Population 10,125 (2011 census) Sovereign state United Kingdom Postcode district CF10 Principal area Cardiff | Country Wales Post town CARDIFF Dialling code +44-29 | |
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The Butetown electoral ward of Cardiff covers the Cardiff Bay area of the city, electing a councillor to Cardiff Council.
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Description
The Butetown ward includes the areas of Butetown and Atlantic Wharf. It is located in the parliamentary constituency of Cardiff South and Penarth and the Welsh Assembly constituency of the same name. Butetown ward is bounded by the wards of Grangetown (and the River Taff) to the west; Cathays and Adamsdown to the north; Splott to the northeast.
Representatives
Butetown elects one councillor to Cardiff Council. The ward has been represented by Cllr Ali Ahmed (Labour) since May 2012, after he defeated the Liberal Democrat councillor Delme Greening by 104 votes. The Liberal Democrats had represented the ward for four years. They defeated Labour's Vaughan Gething in 2008 (who had represented the ward for the previous four years) after a former Butetown councillor, Ben Foday, stood as an Independent and split the vote.
Under-representation
When elected in 2012 Councillor Ahmed raised concerns that the Butetown ward, with only one councillor for a diverse area, was under-represented on Cardiff Council. The issue was raised again in 2016 by the Atlantic Wharf Residents’ Association, who demanded that Atlantic Wharf be made into a ward of its own with its approximately 1500 houses and flats. Butetown ward had a population similar to the Cardiff wards of Llanrumney and Cyncoed, which each elected three councillors.