2022 Elections toNewport City Council were held on 5 May 2022 along with elections to the other 21 local authorities in Wales, community council elections in Wales and2022 United Kingdom local elections. The previous full council election took placein May 2017, though there had also been a number of by-elections in the city in the intervening period.
TheLabour Party had controlled Newport since 2012 and theLiberal Democrats,Conservatives and independents were hoping to make some inroads at this election.[1]
Following an electoral boundary review, the overall number ofelectoral wards increased from 20 to 21, with the total number of councillors increasing by one, from 50 to 51. The formerRogerstone ward was split into three[1] while theTredegar Park andMarshfield ward were merged. TheLangstone,Llanwern andLliswerry wards were substantially reconfigured.
| Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | 35 |  4 | 68.6 | 49.1 | 44,892 | +13.0 | |||
| Conservative | 7 |  5 | 13.7 | 28.3 | 25,928 | -3.7 | |||
| Independent | 4 | 3 | 7.8 | 7.4 | 6,769 | +4.4 | |||
| Newport Ind. | 3 | 1 | 5.9 | 4.6 | 4,198 | -5.6 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | 1 | 1 | 2.0 | 8.0 | 7,314 | -1.4 | |||
| Green | 1 | 1 | 2.0 | 1.8 | 1,621 | -0.1 | |||
| Plaid Cymru | 0 |  0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 485 | -3.6 | |||
| Propel | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 281 | New | |||
An asterix indicates the candidate is a sitting councillor for the ward standing for re-election.[4]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Pat Drewett | 1,366 | 47.7 | ||
| Conservative | Matthew Evans * | 1,324 | 46.2 | ||
| Conservative | David Fouweather * | 1,253 | 43.7 | ||
| Conservative | Charles Ferris * | 1,216 | 42.4 | ||
| Labour | Joshua Worrad | 1,130 | 39.4 | ||
| Labour | Ibrahim Hayat | 1,123 | 39.2 | ||
| Green | Christian Schmidt | 348 | 12.1 | ||
| Plaid Cymru | Jonathan Clark | 334 | 11.7 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Karl Mudd | 191 | 6.7 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Roisin Stallard | 164 | 5.7 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Rabeya Sharmin | 147 | 5.1 | ||
| Turnout | 43.0 | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Debbie Harvey * | 996 | 73.6 | ||
| Labour | Tim Harvey | 897 | 66.3 | ||
| Labour | Alex Pimm | 884 | 65.3 | ||
| Conservative | Kerry Ballard | 453 | 33.5 | ||
| Conservative | Paul Mainwaring | 405 | 29.9 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Harry Petty | 255 | 18.8 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Shihan Uddin | 198 | 14.6 | ||
| Turnout | 26.5 | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Deb Davies * | 1,113 | 69.4 | ||
| Labour | Matthew Pimm | 1,030 | 64.2 | ||
| Labour | Mark Spencer * | 1,006 | 62.7 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Holly Townsend | 418 | 26.1 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Jeff Evans | 363 | 22.6 | ||
| Conservative | Mary Shwartz | 337 | 21.0 | ||
| Conservative | Saeed Zafar | 286 | 17.8 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Harun Rashid | 260 | 16.2 | ||
| Turnout | 31.8 | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newport Ind. | Kevin Whitehead * | 673 | 52.5 | ||
| Newport Ind. | Janet Cleverly * | 633 | 49.4 | ||
| Newport Ind. | Jason Jordan * | 594 | 46.4 | ||
| Labour | Neil Griffiths | 528 | 41.2 | ||
| Labour | Orhan Aksoy | 487 | 38.0 | ||
| Labour | Coral Houtman | 460 | 35.9 | ||
| Conservative | Carolyn Foster | 164 | 12.8 | ||
| Conservative | Paula Fouweather | 157 | 12.3 | ||
| Conservative | Denise Hall | 148 | 11.6 | ||
| Turnout | 24.6 | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | William Routley | 1,052 | 59.7 | ||
| Conservative | Ray Mogford | 1,042 | 59.1 | ||
