Coedffranc North is an electoral ward of Neath Port Talbot

Neath Port Talbot

Neath Port Talbot is a county borough and one of the unitary authority areas of Wales. Neath Port Talbot is the 8th most populous county in Wales and the third most populous county borough....

 county borough, Wales

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

. is a part of the Coedffranc

Coedffranc

Coedffranc is a village in the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, Wales.Today it has merged into an enlarged Skewen, occupying the central regions of the village of Skewen. Coedffranc is also a community and encompasses the electoral wards of Coedffranc Central, Coedffranc North and Coedffranc...

 community

Community (Wales)

A community is a division of land in Wales that forms the lowest-tier of local government in Wales. Welsh communities are analogous to civil parishes in England....

 and falls within the parliamentary constituency of Aberavon

Aberavon (UK Parliament constituency)

Aberavon is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It returns one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system.-History:...

.

Coedffranc North is bounded by the wards of Dyffryn

Dyffryn, Neath Port Talbot

Dyffryn, Neath Port Talbot may refer to:*Dyffryn Cellwen*Dyffryn Clydach*Dyffryn School...

 to the northeast; Coedffranc Central

Coedffranc Central

Coedffranc Central is an electoral ward of Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales. Coedffranc Central is a part of the Coedffranc community and falls within the parliamentary constituency of Aberavon....

 and Coedffranc West

Coedffranc West

Coedffranc West is an electoral ward of Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales.Coedffranc West is bounded by the wards of Llansamlet and Bonymaen of Swansea to the west; Coedffranc Central and Coedffranc North to the north; and Briton Ferry West to the east...

 to the south; and Llansamlet of Swansea

Swansea

Swansea is a coastal city and county in Wales. Swansea is in the historic county boundaries of Glamorgan. Situated on the sandy South West Wales coast, the county area includes the Gower Peninsula and the Lliw uplands...

 to the west. The ward consists of a built up residential strip of north Skewen

Skewen

Skewen is a village within the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, in Wales.The village is served by Skewen railway station.-History:Skewen was once an industrial village. There were a number of collieries around the village . The Crown and Mines Royal Copper Works and the Cheadle and Neath...

 and the neighbourhood of Lon-Las to the south and rural farmland and woodland to the north on the slopes of Mynydd Drummau.

In the 2008 local council elections

United Kingdom local elections, 2008

The 2008 United Kingdom local elections were held on 1 May 2008. These elections took place in 137 English Local Authorities and all Welsh Councils....

, the electorate turnout was 41.0%. The results were:

Candidate	Party	Votes	Status
Keith Davies	Liberal Democrats	517	Liberal Democrats hold
Janet Jones	Labour	231