Grangetown (Cardiff electoral ward)

A by-election was called for the 14 August 2025, following the stepping down of Labour councillor, Sara Robinson.^[3] The vacant seat was won by the Green Party, their first ever seat on Cardiff Council and their first ever by-election win in Wales.^[4]

2025 Grangetown by-election^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Matt Youde	818	24.4%
	Labour	Khuram Chowdhry	774	23.1%
	Plaid Cymru	Neil Roberts	639	19.1%
	Reform UK	Joseph Martin	495	13.0%
	Propel	Vincent Yewlett	327	9.8%
	Independent	Ahmed Samater	158	4.7%
	Conservative	James Hamblin	139	4.1%
	Liberal Democrats	Irfan Latif	63	1.8%
Turnout				26.7
	Green gain from Labour

Following the death of Abdul Sattar in February, a by-election was called for 25 April 2024. Seven candidates put themselves forward to fill the vacancy, including Sattar's widow Waheeda Sattar^[5] the eventual winner.

2024 Grangetown by-election^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Waheeda Abdul Sattar	1,470	47.5%	N/A
	Common Ground	Kirstie Kopetzki	573	18.5%	N/A
	Conservative	Zak Weaver	387	12.5%	N/A
	Propel	Sash Patel	292	9.4%	N/A
	Independent	Ahmed Abdillahi Abdi Samater	205	6.6%	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	James Robin Bear	123	3.9%	N/A
	Independent	Andrew Charles Hovord	44	1.4%	N/A
Turnout			3094	20.3
	Labour hold

Following a boundary review the number of seats increased from three to four. The boundaries themselves for this ward remained unchanged.

2022 Cardiff Council election^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ash Lister*	2,885	56.4	N/A
	Labour	Sara Elisabeth Robinson	2,733	53.4	N/A
	Labour	Abdul Sattar*	2,665	52.1	N/A
	Labour	Lynda Doreen Thorne*	2,533	49.5	N/A
	Common Ground	Tariq Awan	1,511	29.5	N/A
	Common Ground	Sarah King	1,382	27.0	N/A
	Common Ground	Luke Nicholas	1,312	25.7	N/A
	Common Ground	Frankie-Rose Taylor	1,131	22.1	N/A
	Conservative	Joseph Anyaike	487	9.5	N/A
	Conservative	Conor Holohan	478	9.3	N/A
	Conservative	Llyr Tomos Powell	442	8.6	N/A
	Conservative	Vivienne Ward	425	8.3	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	David Paul Morgan	266	5.2	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Irfan Latif	258	5.0	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Aamir Sheikh	250	4.9	N/A
	Propel	Jonathan Paul Gee	175	3.4	N/A
	Propel	Sailesh Patel	162	3.2	N/A
	Propel	Michael James Voyce	150	2.9	N/A
	TUSC	Joe Fathallah	109	2.1	N/A
Turnout			5,115[8]	35.8	−1.5
Registered electors			14,304
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour win (new seat)

Abdul Sattar died suddenly aged 53, on 15 February 2024.^[9]

At the May 2017 County Council elections Labour won all three seats, winning back the seat lost to Plaid Cymru in November 2016. Ashley Lister, grandson of the late councillor Chris Lomax (who died in September 2016) topped the poll by a single vote.^[10]

2017 Cardiff Council election^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ashley Lister	2199
	Labour	Abdul Sattar	2198
	Labour	Lynda Thorne *	2121
	Plaid Cymru	Tariq Awan *	1757
	Plaid Cymru	Richard Vaughan	1438
	Plaid Cymru	Lisa Musa	1310
	Conservative	Michael Bryan	671
	Conservative	Jenna Malvisi	604
	Conservative	Andrew Pike	580
	Liberal Democrats	Jahangir Hussain	350
	Green	Simon Morton	272
	Liberal Democrats	Malcolm Evans	232
	Liberal Democrats	Muhammed Latif	194
	TUSC	Lianne Francis	65
	TUSC	Joe Fathallah	46

