1982 London local elections

1982 London local elections | <- 1978 | 6 May 1982 | 1986 ->

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All 1,914 on all 32 London boroughs
|  | First party  | Second party  | Third party

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Leader  | Margaret Thatcher | Michael Foot | David Steel (Lib.)
Collective (SDP)
Party  | Conservative | Labour | SDP-Liberal Alliance
Leader since  | 11 February 1975 | 10 November 1980 | 1976 (Steel), 1981 (SDP)
Popular vote  | 912,005 | 652,430  | 530,340
Percentage  | 42.2% | 30.2%  | 24.6%
Swing  | 6.5%  | 8.9%  | 17.5%
Councils  | 17 | 12  | 0
Councils +/–  |  | 2  |
Councillors  | 984 | 781  | 124
Councillors +/–  | 24  | 101  | 94

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Results by Borough in 1982.

Local government elections took place in London, and some other parts of the United Kingdom on Thursday 6 May 1982. Ward changes took place in Enfield which increased the total number of councillors by 6 from 1,908 to 1,914.

All London borough council seats were up for election. Both major parties lost votes to the SDP-Liberal Alliance, but whilst the Conservatives gained 20 council seats, Labour lost 101.

The party's result of 30.4%, 12 councils and 781 councillors was the worst Labour result since 1968.

The previous Borough elections in London were in 1978.[1]

To date, this remains the last London local election in which the Conservatives won a majority of council seats or councils, as well as the last time the party won over 40% of the vote. The Conservatives would not win the popular vote in a London local election for another two decades, and would not win a plurality of seats in London again until the election of 2006, 24 years later.

## Results summary

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Party[2] | Votes won  | % votes  | Change  | Seats  | % seats  | Change  | Councils  | Change

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| Conservative | 912,005  | 42.2  | -6.5  | 984  | 51.4  | +24  | 17  | ±0
| Labour | 652,430  | 30.2  | -8.9  | 781  | 40.8  | -101  | 12  | -2
| Alliance | 530,340  | 24.6  | +17.5  | 124  | 6.5  | +94  | 0  | ±0
| Others  | 64,387  | 3.0  | -2.1  | 25  | 1.3  | -11  | 0  | ±0
| No overall control | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | 3  | +2

* Turnout: 2,233,386 voters cast ballots.[3]

## Council results

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Council  | Previous control  | Result  | Details

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Barking and Dagenham |  | Labour |  | Labour | Details
Barnet |  | Conservative |  | Conservative | Details
Bexley |  | Conservative |  | Conservative | Details
Brent |  | Labour |  | Labour | Details
Bromley |  | Conservative |  | Conservative | Details
Camden |  | Labour |  | Labour | Details
Croydon |  | Conservative |  | Conservative | Details
Ealing |  | Conservative |  | Conservative | Details
Enfield |  | Conservative |  | Conservative | Details
Greenwich |  | Labour |  | Labour | Details
Hackney |  | Labour |  | Labour | Details
Hammersmith and Fulham |  | No overall control |  | No overall control | Details
Haringey |  | Labour |  | Labour | Details
Harrow |  | Conservative |  | Conservative | Details
Havering |  | Conservative |  | Conservative | Details
Hillingdon |  | Conservative |  | Conservative | Details
Hounslow |  | Labour |  | Labour | Details
Islington |  | Labour |  | Labour | Details
Kensington and Chelsea |  | Conservative |  | Conservative | Details
Kingston upon Thames |  | Conservative |  | Conservative | Details
Lambeth |  | Labour |  | No overall control | Details
Lewisham |  | Labour |  | Labour | Details
Merton |  | Conservative |  | Conservative | Details
Newham |  | Labour |  | Labour | Details
Redbridge |  | Conservative |  | Conservative | Details
Richmond upon Thames |  | Conservative |  | Conservative | Details
Southwark |  | Labour |  | Labour | Details
Sutton |  | Conservative |  | Conservative | Details
Tower Hamlets |  | Labour |  | Labour | Details
Waltham Forest |  | Labour |  | No overall control | Details
Wandsworth |  | Conservative |  | Conservative | Details
Westminster |  | Conservative |  | Conservative | Details

## Borough result maps

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* Barnet 1982 results map

* Camden 1982 results map

* Croydon 1982 results map

* Hammersmith and Fulham 1982 results map

## References

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1. ^ Minors, Michael; Grenham, Dennis. "London Borough Council Elections 7 May 1998 including the Greater London Authority Referendum results" (PDF). Demographic and Statistical Studies. London Research Centre. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
2. ^ "Year Tables". electionscentre.co.uk. 19 December 2015. Archived from the original on 18 June 2016.
3. ^ "London Borough Council Elections 6 May 1982" (PDF). londondatastore-upload.s3.amazonaws.com. 1982. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 April 2015.

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