1976 Sunderland Metropolitan Borough Council election

1976 Sunderland Metropolitan Borough Council election

6 May 1976
One third of 78 seats on Sunderland Metropolitan Borough Council 40 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Party Labour Conservative Liberal Seats before 52 23 1 Seats won 16 10 0 Seats after 49 26 1 Seat change 3 3   Fourth party Fifth party   Party Ind. Labour Party Independent Seats before 1 1 Seats won 0 0 Seats after 1 1 Seat change
Majority party before election Labour Majority party after election Labour

The 1976 Sunderland Metropolitan Borough Council election was held on 6 May 1976. A third of the seats on the Council were up for election, with each of the 26 council wards returning one councillor by first-past-the-post. The election was held on the same day as other local elections.

Election results

Labour maintained a comfortable majority on the Council after the election, despite losing three seats to the Conservatives.

Sunderland Metropolitan Borough Council election results, 1976

			Candidates						Votes
Party		Leader	Stood	Elected	Gained	Unseated	Net	% of total	%	No.	Net %
	Labour	26	16	0	3	3	61.5	46.2	30,768	7.4
	Conservative	24	10	3	0	3	38.5	40.2	26,794	4.8
	Liberal	19	0	0	0		0	12.6	8,376	6.7
	Ind. Labour Party	1	0	0	0		0	0.5	366	2.3
	National Front	1	0	0	0		0	0.3	185	0.3
	Communist	2	0	0	0		0	0.2	136

The election resulted in the following composition of the Council:

Party		Council
	Labour	49
	Conservatives	26
	Liberal	1
	Independent Labour	1
	Independent	1
Total		78
Working majority		20