The fourth election to the Greater London Council (GLC) was held on 12 April 1973. Labour won a large majority of 58 seats to 32 for the Conservatives; the Liberals also won their first two seats on the council.
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Electoral arrangements
editAs there had been a boundary commission report with new Parliamentary constituencies which coincided with the border of Greater London, the electoral system was changed (as had always been intended) so that the GLC was elected from single member electoral divisions which were identical with the Parliamentary constituencies.
Councillors were elected for a three-year term. This was extended for an extra year in 1976 when the electoral cycle was switched to four-yearly.[1]
Results
editGeneral election of councillors
editThe Labour Party won a majority of seats at the election.[2]
With an electorate of 5,313,470, there was a turnout of 36.8%.[3]
Among those who were first elected to the GLC in 1973 were Ken Livingstone (Labour, Lambeth, Norwood), later to lead it, Andrew McIntosh (Labour, Haringey, Tottenham) who was his brief moderate rival for the Labour leadership, and Serge Lourie (Labour, Havering, Hornchurch), who became a founder member of the SDP and leader of Richmond upon Thames London Borough Council in 2001.
| Party | Votes | Seats | ||||||
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| Number | % | +/- | Stood | Seats | % | +/- | ||
| Labour | 928,034 | 47.4 |  7.5
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92 | 58 | 63.0 | 23
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| Conservative | 743,123 | 38.0 |  12.6
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92 | 32 | 34.8 | 33
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| Liberal | 244,703 | 12.5 | 7.1
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60 | 2 | 2.2 | 2
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| Communist | 11,954 | 0.6 | 1.2
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28 | 0 | 0.0 | 
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| National Front | 9,536 | 0.5 | New | 6 | 0 | 0.0 |
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| Residents' or Ratepayers' | 5,516 | 0.3 | New | 3 | 0 | 0.0 |
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| Independent | 4,211 | 0.2 | 0.1
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15 | 0 | 0.0 |
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| Action | 3,063 | 0.2 | 0.4
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6 | 0 | 0.0 |
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| National Independence | 2,924 | 0.1 | New | 1 | 0 | 0.0 |
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| Ind. Conservative | 2,393 | 0.1 | New | 2 | 0 | 0.0 |
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| Socialist (GB) | 1,612 | 0.1 |
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11 | 0 | 0.0 |
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| Independent Labour | 227 | 0.0 | New | 1 | 0 | 0.0 |
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Aldermanic election
editIn addition to the 92 elected councillors, there were fifteen aldermen elected by the council. Eight aldermen elected in 1970 continued to serve until 1976 and the eight elected in 1967 retired before the 1973 election. Seven aldermen were elected by the council on 4 May 1973 to serve until 1979.
Aldermen elected in 1973, to retire in 1979:[a]
| Party | Alderman | |
|---|---|---|
| Labour | Richard Collins | |
| Labour | Maureen Harwood | |
| Labour | Walter Kenneth Mansfield | |
| Labour | Stanley Wilfred Mayne | |
| Labour | Luke Patrick O'Connor | |
| Labour | Oliver Stutchbury[b] | |
| Labour | John Golden Warren | |
The aldermen divided 9 Labour and 6 Conservative, so that Labour had 67 members to 38 for the Conservatives following the aldermanic election. It would be the final election of aldermen to the council, with those elected in 1970 and 1973 having their terms altered to all end in 1977.[1]
Constituency results
editMembers of the old council*
Barking
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | John Benjamin Ward* | 10,575 | 71.5 | ||
| Conservative | C A Pool | 2,417 | 16.3 | ||
| Liberal | J D Tyrell | 1,800 | 12.2 | ||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | 29.7 | ||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Labour win (new boundaries) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Robert John Crane* | 13,753 | 72.3 | ||
| Conservative | T. A. Woodcock | 2,149 | 11.3 | ||
| Liberal | George Daniel Poole | 1,994 | 10.5 | ||
| Independent Labour | Vera W Cridland | 564 | |||
| Communist | George Charles Wake | 558 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | 27.4 | ||||
| Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Barnet
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Reginald Marks* | 10,753 | 50.0 | ||
| Labour | H. Sprague | 6,035 | 28.0 | ||
| Liberal | Margaret Gelling Snow | 4,727 | 22.0 | ||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | 37.9 | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Jean Leslie Scott* | 8,008 | 48.9 | ||
| Labour | Albert Edward Tomlinson | 5,183 | 31.7 | ||
| Liberal | Leonard W. Watkins | 3,175 | 19.4 | ||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | 37.9 | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Frank Arthur Cooper | 8,925 | 44.2 | ||
| Conservative | Rita Maisie Levy* | 8,180 | 40.5 | ||
| Liberal | David Hugh Edwards | 3,079 | 15.3 | ||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | 40.7 | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Peter Blair Black* | 8,229 | 41.0 | ||
| Labour | Mildred Gordon | 6,874 | 34.2 | ||
| Liberal | Percy Walter Meyer | 4,992 | 24.8 | ||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | 38.1 | ||||
Bexley
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Victor Rae Muske Langton* | 10,025 | 43.1 | ||
| Labour | Stanley Wilfred Mayne | 8,924 | 38.4 | ||
| Liberal | Wilfrid Pickard | 4,297 | 18.5 | ||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | 45.6 | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Francis William Archer | 14,168 | 61.9 | ||
| Conservative | E. D. Josiffe | 8,717 | 38.1 | ||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | 38.5 | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Douglas Melville Fielding* | 10,844 | 48.6 | ||
| Labour | John Francis Spellar | 7,217 | 32.3 | ||
| Liberal | L. W. Rogers | 4,276 | 19.1 | ||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | 45.2 | ||||
Brent
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Norman Howard | 14,123 | 61.6 | ||
| Conservative | Alfred Abram Berney* | 7,232 | 31.5 | ||
| Liberal | M. H. Habib | 1,115 | 4.9 | ||
| Action | Raymond J Noble | 467 | 2.0 | ||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | 35.7 | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Alan Hardy* | 14,941 | 49.3 | ||
| Labour | Maurice Howard Rosen | 10,143 | 33.4 | ||
| Liberal | G. Phelps | 5,262 | 17.3 | ||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | 42.1 | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Illtyd Harrington* | 14,190 | 66.5 | ||
| Conservative | Ruby Georgina Nancy Taylor* | 6,635 | 31.1 | ||
| Communist | Leslie George Burt | 503 | 2.4 | ||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | 34.4 | ||||
Bromley
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Frank Willie Smith* | 11,142 | 49.6 | ||
| Labour | Nicholas John Sharp | 6,357 | 28.3 | ||
| Liberal | D. A. Rowe | 4,975 | 22.1 | ||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | 37.6 | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Joan Kathleen Wykes | 10,977 | 44.3 | ||
| Labour | Walter Kenneth Mansfield | 10,938 | 44.1 | ||
| Liberal | John R. Hassall | 2,864 | 11.6 | ||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | 46.3 | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Jean Tatham | 15,496 | 44.3 | ||
| Liberal | John William Cook | 13,169 | 37.7 | ||
| Labour | Christopher Howes | 6,276 | 18.0 | ||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | 53.6 | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | David Anthony Harris* | 10,012 | 56.0 | ||
| Liberal | Mrs M. M. Coulson | 4,124 | 23.1 | ||
| Labour | A. W. Wright | 3,534 | 19.8 | ||
| Communist | G. Felton | 202 | 1.1 | ||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | 36.7 | ||||
Camden
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Enid Barbara Wistrich | 12,268 | 48.0 | ||
| Conservative | I. Clarke | 9,823 | 38.4 | ||
| Liberal | Raymond Arthur Philip Benad | 2,824 | 11.0 | ||
| Communist | R. Champion | 466 | |||
| Socialist (GB) | L. J. Cox | 191 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Alexander John Kazantzis* | 7,437 | 60.6 | ||
| Conservative | David P Weeks | 3,520 | 28.7 | ||
| Liberal | A. Elithorn | 1,085 | 8.8 | ||
| Socialist (GB) | Mrs D. M. Davies | 99 | |||
| Independent | Noel S. Fierz | 72 | |||
| Independent | P. Goulstone | 60 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | 30.9 | ||||
- Fierz - Anti-Redevelopment
- Goulstone - Great Joint Happiness Homes for All
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Rose Hacker | 9,915 | 67.7 | ||
| Conservative | Nicholas J Bennett | 4,226 | 28.9 | ||
| Communist | V. A. Heath | 497 | 3.4 | ||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | 35.1 | ||||
Croydon
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | David Frank White | 13,029 | 46.3 | ||
