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Plaid Cymru holds a majority on Gwynedd Council

Caeathro is run by Gwynedd Council. Plaid Cymru has a majority on Gwynedd Council. Its MP is Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru), member for Dwyfor Meirionnydd.

Council tax 2026–27

£2,469

Band D, a year, the middle band every council sets its tax from.

Where it goes →
Band D council tax
£2,469
2026–27, a year · council average
Ward councillors
1
1 ward · Gwynedd
MP
Liz Saville Roberts
Plaid Cymru · Dwyfor Meirionnydd
Turnout, July 2024
55%
Dwyfor Meirionnydd · Wales 56%
What stands out · In brief

How Caeathro’s politics has changed since 2021

A majority on Gwynedd Council

Plaid Cymru holds a majority on Gwynedd Council: 26 of its 41 seats as elected. Independents hold 14, Labour 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’s in charge

Who holds the seats

Seats by party as elected. A party needs 21 of Gwynedd’s 41 seats to run the council alone.

Council · 41 councillorsGwynedd CouncilPlaid Cymru majority
LabourPlaid CymruPlaid CymruPlaid CymruPlaid CymruPlaid CymruPlaid CymruPlaid CymruPlaid CymruPlaid CymruPlaid CymruPlaid CymruPlaid CymruPlaid CymruPlaid CymruPlaid CymruPlaid CymruPlaid CymruPlaid CymruPlaid CymruPlaid CymruPlaid CymruPlaid CymruPlaid CymruPlaid CymruPlaid CymruPlaid CymruIndependentIndependentIndependentIndependentIndependentIndependentIndependentIndependentIndependentIndependentIndependentIndependentIndependentIndependent41seats
  • Plaid Cymru26
  • Independent14
  • Labour1

Latest election: May 2022.

LabourPlaid CymruIndependent

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.

Who runs Caeathro

The councils that run Caeathro

One council runs every main service in a Welsh county or county borough.

County or county borough councilGwynedd Council

Every main council service: schools, social care, roads, bins, planning, housing and libraries.

Website ↗

Who to ask

Bins and recyclingGwynedd Council
Planning applicationsGwynedd Council
Council housing and homelessnessGwynedd Council
Council tax billsGwynedd Council
Parks and leisure centresGwynedd Council
Potholes, roads and streetlightsGwynedd Council
Schools and school placesGwynedd Council
Adult and children’s social careGwynedd Council
LibrariesGwynedd Council
Tips and recycling centresGwynedd Council
Police priorities and budgetNorth Wales Police police and crime commissioner

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. Caeathro’s communities: Waunfawr.

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.

Who represents Caeathro

From the council to Westminster

Every elected tier that speaks for Caeathro, from the most recent elections.

  1. 1
    Gwynedd Council1 ward · 1 councillor
    Menna Mai Jones
  2. 2
    Police and crime commissionerNorth Wales Police · elected May 2024
    Andy Dunbobbin
  3. 3
    SeneddGwynedd Maldwyn · 6 members
    Siân GwenllianAndrew Charles GriffinMabon ap GwynforClaire Victoria Johnson-WoodBeca BrownElwyn Vaughan
  4. 4
    House of CommonsDwyfor Meirionnydd
LabourReform UKPlaid Cymru

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.

Councillors

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.

Y Bontnewydd
248 residents · 20% in Caeathro
  • Menna Mai JonesPlaid Cymru · May 2022
Plaid Cymru
Show as a table
WardSeatsElectedWhen
Y Bontnewydd20% in Caeathro · 248 residents1 seat · May 20221
Menna Mai Jones
May 2022

Councillors can resign, change party or sit as independents between elections; a by-election winner replaces someone not named here. Gwynedd 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).

Local elections

Gwynedd council election, May 2022

Results in the wards that make up Caeathro, as declared. Percentages are of votes cast for candidates in each ward; where a ward elects several councillors, each voter has that many votes.

Seats won in Caeathro’s wards1 seat · 5 May 2022
Plaid Cymru1

1 ward voted. Every seat in the town’s wards was up.

Next elections

No election is scheduled yet for Caeathro’s wards in Democracy Club’s list. Councils publish a notice of election about five weeks before polling day.

Who can I vote for? ↗
Y Bontnewydd5 May 2022
Menna Mai Jones ElectedPlaid Cymru79.7%
Gavin Andrew OwenIndependent20.3%

517 votes for candidates

Plaid CymruIndependent

Candidates and results: Democracy Club (CC BY 4.0), from councils’ declared results; polling dates from Democracy Club’s EveryElection.

