Pontypridd Urban District Council

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 and the Pontypridd Urban District Council election, 1894 saw the election of the first members of the authority. 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 was increased some years later, as a result of the increase in population. There were six wards, namely Cilfynydd, Graig, Pontypridd Town, Rhondda, Trallwn and Treforest.

The first councillors were elected at the 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 election, 1896

In the Pontypridd Urban District Council election of 1896 there were contests in three of the six wards.^[1]

(*) denotes sitting member

Cilfynydd Ward

Graig

Rhondda Ward

Town Ward

W. 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.^[2]

Trallwn Ward

Treforest

Pontypridd Urban District council election, 1898

In the Pontypridd Urban District Council election of 1898 there were contests in three of the six wards.^[3]

(*) denotes sitting member

Cilfynydd Ward

Graig

Rhondda Ward

Town Ward

Trallwn Ward

Treforest

Notable members of the Council

• Walter Morgan, solicitor

References

Bibliography

• Parry, Jon (1989). "Labour Leaders and Local Politics 1888-1902: The Example of Aberdare". Welsh History Review. 14 (3): 399–416. Retrieved 24 October 2013.