| Conservative | Sonia Copland | 10,914 | 38.8 | ||
| Liberal | Roy A Lightwing | 3,965 | 14.1 | ||
| Independent | J T E A Waddell | 241 | 0.8 | ||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | David Howard Simpson | 10,340 | 43.8 | ||
| Conservative | Gladys Emma Morgan* | 10,329 | 43.8 | ||
| Liberal | Brian F Steggles | 2,940 | 12.4 | ||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | 40.2 | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Dudley Eric Reynolds Barker | 9,458 | 44.0 | ||
| Conservative | Stephen James Stewart* | 8,965 | 41.7 | ||
| Liberal | Leo C. E. Held | 3,074 | 14.3 | ||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | 38.9 | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Geoffrey Weston Aplin* | 14,885 | 61.5 | ||
| Liberal | Jean Pearson Coleman | 6,186 | 25.6 | ||
| Labour | Mrs Mary E. Curson | 2,880 | 11.9 | ||
| Ratepayers | S. B. Stray | 234 | 1.0 | ||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | 40.3 | ||||
Ealing
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | John Chaytor Dobson* | 10,576 | 45.7 | ||
| Labour | Oliver Piers Stutchbury | 9,665 | 41.7 | ||
| Liberal | N. J. Reed | 2,616 | 11.3 | ||
| Communist | H. A. Tank | 303 | 1.3 | ||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | 40.7 | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | David Michael Mason | 19,013 | 54.9 | ||
| Conservative | Michael William Walter Farrow* | 15,361 | 45.1 | ||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | 47.4 | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Yvonne Sieve | 14,442 | 59.4 | ||
| Conservative | Robert Charles Patten | 9,876 | 40.6 | ||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | 35.0 | ||||
Enfield
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Bernard Stephen Mason | 11,085 | 53.6 | ||
| Conservative | John William Victor Attwood | 7,256 | 35.1 | ||
| Liberal | Ralph J R Scott | 1,870 | 9.1 | ||
| Action | Martin F. Moloney | 457 | 2.2 | ||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | John Howard White | 11,202 | 37.1 | ||
| Liberal | L Eric L Ridge | 11,062 | 36.6 | ||
| Conservative | Bryan Michael Deece Cassidy | 6,725 | 22.3 | ||
| National Front | Kenneth Thomas Robinson | 1,204 | 4.0 | ||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | 44.6 | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Thomas Broughton Mitcheson* | 15,857 | 58.5 | ||
| Liberal | Dennis Alan Coberman | 5,896 | 21.8 | ||
| Labour | B M Barbuk | 5,342 | 19.7 | ||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | 38.4 | ||||
Greenwich
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Peggy Arline Middleton* | 13,953 | 68.4 | ||
| Conservative | J A B Kind | 6,440 | 31.6 | ||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | 38.9 | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Mair Eluned Garside* | 11,880 | 67.2 | ||
| Conservative | A R Dix | 3,164 | 17.9 | ||
| Liberal | Robert H Smith | 1,860 | 10.5 | ||
| Action | J P Sibley | 442 | |||
| Communist | Arthur A R Curtis | 332 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | 34.8 | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Margaret Rees | 13,466 | |||
| Conservative | Mrs Wendy Mitchell | 9,867 | |||
| Liberal | James Douglas Eagle | 2,401 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
Hackney
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Ellis Simon Hillman* | 9,265 | |||
| Conservative | Stanley J. Sorrell | 1,770 | |||
| Independent | O. Hales | 266 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | David Thomas Pitt* | 6,529 | |||
| Conservative | Leslie R. House | 2,524 | |||
| Communist | Monty Goldman | 621 | |||
| Socialist (GB) | J. Carter | 250 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Irene Chaplin | 8,473 | |||
| Conservative | E. Laws | 1,586 | |||
| Independent | V. A. C. Curtis | 325 | |||
| Action | D. H. England | 290 | |||
| Independent | B. M. Lampert | 154 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
Curtis - Parent Action Group for Education
Hammersmith
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Anthony Louis Banks* | 15,176 | |||
| Conservative | A F E Johnson | 9,926 | |||
| Liberal | Derek J P Honeygold | 2,002 | |||
| Independent | M S Ashworth | 202 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
Ashworth - Centre Party
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Iris Mary Caroline Bonham* | 13,529 | |||
| Conservative | William Christopher Smith | 7,031 | |||
| Liberal | Mrs F M Abrahams | 2,095 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
Haringey
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Lawrence Arthur Bains* | 10,361 | |||
