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1984 Scottish local elections
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| Field | Value | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| election_name | 1984 Scottish local elections | ||
| country | Scotland | ||
| type | parliamentary | ||
| ongoing | no | ||
| previous_election | 1982 Scottish regional elections | ||
| previous_year | 1982 | ||
| next_election | 1986 Scottish regional elections | ||
| next_year | 1986 | ||
| election_date | |||
| image1 | [[File:Start campagne voor Europese verkiezingen van PvdA (Rotterdam) Neal Kinnoch , k, Bestanddeelnr 932-9811.jpg | 150x150px]] | |
| leader1 | Neil Kinnock | ||
| leader_since1 | 2 October 1983 | ||
| party1 | Labour Party (UK) | ||
| percentage1 | **45.7** | ||
| seats1 | **545** | ||
| seat_change1 | 76 | ||
| swing1 | 0.3 | ||
| image2 | [[File:Margaret Thatcher (1983).jpg | 150x150px | Margaret Thatcher]] |
| leader2 | Margaret Thatcher | ||
| leader_since2 | 11 February 1975 | ||
| party2 | Conservative Party (UK) | ||
| seats2 | 189 | ||
| seat_change2 | 43 | ||
| swing2 | 2.7 | ||
| percentage2 | 21.4 | ||
| image4 | [[File:DavidSteel1987 cropped.jpg | 150x150px | David Steel]] |
| leader4 | David Steel | ||
| leader_since4 | 7 July 1976 | ||
| party4 | SDP-Liberal Alliance | ||
| seats4 | 78 | ||
| seat_change4 | 45 | ||
| swing4 | 6.6 | ||
| percentage4 | 12.8 | ||
| image5 | [[File:Winnie_Ewing_and_Gordon_Wilson_Brussels_(cropped).jpg | 150x150px | Gordon Wilson]] |
| leader5 | Gordon Wilson | ||
| leader_since5 | 15 September 1979 | ||
| party5 | Scottish National Party | ||
| seats5 | 59 | ||
| seat_change5 | 7 | ||
| swing5 | 3.8 | ||
| percentage5 | 11.7 | ||
| map_image | Scottish District local elections, 1984.svg | ||
| map_size | 350px | ||
| map_caption | Colours denote the winning party with outright control |
Local elections were held in Scotland on Thursday 3 May 1984, to elect members to all 53 district councils under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, which had established the two-tier system of regions and districts. This was the first election to take place after the 1983 general election landslide victory for the Conservatives. The local elections resulted in the Labour Party taking control of the City of Edinburgh District Council for the first time.
National results
|- !colspan=2|Parties !Votes !Votes % !Wards |- | | |45.7
| 545 |
|---|
| | |21.4
| 189 |
|---|
| | |12.8
| 78 |
|---|
| | |11.7
| 59 |
|---|
| | |6.8
| 267 |
|---|
| | | |- !colspan=2|Total ! !n/a !~1158 |}
Results by region
The numbers of seats on each council before and after the election were as follows:
Borders
| District | Labour | Conservative | Liberal & SDP | Independent | Control | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berwickshire | Ettrick and Lauderdale | Roxburgh | Tweeddale | ||||||
| 0 | 8 (-3) | SDP 1 | 0 | hold | |||||
| 2 (+1) | 1 (-1) | 0 | 13 | hold | |||||
| 0 | 5 | Lib 3 (+2) | |||||||
| SDP 1 | 7 (-2) | Independents lose to NOC | |||||||
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | hold |
Central
| District | Labour | Conservative | SNP | Independent | Control | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clackmannan | Falkirk | Stirling | ||||||
| 7 (+3) | 1 | 2 (-3) | 0 | hold | ||||
| 25 (+1) | 2 (-1) | 7 (+1) | 2 (-1) | hold | ||||
| 11 (+1) | 8 (-1) | 0 | 1 | hold |
Dumfries and Galloway
| District | Labour | Conservative | SNP | Liberal | Independent | Other | Control | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annandale and Eskdale | Nithsdale | Stewartry | Wigtown | ||||||||
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 (+4) | 12 (-4) | 0 | hold | |||||
| 6 (+1) | 7 (+1) | 7 (+1) | 0 | 7 (-4) | Independent Labour 1 (+1) | No Overall Control | |||||
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | hold | |||||
| 0 | 0 | 1 (+1) | 0 | 13 (-1) | 0 | hold |
Fife
| District | Labour | Conservative | SNP | Liberal & SDP | Independent | Other | Control | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dunfermline‡ | Kirkcaldy‡ | North-East Fife | ||||||||
| 24 | 2 | 1 | Lib 3 | |||||||
| SDP 3 | 0 | Communist 1 | hold | |||||||
| 30 | 3 | 1 | SDP 2 | |||||||
| Lib 1 | 2 | Ratepayers 1 | hold | |||||||
| 0 | 6 (-4) | 0 | Liberal 10 (+4) | 2 | 0 | gain from Conservatives |
‡ New ward boundaries
Grampian
| District | Labour | Conservative | SNP | Liberal | Independent | Control | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Banff and Buchan | City of Aberdeen‡ | Gordon | Kincardine and Deeside | Moray | |||||||
| 0 | 2 (+1) | 5 | 0 | 11 (-1) | hold | ||||||
