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The elections to Ceredigion County Council were held on May 1, 2008 along with elections to other Welsh councils, plus the London Mayor and 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ceredigion.gov.uk/English/Your-Council/Voting-Elections/Previous-Election-Results/County-Council-Elections/Pages/Ceredigion-County-Council-Elections-01052008.aspx )〕Assembly Elections, Metropolitan English councils and Non Metropolitan English councils elections. All 42 council seats are up for election. It was preceded by the 2004 election and followed by the 2012 election. The previous council was controlled by Independents in coalition with the Liberal Democrat group and the single Labour member. Since 2004, there have been no by-elections to the council (the only council in Wales not to have any during the last four years). Nominations for the council elections closed on April 4, 2008. The last council meeting before the elections (when the council was formally dissolved) was held on April 17, 2008. The composition of the council prior to the elections was: * Independents 16 * Plaid Cymru 16 * Liberal Democrats 9 * Labour 1 2 Independents had defected to Plaid Cymru and a further 2 Independents had retired. All existing councillors bar the 2 retirees are up for re-election. ==Election results: overview〔(2008 Results )〕== |-bgcolor=#F6F6F6 | colspan=2 style="text-align: right; margin-right: 1em" | Total | style="text-align: right;" | 42 | colspan=5 | | style="text-align: right;" | 27,718 | style="text-align: right;" | |- |} All parties received a higher share of the vote than in 2004. This was in part due to a fall in the number of non-party independents standing and previous non-party independents joining the independent grouping, but also due to a number of parties (namely UKIP and Llais Ceredigion) not standing candidates this time around. Plaid Cymru made six gains. They gained a seat in the ward of Aberystwyth, Penparcau, as well as the wards of Cardigan, Mwldan, Cardigan, Teifi, Ciliau Aeron, Llanfarian, Llangeitho and Melindwr. The party also made four losses: Llandysilio-gogo, Llansantffraed, Tirymynach and Troedyraur. The Liberal Democrats made two gains, Tirymynach and Aberaeron, but lost Melindwr. The three non-party independents from 2004 were re-elected as Independents (Haydn Lewis in Pen-parc, Gethin James in Aberporth and Ray Quant in Borth), as well as John Ivor Williams, who had held his seat in 2004 under the label ''Cymraeg/Welsh''. A single candidate was elected as a non-party independent (Gareth Lloyd Cletwr in Llandysilio-gogo). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ceredigion County Council election, 2008」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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