• The first election to Swansea County Borough Council took place in 1889. It was followed by the 1890 election. The previous Town Council which had 24 members...
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  • Swansea County Borough Council was established in 1889 under the Local Government Act 1888. The first elections were held in November 1889. The number...
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    County Council. Swansea County Borough Council was the local authority from 1889 until 1974. It gained city status in 1969, allowing the council to call...
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  • The 1889 Cardiff County Borough Council election was held on Friday 1 November 1889 to elect councillors to Cardiff County Borough Council in Cardiff,...
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    Brynau parish. In 1889, Swansea attained county borough status, and it was granted city status in 1969, which was inherited by the Swansea district when it...
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  • The first election to the Glamorgan County Council was held on 17 January 1889. Results were announced over several days. They were followed by the 1892...
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    in 1889 under the Local Government Act 1888, Swansea was considered large enough to provide its own county-level services, and so it became a county borough...
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    Glamorgan County Council building its headquarters there. Cardiff was one of only two county boroughs in Wales created in 1889, the other being Swansea. (Newport...
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  • 1890 Cardiff County Borough Council election was held on Saturday 1 November 1890 to elect councillors to Cardiff County Borough Council in Cardiff, Wales...
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  • 1892 Cardiff County Borough Council election was held on Tuesday 2 November 1892 to elect councillors to Cardiff County Borough Council in Cardiff, Wales...
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    ten wards created to Swansea County Borough Council, electing two representatives in the November 1889 elections. The election was fought on local issues...
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    but the fourth year see elections to Staffordshire County Council. Councillors are elected for a four-year term. The borough is used as the starting point...
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    Bridgend (category Towns in Bridgend County Borough)
    Ogmore") is a town in the Bridgend County Borough of Wales, 20 miles (32 km) west of Cardiff and 20 miles (32 km) east of Swansea. The town is named after the...
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    municipal borough in 1883. When elected county councils were established in 1889, Croydon was considered large enough to provide its own county-level services...
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    administrative county of Glamorgan was created under the Local Government Act 1888, excluding Swansea and Cardiff, which became independent county boroughs. In 1908...
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    Elections to Lancashire County Council were held in May 1889. The council was newly created, and at the time covered the entire administrative county...
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    election 1981 Dyfed County Council election 1985 Dyfed County Council election 1989 Dyfed County Council election 1993 Dyfed County Council election The...
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    established county councils and county borough councils in England and Wales. It came into effect on 1 April 1889, except for the County of London, which...
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    deemed to be county boroughs, outside the administrative counties (Cardiff and Swansea in 1889, Newport in 1891 and Merthyr Tydfil in 1908). As a result...
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    Robert Burnie (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Swansea constituencies)
    Chairman of the Harbour Trust. In 1889, however, the year Swansea became a County Borough, he chose to stand down. By the 1890s, Burnie was building...
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    Cardiff Council buildings Between 1889 and 1974 Cardiff was a county borough governed by Cardiff County Borough Council (known as Cardiff City Council after...
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    commissioner Max Caller into the council, who recommended the county council and all district and borough councils in the county be abolished, and replaced...
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  • boundary changes had taken place since the previous election. The extension of the Swansea Borough boundary caused the disappearance of the Llansamlet...
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  • Pembrokeshire County Council Powys County Council Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council   City and County of Swansea Council Torfaen County Borough Council Vale...
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    Forest Hill and Swansea were annexed by the City of Toronto, Leaside was merged with the township of East York to become the Borough of East York. Weston...
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    Aberaeron (category County towns in Wales)
    Cardiganshire County Council was John Morgan Howell, who became a prominent figure in the political life of the county. Following his election in January 1889, bonfires...
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    proposed five counties, and thirty-six districts. The county boroughs of Swansea, Cardiff and Newport would be retained, but the small county borough of Merthyr...
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    Pyle (category Villages in Bridgend County Borough)
    "Bridgend County Borough Council Election Results 1995-2012" (PDF). The Elections Centre. Retrieved 18 November 2018. "Pyle Community council: Schools"...
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  • meeting at Swansea to request Richard Fothergill, one of the two sitting members to offer himself once again as a candidate for the Merthyr Boroughs. Fothergill...
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    local elections. Ammanford Urban District Council was formed in 1903 in consequence of sharp population growth. It was absorbed into Dinefwr Borough Council...
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