| Labour | John Golden Warren | 10,078 | |||
| Liberal | Patrick William O'Brien | 3,450 | |||
| Communist | B P Van den Berg | 483 | |||
| Socialist (GB) | D J Porter | 144 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Andrew Robert McIntosh | 8,043 | |||
| Conservative | John Antony Croft | 3,360 | |||
| National Independence | Michael Paul Coney | 2,924 | |||
| Socialist (GB) | Mrs A Young | 109 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Stephen Michael Alan Haseler | 10,305 | |||
| Conservative | Rodney Charles Gent | 5,862 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
Harrow
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | William Sydney Clack* | 7,812 | |||
| Labour | Alfred J. Lovell | 7,379 | |||
| Liberal | N. G. Marcus | 2,666 | |||
| National Front | R. Franklin | 1,361 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Harold Trevor Mote* | 10,432 | |||
| Labour | J. C. Powell | 10,217 | |||
| Communist | Reginald A. Ward | 460 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Horace Walter Cutler | 12,498 | |||
| Labour | N. A. Hyman | 5,407 | |||
| Liberal | Henry Young | 5,230 | |||
| Action | R. C. Ramage | 947 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
Havering
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Alexander Serge Lourie | 10,714 | |||
| Conservative | Ronald Dennis Mitchell | 7,114 | |||
| Liberal | Brian George McCarthy | 3,666 | |||
| Non-Party Conservationist | Benjamin Percy-Davis | 1,908 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Bernard Brook-Partridge* | 9,697 | |||
| Labour | K. St. J. D'Cruze | 7,219 | |||
| Liberal | Terry Edward Hurlstone | 4,693 | |||
| Communist | Colin R Harper | 347 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Shelagh Marjorie Roberts* | 11,425 | |||
| Labour | Maureen Harwood | 10,687 | |||
| Liberal | R. E. Jenking | 4,408 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
Hillingdon
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Peter Frank Norman Russell | 13,576 | |||
| Conservative | Robert Gurth Hughes | 5,637 | |||
| National Front | John Stanley Fairhurst | 1,821 | |||
| Communist | Peter R Pink | 317 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Bernard Joseph Brown* | 13,263 | |||
| Labour | John S Gallagher | 6,395 | |||
| Liberal | George Raymond Stephenson | 5,108 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | James Anthony Lemkin | 11,540 | |||
| Labour | Cyril Shaw | 10,571 | |||
| Liberal | Brian Outhwaite | 4,129 | |||
| Action | M. N. Griffin | 460 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
Hounslow
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | James Daly | 17,428 | |||
| Conservative | Andrew Jardine* | 15,131 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Douglas Eden | 16,529 | |||
| Conservative | Dyas Cyril Loftus Usher* | 9,173 | |||
| National Front | Josephine Mary Reid | 3,332 | |||
| Communist | P Rhodes | 379 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
Islington
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Evelyn Joyce Denington | 8,996 | |||
| Conservative | Mrs B A Devonald-Lewis | 2,936 | |||
| Liberal | Alan A S Butt Philip | 2,139 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Louis Wolfgang Bondy* | 7,463 | |||
| Conservative | Timothy Stephen Kenneth Yeo | 2,798 | |||
| Socialist (GB) | A J L Buick | 284 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Arthur Ernest Wicks* | 9,850 | |||
| Conservative | S G Parker | 2,969 | |||
| Communist | Marie Betteridge | 538 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
Kensington and Chelsea
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | William Archibald Ottley Juxon Bell* | 12,811 | |||
| Labour | S. H. Shapiro | 4,531 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Robert Louis Vigars | 9,388 | |||
| Labour | D. J. Scott | 8,736 | |||
| Liberal | K. Rason | 2,855 | |||
| Communist | Edward S. Adams | 366 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
Kingston upon Thames
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Sydney William Leonard Ripley* | 12,145 | |||
| Labour | Peter W Lane | 6,855 | |||
| Liberal | Mrs L F Wells | 4,224 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Geoffrey John David Seaton* | 8,821 | |||
| Labour | Robert R G Viner | 5,972 | |||
| Liberal | T. A. Channings | 3,966 | |||
| Independent | Edgar Scruby | 303 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
Scruby - Surbiton Residents & Ratepayers
Lambeth
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Anna Lloyd Grieves* | 9,231 | |||
| Conservative | John Laurence Pritchard | 2,707 | |||
| Liberal | J. T. Kane | 1,026 | |||
| Independent | C. G. Jackson | 143 | |||
| Socialist (GB) | H. G. Baldwin | 115 | |||
