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The 1973 Gwent County Council election was held on Thursday 12 April 1973 to elect councillors to the new Gwent County Council, governing the new county of Gwent, Wales. It took place on the same day as other county council elections in the United Kingdom . These were the first elections to the new county council, which would come into effect ...
7 June 1973: Non-metropolitan district councils (13,540 councillors). Elections took place for all the seats on the councils. In the case of the new councils, they became shadow authorities, taking over from the existing local authorities on 1 April 1974. The elections for the new councils had been brought forward from an originally planned ...
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Results of the Welsh County Council Elections 1973-1993 1 Gwent 1973 Aberbeeg & Six Bells (4608) vote share Lewis I. PC 1,415 52.2 Snellgrove H. Lab 1,295 47.8 Turnout 58.8 4.4 Abercarn & Cwmcarn (3920) vote share Williams D. Lab 0 0.0 Turnout 0.0 0.0 Abergavenny Cantref & Grofield (3745) vote share Smith R. Con 947 64.5
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Gwent County Council was created on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972. It took over the geographical area and main roles of the previous councils, Monmouthshire County Council (1889–1974) and Newport County Borough Council (1891–1974), subject to some boundary changes along the western border. Five district councils provided a second...
The first election to the county council was held on 12 April 1973, initially operating as a shadow authority alongside the outgoing authorities until it came into its powers on 1 April 1974. Political control of the council from 1974 until its abolition in 1996 was held by the following parties: The first Chief Executive of Gwent County Council wa...
At the first election in 1973, 78 councillors were elected from 66 electoral divisions.The number of councillors was reduced to 63 in 1989.
The council was initially based at the old Monmouthshire County Council's headquarters at Shire Hall in Newport, while a new headquarters was being built in Cwmbran. The new County Hall was on Turnpike Road in Croesyceiliog, on the eastern outskirts of Cwmbran, and was completed in 1977.
- 31 March 1996; 27 years ago
- May 1993
- 1 April 1974; 49 years ago
- 12 April 1973
Gwent County Council was established in 1974 following local government reorganisation. It assumed the administrative functions of the former Monmouthshire County Council, Newport County Borough Council and part of Brecknockshire County Council. The Council comprised 63 members, including a chairman, and served a population of 450,000 people.
At the time of the election, Scotland was the only part of the UK in which local government had yet to be reformed, with the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 only receiving Royal Assent in October 1973. The election saw Labour maintaining their control of Aberdeen, Glasgow, and Dundee, although failing to make gains in Edinburgh.
