1984 City of Glasgow District Council election

1984 City of Glasgow
District Council election

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3 May 1984

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All 66 seats to City of Glasgow District Council
34 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Party	Labour	Conservative	Liberal
Last election	58	11	3
Seats won	59	5	2
Seat change	1	6	1
Popular vote	141,066	41,946	27,312
Percentage	60.1%	17.9%	11.6%
Swing	5.4%	4.0%	5.8%

Map showing results in Glasgow District Council wards.

Council Leader before election

Labour

Elected Council Leader

Labour

Elections for the City of Glasgow District Council took place on 3 May 1984 alongside elections to the councils of the other districts in Scotland. The result was victory for the Labour party, who won 59 of the 66 wards.

Aggregate results

1984 City of Glasgow District Council election^[1]^[2]
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
Labour	59	1	0	1	89.4	60.1	141,066	5.4
Conservative	5	0	6	6	7.6	17.9	41,946	4.0
Alliance	2	0	1	1	3.0	11.6	27,312	5.8
SNP	0	0	0	0	0.0	9.7	22,641	6.2
Independent	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0	116	0.2
Other parties	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.5	1,170

Ward 59: Toryglen^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	B Campbell (incumbent)	2,607	68.0
	Alliance	Isabella Nelson	528	13.8
	Conservative	D McCallum	431	11.2
	SNP	D Hamilton	266	6.9
Majority			2079	54.2
Turnout			3832

Ward 60: Rutherglen^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Alliance	Gretel Ross (incumbent)	2,544	48.8
	Labour	K Ferguson	1,711	22.5
	Conservative	Jean Miller	778	14.9
	SNP	Williamina Proven	177	3.4
Majority			833	26.3
Turnout			5210

Ward 64: Fernhill^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Alliance	Robert Brown (incumbent)	2,618	45.0
	Labour	Margaret Robinson	2,564	44.0
	Conservative	Anne McCallum	457	7.8
	SNP	W Ramsay	190	3.2
Majority			54	1.0
Turnout			5829

Ward 65: Cambuslang^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	R McKenzie (incumbent)	2,471	45.2
	Conservative	J Hawkins	1,449	26.5
	Alliance	J McIntosh	1,202	22.0
	SNP	J Smith	341	6.2
Majority			1022	18.7
Turnout			5463

Ward 66: Halfway^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	J Cornfield	2,689	75.0
	Conservative	Mary M Russell	355	10.0
	SNP	J Higgins	268	7.5
	Communist	G Massie	155	4.3
	Independent	G Clark	116	3.2
Majority			2334	65.0
Turnout			3583

References

^ "District Council Elections: Key Councils - How the Parties Polled". The Glasgow Herald. 7 May 1988. p. 6.
^ "District Council Elections: Key Councils - How the Parties Polled". The Glasgow Herald. 6 May 1988. p. 10.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e District Council Election Results, The Glasgow Herald (page 7), 4 May 1984

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