1981 Greater London Council election
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There was an election to the Greater London Council held on 7 May 1981. Councillors were elected to serve until elections in May 1985. Those elections were cancelled and the term was extended until 1 April 1986.[1]
The leader of the Labour GLC group Andrew McIntosh led the party into the election. Within 24 hours of the result, however, McIntosh's leadership was toppled by Ken Livingstone; a member of the party's left-wing. Livingstone was then elected GLC leader.[2]
This was the last election to the GLC. The Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher soon took the decision to abolish the council in the mid-1980s, out of partisan concern that it would choose to defy right-wing policies. For more information on this see the article, Greater London Council. Following the abolition of the GLC, there was a direct election to the Inner London Education Authority in 1986.
Results[]
Party | Votes | Seats | ||||||
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Number | % | +/- | Stood | Seats | % | +/- | ||
Labour | 939,457 | 41.8 | 8.9 | 92 | 50 | 54.3 | 22 | |
Conservative | 894,234 | 39.7 | 12.8 | 92 | 41 | 44.6 | 23 | |
Liberal | 323,856 | 14.4 | 6.6 | 89 | 1 | 1.1 | 1 | |
National Front | 21,582 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 41 | 0 | |||
Social Democratic Alliance | 21,582 | 1.0 | n/a | 10 | 0 | |||
Ecology | 17,515 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 38 | 0 | |||
Independent | 7,763 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 25 | 0 | |||
New National Front | 5,877 | 0.3 | n/a | 18 | 0 | |||
Communist | 5,275 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 16 | 0 | |||
Nationalist Party | 4,857 | 0.2 | n/a | 23 | 0 | |||
Workers Revolutionary | 2,753 | 0.1 | n/a | 16 | 0 | |||
Save London Action Group | 1,727 | 0.1 | n/a | 13 | 0 | |||
Abolish the GLC | 1,158 | 0.1 | n/a | 7 | 0 | |||
Irish National Party | 793 | 0.0 | n/a | 3 | 0 | |||
Fellowship | 637 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
Ind. Conservative | 362 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
New Britain | 346 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
Workers (Leninist) | 145 | 0.0 | n/a | 1 | 0 | |||
Revolutionary Communist | 116 | n/a | 1 | 0 | ||||
Socialist (GB) | 83 | n/a | 1 | 0 |
Turnout: 2,250,118 people voted. All parties shown.[3]
References[]
- ^ "Local Government (Interim Provisions) Act 1984" (PDF). legislation.gov.uk.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "The rise and fall of the GLC". 31 March 2016 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
- ^ "GLC Election Results Summaries". election.demon.co.uk. Archived from the original on 1 September 2018. Retrieved 9 February 2009.
Footnotes[]
- ^ Andrew McIntosh led the party into the election. Within 24 hours however McIntosh's leadership was toppled by Ken Livingstone; a member of the party's left-wing.
- 1981 in London
- Greater London Council elections
- 1981 English local elections
- May 1981 events in the United Kingdom