Electoral wards in the city of Bangor, Gwynedd

Deiniol is one of eight

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s in the city of Bangor,

Gwynedd Gwynedd (; ) is a county and preserved county (latter with differing boundaries; includes the Isle of Anglesey) in the north-west of Wales. It shares borders with Powys, Conwy County Borough, Denbighshire, Anglesey over the Menai Strait, an ...

, Wales, electing councillors to the city and county councils.

Description

The ward covers the centre of the city including the High Street and

Bangor Cathedral Bangor Cathedral ( cy, Eglwys Gadeiriol Bangor) is a cathedral in Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales. It is dedicated to its founder, Saint Deiniol. The site of the present building of Bangor Cathedral has been in use as a place of Christian worship since ...

(dedicated to

St Deiniol Saint Deiniol (died 572) was traditionally the first Bishop of Bangor in the Kingdom of Gwynedd, Wales. The present Bangor Cathedral, dedicated to Deiniol, is said to be on the site where his monastery stood. He is venerated in Brittany as Sain ...

). It is bounded to the northwest by the

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, to the northeast by Maes-y-Dref and to the southwest by the railway. It elects two councillors to Bangor City Council and one county councillor to

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. The ward population, according to the 2011 Census, was 1,839.

County ward

In the May 2017 county council election

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regained the seat from the Labour Party, having lost it in 2012. * = sitting councillor prior to the election A 2018 report by the

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, if agreed, would merge Deiniol with neighbouring Bangor wards to form a new two-member ward. Low voter registration of the university students was blamed for the small electorates in the city.

Welsh Language

According to the

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, 19.6 per cent of all usual residents aged 3+ in Deiniol can speak Welsh. 27.4 per cent of the population noted that they could speak, read, write or understand Welsh. The 2021 Census showed that Deiniol was the area in Gwynedd that had the highest proportion of its population with no Welsh language skills. According to the 2011 Census, 22.8 per cent of the population could speak Welsh.

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Description

County ward

Welsh Language

See also

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