Labour made a dramatic gain in terms of seats but the Vale of Glamorgan council is now in no overall control. The Conservatives were elected into power in 2017 but an internal falling out saw the group split and a coalition was formed however, the party lost a number of seats.
This election, it went from 14 to 25 seats, giving it a majority. Across Wales, the Conservatives suffered major losses and it was no different here. In 2017 they had 23 councillors elected, that dropped 10 this election.
Due to recent ward boundary changes in Wales, the council had expanded from 47 seats to 54 seats. There were 170 candidates trying to win one of the 54 seats. Labour got 25 seats, Conservatives got 13, Plaid Cymru got eight seats, while Independent councillors received four as did Llantwit First. The turnout was 44,547, which is 42.9% of the 103,856 eligible voters of the county.