| 28 | 8 | 0 | 14 | 0 | hold | ||||||
| 0 | 3 (-1) | 0 | 2 (+1) | 7 | hold | ||||||
| 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | hold | ||||||
| 1 (+1) | 0 | 2 (+1) | 0 | 15 (-2) | hold |
Highland
| District | Labour | Conservative | SNP | Liberal & SDP | Independent | Other | Control | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Badenoch and Strathspey‡ | |||||||||||||||
| *1 vacancy* | Caithness | ||||||||||||||
| *1 vacancy* | Inverness‡ | Lochaber‡ | Nairn | Ross and Cromarty‡ | |||||||||||
| *1 vacancy* | Skye and Lochalsh | Sutherland | |||||||||||||
| 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | hold | |||||||||
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lib 1 | 14 | 0 | hold | |||||||||
| 8 (-1) | 0 | 0 | Lib 2 | 18 (+1) | 0 | hold | |||||||||
| 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | Independent Labour 2 | hold | |||||||||
| 1 (+1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 (-1) | 0 | hold | |||||||||
| 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 0 | hold | |||||||||
| 0 | 0 | 0 | SDP 1 (+1) | 10 (-1) | 0 | hold | |||||||||
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 | hold |
‡ Changes in ward boundaries
Lothian
| District | Labour | Conservative | SNP | Liberal | Independent | Control | Details | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City of Edinburgh | East Lothian | Midlothian | West Lothian‡ | ||||||||
| 34 (+8) | 22 (-9) | 2 | 4 (+3) | 0 (-2) | gain from NOC | [Details](1984-city-of-edinburgh-district-council-election) | |||||
| 11 (+1) | 6(-1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | hold | ||||||
| 14 (+1) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 (-1) | hold | ||||||
| 19 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | hold |
‡ Changes in ward boundaries
Strathclyde
| District | Labour | Conservative | SNP | Liberal & SDP | Independent | Others | Control | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Argyll and Bute | Bearsden and Milngavie | Clydebank‡ | Clydesdale | Cumbernauld and Kilsyth‡ | Cumnock and Doon Valley | Cunninghame | Dumbarton‡ | East Kilbride‡ | Eastwood | City of Glasgow | Hamilton | Inverclyde‡ | Kilmarnock and Loudoun‡ | Kyle and Carrick | Motherwell‡ | Monklands‡ | Renfrew | Strathkelvin‡ | ||||||||
| 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 0 | hold | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 (-1) | 6 (-1) | 0 | Lib 2 (+2) | 1 | 0 | hold | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | hold | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 | NOC | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | hold | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 (+1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 (-1) | 0 | hold | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 23 (+2) | 5 | 2 (-2) | 0 | 0 | 0 | hold | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | 2 | 0 | SDP 1 | 2 | 0 | hold | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | hold | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | hold | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 59 | 5 (-1) | 0 | Lib 2 (+1) | 0 | 0 | hold | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | 1 | 0 | Lib 2 | 0 | 0 | hold | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | 0 | 0 | Lib 9 | 0 | 0 | hold | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | hold | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 (-1) | 13 (+1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | gain from Labour | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 24 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | Communist 1 | hold | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | hold | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 35 | 5 | 3 | Lib 1 | 0 | 0 | hold | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | hold |
‡ New ward boundaries.
Tayside
| District | Labour | Conservative | SNP | Liberal & SDP | Independent | Others | Control | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Angus‡ | City of Dundee | Perth and Kinross | ||||||||
| 0(-3) | 8(-4) | 11 | 0 | 2 | 0 | gain from NOC | ||||
| 25 | 15 (-2) | 2 (+2) | Lib 1 (+1) | |||||||
| SDP 1 (+1) | 0 (-1) | 0 | hold | |||||||
| 6 | 14 (-4) | Lib 3 (+2) | ||||||||
| SDP1 (+1) | 1 (+1) | 4 (+1) | 0 | Conservatives lose to NOC |
References
References
- McConnell, Alan. (2004). "Scottish Local Government". Edinburgh University Press.
- Clayton, Hugh. (5 May 1984). "Labour captures Birmingham and Liberals make gains". [[The Times]].
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