1986 United Kingdom local elections

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1986 United Kingdom local elections
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All 32 London boroughs, all 36 metropolitan boroughs,
123 out of 296 English districts, 1 local education authority and all 12 Scottish regions
  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 34% 37% 26%
Councillors +/- Decrease 975 Increase 13 Increase 338

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[]

England[]

London boroughs[]

Main article: 1986 London local elections

In all 32 London boroughs the whole council was up for election.

Council Previous control Result Details
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
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
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
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
Inner London Education Authority New Council Labour Details

Scotland[]

Regional councils[]

Main article: 1986 Scottish regional elections
Council Previous control Result Details
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[]

  1. ^ Rallings, Colin; Thrasher, Michael. Local Elections Handbook 1986, Volume 1. The Elections Centre. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  2. ^ Rallings, Colin; Thrasher, Michael. Local Elections Handbook 1986, Volume 2. The Elections Centre. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  3. ^ "Council compositions". The Elections Centre. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
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