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2008 Welsh local elections
All 1,270 seats to 22 Welsh councils
	Colours denote the winning party with outright control (left), and the largest party by ward (right)

The 2008 Welsh local elections took place on 1 May 2008 to elect members of all twenty-two local authorities in Wales. They were held alongside other local elections in the United Kingdom. The previous elections were held in 2004.

Results edit

	Votes^[1]	%	+/-	Councils^[2]	+/-	Seats	+/-
Labour	253,029	26.6%	4.0%	2	6	345	134
Independent	217,369	22.9%	0.3%	4	1	334	13
Plaid Cymru	159,847	16.8%	0.4%	0	1	206	31
Conservative	148,708	15.6%	4.6%	2	1	174	67
Liberal Democrats	123,175	13.0%	0.9%	0		165	19
Blaenau Gwent PV	9,187	1.0%	1.0%	0		8	8
Llais Gwynedd	7,119	0.7%	0.7%	0		13	13
Green	6,568	0.7%	0.5%	0		0
Other	25,214	2.7%	1.6%	0		19	17
No overall control	n/a	n/a	n/a	14	5	n/a	n/a

In all 22 Welsh councils the whole of the council was up for election.

Council			Details
Blaenau Gwent	Labour	No overall control gain
Bridgend	No overall control	No overall control hold
Caerphilly	Labour	No overall control gain
Cardiff	No overall control	No overall control hold	Details
Carmarthenshire	No overall control	No overall control hold
Ceredigion	No overall control	No overall control hold	Details
Conwy	No overall control	No overall control hold
Denbighshire	No overall control	No overall control hold
Flintshire	Labour	No overall control gain
Gwynedd	Plaid Cymru	No overall control gain
Isle of Anglesey	Independent	Independent hold
Merthyr Tydfil	Labour	Independent gain
Monmouthshire	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Neath Port Talbot	Labour	Labour hold
Newport	Labour	No overall control gain
Pembrokeshire	Independent	Independent hold
Powys	Independent	Independent hold
Rhondda Cynon Taff	Labour	Labour hold
Swansea	No overall control	No overall control hold
Torfaen	Labour	No overall control gain
Vale of Glamorgan	No overall control	Conservative gain
Wrexham	No overall control	No overall control hold

^ ^a ^b ^c Rallings, Colin; Thrasher, Michael (2008). "Local Elections Handbook 2008" (PDF). Local Government Chronicle Elections Centre, University of Plymouth. Retrieved 15 December 2016.
^ Members’ Research Service (June 2008). "Local Election Results 2008 (updated)" (PDF). National Assembly for Wales. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 June 2021. Retrieved 3 June 2021.