1984 United Kingdom local elections

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1984 United Kingdom local elections
← 1983 3 May 1984 1985 →
All 36 metropolitan boroughs, 123 out of 296 English districts and all 53 Scottish districts
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
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Leader Margaret Thatcher Neil Kinnock David Steel
and David Owen
Party Conservative Labour Alliance
Leader since 11 February 1975 2 October 1983 7 July 1976
and 21 June 1983
Percentage 38% 37% 21%
Councillors 10,393 8,870 2,331
Councillors +/- Decrease 164 Increase 88 Increase 160

Local elections were held in the United Kingdom in 1984.[1][2] There was a slight reversal in the Conservative government's fortunes, but the party remained ahead. The projected share of the vote was Conservatives 38%, Labour 37%, Liberal-SDP Alliance 21%.

Labour gained 88 seats, bringing their number of councillors to 8,870 in the first elections under the leadership of Neil Kinnock who had succeeded Michael Foot the previous autumn.

The Conservatives lost 164 seats, leaving them with 10,393 councillors.

The SDP-Liberal Alliance, now led by David Owen, gained 160 seats and finished with 2,331 councillors.

Summary of results[]

England[]

Metropolitan boroughs[]

All 36 metropolitan borough councils had one third of their seats up for election.

Council Previous control Result Details
Barnsley Labour Labour hold Details
Birmingham Conservative Labour gain
Bolton Labour Labour hold Details
Bradford No overall control No overall control hold Details
Bury Conservative Conservative hold
Calderdale No overall control No overall control hold
Coventry Labour Labour hold
Doncaster Labour Labour hold
Dudley Conservative No overall control gain
Gateshead Labour Labour hold
Kirklees Labour Labour hold
Knowsley Labour Labour hold
Leeds Labour Labour hold Details
Liverpool Labour Labour hold Details
Manchester Labour Labour hold Details
Newcastle upon Tyne Labour Labour hold
North Tyneside Labour Labour hold
Oldham Labour Labour hold
Rochdale No overall control No overall control hold
Rotherham Labour Labour hold
Salford Labour Labour hold
Sandwell Labour Labour hold
Sefton Conservative Conservative hold
Sheffield Labour Labour hold Details
Solihull Conservative Conservative hold Details
South Tyneside Labour Labour hold
St Helens Labour Labour hold
Stockport No overall control No overall control hold
Sunderland Labour Labour hold
Tameside Labour Labour hold
Trafford Conservative Conservative hold Details
Wakefield Labour Labour hold
Walsall No overall control No overall control hold
Wigan Labour Labour hold Details
Wirral Conservative Conservative hold Details
Wolverhampton Labour Labour hold Details

District councils[]

In 123 districts one third of the council was up for election.

A further 20 councils had passed a resolution under section 7 (4) (b) of the Local Government Act 1972, requesting a system of elections by thirds. They could do so because they had had their new ward boundaries introduced at the 1983 elections.

