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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Tamworth, Staffordshire (redirect from Borough of Tamworth)
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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Glamorgan (redirect from County of Glamorgan)
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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Local Government Act 1888 (redirect from Country Councils Act)
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 (redirect from Caerdydd (county borough))
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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Northampton (redirect from County Borough of Northampton)
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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Local government in Wales (redirect from Administrative counties of Wales)
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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Ammanford (section Parliamentary elections)
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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