1982 Islington London Borough Council election

The 1982 Islington Council election took place on 6 May 1982 to elect members of Islington London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Labour party regained overall control of the council from the Social Democratic Party.[1]

Background

In March 1981 the SDP was founded. In May 1981 Donald Hoodless became the new Labour Leader and council leader. In September 1981, following the resignation of a Labour councillor, the SDP gained a council seat in Hillarton ward. In December 1981 over half of the Labour group on the council resigned the Labour whip and joined the SDP. This gave the SDP a majority of seats and their leader, Jim Evans, became the new council leader. Divisions within the SDP saw the emergence of a separate Social Democrat group that included four sitting SDP councillors. This group stood in the 1982 elections in opposition to official SDP candidates.

Election result

1982 Islington Council election
			Candidates						Votes
Party		Leader	Stood	Elected	Gained	Unseated	Net	% of total	%	No.	Net %
	Labour	Margaret Hodge	52	51	2	1	+1		51.5		+0.4
	Alliance	Jim Evans	52	1	1	0	+1		22.3		+20.1
	Conservative		52	0	0	2	-2		24.2		-14.1
	Social Democrat		9	0	0	0	0
	National Front		5	0	0	0	0			268
	Independent SDP		2	0	0	0	0			111
	Communist		2	0	0	0	0			239
	Workers Revolutionary		1	0	0	0	0			61
	Save London Action Group		1	0	0	0	0			18

Ward results

Members of the old council*[2]

Barnsbury (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alexander J Farrell*	1637	56.2	+7.7
	Labour	Christopher Robert Smith*	1630
	Labour	Margaret Eve Hodge	1618
	Liberal	James Lawrie	733	25.1	+20.0
	SDP	Anna M M Beaumont	701
	Liberal	Antony J Martin	682
	Conservative	John D E Gallagher	544	18.7	-16.9
	Conservative	Simon Melhuish-Hancock	476
	Conservative	David J Wedgwood	462
Majority				31.1	+18.2
Turnout				45.5	+3.3
	Labour hold		Swing	+9.1

Bunhill (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Kenneth D Banham	936	39.1	-9.5
	Labour	Terence J Herbert	905
	Labour	Christopher T A Calnan	905
	Conservative	Arthur H S Hull	778	32.5	-7.8
	Conservative	Patricia M Robertson	758
	Conservative	John G Watson	711
	SDP	Christie Payne*	595	24.9	n/a
	SDP	George A W Ives*	560
	SDP	Joseph R Trotter	528
	National Front	John Hawkesworth	84	3.5	-5.8
	National Front	George Wilson	50
	National Front	Gordon W Strange	44
Majority				6.6	-1.7
Turnout				37.3	-2.8
	Labour hold		Swing	-0.8

Canonbury East (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	James R Franklin	749
	Labour	Gordon D Young	687
	SDP	Christopher Murray Paul Huhne	464
	SDP	William Moroney	394
	Conservative
	Conservative
	Social Democrat	Ernest J W Bayliss*
	Social Democrat	Sybil P James*
	Save London Action Group
Majority
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

Canonbury West (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Rosemary A Nicholson
	Labour	Joseph W H Simpson
	Conservative
	Conservative
	Liberal
	SDP	Ralph F W Skilbeck
	Social Democrat	Frederick Johns
	Social Democrat	Audrey Bayliss*
Majority
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

Clerkenwell (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Anne Green
	Labour	Margaret L Oliver
	SDP	David Hyams*
	Labour
	Conservative
	SDP
	SDP
	Conservative
	Conservative
	Workers Revolutionary
Majority
Turnout
	SDP gain from Labour		Swing

Gillespie (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Eric W Brown
	Labour	Carol O'Brien*
	Conservative
	Conservative
	SDP
	Liberal
Majority
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

Highbury (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Peter A Broadbent
	Labour	Smarajit Roy
	Labour	Derek Hines
	Conservative
	Conservative
	Liberal	Margot Joan Dunn	626
	Conservative
	SDP
	SDP
Majority
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

Highview (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Bob Crossman	891
	Labour	Maureen Leigh	856
	SDP	James C Evans*	328
	SDP
	Conservative
	Conservative
Majority
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

Hillmarton (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Arthur L Bell*	1162
	Labour	Peter C Powell	1000
	Conservative		438
	Liberal		438
	SDP	Kevin O'Keefe*	414
	Conservative
	Communist
Majority
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

O'Keefe was elected for the SDP in a 1981 by-election

Hillrise (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Alan M Clinton
	Labour	Milton K Babulall
	Labour	William J Sillett
	Conservative	Kenneth E J Graham
	Conservative
	Conservative
	Liberal
	SDP
	SDP
Majority
Turnout
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Holloway (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Edward M Holroyd-Doveton*
	Labour	Rosemary Dale
	Labour	David L Yorath
	Conservative
	SDP
	Conservative
	SDP
	SDP
	Conservative
	National Front
	National Front
Majority
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

Junction (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Maurice J Barnes
	Labour	Taha T Karim
	Labour	Derek A Sawyer
	Conservative
	Conservative
	Conservative
	SDP
	Liberal	Roy Albert James Lincoln
	SDP
Majority
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

Mildmay (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Patrick E Haynes
	Labour	Marjorie A Ogilvy-Webb*
	Labour	Valerie A Veness*
	Conservative
	Conservative
	Conservative
	SDP
	SDP
	Liberal
Majority
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

Quadrant (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	David G S Rees
	Labour	Keith R Veness
	Conservative
	SDP
	Conservative
	SDP
	Social Democrat
	Social Democrat
Majority
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

St George's (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Patricia J Longman
	Labour	Sandra Marks
	Labour	Victor I McGeer
	Conservative
	Conservative
	Conservative
	SDP
	SDP
	SDP
	Social Democrat	Gerard F Flynn*
	Social Democrat
	Communist
	Social Democrat
Majority
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

St Mary (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	George R Hayes
	Labour	Barbara Rogers
	Labour	Mohammad A K Khan
	Conservative
	Conservative	Neil David Kerr
	Conservative
	SDP	Alan Pedrick*
	Liberal
	Liberal
Majority
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

St Peter (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Anne L Page*
	Labour	Paul N Mullin
	Labour	John A Worker
	SDP	Christopher J Price*
	Conservative
	Conservative
	Liberal
	Conservative
	SDP
Majority
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

Sussex (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Jan Whelan	1012
	Labour	Ian S Wilson	1005
	SDP	Ellen M Brosnan*	399
	SDP	Henry J Reid*	342
	Conservative
	Conservative
	Conservative
Majority
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

Thornhill (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Charles H Chapman
	Labour	Sally E A Gilbert
	Conservative
	Conservative
	SDP
	Liberal
	Independent SDP	Alan Ernest Lomas	61
	Independent SDP	Valerie Lomas	60
Majority
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

Tollington (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	David Aitchison	1701
	Labour	Kathleen Bundred	1699
	Labour	Christopher M Bromley	1583
	SDP	Andrew Carty*	507
	SDP	Arthur G Smith*	490
	SDP	Kathleen Carty	483
	Conservative
	Conservative
	Conservative
Majority
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

References

"London Borough Council Elections 6 May 1982" (PDF). London Datastore. Greater London Council. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
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