An election to the Llandeilo Rural District Council was held in April 1931.
The vast majority of candidates were either Independent or Labour (the latter all in the rural areas).
Some Independent Labour candidates contested seats,usually as a result of disagreements between trade unions.
In Glynamman, the two retiring members stood on different platforms to three years earlier, with former Independent William Watkin Davies running as a Labour candidate and D.J.
Pritchard, elected as a British Legion candis=date, defending his seat as an Independent.