1986 United Kingdom local elections
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Local elections were held in the United Kingdom in 1986.[1][2][3] There was a 3% reduction in the number of councillors, owing to the abolition of the Greater London Council and the Metropolitan County Councils.
The national projected share of the vote was Labour 37%, Conservative 34%, Liberal-SDP Alliance 26%. The Conservatives lost 975 seats, Labour gained 13 seats and the Liberal-SDP Alliance gained 338 seats.
Summary of results[]
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England[]
London boroughs[]
In all 32 London boroughs the whole council was up for election.
Council | Previous control | Result | Details | ||
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Barking and Dagenham | Labour | Labour hold | Details | ||
Barnet | Conservative | Conservative hold | Details | ||
Bexley | Conservative | Conservative hold | Details | ||
Brent | Labour | Labour hold | Details | ||
Bromley | Conservative | Conservative hold | Details | ||
Camden | Labour | Labour hold | Details | ||
Croydon | Conservative | Conservative hold | Details | ||
Ealing | Conservative | Labour gain | Details | ||
Enfield | Conservative | Conservative hold | Details | ||
Greenwich | Labour | Labour hold | Details | ||
Hackney | Labour | Labour hold | Details | ||
Hammersmith and Fulham | No overall control | Labour gain | Details | ||
Haringey | Labour | Labour hold | Details | ||
Harrow | Conservative | Conservative hold | Details | ||
Havering | Conservative | No overall control gain | Details | ||
Hillingdon | Conservative | No overall control gain | Details | ||
Hounslow | Labour | Labour hold | Details | ||
Islington | Labour | Labour hold | Details | ||
Kensington and Chelsea | Conservative | Conservative hold | Details | ||
Kingston upon Thames | Conservative | No overall control gain | Details | ||
Lambeth | No overall control | Labour gain | Details | ||
Lewisham | Labour | Labour hold | Details | ||
Merton | Conservative | Conservative hold | Details | ||
Newham | Labour | Labour hold | Details | ||
Redbridge | Conservative | Conservative hold | Details | ||
Richmond upon Thames | Conservative | Alliance gain | Details | ||
Southwark | Labour | Labour hold | Details | ||
Sutton | Conservative | Alliance gain | Details | ||
Tower Hamlets | Labour | Alliance gain | Details | ||
Waltham Forest | No overall control | Labour gain | Details | ||
Wandsworth | Conservative | Conservative hold | Details | ||
Westminster | Conservative | Conservative hold | Details |
Metropolitan boroughs[]
All 36 metropolitan borough councils had one third of their seats up for election.
Council | Previous control | Result | Details | ||
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Barnsley | Labour | Labour hold | Details | ||
Birmingham | Labour | Labour hold | |||
Bolton | Labour | Labour hold | Details | ||
Bradford | No overall control | Labour gain | Details | ||
Bury | Conservative | Labour gain | |||
Calderdale | No overall control | No overall control hold | |||
Coventry | Labour | Labour hold | |||
Doncaster | Labour | Labour hold | |||
Dudley | No overall control | Labour gain | |||
Gateshead | Labour | Labour hold | |||
Kirklees | Labour | No overall control gain | |||
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 | No overall control gain | |||
Oldham | Labour | Labour hold | |||
Rochdale | No overall control | Labour gain | |||
Rotherham | Labour | Labour hold | |||
Salford | Labour | Labour hold | |||
Sandwell | Labour | Labour hold | |||
Sefton | Conservative | No overall control gain | |||
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 | No overall control gain | Details | ||
Wakefield | Labour | Labour hold | |||
Walsall | No overall control | No overall control hold | |||
Wigan | Labour | Labour hold | Details | ||
Wirral | Conservative | No overall control gain | Details | ||
Wolverhampton | Labour | Labour hold | Details |
District councils[]
Whole council[]
In 2 districts the whole council was up for election.
In 2 districts there were new ward boundaries, following further electoral boundary reviews by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England.
Council | Previous control | Result | Details | ||
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Halton ‡ | Labour | Labour hold | |||
Thamesdown ‡ | Labour | Labour hold |
‡ New ward boundaries
Third of council[]
In 121 districts one third of the council was up for election.
