Sandfields West

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Sandfields West
Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council
Principal area	Neath Port Talbot
Ceremonial county	West Glamorgan
Country	Wales
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
UK Parliament constituency	Aberavon
Welsh Assembly	Aberavon
Councillors
1st: Andre Chavis (Labour)
2nd: James Evans (Labour)
3rd: Susan Paddison (Labour)
Numbers
Coordinates	SS738904
Population (2001)	6,666

Sandfields West (Welsh: Gorllewin Traethmelyn) is an electoral ward and a community of Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales. It is part of the parliamentary constituency of Aberavon.

Sandfields West is bounded by the wards of Baglan to the northwest, Aberavon to the northeast, and Sandfields East to the southeast. Sandfields West is a mostly urbanised ward consisting of council housing inland, private housing on the coast and areas of light industry and business park use.

In the 2012 local council elections, the electorate turnout was 35.47%. The councillors who were elected were:

Candidate	Party	Votes	Status
Andre Chavis	Labour	1173	Labour hold
James Evans	Labour	1088	Labour hold
Susan Paddison	Labour	1078	Labour hold
Keith Suter	Independent	377
Oliver Davies	Independent	368
Joan Targett	Independent	363
Olga Jones	Independent	242
Wayne Morris	Social Democratic Party	219

v t e Electoral wards of Neath Port Talbot county borough

Aberavon	Aberavon Baglan Briton Ferry East Briton Ferry West Bryn and Cwmavon Coedffranc Central Coedffranc North Coedffranc West Cymmer Glyncorrwg Gwynfi Margam Port Talbot Sandfields East Sandfields West Tai-Bach

Neath	Aberdulais Allt-Wen Blaengwrach Bryncoch North Bryncoch South Cadoxton Cimla Crynant Cwmllynfell Dyffryn Glynneath Godre'r Graig Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen Lower Brynamman Neath East Neath North Neath South Onllwyn Pelenna Pontardawe Resolven Rhos Seven Sisters Tonna Trebanos Ystalyfera

v t e Communities of Neath Port Talbot county borough

Aberavon Baglan Baglan Bay Blaengwrach Blaenhonddan Briton Ferry Bryn Cilybebyll Clyne and Melincourt Coedffranc Crynant Cwmafan Cwmllynfell Dyffryn Clydach Glyncorrwg Glynneath Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen Margam Margam Moors Neath Onllwyn Pelenna Pontardawe Port Talbot Resolven Sandfields East Sandfields West Seven Sisters Taibach Tonna Ystalyfera

Coordinates: 51°35′54″N 3°49′24″W / 51.59826°N 3.82344°W / 51.59826; -3.82344

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