2008 Local Council Elections
In the local council elections for 2008, the turnout in the Mayals was 42.69%. The results were:
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rene Harwood Kinzett | Welsh Conservatives | 545 | Welsh Conservatives GAIN |
| Peter Geoffrey Birch | Independents@Swansea | 465 | |
| Juliet Anne Fortey | Labour | 190 |
Read more about this topic: Mayals (electoral Ward)
Famous quotes containing the words local, council and/or elections:
“In everyone’s youthful dreams, philosophy is still vaguely but inseparably, and with singular truth, associated with the East, nor do after years discover its local habitation in the Western world. In comparison with the philosophers of the East, we may say that modern Europe has yet given birth to none.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Daughter to that good Earl, once President
Of England’s Council and her Treasury,
Who lived in both, unstain’d with gold or fee,
And left them both, more in himself content.
Till the sad breaking of that Parliament
Broke him, as that dishonest victory
At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty,
Kill’d with report that old man eloquent;—”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
“Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)