Following the death of Labour councillor Chris Lomax a by-election was held on 3 November 2016 which was won by Plaid Cymru candidate Tariq Awan, though by only 114 votes.^[12]

2016 Grangetown by-election ^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Plaid Cymru	Tariq Awan	1163
	Labour	Maliika Kaaba	1049
	Conservative	Michael Bryan	287
	UKIP	Richard Lewis	141
	Liberal Democrats	Ashgar Ali	127

In May 2012 Labour won back from the Liberal Democrats the three seats they had previously lost in 2004, with Plaid Cymru having a strong surge.^[14]

2012 Cardiff Council elections^[15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ashley Govier	1,812
	Labour	Chris Lomax	1,709
	Labour	Lynda Doreen Thorne	1,704
	Plaid Cymru	Abdul Sattar	1,511
	Plaid Cymru	Mohammed Tariq Awan	1,467
	Plaid Cymru	Luke Nicholas	1,391
	Liberal Democrats	Francesca Eva Sara Montemaggi *	505
	Liberal Democrats	David Morgan *	501
	Liberal Democrats	Paul Harding	489
	Conservative	Vincent Bailey	308
	Conservative	Axel Kaehne	266
	Conservative	Karys Oram	251
	Green	Sian Best	215
	Green	Ken Barker	205
	Christian	Clive Stanley Bate	84
	Communist	Rick Newnham	77

In May 2008, the Liberal Democrats successfully defended their three seats.

2008 Cardiff Council elections

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Francesca Montemaggi *	1,357
	Liberal Democrats	Asghar Ali *	1,319
	Liberal Democrats	David Morgan	1,317
	Labour	Lynda Doreen Thorne	1,138
	Labour	Stephen Brooks	1,131
	Labour	David Collins	1,104
	Plaid Cymru	Farida Alsam	1,099
	Plaid Cymru	Patrick Daley	1,009
	Plaid Cymru	Ioan Bellin	920
	Conservative	Benjamin Green	546
	Conservative	Mark Jones	533
	Conservative	Michael Wallbank	482
	Communist	Rick Newnham	111

In May 2004 the Liberal Democrats won all three seats from the Labour Party. Labour councillor Peter Perkins had represented the area since 1981, initially for the Marl ward before it became part of Grangetown.^[16]

2004 Cardiff Council elections^[17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Margaret Winifred Jones	1,424
	Liberal Democrats	Francesca Montemaggi	1,417
	Liberal Democrats	Asghar Ali	1,404
	Labour	Lynda Doreen Thorne *	1,122
	Labour	Iftakhar Mohammad Khan	1,113
	Labour	Peter George Perkins *	1,072
	Plaid Cymru	Patrick Daley	838
	Plaid Cymru	Abul Faiz M. Belal	764
	Plaid Cymru	Jason Scott Toby	749
	Conservative	Jean Summerhayes	427
	Conservative	Adrian John Spinola	420
	Conservative	Richard Peter Mendelssohn	369

At the last elections to the pre-1974 county borough council on 7 May 1970, Labour's Bernard Matthewson returned to the council, defeating Grangetown's sitting Conservative councillor after a recount.^[18]

1970 Cardiff City Council election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Armour Bernard Matthewson	1,260
	Conservative	Anthea Jean Thomas *	1,249
	Plaid Cymru	Peter Stayeley McMullen	315
Turnout
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

At the first Grangetown election on 1 November 1890, John Jenkins, a shipwright and a nominee of Cardiff Trades Council, was declared to be the first genuine working man's representative elected to the council. There were a large number of seafaring households in the south of the ward.^[19]

1890 Cardiff City Council election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Lib-Lab	John Jenkins	484
	Conservative	Robert Upham	260
Turnout			753	61.4

In July 1890, following the creation of Cardiff County Borough Council, Grangetown was the name of one of the ten new electoral wards created in the county borough.^[20] Each of the three councillors took turns to stand for re-election, on a three-yearly cycle.

* = sitting councillor prior to the election