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Town Hall & politics · Powys County Council

Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe was decided by 1,472 votes in 2024

Llandrindod Wells is run by Powys County Council. No party holds a majority on Powys County Council. Its MP is David Chadwick (Liberal Democrat), member for Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe.

Council tax 2026–27

£2,352

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

Where it goes →
Band D council tax
£2,352
2026–27, a year · council average
Ward councillors
3
2 wards · Powys
MP
David Chadwick
Liberal Democrat · Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe
Turnout, July 2024
64%
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe · Wales 56%
What stands out · In brief

How Llandrindod Wells’s politics has changed since 2021

No majority on Powys County Council

The Liberal Democrats, the largest group, hold 24 of its 61 seats as elected, 7 short of the 31 needed. Independents hold 12, the Conservatives 11, Labour 9, Plaid Cymru 3, the Greens 1 and Reform UK 1. Who’s in charge ↓

A close seat

David Chadwick (Liberal Democrat) won Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe by 1,472 votes in July 2024, 3.2% of votes cast: the 3rd-narrowest result of 32 in Wales. Parliament ↓

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

No party has a majority

Seats by party as elected. A party needs 31 of Powys’s 61 seats to run the council alone.

Council · 61 councillorsPowys County CouncilNo overall control
GreenLabourLabourLabourLabourLabourLabourLabourLabourLabourLiberal DemocratLiberal DemocratLiberal DemocratLiberal DemocratLiberal DemocratLiberal DemocratLiberal DemocratLiberal DemocratLiberal DemocratLiberal DemocratLiberal DemocratLiberal DemocratLiberal DemocratLiberal DemocratLiberal DemocratLiberal DemocratLiberal DemocratLiberal DemocratLiberal DemocratLiberal DemocratLiberal DemocratLiberal DemocratLiberal DemocratLiberal DemocratPlaid CymruPlaid CymruPlaid CymruIndependentIndependentIndependentIndependentIndependentIndependentIndependentIndependentIndependentIndependentIndependentIndependentConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeReform UK61seats
  • Liberal Democrat24
  • Independent12
  • Conservative11
  • Labour9
  • Plaid Cymru3
  • Green1
  • Reform UK1

Latest election: May 2022.

GreenLabourLiberal DemocratPlaid CymruIndependentConservativeReform UK

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 Llandrindod Wells

The councils that run Llandrindod Wells

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

County or county borough councilPowys County Council

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

Website ↗

Who to ask

Bins and recyclingPowys County Council
Planning applicationsPowys County Council
Council housing and homelessnessPowys County Council
Council tax billsPowys County Council
Parks and leisure centresPowys County Council
Potholes, roads and streetlightsPowys County Council
Schools and school placesPowys County Council
Adult and children’s social carePowys County Council
LibrariesPowys County Council
Tips and recycling centresPowys County Council
Police priorities and budgetDyfed-Powys 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. Llandrindod Wells’s communities: Llandrindod Wells.

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 Llandrindod Wells

From the council to Westminster

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

  1. 1
    Powys County Council2 wards · 3 councillors
    Lauren D'SilvaPete RobertsJosie EwingJake Berriman
  2. 2
    Police and crime commissionerDyfed-Powys Police · elected May 2024
    Dafydd Llywelyn
  3. 3
    SeneddBrycheiniog Tawe Nedd · 6 members
    Jane DoddsSioned Ann WilliamsJames Oswald David EvansRebeca PhillipsIain Charles McIntoshDavid Terence Mills
  4. 4
    House of CommonsBrecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe
Liberal DemocratReform 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

3 councillors for 2 wards

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.

Llandrindod SouthLlandrindod North
Each dot is a group of postcodes, shaded by the party that won its ward’s latest election. Tap a ward for its councillors.
Llandrindod South
3,245 residents
  • Lauren D'SilvaLiberal Democrat · May 2026 · by-election
  • Pete RobertsLiberal Democrat · May 2022
  • Josie EwingLiberal Democrat · May 2022
Llandrindod North
2,184 residents
  • Jake BerrimanLiberal Democrat · May 2022
Liberal Democrat
Show as a table
WardSeatsElectedWhen
Llandrindod Southall in Llandrindod Wells · 3,245 residents2 seats · May 2026, May 20222
Lauren D'Silvaby-electionPete RobertsJosie Ewing
May 2026, May 2022
Llandrindod Northall in Llandrindod Wells · 2,184 residents1 seat · May 20221
Jake Berriman
May 2022

