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Population
  
6,725 (2011 census)

Country
  
Wales

EU Parliament
  
Wales

Ceremonial county
  
West Glamorgan

Principal area
  
Neath Port Talbot

Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Welsh Assembly
  
Aberavon

UK parliament constituency
  
Aberavon

Sandfields West (Welsh: Gorllewin Traethmelyn) is an electoral ward and a community of Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales. It is part of the parliamentary constituency of Aberavon.

Map of Sandfields West, UK

Sandfields West is bounded by the wards of Baglan to the northwest, Aberavon to the northeast, and Sandfields East to the southeast. Sandfields West is a mostly urbanised ward consisting of council housing inland, private housing on the coast and areas of light industry and business park use.

In the 2012 local council elections, the electorate turnout was 35.47%. The councillors who were elected were:

In February 2017, Councillor James Evans and Councillor Andre Chavis left the Labour party. They now both sit as Independent councillors.

References

Sandfields West Wikipedia