Carmarthenshire County: Saron ward

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Before anyone asks for your vote: what the official record says about the ground around this area — housing sites, schools, protected areas, air quality — and who represents you now.

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Boundary: ONS Open Geography Portal (Open Government Licence). Map tiles: OpenStreetMap.

Who represents you now

Councillors for Saron, as recorded after the May 2026 elections:

Peter Cooper, Labour Party
Karen Davies, Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales

This by-election fills a seat that has fallen vacant since then, so one of those listed may no longer hold it.

Across the whole of Carmarthenshire council (75 seats in 2026): Labour 15, Green 1, Reform UK 2, Plaid Cymru 37, Other 20. Run by: Plaid Cymru, as a minority administration.

Councillors and council make-up from Open Council Data (public domain). The council's own website lists current councillors and how to contact them.

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Carmarthenshire County: Saron ward in numbers

Official open data about the area. It describes the place, not you, and it favours no candidate.

People claiming unemployment-related benefits

70 people in Saron ward, 2.9% of residents aged 16–64, against 3.4% across Wales (August 2026).

Claimant count, Office for National Statistics via Nomis (Open Government Licence). It counts people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance or Universal Credit while required to seek work; it is not the same as the unemployment rate.

House prices in Carmarthenshire

Average price £199,025, up 6.0% on a year earlier (July 2026).

Flats and maisonettes: £93,733
Detached houses: £284,454

Source: HM Land Registry UK House Price Index for the local authority (Open Government Licence). A local-authority average; prices within it vary widely.

Recorded crime nearby, July 2026

21 street-level crimes recorded within about a mile of the area's centre.

violent crime: 9
anti social behaviour: 5
criminal damage arson: 2
drugs: 2
burglary: 1
other theft: 1

Source: data.police.uk (Open Government Licence). Centroid of the ONS 2024 boundary. Statistics near this point describe the area, not any household. Recorded crime reflects reporting and policing as well as offending; see the ONS guidance in further reading.

Past elections in this ward

Every recorded council election here since 2006, most recent first. Elected candidates in bold. Past results describe the past; each election is a new contest.

2022 — Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales, Labour Party elected

Karen Denise Lawrence Davies	Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales	668
Alan Peter Cooper	Labour Party	660
Darran Jones	Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales	516
Nigel Evans	Independent Berwick Hills Resident	225
Caryl Evelyn Tandy	Liberal Democrats	130

2018 — Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales elected · turnout 35%

Karen Denise Lawrence Davies	Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales	747
Tom Fallows	Labour Party	239
Aled Huw Crow	Conservative and Unionist Party	146
Caryl Evelyn Tandy	Liberal Democrats	14

2017 — Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales, Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales elected

Alun Davies	Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales	810
Carl Joseph Harris	Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales	679
Alan Peter Cooper	Labour Party	588
Steve Jeacock	Labour Party	439
David Robert Wyn Jones	Conservative and Unionist Party	240
Nia Rachel Owen-Lloyd	Conservative and Unionist Party	181

2012 — Labour Party, Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales elected

Peter Cooper	Labour Party	720
Alun Davies	Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales	616
Nigel Evans	Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales	524
Stephen Jeacock	Independent	365
David Webb	Conservative and Unionist Party	95

2008 — Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales, Labour Party elected

John Edwards	Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales	889
Peter Cooper	Labour Party	856
Ronald Richards	Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales	680

Source: DCLEAPIL v1.0 British local election results 2006–2024, by Jason Leman, drawing on Andrew Teale's Local Elections Archive Project and Democracy Club (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0). Where a ward's boundaries changed, earlier results were for a somewhat different area.

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