The ward covers the centre of the city including the High Street and Bangor Cathedral (dedicated to St Deiniol).
[2] In the May 2017 county council election Plaid Cymru regained the seat from the Labour Party, having lost it in 2012.
[3] * = sitting councillor prior to the election According to the United Kingdom Census 2021, 19.6 per cent of all usual residents aged 3+ in Deiniol could speak Welsh.
[7] The 2021 Census showed that Deiniol was the area in Gwynedd that had the highest proportion of its population with no Welsh language skills.
[8] This was enacted by The County of Gwynedd (Electoral Arrangements) Order 2021 which, from the 2022 local election, split Deiniol and merged it with the neighbouring wards of Hendre and Hirael.