Pontypridd Urban District Council was a local authority in Glamorgan, Wales. It was created in 1894 as a result of the 1894 Local Government of England and Wales Act. The Council existed until 1973 and replaced the Pontypridd Local Board of Health which had functioned for some years. Its boundaries were set in 1894. Initially, the Council had eighteen members but this number was increased in the 1930s, as a result of the increase in population. There were initially six wards, namely Cilfynydd, Graig, Pontypridd Town, Rhondda, Trallwn and Treforest; a seventh ward, Rhydyfelin, was added in the 1930s.
The first councillors were elected at the December 1894 elections. Most of the first members of the authority had served on the Local Board.
In the years leading up to the First World War, representatives of the Labour Party began to gain ground.
In 1974 the authority was abolished, and together with the former rural district of Llantrisant and some outlying areas, formed the Taff Ely Borough Council which, in turn, was subsumed into the unitary authority of Rhondda Cynon Taff in 1996.
Pontypridd Urban District Council, Chairpersonsedit
Pontypridd Urban District council by-election, 1895edit
Although no elections to Pontypridd Urban District council were scheduled for 1895, the first full year of the council's existence, the death of William Williams created a vacancy in the Town Ward.[3] There was no change to the overall composition of the council, following the by-election held on 13 May 1895.[4]
William Seaton, elected the previous year, stood down after the council resolved that he, rather than another member elected in a by-election during the year, should seek re-election.[6]
Pontypridd Urban District council election, 1908edit
In the Pontypridd Urban District Council election of 1908 there were contests in three of the six wards, most notably in Cilfynydd - the first contested election there since the by-election in 1896.[22]
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^"RHONDDA.I|1900-04-03|Evening Express - Welsh Newspapers". newspapers.library.wales. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
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^"----ELEOTION NEWS. -,|1902-04-12|The Pontypridd Chronicle and Workman's News - Welsh Newspapers". newspapers.library.wales. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
^"----.---DISTRICT COUNCIL ELECTIONS.|1903-04-11|The Cardiff Times - Welsh Newspapers". newspapers.library.wales. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
^"[No title]|1903-05-09|The Cardiff Times - Welsh Newspapers". newspapers.library.wales. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
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