Photo: Voice of Clam · Public domainPlaid Cymru holds a majority on Ceredigion County Council
Llandre is run by Ceredigion County Council. Plaid Cymru has a majority on Ceredigion County Council. Its MP is Ben Lake (Plaid Cymru), member for Ceredigion Preseli.
£2,419
Band D, a year, the middle band every council sets its tax from.
Where it goes →How Llandre’s politics has changed since 2021
A majority on Ceredigion County Council
Plaid Cymru holds a majority on Ceredigion County Council: 19 of its 33 seats as elected. Independents hold 7, the Liberal Democrats 6 and Gwlad 1. Who’s in charge ↓
Written from the data on this page: Democracy Club results since May 2021, the UK Parliament Members API and Welsh Government council tax.
Who holds the seats
Seats by party as elected. A party needs 17 of Ceredigion’s 33 seats to run the council alone.
- Plaid Cymru19
- Independent7
- Liberal Democrat6
- Gwlad1
Latest election: May 2022.
Seats are counted from election results: each ward’s most recent winners until its seats are filled. Councillors who have since changed party or resigned aren’t reflected, and which parties lead the council, and who is leader, comes from the council itself.
Results: Democracy Club (CC BY 4.0), elections since May 2021; seats per ward from its EveryElection.
The councils that run Llandre
One council runs every main service in a Welsh county or county borough.
Every main council service: schools, social care, roads, bins, planning, housing and libraries.
Website ↗Who to ask
From GOV.UK’s “Understand how your council works”: here one council runs every main service.
Every part of Wales is in a community; many have a community or town council, which the county council lists. Llandre’s communities: Geneu'r Glyn.
Councils from ONS lookups (wards and councils May 2026, parishes 2025), names and websites from GOV.UK’s local council finder; parish councils from MHCLG’s 2026–27 list of precepting parishes.
From the council to Westminster
Every elected tier that speaks for Llandre, from the most recent elections.
- 1Ceredigion County Council1 ward · 1 councillorHugh Richard Michael Hughes
- 2Police and crime commissionerDyfed-Powys Police · elected May 2024Dafydd Llywelyn
- 3SeneddCeredigion Penfro · 6 membersPaul Windsor DaviesElin JonesSusan Claire ArchibaldKerry Elizabeth FergusonPaul MarrAnna Nicholl
- 4House of CommonsCeredigion Preseli
Party colours are neutral on purpose: they tell parties apart and aren’t the parties’ own. Tap an MP’s name for their contact page on parliament.uk.
1 councillor for 1 ward
Wards with at least 2% of the town’s residents, or half their own inside it. Each shows who won its most recent elections, newest first, until its seats are filled.
- Hugh Richard Michael HughesIndependent · May 2022
Show as a table
| Ward | Seats | Elected | When |
|---|---|---|---|
| Borth18% in Llandre · 353 residents1 seat · May 2022 | 1 | Hugh Richard Michael Hughes | May 2022 |
Councillors can resign, change party or sit as independents between elections; a by-election winner replaces someone not named here. Ceredigion County Council’s website lists who sits now.
Results from Democracy Club’s candidates database (CC BY 4.0; elections since May 2021) and ward seats from its EveryElection, matched to ONS wards (May 2026) and county divisions (May 2025).
Ceredigion council election, May 2022
Results in the wards that make up Llandre, as declared. Percentages are of votes cast for candidates in each ward; where a ward elects several councillors, each voter has that many votes.
1 ward voted. Every seat in the town’s wards was up.
No election is scheduled yet for Llandre’s wards in Democracy Club’s list. Councils publish a notice of election about five weeks before polling day.
Who can I vote for? ↗892 votes for candidates
Candidates and results: Democracy Club (CC BY 4.0), from councils’ declared results; polling dates from Democracy Club’s EveryElection.
Llandre is in Ceredigion Preseli constituency
The constituency’s MP and the 4 July 2024 general election, the whole constituency’s result (it reaches beyond Llandre).
46,302 votes for candidates · majority 14,789
Plaid Cymru, MP since 8 June 2017.
turnout in July 2024: 46,302 votes from 75,690 registered voters. Wales: 56%.
Majority 14,789 of 46,302 votes (31.9%): wider than in 91% of Wales’s 32 constituencies.
MPs and results: UK Parliament Members API (Open Parliament Licence v3.0); constituencies from ONS (2024 boundaries). Percentages are of valid votes; turnout is votes cast over the electorate.
Members of the Senedd for Llandre
Wales’s parliament: health, education, local government and transport in Wales. Elected 7 May 2026 under the new system of 16 six-member constituencies.
Votes are cast for party lists; seats go to lists in proportion (the D’Hondt method). Bars show seats won: list vote totals aren’t in the data yet.
All of Llandre is in Ceredigion Penfro.
Results: Democracy Club (CC BY 4.0). Constituencies from ONS (Senedd constituencies 2026).
Llandre’s Band D council tax is £2,419 a year
Where a Band D bill goes, what it has cost over the years, and what the councils plan to spend per resident.
Ceredigion County Council sets £1,976.18 of a Band D bill (82%); the rest goes to community councils and the Dyfed-Powys Police and Crime Commissioner.
Your bill by band
The average Band D home in Ceredigion, 2026–27, before discounts. The Valuation Office Agency’s band search gives any home’s band.
Dyfed’s councils
Average Band D in each council area, 2026–27, parish precepts included. Bars start at £2,000.
Revenue budgets 2026–27 including schools (Wales has no academies), Welsh Government; per resident on the Welsh Government’s population. Police and fire are budgeted separately.
Band D: Welsh Government, Council tax levels April 2026 to March 2027.
Having a say in how Llandre is run
It takes about five minutes online; the deadline is 12 working days before a poll.
gov.uk ↗Type a postcode to write to each of its councillors and its MP.
WriteToThem ↗GOV.UK sends the report to the council that looks after the road.
gov.uk ↗Council and committee meetings are open to the public, with agendas and minutes online.
ceredigion.gov.uk ↗Anyone can comment while an application is open for consultation.
ceredigion.gov.uk ↗The rules, nomination papers and guidance for council candidates.
Electoral Commission ↗Questions about how Llandre is run
Who is the MP for Llandre?
Ben Lake (Plaid Cymru) is the MP for Ceredigion Preseli, which covers Llandre.
How many councillors does Llandre have?
1 ward councillors represent Llandre’s 1 ward.
When are the next elections in Llandre?
No election is scheduled yet in Democracy Club’s list for Llandre’s wards. The next UK general election must be held by August 2029; the next Senedd election is due in May 2030.
How much is council tax in Llandre?
Band D council tax in Llandre is £2,419 for 2026–27 (the council average). Your bill depends on your home’s band, from A (6/9 of Band D) to H (18/9).
Who controls Ceredigion County Council?
Plaid Cymru has a majority: 19 of 33 seats as elected. The council’s website lists who leads it now.
Who won the 2022 council election in Llandre?
In Llandre’s wards on 5 May 2022, Independent 1 of the 1 seats up. Independents had the largest share of votes, 68.9%.
Sources: ONS ward, county division, parish, constituency and Senedd constituency lookups (Census 2021 output areas; Open Government Licence v3.0) · GOV.UK local council finder · Democracy Club candidates (CC BY 4.0) and EveryElection · UK Parliament Members API (Open Parliament Licence v3.0) · Welsh Government council tax levels and revenue budgets 2026–27 (OGL v3.0). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.