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

Local elections

Powys council election, May 2022

Results in the wards that make up Llandrindod Wells, 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 Llandrindod Wells’s wards3 seats · 5 May 2022
Liberal Democrat3

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

Next elections

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

Who can I vote for? ↗
Llandrindod South5 May 2022
Pete Roberts ElectedLiberal Democrat33.6%
Josie Ewing ElectedLiberal Democrat30.7%
Andrew PriceIndependent22.4%
Stuart RawsonConservative13.4%

2,067 votes for candidates · 2 seats, so 2 votes each

Llandrindod North5 May 2022
Jake Berriman ElectedLiberal Democrat68.9%
Jon WilliamsIndependent26.9%
Antony John SwinbourneGreen4.2%

592 votes for candidates

ConservativeLiberal DemocratGreenIndependent

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

Parliament

Llandrindod Wells is in Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe constituency

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

Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe · general election4 July 2024
David Chadwick ElectedLiberal Democrat29.5%
Fay JonesConservative26.3%
Matthew DorranceLabour21.3%
Adam HillReform UK14.1%
Emily Durrant-MunroPlaid Cymru4.9%
Amerjit Kaur-DhaliwalGreen2.6%
Jonathan HarringtonAbolish the Welsh Assembly Party0.8%
Lady Lily The PinkOfficial Monster Raving Loony Party0.5%

46,548 votes for candidates · majority 1,472

MP for Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe

David Chadwick

Liberal Democrat, MP since 4 July 2024.

64%

turnout in July 2024: 46,548 votes from 73,114 registered voters. Wales: 56%.

Majority 1,472 of 46,548 votes (3.2%): the 3rd-narrowest of 32 in Wales.

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 Llandrindod Wells

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

Brycheiniog Tawe Nedd7 May 2026
Reform UK3 members elected3 of 6
Plaid Cymru2 members elected2 of 6
Liberal Democrat1 member elected1 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
Jane DoddsSioned Ann WilliamsJames Oswald David EvansRebeca PhillipsIain Charles McIntoshDavid Terence Mills

All of Llandrindod Wells is in Brycheiniog Tawe Nedd.

LabourConservativeLiberal DemocratReform UKGreenPlaid CymruIndependentOther parties

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

Council money

Llandrindod Wells’s Band D council tax is £2,352 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 Powys
Community councilsaverage across Powys£92.01
Powys County Councilcounty or county borough£1,872.08
Dyfed-Powys Police and Crime Commissionerpolice£387.63
A year£2,351.72
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.

Powys County Council sets £1,872.08 of a Band D bill (80%); the rest goes to community councils and the Dyfed-Powys Police and Crime Commissioner.

Your bill by band

Band A 6/9£1,568
Band B 7/9£1,829
Band C 8/9£2,090
Band D 9/9£2,352
Band E 11/9£2,874
Band F 13/9£3,397
Band G 15/9£3,920
Band H 18/9£4,703
Band I 21/9£5,487

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

Council budget per resident
£3,391
Powys, 2026–27
Powys councils
£3,391
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 Llandrindod Wells 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.

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Watch or speak at a council meeting

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

powys.gov.uk ↗
Comment on a planning application

Anyone can comment while an application is open for consultation.

powys.gov.uk ↗
Stand for election

The rules, nomination papers and guidance for council candidates.

Electoral Commission ↗

Questions about how Llandrindod Wells is run

Who is the MP for Llandrindod Wells?

David Chadwick (Liberal Democrat) is the MP for Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe, which covers Llandrindod Wells.

How many councillors does Llandrindod Wells have?

3 ward councillors represent Llandrindod Wells’s 2 wards.

When are the next elections in Llandrindod Wells?

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

Band D council tax in Llandrindod Wells is £2,352 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 Powys County Council?

No party has a majority. As elected, Liberal Democrat 24 · Independent 12 · Conservative 11 · Labour 9 · Plaid Cymru 3 · Green 1 · Reform UK 1 of 61 seats; a majority needs 31. The council’s website lists who leads it now.

Who won the 2022 council election in Llandrindod Wells?

In Llandrindod Wells’s wards on 5 May 2022, Liberal Democrat 3 of the 3 seats up. The Liberal Democrats had the largest share of votes, 65.3%.

Is Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe a marginal seat?

David Chadwick (Liberal Democrat) won it by 1,472 votes in July 2024, 3.2% of votes cast: the 3rd-narrowest result of 32 in Wales.

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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