Though the Conservative Party had led the previous council, their representation was decimated at the 1995 election, with Labour winning a majority.
These were the first elections held following local government reorganisation, which created new 'super authorities' and would lead to the abolition of South Glamorgan County Council on 1 April 1996.
The St Brides Major and Wick communities, was which was previously within the Borough of Ogwr, transferred to become a new Vale ward of St Brides Major, increasing the number of Vale councillors by one.
[4] At the 1995 election their number was reduced to six, in what the South Wales Echo described as an unanticipated "annihilation" at the hands of the Labour Party.
[4] (a) Elections Centre source compares the percentage vote of the lead candidate for each party in the ward.