Victoria is both a community (civil parish) and an electoral ward (division) of the city of Newport.

The ward is bounded by the River Usk to the west and south, Newport Bridge, Clarence Place, Church Road and Christchurch Road to the north, Victoria Avenue, Wharf Road (as far as the railway bridge), a section of the Great Western Main Line as far as (but not including) Soho Street, Telford Street and Lilleshall Street to the east.

Many people are of Pakistani and Bangladeshi origin and there are now a slowly increasing number of Kurdish refugees.

[citation needed] Victoria is a ward to Newport City Council, electing two councillors.

[3] Labour's Gavin Horton and Farzina Hussain, who had each won a 2021 by-election, were re-elected at the May 2022 elections.