Council Previous control Result Details
Adur No overall control No overall control hold Details
Amber Valley Labour Labour hold
Barrow-in-Furness Labour Labour hold
Basildon Labour Labour hold Details
Basingstoke and Deane No overall control No overall control hold
Bassetlaw Labour Labour hold
Bath Conservative Conservative hold Details
Blackburn Labour No overall control gain
Brentwood Conservative Conservative hold
Brighton No overall control No overall control hold
Bristol No overall control No overall control hold Details
Broadland Conservative Conservative hold
Broxbourne Conservative Conservative hold Details
Burnley Labour Labour hold
Cambridge No overall control No overall control hold
Cannock Chase No overall control No overall control hold
Carlisle Labour Labour hold
Cheltenham No overall control No overall control hold Details
Cherwell Conservative Conservative hold
Chester Conservative Conservative hold
Chorley No overall control No overall control hold
Colchester Conservative Conservative hold Details
Congleton Conservative Conservative hold
Craven Conservative Conservative hold
Crawley Labour Labour hold
Crewe and Nantwich No overall control No overall control hold
Daventry Conservative Conservative hold
Derby Labour Labour hold Details
East Devon Conservative Conservative hold
Eastbourne Conservative No overall control gain
Eastleigh No overall control No overall control hold
Ellesmere Port and Neston Labour Labour hold
Elmbridge Conservative Conservative hold
Epping Forest Conservative Conservative hold
Exeter Conservative No overall control gain
Fareham Conservative Conservative hold
Gillingham Conservative Conservative hold
Gloucester Conservative No overall control gain Details
Gosport Conservative Conservative hold
Great Grimsby No overall control No overall control hold
Great Yarmouth Conservative Conservative hold
Halton Labour Labour hold
Harlow Labour Labour hold Details
Harrogate Conservative Conservative hold
Hart No overall control No overall control hold
Hartlepool Labour Labour hold
Hastings No overall control No overall control hold
Havant Conservative Conservative hold
Hereford Alliance Alliance hold
Hertsmere Conservative Conservative hold
Hinckley and Bosworth Conservative Conservative hold
Huntingdon Conservative Conservative hold
Hyndburn Labour Conservative gain
Ipswich Labour Labour hold Details
Kingston upon Hull Labour Labour hold
Leicester Labour Labour hold
Leominster Independent Independent hold
Lincoln Labour Labour hold Details
Macclesfield Conservative Conservative hold
Maidstone No overall control No overall control hold
Mid Sussex Conservative Conservative hold
Milton Keynes No overall control No overall control hold
Mole Valley No overall control No overall control hold
Newcastle-under-Lyme Labour Labour hold
North Bedfordshire Conservative Conservative hold
North Hertfordshire Conservative Conservative hold
Norwich Labour Labour hold
Nuneaton and Bedworth Labour Labour hold
Oadby and Wigston Conservative Conservative hold
Oxford Labour Labour hold
Pendle No overall control No overall control hold
Penwith Independent Independent hold
Peterborough No overall control No overall control hold
Portsmouth Conservative Conservative hold
Preston Labour Labour hold
Purbeck Independent Independent hold
Reading Conservative Conservative hold
Redditch Labour Labour hold
Reigate and Banstead Conservative Conservative hold
Rochford Conservative Conservative hold
Rossendale Conservative Conservative hold
Rugby No overall control No overall control hold
Runnymede Conservative Conservative hold
Rushmoor Conservative Conservative hold
Scunthorpe Labour Labour hold
Shrewsbury and Atcham No overall control No overall control hold
Slough Labour Labour hold
South Bedfordshire Conservative Conservative hold
South Cambridgeshire Independent Independent hold
South Herefordshire Independent Independent hold
South Lakeland No overall control No overall control hold
Southampton Conservative Labour gain
Southend-on-Sea Conservative Conservative hold
St Albans Conservative No overall control gain
Stevenage Labour Labour hold Details
Stoke-on-Trent Labour Labour hold
Stratford-on-Avon Conservative Conservative hold
Stroud Conservative No overall control gain
Swale Conservative Conservative hold
Tamworth Conservative Conservative hold
Tandridge Conservative Conservative hold
Thamesdown Labour Labour hold
Three Rivers Conservative Conservative hold
Thurrock Labour Labour hold
Tonbridge and Malling Conservative Conservative hold
Torbay Conservative Conservative hold
Tunbridge Wells Conservative Conservative hold
Watford Labour Labour hold
Waveney Conservative Conservative hold
Welwyn Hatfield Labour Labour hold
West Dorset Independent Independent hold Details
West Lancashire Conservative Conservative hold
West Lindsey No overall control No overall control hold
West Oxfordshire Conservative No overall control gain
Weymouth and Portland No overall control No overall control hold
Winchester Conservative Conservative hold
Woking Conservative Conservative hold
Wokingham Conservative Conservative hold
Woodspring Conservative Conservative hold
Worcester No overall control No overall control hold
Worthing Conservative Conservative hold
Wyre Forest No overall control No overall control hold
York No overall control No overall control hold

Scotland[]

District councils[]

Main article: Scottish local elections, 1984
Council Previous control Result Details
Aberdeen Labour Labour hold
Angus No overall control SNP gain Details
Annandale and Eskdale Independent Independent hold Details
Argyll Independent Independent hold
Badenoch and Strathspey Independent Independent hold
Banff and Buchan Independent Independent hold
Bearsden and Milngavie Conservative Conservative hold
Berwickshire Conservative Conservative hold
Caithness Independent Independent hold
Clackmannan Labour Labour hold
Clydebank Labour Labour hold
Clydesdale No overall control No overall control hold
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth Labour Labour hold
Cumnock and Doon Valley Labour Labour hold
Cunninghame Labour Labour hold
Dumbarton Labour Labour hold
Dundee Labour Labour hold
Dunfermline Labour Labour hold
East Kilbride Labour Labour hold
East Lothian Labour Labour hold Details
Eastwood Conservative Conservative hold Details
Edinburgh No overall control Labour gain Details
Ettrick and Lauderdale Independent Independent hold
Falkirk Labour Labour hold
Glasgow Labour Labour hold Details
Gordon Independent Independent hold
Hamilton Labour Labour hold
Inverclyde Labour Labour hold
Inverness Independent Independent hold
Kilmarnock and Loudoun Labour Labour hold
Kincardine and Deeside Independent Independent hold
Kirkcaldy Labour Labour hold
Kyle and Carrick Labour Conservative gain
Lochaber Independent Independent hold
Midlothian Labour Labour hold
Monklands Labour Labour hold
Moray Independent Independent hold
Motherwell Labour Labour hold
Nairn Independent Independent hold
Nithsdale No overall control No overall control hold
North East Fife Conservative Alliance gain Details
Perth and Kinross Conservative No overall control gain
Renfrew
Ross and Cromarty Independent Independent hold
Roxburgh Independent No overall control gain
Skye and Lochalsh Independent Independent hold
Stewartry Independent Independent hold
Stirling Labour Labour hold
Strathkelvin Labour Labour hold
Sutherland Independent Independent hold
Tweeddale Independent Independent hold
West Lothian Labour Labour hold
Wigtown Independent Independent hold

References[]

  1. ^ Rallings, Colin; Thrasher, Michael. Local Elections Handbook 1984. The Elections Centre. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  2. ^ "Council compositions". The Elections Centre. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
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