
Maesycwmmer
Jo Rao
5 May 2022
Labour 59.9% lead 19.8 pts
Morgan Jones
James Pritchard, Anne Broughton-Pettit, Shayne Cook
5 May 2022
Labour 46.2% lead 11.7 pts
Moriah and Pontlottyn
David Harse, Mansel Powell
5 May 2022
Labour 74.8% lead 49.6 pts
Nelson
Brenda Miles, Sean Morgan
5 May 2022
Labour 35.8% lead 14.0 pts
New Tredegar
Mark Evans, Eluned Stenner
5 May 2022
Labour 59.8% lead 33.3 pts
Newbridge
Leeroy Jeremiah, Gary Johnston, Adrian Hussey
5 May 2022
Labour 45.8% lead 3.5 pts
Penmaen
Roy Saralis, Elizabeth Davies
5 May 2022
Labour 64.5% lead 29.0 pts
Penyrheol
Jon Scriven, Steve Skivens, Greg Ead, Aneurin Minton
5 May 2022
Plaid Cymru 53.9% lead 22.3 pts
Pontllanfraith
Colin Gordon, Mike Adams, Patricia Cook
5 May 2022
Labour 29.9% lead 7.5 pts
Risca East
Philippa Leonard, Vacant, Arianna Leonard
5 May 2022
Labour 63.3% lead 26.6 pts
Risca West
Ceri Wright, Bob Owen
5 May 2022
Independent 44.7% lead 16.1 pts
St Cattwg
Judith Pritchard, Ann Gair, Haydn Pritchard
5 May 2022
Plaid Cymru 51.5% lead 3.0 pts
St Martins
Stephen Kent, Colin Elsbury, James Fussell
5 May 2022
Plaid Cymru 47.7% lead 12.5 pts
Twyn Carno
Carl Cuss
5 May 2022
Labour 80.4% lead 60.8 pts
Van
Jeff Grenfell, Elaine Forehead
5 May 2022
Labour 54.7% lead 9.4 pts
Ynysddu
Janine Reed, Jan Jones
5 May 2022
Independent 46.0% lead 0.5 pts
Ystrad Mynach
Martyn James, Alan Angel
5 May 2022
Plaid Cymru 60.3% lead 20.6 pts

Changed party since the election

2 councillors now sit for a different party from the one they were elected for.

WardCouncillorElected asNow
NelsonBrenda MilesLabour 2022Independent
NelsonSean MorganLabour 2022Green

Every council by-election since 2021

5 by-elections since July 2021, 1 of them gains.

DateWardResultWinner's share
6 August 2026HengoedPlaid Cymru hold49.9%
19 February 2026VanPlaid Cymru gain from Labour43.3%
11 December 2025PenyrheolPlaid Cymru hold60.0%
15 August 2024Aberbargoed and BargoedLabour hold46.2%
31 August 2023PenmaenLabour hold35.1%

Parliamentary constituencies

ConstituencyShare of council2024 winnerProjected now
Caerphilly54%LabourPlaid Cymru 29%
Newport West and Islwyn29%LabourLabour 29%
Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney16%LabourLabour 33%

Share of the council: the proportion of its census neighbourhoods (2021 LSOAs) in each seat. The projection is PollCheck's demographic model at current polling, not a forecast.

Who lives in Caerphilly

175,958 residents in 76,260 households

Voted Leave in 2016
58% 6 above GB
Degree or higher
25% 9 below GB
No qualifications
24% 6 above GB
Own their home
68% 7 above GB
Rent from a council or housing association
19% 2 above GB
Rent privately
13% 7 below GB
Aged 15 to 34
28% 3 below GB
Aged 65 and over
24% 2 above GB

GB figure. 2021 Census (Scotland: 2022): age as a share of residents aged 15 and over, qualifications of residents aged 16 and over, housing as a share of households. Leave: 2016 EU referendum, Electoral Commission results by counting area.

Councils most like this one

Closest on the measures above: the 2016 Leave vote, age, qualifications and housing. Maps show which party holds each ward.

Sources and method

Seat totals and control: PollCheck council control tracker. Councillors: Open Council Data (CC BY-SA 4.0). Election results: Democracy Club (CC BY 4.0), with some vote counts from DCLEAPIL, Leman (2025) (CC BY-SA 4.0), and corrections checked against councils' official declarations. Ward boundaries: Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Census: Office for National Statistics and National Records of Scotland.

Councillor lists and DCLEAPIL-derived vote counts on this page are available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

In wards electing more than one councillor, a party's share counts only its leading candidate (the Rallings and Thrasher method). Independents count individually. The lead is the gap between the top two parties' shares.