What is "pennard"

Pennard is the name of an electoral ward in the City and County of Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom.

The electoral ward consists of some or all of the following places: Bishopston, Fairwood Common, Kittle, Parkmill, Pennard and Southgate in the parliamentary constituency of Gower.

Pennard is bounded by the wards of Gower to the west; Fairwood to the north and Bishopston to the east. The Bristol Channel borders Pennard to the south.

For electoral purposes, Pennard is divided into the polling districts of Southgate and Kittle. Pennard returns one councillor to the City and County of Swansea council. It is currently represented by Lynda James (Independent).

Part of Three Cliffs Bay falls within the ward.

In the 2012 local council elections, the voter turnout was 52.31%. The results were:

|Candidate

|Party

|Votes

|Status

|Lynda James

Independent

442

Independents gain from Tories

|Peter Lanfear

Independent

215

|Patrick Morgan

Conservative

211

|Terry Scales

Labour

131

|Arthur Rogers

Plaid Cymru

116

|Andrew Thomas

Liberal Democrats

35

Pennard is a village and community on the south of the Gower Peninsula, about 7 miles south west of Swansea city centre. It falls within the Pennard electoral ward of Swansea.