Parliament

Caeathro is in Dwyfor Meirionnydd constituency

The constituency’s MP and the 4 July 2024 general election, the whole constituency’s result (it reaches beyond Caeathro).

Dwyfor Meirionnydd · general election4 July 2024
Liz Saville Roberts ElectedPlaid Cymru53.9%
Joanna StallardLabour14.6%
Lucy MurphyReform UK12.0%
Tomos DayConservative11.7%
Karl DrinkwaterGreen3.6%
Phoebe JenkinsLiberal Democrat3.4%
Joan GinsbergHeritage Party0.7%

40,395 votes for candidates · majority 15,876

MP for Dwyfor Meirionnydd

Liz Saville Roberts

Plaid Cymru, MP since 7 May 2015.

55%

turnout in July 2024: 40,395 votes from 73,040 registered voters. Wales: 56%.

Majority 15,876 of 40,395 votes (39.3%): wider than in 94% of Wales’s 32 constituencies.

LabourConservativeLiberal DemocratReform UKGreenPlaid CymruOther parties

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.

Senedd Cymru

Members of the Senedd for Caeathro

Wales’s parliament: health, education, local government and transport in Wales. Elected 7 May 2026 under the new system of 16 six-member constituencies.

Gwynedd Maldwyn7 May 2026
Plaid Cymru4 members elected4 of 6
Reform UK2 members elected2 of 6

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.

6 members of the Senedd
Siân GwenllianAndrew Charles GriffinMabon ap GwynforClaire Victoria Johnson-WoodBeca BrownElwyn Vaughan

All of Caeathro is in Gwynedd Maldwyn.

LabourConservativeLiberal DemocratReform UKGreenPlaid CymruIndependentOther parties

Results: Democracy Club (CC BY 4.0). Constituencies from ONS (Senedd constituencies 2026).

Council money

Caeathro’s Band D council tax is £2,469 a year

Where a Band D bill goes, what it has cost over the years, and what the councils plan to spend per resident.

COUNCIL TAXBand D · 2026–27 · the average Band D home in Gwynedd
Community councilsaverage across Gwynedd£64.41
Gwynedd Councilcounty or county borough£2,006.11
North Wales Police and Crime Commissionerpolice£398.25
A year£2,468.77
Bills by band run from 6/9 of Band D (Band A) to 18/9 (Band H) and 21/9 (Band I) in Wales. Discounts and support reduce many bills.

Gwynedd Council sets £2,006.11 of a Band D bill (81%); the rest goes to community councils and the North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner.

Your bill by band

Band A 6/9£1,646
Band B 7/9£1,920
Band C 8/9£2,194
Band D 9/9£2,469
Band E 11/9£3,017
Band F 13/9£3,566
Band G 15/9£4,115
Band H 18/9£4,938
Band I 21/9£5,760

The average Band D home in Gwynedd, 2026–27, before discounts. The Valuation Office Agency’s band search gives any home’s band.

Council budget per resident
£3,853
Gwynedd, 2026–27
Gwynedd councils
£3,774
per resident
Wales
£3,367
per resident

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.

Get involved

Having a say in how Caeathro is run

Register to vote

It takes about five minutes online; the deadline is 12 working days before a poll.

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Contact your councillors or MP

Type a postcode to write to each of its councillors and its MP.

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Report a pothole or a broken streetlight

GOV.UK sends the report to the council that looks after the road.

gov.uk ↗
Watch or speak at a council meeting

Council and committee meetings are open to the public, with agendas and minutes online.

gwynedd.llyw.cymru ↗
Comment on a planning application

Anyone can comment while an application is open for consultation.

gwynedd.llyw.cymru ↗
Stand for election

The rules, nomination papers and guidance for council candidates.

Electoral Commission ↗

Questions about how Caeathro is run

Who is the MP for Caeathro?

Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru) is the MP for Dwyfor Meirionnydd, which covers Caeathro.

How many councillors does Caeathro have?

1 ward councillors represent Caeathro’s 1 ward.

When are the next elections in Caeathro?

No election is scheduled yet in Democracy Club’s list for Caeathro’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 Caeathro?

Band D council tax in Caeathro is £2,469 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 Gwynedd Council?

Plaid Cymru has a majority: 26 of 41 seats as elected. The council’s website lists who leads it now.

Who won the 2022 council election in Caeathro?

In Caeathro’s wards on 5 May 2022, Plaid Cymru 1 of the 1 seats up. Plaid Cymru had the largest share of votes, 79.7%.

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.

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