| Independent | G. W. Solomon | 103 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
- Jackson - Anti-Motorway, Support Community Involvement in Planning
- Solomon - Lambeth Residents for Democratic Local Government
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Kenneth Robert Livingstone | 11,622 | |||
| Conservative | Michael Peter Russell Malynn* | 8,007 | |||
| Liberal | Michael Frederick Drake | 1,819 | |||
| Socialist (GB) | H. Young | 95 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Diana Elizabeth Geddes* | 10,492 | |||
| Labour | Hugh H. Walker | 9,426 | |||
| Liberal | Allan Mitchell | 2,114 | |||
| Socialist (GB) | F. W. Simkins | 120 | |||
| Independent | William George Boaks | 57 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
Boaks - Air Road Public Safety White Resident
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Ewan Geddes Carr* | 10,821 | |||
| Conservative | Peter James Bottomley | 3,396 | |||
| Communist | J. A. Henry | 365 | |||
| Socialist (GB) | M. E. Sansum | 121 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
Lewisham
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | David Walter Chalkley* | 13,159 | |||
| Conservative | I M Andrews | 4,805 | |||
| Liberal | Eric Reginald Lubbock | 1,747 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | John Charles Henry* | 16,721 | |||
| Conservative | T M Aitken | 8,913 | |||
| Liberal | L Spicer | 4,182 | |||
| Communist | Michael Power | 461 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | William Colbert Simson | 13,930 | |||
| Conservative | Michael John Wheeler | 11,667 | |||
| Communist | M H Robinson | 621 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
Merton
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Anthony Robert Judge | 14,628 | |||
| Conservative | Miss J R Yarwood | 10,060 | |||
| Independent | Grace Louisa Giddins | 875 | |||
| Communist | Sidney Ernest French | 485 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Stanley Charles Bolton* | 14,506 | |||
| Labour | Keith Bill | 8,389 | |||
| Liberal | Peter Charles Spratling | 6,419 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
Newham
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Thomas Alfred Jenkinson | 9,183 | 52.9 | ||
| Independent | R. F. C. Ower | 5,110 | 29.5 | ||
| Conservative | Timothy John Stroud | 2,828 | 16.3 | ||
| Independent Labour | M. Flaherty | 227 | 1.3 | ||
| Majority | 4,073 | 23.4 | |||
| Turnout | 26.1 | ||||
Ower - Ratepayers & Citizens Association
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Arthur Frank George Edwards* | 8,031 | 80.5 | ||
| Conservative | Samuel M Swerling | 1,951 | 19.5 | ||
| Majority | 6,080 | 61.0 | |||
| Turnout | 18.9 | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Edward Percy Bell* | 10,024 | 82.0 | ||
| Conservative | John Johnston | 1,579 | 12.9 | ||
| Communist | R. A. Offley | 623 | 5.1 | ||
| Majority | 8,445 | 69.1 | |||
| Turnout | 21.3 | ||||
Redbridge
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Timothy J. Ridoutt | 9,999 | |||
| Conservative | Neil Gordon Thorne* | 9,537 | |||
| Liberal | Gareth Laurence Philip Wilson | 4,410 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Dennis Annesley Carradice | 9,678 | |||
| Conservative | P A Chalkley | 8,556 | |||
| Liberal | Gerald Leslie Wilson | 3,232 | |||
| Communist | B S Wallington | 294 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Robert Mitchell* | 11,439 | |||
| Labour | G J Clark | 4,176 | |||
| Liberal | David John Gilby | 3,411 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
Richmond upon Thames
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | Anthony Stanley Richard Rundle | 12,160 | 44.2 | ||
| Conservative | B. S. Feldman | 9,312 | 33.8 | ||
| Labour | Kenneth L Elmes | 5,796 | 21.1 | ||
| Communist | Ms E. Tendler | 250 | 0.9 | ||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | 27,518 | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | George William Tremlett | 13,765 | |||
| Labour | P. T. Z. Goldring | 12,386 | |||
| Liberal | Cyril J. Barnes | 5,625 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
Southwark
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Reginald Eustace Goodwin | 14,617 | |||
| Conservative | Alexander J Padmore | 1,480 | |||
| National Front | R. S. Pritchard | 992 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Richard Andrew Balfe | 14,184 | |||
| Conservative | A. P. Berend | 9,222 | |||
| Liberal | C. M. Hall | 2,853 | |||
| Communist | Eric L. Hodson | 431 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Harvey W. Hinds* | 14,134 | |||
| Conservative | Nicholas Brian Baker | 2,214 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
