2008 Vale of Glamorgan Council election

The 2008 Vale of Glamorgan Council election took place on Thursday 1 May 2008 to elect members of Vale of Glamorgan Council in Wales.

This was the same day as other United Kingdom local elections.

Forty-seven seats were up for election and the Conservative Party managed to win an overall majority, where previously no party was in overall control.

[1] The result took place in the context of Gordon Brown's Labour government falling to its lowest polling since the 1960s, with the Conservatives winning control of eleven other councils in England and Wales.

Llantwit First Independents registered as a new political party in 2007