Council | Previous control | Result | Details | ||
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Adur | No overall control | Alliance gain | Details | ||
Amber Valley | Labour | Labour hold | |||
Barrow-in-Furness | Labour | Labour hold | |||
Basildon | Labour | Labour hold | Details | ||
Basingstoke and Deane | No overall control | Conservative gain | |||
Bassetlaw | Labour | Labour hold | |||
Bath | Conservative | Conservative hold | Details | ||
Blackburn | No overall control | Labour gain | |||
Brentwood | Conservative | Conservative hold | |||
Brighton | No overall control | No overall control hold | |||
Bristol | No overall control | Labour gain | Details | ||
Broadland | Conservative | Conservative hold | |||
Broxbourne | Conservative | Conservative hold | Details | ||
Burnley | Labour | Labour hold | |||
Cambridge | No overall control | Labour gain | |||
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 | No overall control gain | |||
Chorley | No overall control | No overall control hold | |||
Colchester | Conservative | No overall control gain | Details | ||
Congleton | Conservative | No overall control gain | |||
Craven | Conservative | No overall control gain | |||
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 | No overall control | Alliance gain | |||
Eastleigh | No overall control | No overall control hold | |||
Ellesmere Port and Neston | Labour | Labour hold | |||
Elmbridge | Conservative | No overall control gain | |||
Epping Forest | Conservative | Conservative hold | |||
Exeter | No overall control | No overall control hold | |||
Fareham | Conservative | No overall control gain | |||
Gillingham | Conservative | Conservative hold | |||
Gloucester | No overall control | No overall control hold | Details | ||
Gosport | Conservative | Conservative hold | |||
Great Grimsby | No overall control | Labour gain | |||
Great Yarmouth | Conservative | No overall control gain | |||
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 | |||
Huntingdonshire | Conservative | Conservative hold | |||
Hyndburn | Conservative | Labour 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 | No overall control gain | |||
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 | No overall control gain | |||
Peterborough | No overall control | No overall control hold | |||
Portsmouth | Conservative | Conservative hold | |||
Preston | Labour | Labour hold | |||
Purbeck | Independent | No overall control gain | |||
Reading | Conservative | No overall control gain | |||
Redditch | Labour | Labour hold | |||
Reigate and Banstead | Conservative | Conservative hold | |||
Rochford | Conservative | Conservative hold | |||
Rossendale | Conservative | Labour gain | |||
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 | Labour | Labour hold | |||
Southend-on-Sea | Conservative | Conservative hold | |||
St Albans | No overall control | No overall control hold | |||
Stevenage | Labour | Labour hold | Details | ||
Stoke-on-Trent | Labour | Labour hold | |||
Stratford-on-Avon | Conservative | Conservative hold | |||
Stroud | No overall control | No overall control hold | |||
Swale | Conservative | No overall control gain | |||
Tamworth | Conservative | Labour gain | |||
Tandridge | Conservative | Conservative hold | |||
Three Rivers | Conservative | No overall control gain | |||
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 | No overall control gain | |||
Welwyn Hatfield | Labour | Labour hold | |||
West Dorset | Independent | Independent hold | Details | ||
West Lancashire | Conservative | No overall control gain | Details | ||
West Lindsey | No overall control | No overall control hold | |||
West Oxfordshire | No overall control | No overall control hold | |||
Weymouth and Portland | No overall control | No overall control hold | |||
Winchester | Conservative | Conservative hold | |||
Woking | Conservative | No overall control gain | |||
Wokingham | Conservative | Conservative hold | |||
Woodspring | Conservative | Conservative hold | |||
Worcester | No overall control | Labour gain | |||
Worthing | Conservative | Conservative hold | |||
Wyre Forest | No overall control | No overall control hold | |||
York | No overall control | Labour gain |
Local education authority[]
This was the first and only election to the directly elected local education authority established by the Local Government Act 1985. However, it was short-lived, being abolished four years later by the Education Reform Act 1988.
Council | Previous control | Result | Details | ||
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Inner London Education Authority | New Council | Labour | Details |
Scotland[]
Regional councils[]
Council | Previous control | Result | Details | ||
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Borders | Independent | Independent hold | Details | ||
Central | Labour | Labour hold | |||
Dumfries and Galloway | Independent | Independent hold | |||
Fife | Labour | Labour hold | Details | ||
Grampian | Conservative | No overall control gain | Details | ||
Highland | Independent | Independent hold | Details | ||
Lothian | No overall control | Labour gain | Details | ||
Orkney | Independent | Independent hold | |||
Shetland | Independent | Independent hold | Details | ||
Strathclyde | Labour | Labour hold | Details | ||
Tayside | Conservative | No overall control gain | Details | ||
Western Isles | Independent | Independent hold |
References[]
- ^ Rallings, Colin; Thrasher, Michael. Local Elections Handbook 1986, Volume 1. The Elections Centre. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
- ^ Rallings, Colin; Thrasher, Michael. Local Elections Handbook 1986, Volume 2. The Elections Centre. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
- ^ "Council compositions". The Elections Centre. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
- 1986 United Kingdom local elections