At the
1995 county elections to the new
Vale of Glamorgan Council unitary authority, Alexandra elected five
Labour Party councillors, in what the
South Wales Echo described as a "rout". There were no Conservative councillors left in Penarth. o existing councillor, elected in 1991 to the VoG borough council, standing for re-election At the following 1999 elections, four of the five seats were won back by the
Conservative Party. In 2017 town councillors asked
South Wales Police why they were still using the Alexandra ward as an area of Penarth for their crime statistics. The police blamed this on an overseas software update. ==References==