User:Macs15/sandbox

=1952 Glamorgan County Council election=

The nineteenth election to Glamorgan County Council, south Wales, took place in April 1952. It was preceded by the 1949 election and followed by the 1955 election.

Overview
Labour's comfortable majority on the council, including the aldermanic bench, remained unchanged.

Candidates
Labour fielded 63 candidates for the 66 seats, 45 of whom were returned unopposed. Three Independent councillors were also unopposed resulting in only eighteen contested elections.

Among the Labour candidates returned unopposed. For instance, in the Neath area, Labour candidates were returned unopposed in four of the five wards.

Outcome
Labour retained their majority as comfortably as in all previous elections, and captured both the Garw Valley ward and the Coedffranc ward from the Communists.

Barry
Dudley Howe had previously represented Cadoxton and gained the neighbouring Barry ward from Labour. However, Labour won Cadoxton for the first time against the new candidate.

Election of Aldermen
In addition to the 66 councillors the council consisted of 22 county aldermen. Aldermen were elected by the council, and served a six-year term. Following the 1928 election, there were eleven Aldermanic vacancies, all of which all of which were filled by Labour nominees despite the protestations of their opponents.

The following retiring aldermen were re-elected:
 * Sidney Cadogan (Lab, Rhondda)
 * W.H. Davies (Lab, Gower)
 * Alfred Evans (Lab, Rhondda)
 * Rhys Evans (Lab, Treorchy)
 * Tom Evans (Lab, Pengam)
 * Daniel T. Jones (Lab, Ystalyfera)
 * W. Arthur Jones (Lab, Tonyrefail)
 * Evan Phillips (Lab, Caerphilly)
 * Rev W. Degwel Thomas (Lab, Neath)

The following new aldermen were elected:
 * H.J. Cook (Lab, Penarth)
 * Mervyn Payne (Lab, Pencoed)

By-elections
Eleven vacancies were caused by the election of aldermen.

Barry Dock by-election
Labour lost the by-election held following the re-election of Dorothy Rees to the aldermanic bench. The Labour candidate had been elected following Rees's original election as alderman three years previously and at the recent election had unsuccessfully contested the neighbouring Barry ward.

Overview
Labour's comfortable majority on the council, including the aldermanic bench, remained unchanged.

Candidates
Many candidates were returned unopposed.

Among the Labour candidates returned unopposed. For instance, in the Neath area, Labour candidates were returned unopposed in three of the five wards.

Outcome
Labour retained their majority as comfortably as in all previous elections, andlthough lost a seat at Neath where William Kingdon Owen recaptured the seat he had lost three years previously |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003431/19550415/041/0005|access-date=9 February 2023|newspaper=Neath Guardian |date=15 April 1955|page=16}}

Barry
Dudley Howe had previously represented Cadoxton and gained the neighbouring Barry ward from Labour. However, Labour won Cadoxton for the first time against the new candidate.

Election of Aldermen
In addition to the 66 councillors the council consisted of 22 county aldermen. Aldermen were elected by the council, and served a six-year term. Following the 1928 election, there were eleven Aldermanic vacancies, all of which all of which were filled by Labour nominees despite the protestations of their opponents.

The following retiring aldermen were re-elected:
 * Sidney Cadogan (Lab, Rhondda)
 * W.H. Davies (Lab, Gower)
 * Alfred Evans (Lab, Rhondda)
 * Rhys Evans (Lab, Treorchy)
 * Tom Evans (Lab, Pengam)
 * Daniel T. Jones (Lab, Ystalyfera)
 * W. Arthur Jones (Lab, Tonyrefail)
 * Evan Phillips (Lab, Caerphilly)
 * Rev W. Degwel Thomas (Lab, Neath)

The following new aldermen were elected:
 * H.J. Cook (Lab, Penarth)
 * Mervyn Payne (Lab, Pencoed)

By-elections
Eleven vacancies were caused by the election of aldermen.

Barry Dock by-election
Labour lost the by-election held following the re-election of Dorothy Rees to the aldermanic bench. The Labour candidate had been elected following Rees's original election as alderman three years previously and at the recent election had unsuccessfully contested the neighbouring Barry ward.

New article
This is a list of Members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by Welsh constituencies for the Fifty-Eighth Parliament of the United Kingdom (1945–50).

It includes both MPs elected at the 1945 general election, held on 12 December 2019, and those subsequently elected in by-elections.

The list is sorted by the name of the MP, and MPs who did not serve throughout the Parliament are italicised. New MPs elected after the general election are noted at the bottom of the page.

Hywel Heulyn Roberts
Hywel Heulyn Roberts (16 March 1919 - 30 April 2010) was a Welsh businessman and public figure, who served for many decades as an Independent councillor in Cardiganshire (1952-74) and Dyfed (1973-89).