Sutton
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Phillip John Bassett | 11,611 | |||
| Conservative | George Frederick Everitt* | 11,239 | |||
| Liberal | C Clark | 7,094 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | Ruth Mary Shaw | 15,515 | 53.3 | ||
| Conservative | Alan Horace Lewis Leach | 10,367 | 35.6 | ||
| Labour | Peter L Spalding | 3,209 | 11.0 | ||
| Majority | 5,148 | 17.7 | |||
| Turnout | 2,9091 | ||||
Tower Hamlets
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Ernest Ashley Bramall | 10,802 | |||
| Conservative | L. E. Smith | 899 | |||
| Independent | J. P. Collins | 467 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | John Patrick Branagan | 13,062 | |||
| Conservative | P. E. Bridge | 782 | |||
| Communist | Max Samuel Levitas | 703 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
Waltham Forest
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Richard Maddock Brew* | 9,905 | |||
| Labour | F F Land | 7,520 | |||
| Liberal | Barry R Woodward | 5,685 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | John James Walsh | 11,240 | |||
| Conservative | G P Waller | 6,485 | |||
| Communist | John Arthur Courcouf | 646 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Robin Ainsworth Raine Young | 9,545 | |||
| Conservative | Phillip Charles Desmond Williams* | 4,381 | |||
| Liberal | Martin D Silverston | 2,724 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
Wandsworth
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Gladys Felicia Dimson* | 11,542 | |||
| Conservative | D. J. Wedgwood | 3,407 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Stephen Robert Hatch | 8,601 | |||
| Conservative | Lynda Chalker | 6,224 | |||
| Liberal | Cecil Victor Gittins | 1,559 | |||
| National Front | Tom Lamb | 826 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Ethel Marie Jenkins* | 15,449 | |||
| Conservative | Margaret Williams | 11,282 | |||
| Liberal | Walter V Hain | 3,649 | |||
| Communist | David John Welsh | 375 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Lilias Girdwood Gillies | 11,783 | |||
| Conservative | N. R. Berry | 6,162 | |||
| Communist | Robert E. Lewis | 417 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
Westminster and the City of London
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Mervyn Nelson Scorgie* | 9,152 | |||
| Labour | Philip John Turner | 4,993 | |||
| Liberal | R. W. Jones | 4,993 | |||
| Independent | A Wilson | 195 | |||
| Independent | P.A. Clifford | 184 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
Wilson - Anti-Mass Redevelopment
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Jean Merriton | 11,085 | |||
| Conservative | Herbert Henry Sandford | 7,101 | |||
| Liberal | John H. Gover | 1,609 | |||
| Independent | D. J. B. Morgan | 172 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Arthur Desmond Herne Plummer* | 7,930 | |||
| Labour | Jeremy Gordon | 4,971 | |||
| Unofficial Conservative | P. Darvas | 485 | |||
| Communist | L. R. Temple | 276 | |||
| Socialist (GB) | R. A. Weidberg | 84 | |||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
By-elections 1973–1977
editThe first by-election of the term was caused by the court voiding the election in Croydon North East (see Morgan v Simpson). The former Conservative member Billie Morgan regained the seat she had narrowly lost in Croydon North East on 5 September 1974. Labour retained seats in Greenwich on 24 October 1974 and Dagenham on 30 January 1975 caused by the deaths of sitting councillors. The Conservatives kept their seat in Finchley on 15 May 1975 caused by the resignation of Roland Freeman and St Marylebone on 8 April 1976 caused by the resignation of former GLC leader Desmond Plummer.
There was one aldermanic by-election caused by the resignation of Oliver Piers Stutchbury (Labour) in 1976. Alfred Frederick Joseph Chorley (Labour) was elected by the council on 21 September 1976, to serve until 1977.[c]
Notes
edit- ^ The term was reduced to four years by the London Councillors Order 1976 and aldermen elected in 1973 served until 1977.
- ^ Resigned 2 September 1976
- ^ Stutchbury had been elected by the council in 1973 to serve until 1979 but the term was shortened to end in 1977 by the London Councillors Order 1976
References
edit- ^ a b "The London Councillors Order 1976" (PDF). legislation.gov.uk. 17 February 1976. Retrieved 24 August 2023.
- ^ "Greater London Council Election" (PDF). London Datastore. 12 April 1973. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 August 2013. Retrieved 2 September 2023.
- ^ Boothroyd, David. "GLC Election Results Summaries". United Kingdom Election Results. Archived from the original on 1 September 2018. Retrieved 2 September 2023.