It became a two-member electoral ward for the purposes of elections to Carmarthenshire County Council.
It corresponded to the South ward which elects five members to Carmarthen Town Council.
[2] Since 2017 the ward was represented by Plaid Cymru councillors Gareth John and Alun Lenny.
In 1995, Dr Margaret Evans, a Liberal Democrat member of Carmarthen District Council since 1991 and Russell Davies, a Labour member of the same authority since 1979 were elected as the ward's first representatives on the new Carmarthenshire County Council.
[3] One of the seats was won by the Liberal Democrats in 1995 but lost to an Independent at a by-election following the death of the sitting member.