| Labour | Julie Hando | 580 | 32.9 | ||
| Labour | Andrew Bettridge | 530 | 30.1 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Sian Townsend | 194 | 11.0 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Md Ahmed | 125 | 7.1 | ||
| Turnout | 33.7 | ||||
| Conservativewin (new seat) | |||||
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Routley and Mogford had been the sitting councillors for the formerLangstone ward, which had theBishton community added at this election.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Jason Hughes * | 1,334 | 53.7 | ||
| Labour | Claire Baker-Westhead | 1,271 | 51.2 | ||
| Labour | Steve Cocks | 1,200 | 48.3 | ||
| Conservative | Joan Watkins * | 1,141 | 45.9 | ||
| Conservative | Huw Davies | 1,051 | 42.3 | ||
| Conservative | Harry Weeks | 1,034 | 41.6 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Paul L'Allier | 228 | 9.2 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Belayet Khan | 192 | 7.7 | ||
| Turnout | 41.0 | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Stephen Marshall * | 1,199 | 63.8 | ||
| Labour | Bev Perkins | 1,145 | 60.9 | ||
| Labour | Dimitri Batrouni | 1,106 | 58.9 | ||
| Conservative | Nicholas Clark | 709 | 37.7 | ||
| Conservative | Lloyd Walsh | 646 | 34.4 | ||
| Conservative | Jay Shwartz | 587 | 31.2 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Anamul Hossain | 246 | 13.1 | ||
| Turnout | 31.1 | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | John Jones | 657 | 43.6 | ||
| Labour | John Harris | 654 | 43.4 | ||
| Labour | Kath Hopkins | 651 | 43.2 | ||
| Conservative | David Williams* | 639 | 42.4 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Nathan Tarr | 415 | 27.5 | ||
| Turnout | 40.3 | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Martyn Kellaway * | 658 | 63.8 | ||
| Labour | Abul Chowdhury | 313 | 30.4 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Colleen Kennard-Smith | 60 | 5.8 | ||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Allan Morris * | 1,723 | |||
| Independent | Andrew Sterry | 1,623 | |||
| Independent | Mark Howells | 1,616 | |||
| Independent | James Peterson | 1,564 | |||
| Labour | Roger Jeavons * | 902 | |||
| Labour | John Richards * | 864 | |||
| Labour | Shah Alom | 848 | |||
| Labour | Ruqia Hayat | 833 | |||
| Conservative | Luke Thompson | 284 | |||
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The community ofNash was transferred from Liswerry to the Llanwern ward at this election.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Jane Mudd * | 978 | 48.8 | ||
| Labour | James Clarke * | 933 | 46.5 | ||
| Labour | David Mayer * | 867 | 43.2 | ||
| Conservative | Michael Brunnock | 745 | 37.1 | ||
| Conservative | Stephen Manley | 692 | 34.5 | ||
| Conservative | Jonathan Hollins | 561 | 28.0 | ||
| Newport Ind. | Michael Cox | 526 | 26.2 | ||
| Newport Ind. | Rachel Reaney | 482 | 24.0 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Sarah Lockyer | 147 | 7.3 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Kobir Ahmed | 87 | 4.3 | ||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Saeed Adan | 840 | 55.4 | ||
| Labour | Debbie Jenkins | 759 | 50.1 | ||
| Newport Ind. | Marc Ravenscroft | 347 | 22.9 | ||
| Newport Ind. | Wan Taylor | 298 | 19.7 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Shamimul Islam | 270 | 17.8 | ||
| Plaid Cymru | Khalilur Rahman | 151 | 10.0 | ||
| Conservative | Brinley Cox | 133 | 8.8 | ||
| Conservative | Judith Davies | 129 | 8.5 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Mihai Munteanu | 103 | 6.8 | ||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Emma Corten | 901 | 69.7 | ||
| Labour | Laura Lacey * | 884 | 68.4 | ||
| Labour | Malcolm Linton * | 809 | 62.6 | ||
