1978 Dumfries and Galloway Regional Council election

The second Dumfries and Galloway regional council election was held on 2 May 1978, a year after the second district council elections.

2 May 1978

Turnout

43.3%

	Majority party	Minority party	Third party

Party	Independent	Conservative	Labour
Seats before	33	0	2
Seats won	26	5	2
Seat change	-7	+5	-
Popular vote	13,087	3,050	2,382
Percentage	67.4%	15.7%	12.3%

	Fourth party

Party	SNP
Seats before	0
Seats won	1
Seat change	+1
Popular vote	711
Percentage	3.7%

This was the first time the Conservatives and the Scottish National Party (SNP) had contested a regional council election in Dumfries and Galloway. Thatcher's Conservatives overtook Callaghan's Labour to become the opposition to the still dominant independents.

Turnout was down, and so were the number of wards contested. Only 15 of the 35 wards in the region were contested, over half. 57.4% of the electorate of Dumfries and Galloway couldn't vote for this reason.[1][2]

References

"1978 Regional Elections in Scotland" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 March 2016.
"THE REGIONAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS OF MAY 1978". Archived from the original on 1 September 2021.

Council elections in Dumfries and Galloway
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Nithsdale District Council	1974 1977 1980 1984 1988 1992 Abolished
Stewartry District Council	1974 1977 1980 1984 1988 1992 Abolished
Wigtown District Council	1974 1977 1980 1984 1988 1992 Abolished

(1977 ←) 1978 United Kingdom local elections (→ 1979)
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