1980 City of Glasgow District Council election

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1980 Glasgow City Council election

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1 May 1980

1984 →

All 72 seats to City of Glasgow District Council
37 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Party	Labour	Conservative	Liberal
Last election	30	25	1
Seats won	58	11	3
Seat change	28	15	2
Popular vote	139,471	55,816	14,712
Percentage	54.7%	21.9%	5.8%

Council Leader before election

No overall control

Elected Council Leader

Labour

The 1980 Glasgow City District Council election for the City of Glasgow District Council took place on 1 May 1980, alongside elections to the councils of Scotland's various other districts. These was the third election to the Glasgow City District Council.

Aggregate results

Glasgow City District Council election, 1980^[1]
	Seats	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes
Labour	58	28	80.6	54.7	139,471
Conservative	11	14	15.3	21.9	55,816
Liberal	3	2	4.2	5.8	14,712
SNP	0	16	0.0	15.9	40,639
Communist	0		0.0	0.9	2,325
Independent	0		0.0	0.2	436
Other parties	0		0.0	0.5	1,431

Ward results

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References

^ J. M. Bochel; D. T. Denver. "The Scottish District Elections 1980" (PDF). University of Dundee. pp. 86–87.

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