1984_Scottish_local_elections

1984 Scottish local elections

Local elections

Local elections were held in Scotland on Thursday 3 May 1984, to elect members to all 53 district councils under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, which had established the two-tier system of regions and districts. This was the first election to take place after the 1983 general election landslide victory for the Conservatives. The local elections resulted in the Labour Party taking control of the City of Edinburgh District Council for the first time.

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McConnell, Alan (2004), Scottish Local Government, Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 978-0-7486-2005-0

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Clayton, Hugh (5 May 1984). "Labour captures Birmingham and Liberals make gains". The Times. p. 5.

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Parties		Votes %	Wards
	Labour	45.7	545
	Conservative	21.4	189
	Alliance	12.8	78
	SNP	11.7	59
	Independent	6.8	267
	Other
Total		n/a	~1158

District	Labour	Conservative	Liberal & SDP	Independent
Berwickshire	0	8 (-3)	SDP 1	0	Conservative hold
Ettrick and Lauderdale	2 (+1)	1 (-1)	0	13	Independent hold
Roxburgh	0	5	Lib 3 (+2) SDP 1	7 (-2)	Independents lose to NOC
Tweeddale	0	0	0	10	Independent hold

District	Labour	Conservative	SNP	Independent
Clackmannan	7 (+3)	1	2 (-3)	0	Labour hold
Falkirk	25 (+1)	2 (-1)	7 (+1)	2 (-1)	Labour hold
Stirling	11 (+1)	8 (-1)	0	1	Labour hold

District	Labour	Conservative	SNP	Liberal	Independent	Other
Annandale and Eskdale	0	0	0	4 (+4)	12 (-4)	0	Independent hold
Nithsdale	6 (+1)	7 (+1)	7 (+1)	0	7 (-4)	Independent Labour 1 (+1)	No Overall Control
Stewartry	0	0	0	0	12	0	Independent hold
Wigtown	0	0	1 (+1)	0	13 (-1)	0	Independent hold

District	Labour	Conservative	SNP	Liberal & SDP	Independent	Other
Dunfermline‡	24	2	1	Lib 3 SDP 3	0	Communist 1	Labour hold
Kirkcaldy‡	30	3	1	SDP 2 Lib 1	2	Ratepayers 1	Labour hold
North-East Fife	0	6 (-4)	0	Liberal 10 (+4)	2	0	Liberal gain from Conservatives

1984_Scottish_local_elections

1984 Scottish local elections

National results

Results by region

Borders

Central

Dumfries and Galloway

Fife

Grampian

Highland

Lothian

Strathclyde

Tayside

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District	Labour	Conservative	SNP	Liberal	Independent
Banff and Buchan	0	2 (+1)	5	0	11 (-1)	Independent hold
City of Aberdeen‡	28	8	0	14	0	Labour hold
Gordon	0	3 (-1)	0	2 (+1)	7	Independent hold
Kincardine and Deeside	0	3	1	1	7	Independent hold
Moray	1 (+1)	0	2 (+1)	0	15 (-2)	Independent hold

District	Labour	Conservative	SNP	Liberal & SDP	Independent	Other
Badenoch and Strathspey‡ 1 vacancy	0	0	1	0	9	0	Independent hold
Caithness 1 vacancy	0	0	0	Lib 1	14	0	Independent hold
Inverness‡	8 (-1)	0	0	Lib 2	18 (+1)	0	Independent hold
Lochaber‡	5	0	0	0	8	Independent Labour 2	Independent hold
Nairn	1 (+1)	0	0	0	9 (-1)	0	Independent hold
Ross and Cromarty‡ 1 vacancy	2	1	0	0	18	0	Independent hold
Skye and Lochalsh	0	0	0	SDP 1 (+1)	10 (-1)	0	Independent hold
Sutherland	0	0	0	0	14	0	Independent hold

District	Labour	Conservative	SNP	Liberal	Independent		Details
City of Edinburgh	34 (+8)	22 (-9)	2	4 (+3)	0 (-2)	Labour gain from NOC	Details
East Lothian	11 (+1)	6(-1)	0	0	0	Labour hold
Midlothian	14 (+1)	1	0	1	0 (-1)	Labour hold
West Lothian‡	19	0	2	0	3	Labour hold

District	Labour	Conservative	SNP	Liberal & SDP	Independent	Others
Argyll and Bute	0	1	1	0	24	0	Independent hold
Bearsden and Milngavie	1 (-1)	6 (-1)	0	Lib 2 (+2)	1	0	Conservative hold
Clydebank‡	11	1	0	0	0	0	Labour hold
Clydesdale	7	0	3	0	6	0	NOC
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth‡	8	0	4	0	0	0	Labour hold
Cumnock and Doon Valley	10 (+1)	0	0	0	0 (-1)	0	Labour hold
Cunninghame	23 (+2)	5	2 (-2)	0	0	0	Labour hold
Dumbarton‡	11	2	0	SDP 1	2	0	Labour hold
East Kilbride‡	14	2	0	0	0	0	Labour hold
Eastwood	0	10	0	0	2	0	Conservative hold
City of Glasgow	59	5 (-1)	0	Lib 2 (+1)	0	0	Labour hold
Hamilton	17	1	0	Lib 2	0	0	Labour hold
Inverclyde‡	11	0	0	Lib 9	0	0	Labour hold
Kilmarnock and Loudoun‡	14	3	1	0	0	0	Labour hold
Kyle and Carrick	12 (-1)	13 (+1)	0	0	0	0	Conservative gain from Labour
Motherwell‡	24	2	2	0	1	Communist 1	Labour hold
Monklands‡	18	2	0	0	0	0	Labour hold
Renfrew	35	5	3	Lib 1 SDP 1	0	0	Labour hold
Strathkelvin‡	11	4	0	0	0	0	Labour hold

District	Labour	Conservative	SNP	Liberal & SDP	Independent
Angus‡	0(-3)	8(-4)	11	0	2	SNP gain from NOC
City of Dundee	25	15 (-2)	2 (+2)	Lib 1 (+1) SDP 1 (+1)	0 (-1)	Labour hold
Perth and Kinross	6	14 (-4)	Lib 3 (+2) SDP1 (+1)	1 (+1)	4 (+1)	Conservatives lose to NOC