| Conservative | Tina Evans | 374 | 28.9 | ||
| Conservative | Nicola Hobbs | 348 | 26.9 | ||
| Conservative | Georgina Webb | 319 | 24.7 | ||
| Independent | Raymond Lord | 243 | 18.8 | ||
| Turnout | 24.6 | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Bev Davies | 503 | 62.6 | ||
| Conservative | Toby Jones | 243 | 30.3 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Shopon Chowdhury | 57 | 7.1 | ||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | 33.6 | ||||
| Labourwin (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Chris Reeks | 667 | 54.9 | ||
| Labour | Jonathan Gibbons | 548 | 45.1 | ||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | 51.2 | ||||
| Conservativewin (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Yvonne Forsey | 1,133 | 68.3 | ||
| Labour | John Reynolds | 916 | 55.2 | ||
| Conservative | Andrew Hill | 532 | 32.0 | ||
| Conservative | Graham Berry | 530 | 31.9 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Liz Newton | 209 | 12.6 | ||
| Turnout | 31.5 | ||||
| Labourwin (new seat) | |||||
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Forsey had been one of the sitting councillors in the formerRogerstone ward.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Paul Cockeram * | 503 | 44.3 | ||
| Green | Lauren James | 475 | 41.9 | ||
| Labour | Nicky Vignoli | 401 | 35.3 | ||
| Green | Tanya Sinnett | 358 | 31.5 | ||
| Conservative | Judy Gilligan | 205 | 18.1 | ||
| Conservative | Khushbir Bhullar | 167 | 14.7 | ||
| Newport Ind. | Rhys Richards | 161 | 14.2 | ||
| Turnout | 31.9 | ||||
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| Greengain fromLabour | |||||
James became Newport's first ever Green Party councillor.[3]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Paul Bright | 1,004 | 48.8 | ||
| Labour | Phil Hourahine * | 963 | 46.8 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Carmel Townsend * | 898 | 43.7 | ||
| Labour | Asum Mahmood | 844 | 41.0 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Mike Hamilton | 726 | 35.3 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Oliver Townsend | 718 | 34.9 | ||
| Conservative | Michael Enea | 418 | 20.3 | ||
| Conservative | Marie Jermyn | 338 | 16.4 | ||
| Conservative | Muhammad Tariq | 262 | 12.7 | ||
| Turnout | 34.5 | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Kate Thomas * | 879 | 67.9 | ||
| Labour | Miqdad Al-Nuaimi * | 804 | 62.1 | ||
| Conservative | Saleh Baqi | 366 | 28.3 | ||
| Newport Ind. | Nick Baneswell | 305 | 23.6 | ||
| Conservative | Ben Jones | 234 | 18.1 | ||
| Turnout | 31.2 | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Rhian Howells | 1,148 | 54.4 | ||
| Labour | Allan Screen | 993 | 47.1 | ||
| Labour | Trevor Watkins | 917 | 43.5 | ||
| Conservative | Sarah Nurse | 855 | 40.5 | ||
| Conservative | Wayne Cresswell | 846 | 40.1 | ||
| Conservative | Brian Miles | 846 | 40.1 | ||
| Green | Catherine Linstrum | 440 | 20.9 | ||
| Propel | Celia Jones | 156 | 7.4 | ||
| Propel | Shane Williams | 125 | 5.9 | ||
| Turnout | 28.5 | ||||
| Labourwin (new seat) | |||||
| Labourwin (new seat) | |||||
| Labourwin (new seat) | |||||
Watkins had been the sitting councillor for the formerTredegar Park ward.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Gavin Horton * | 982 | 54.4 | ||
| Labour | Farzina Hussain * | 933 | 51.7 | ||
| Conservative | Bilal Meah | 449 | 24.9 | ||
| Conservative | Faisal Rahman | 426 | 23.6 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | John Miller | 350 | 19.4 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Nurul Islam | 293 | 16.2 | ||
| Newport Ind. | Annette Farmer | 179 | 9.9 | ||
| Turnout | 34.3 | ||||
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Horton and Hussain had won seats in this ward at two separate by-elections in 2021.
