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Gorseinon is a district town in Swansea, Wales, near the Loughor estuary. It was a small village until the late 19th century when it grew around the coal mining and tinplate industries. It is situated in the north west of Swansea City Centre, around north west of the city centre. Gorseinon is also a local Government community with its own elected town council.
The population of the Gorseinon town council area in the 2011 Census is 8,693. However, the ONS defines an area called the Gorseinon Urban Area which comprises all of the continuous built up area in and around Gorseinon. This area includes Gorseinon, Loughor, Garden Village and Penllergaer. and has a population of 20,581.
Gorseinon is the name of an electoral ward in the City and County of Swansea, Wales.
The Gorseinon community comprises the electoral ward of Gorseinon and part of the Penyrheol ward. Gorseinon has its own elected town council.
The electoral ward consists of Gorseinon town and the surrounding rural areas, in the parliamentary constituency of Gower. The ward and community are coterminous with each other and encompass the town.
Prior to local government re-organisation in 1996, the town of Gorseinon was administered as part of the Lliw Valley district. Since 1996, Gorseinon has been governed by the City and County of Swansea council.
The ward is bounded by Penyrheol to the north west, Penllergaer to the east and Kingsbridge to the south.
The community of Gorseinon, together with the community of Llwchwr is twinned with Ploermel in France.
For the 2012 local council elections, the turnout in Gorseinon was 32.70%. The Results were:
|Candidate
|Party
|Votes
|Status
|David Lewis
Labour
538
Labour hold
|Darren Thomas
Plaid Cymru
275
|Beverly Howard
Independent
184
|Elizabeth Thomas
Conservative
58