Mynyddbach is the name of an electoral ward, a community

Community council

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 and a suburb

Suburb

The word suburb mostly refers to a residential area, either existing as part of a city or as a separate residential community within commuting distance of a city . Some suburbs have a degree of administrative autonomy, and most have lower population density than inner city neighborhoods...

 in the City and County 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...

, Wales

Wales

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. It does not have its own community council.

Mynydd-Bach is bounded by the wards of Morriston

Morriston (electoral ward)

Morriston is an electoral ward in Swansea, Wales. Morriston is one of two five member wards in the City and County of Swansea local authority area...

 and Landore to the east, Cwmbwrla

Cwmbwrla (electoral ward)

Cwmbwrla is the name of an electoral ward, a community and a suburb in the City and County of Swansea, Wales. The community does not have a community council....

 to the south, and Llangyfelach

Llangyfelach (electoral ward)

Llangyfelach is the name of an electoral ward, a community in the county of Swansea, Wales, UK. The community has its own elected community council....

 and Penderry

Penderry

Penderry is the name of an electoral ward and a community in the City and County of Swansea, Wales, UK. Penderry does not have a community council....

 to the west.

The electoral ward consists of some or all of the following areas: Clase

Clase

Clase is a suburban district of the City and County of Swansea, Wales falling within the Mynydd-Bach ward. Clase approximates to the housing area south of Clasemont Road between Morriston and Llangyfelach....

, Clasemont, Mynydd-Bach

Mynydd-Bach

Mynyddbach is the name of an electoral ward, a community and a suburb in the City and County of Swansea, Wales. It does not have its own community council....

, Park View Estate

Mynydd-Bach

Mynyddbach is the name of an electoral ward, a community and a suburb in the City and County of Swansea, Wales. It does not have its own community council....

, Penfillia Estate, Treboeth

Treboeth

Treboeth is a village in the Mynydd-Bach ward of Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales.Gwyrosydd Primary School is located in Treboeth. The local secondary school is the Daniel James Community School...

, Tirdeunaw, Pinewood, Mynydd Garnlywd and Bryn Rock, in the parliamentary constituency of Swansea East

Swansea East (UK Parliament constituency)

Swansea East is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.- Boundaries :The constituency comprises the electoral wards of Bonymaen, Cwmbwrla, Landore, Llansamlet, Morriston, Mynydd-Bach, Penderry, and St.Thomas...

.

For electoral purposes, Mynydd-Bach is broken down in to the polling districts of: Mynydd Garnlwyd, Bryn Rock, Treboeth, Penfilia, Tirdeunaw, Clasemont and Clase. Mynydd-Bach returns 3 councillors to the City and County of Swansea council.

2008 local council elections

Voter turnout for Mynydd-Bach in the 2008 local council elections was 36.49%. The results of the election were:

Candidate	Party	Votes	Status
Ceinwen Thomas	Labour	1077	Labour hold
Byron George Owen	Labour	930	Labour gain
Audrey Clement	Independent	911	Independent hold
Austin Raymond Welsby	Independent	861
Charles Glyndwr White	Labour	855
John Evans	Independent	626
Oswyn Clement	Independent	589
Karan Cheryl Sivertsen	Conservative	362
Glyndwr Jones	Conservative	281
Martha Jones	Conservative	258