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Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council

About this data:
- Attendance records are scraped monthly from council websites.
- Current data covers 27 January 2025 to 27 January 2026.
- Not all councils could be scraped.

Council Attendance Ranking

32 of 274 Councils

Councillors

30

Overall

88%

Average

85%

Median

91%

Perfect (100%)

2

Below 75%

5

Attendance trend by party

Labour Party
Independent Group
Independent
Dowlais and Pant Community Independents
Reform UK
100%90%80%70%60%50%3 Years2 YearsCurrent Year91%92%92%89%88%87%61%58%56%99%99%97%97%94%89%

Shows how party attendance has changed over time, from 3-year average to the most recent year.

Attendance by party

Labour Party(14)
92%
Independent Group(9)
87%
Independent(3)
56%
Dowlais and Pant Community Independents(2)
97%
Reform UK(2)
89%

Attendance distribution

90-100%
18
80-89%
6
70-79%
2
60-69%
2
Below 60%
2

Highest attendance

  1. 100%
  2. 2

    Councillor Declan Sammon

    Dowlais and Pant Community Independents

    100%
  3. 97%

Lowest attendance

  1. 25%
  2. 38%
  3. 3

    Councillor Julia Jenkins

    Independent Group

    62%

All councillors

Showing 30 of 30 councillors

#NamePartyMeetingsAttendanceStatus
1Councillor Clive Jones
Labour Party
45/45
100%
Good
2Councillor Declan Sammon
Dowlais and Pant Community Independents
43/43
100%
Good
3Councillor Gareth Richards
Labour Party
32/33
97%
Good
4Councillor John Thomas
Independent Group
28/29
97%
Good
5Councillor Anna Williams- Price
Labour Party
32/33
97%
Good
6Councillor Brent Carter
Labour Party
25/26
96%
Good
7Councillor Ian Thomas
Labour Party
27/28
96%
Good
8Councillor Lee Davies
Independent Group
33/35
94%
Good
9Councillor Gillian Preston
Labour Party
37/40
93%
Good
10Councillor Darren Roberts
Labour Party
13/14
93%
Good
11Councillor David Jones
Labour Party
24/26
92%
Good
12Councillor Michelle Jones
Independent Group
36/39
92%
Good
13Councillor Lisa Mytton
Independent Group
23/25
92%
Good
14Councillor Bill Smith
Labour Party
36/39
92%
Good
15Councillor Scott Thomas
Labour Party
30/33
91%
Good
16Councillor David Hughes
Reform UK
19/21
90%
Good
17Councillor Paula Layton
Dowlais and Pant Community Independents
19/21
90%
Good
18Councillor Geraint Thomas
Independent Group
27/30
90%
Good
19Councillor Clive Tovey
Independent Group
31/35
89%
Fair
20Councillor Andrew Barry
Reform UK
22/25
88%
Fair
21Councillor David Isaac
Labour Party
42/48
88%
Fair
22Councillor Gareth Lewis
Labour Party
25/29
86%
Fair
23Councillor Louise Minett-Vokes
Labour Party
23/27
85%
Fair
24Councillor Jamie Scriven
Independent
22/26
85%
Fair
25Councillor Claire Jones
Independent Group
19/24
79%
Fair
26Councillor Ernie Galsworthy
Labour Party
17/23
74%
Low
27Councillor Michelle Symonds
Independent Group
11/16
69%
Low
28Councillor Julia Jenkins
Independent Group
13/21
62%
Low
29Councillor Kevin Gibbs
Independent
5/13
38%
Poor
30Councillor Jeremy Davies
Independent
4/16
25%
Poor