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Penllergaer is a village and community in the City and County of Swansea, Wales, falling within the electoral ward of the same name. It is situated about 4.5 miles north west of Swansea city centre, near junction 47 of the M4 motorway.
Penllergaer is the name of an electoral ward, a community in the City and County of Swansea, Wales, UK. Penllergaer has its own elected community council.
The electoral ward consists of Penllergaer, East and West, in the parliamentary constituency of Gower. It is a mainly rural ward with grassland to the south and woodland to the north. It is bordered by the wards of Llangyfelach to the northeast; Penderry to the south; Kingsbridge to the south west; Gorseinon to the west, Penyrheol to the north west.
In the 2008 local council elections, the turnout for Penllergaer was 45.56%. The results were:
|Candidate
|Party
|Votes
|Status
|Wendy Fitzgerald
Independent
873
Independents hold
|Nigel Mark Rees
Labour
56
|Paul Werner Sivertsen
Conservative
48
|Carol Smith
Green Party
27
In the 2012 local council elections, the turnout for Penllergaer was 42.47%. The results were:
|Candidate
|Party
|Votes
|Status
|Wendy Fitzgerald
Independents
744
Independents hold
|Tom Hoyles
Labour
183
|Lyndon Richard Jones
Conservative
25