Who won the most seats in the Local Elections 1971?

The Labour Party won the most seats in the Local Elections 1971, with 2,879 of 4,592 seats filled.

When was the Local Elections 1971?

The Local Elections 1971 was held on 13 May 1971.

Local Elections 1971

Name: Local Elections 1971 results
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Local Elections 1971 was held on 13 May 1971. 4,592 seats were filled across 2,943 wards and divisions in 336 councils, from 10,504 candidates. The Labour Party won 2,879, Conservative Party won 1,271 and Independent won 158.

Date: 13 May 1971
Seats filled: 4,592
Candidates: 10,504
Councils: 336

Local Elections 1971: seats and votes by party
Party	Candidates	Seats won	Votes	Vote share
The Labour Party	4,129	2,879	6,517,401	53.0%
Conservative Party	3,891	1,271	4,575,638	37.2%
Independent	400	158	199,138	1.6%
The Liberal Party	1,185	121	613,227	5.0%
Unknown / not stated	83	69	22,285	0.2%
Residents	144	36	141,722	1.2%
Rpa	36	18	31,295	0.3%
Cit	33	8	46,984	0.4%
R.A	26	6	18,541	0.2%
RA	9	6	3,037	0.0%
R.R	16	5	14,202	0.1%
Prog	15	4	9,246	0.1%
IndCon	2	2	1,290	0.0%
Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales	22	1	9,743	0.1%
I.RA	2	1	2,297	0.0%
Independent Labour Party	3	1	2,266	0.0%
I.Lib	4	1	2,101	0.0%
TA	3	1	1,858	0.0%
IndLab	7	1	1,803	0.0%
RES	3	1	1,370	0.0%
Non-Resident Association	1	1	1,007	0.0%
Ndm	1	1	558	0.0%
Communist	182	0	23,697	0.2%
COMM	140	0	20,212	0.2%
National Front	75	0	10,324	0.1%
YCSI	13	0	7,882	0.1%
Other	43	0	7,059	0.1%
I.Lab	8	0	2,962	0.0%
T.A	4	0	2,361	0.0%
PROT	2	0	1,198	0.0%
Lan	1	0	906	0.0%
I.Con	4	0	790	0.0%
NDP	4	0	745	0.0%
RR	2	0	664	0.0%
RC	1	0	590	0.0%
VECTIS	1	0	584	0.0%
R&R	1	0	454	0.0%
IWA	1	0	430	0.0%
L.T	1	0	350	0.0%
FPT	1	0	337	0.0%

Local Elections 1971: results by council
Council	Wards / divisions	Seats filled	Largest party	Its seats
Abergavenny Borough Council	4	4	Conservative	3
Aberystwyth Borough Council	3	6	Labour	3
Accrington Borough Council	9	9	Labour	8
Aldershot	4	9	Conservative	4
Altrincham Borough Council	8	8	Conservative	6
Andover Borough Council	4	4	Conservative	2
Ashton under Lyne Borough Council	1	2	Labour	2
Ashton-under-Lyne	6	9	Labour	7
Aylesbury	3	7	Labour	4
Bacup Borough Council	6	6	Conservative	3
Banbury	6	6	Labour	5
Bangor Borough Council	4	7	Labour	4
Barking and Dagenham	12	49	Labour	45
Barnet	20	60	Conservative	43
Barnsley County Borough Council	10	10	Labour	7
Barnstaple Borough Council	6	6	The Liberal Party	4
Barrow County Borough Council	8	9	Labour	8
Barry Borough Council	7	7	Labour	6
Basingstoke Borough Council	6	6	Labour	4
Bath County Borough Council	15	15	Conservative	7
Batley Borough Council	5	9	Labour	7
Beaumaris Borough Council	1	4	Independent	4
Bebington Borough Council	9	9	Labour	6
Bedford Borough Council	7	8	Labour	5
Berwick upon Tweed Borough Council	5	5	Independent	4
Berwick-upon-Tweed	1	1	Independent	1
BEVERLEY	2	7	Independent	4
Bewdley	1	1	Conservative	1
Bewdley Borough Council	2	2	R.A	1
Bexhill Borough Council	5	5	R.A	2
Bexley	20	56	Labour	32
Birkenhead County Borough Council	16	17	Labour	12
Birmingham County Borough Council	39	43	Labour	33
Blackburn County Borough Council	14	14	Labour	10
Blackpool County Borough Council	17	17	Conservative	8
Blyth Borough Council	5	11	Labour	9
Bolton County Borough Council	16	25	Labour	15
Bootle County Borough Council	7	14	Labour	14
Bournemouth County Borough Council	16	16	Conservative	11
Brackley Borough Council	1	5	Independent	4
Bradford County Borough Council	19	19	Labour	15
Brecon Borough Council	4	4	Unknown	3
Brent	31	60	Labour	38
Bridgwater	6	6	Labour	5
Brighouse Borough Council	8	8	Conservative	4
Brighton County Borough Council	19	19	Labour	10
Bristol County Borough Council	28	28	Labour	21
Bromley	25	60	Conservative	41
Buckingham Borough Council	1	7	Independent	3
Burnley County Borough Council	12	12	Labour	11
Burton upon Trent County Borough Council	8	8	Labour	7
Bury County Borough Council	6	14	Labour	14
Buxton Borough Council	6	6	Labour	3
Caernarvon Borough Council	4	6	Independent	5
Calne Borough Council	2	4	Labour	2
Cambridge Borough Council	12	13	Labour	9
Camden	18	60	Labour	49
Canterbury County Borough Council	3	8	Labour	4
Cardiff County Borough Council	19	19	Labour	12
Cardigan Borough Council	1	4	Independent	4
Carlisle County Borough Council	10	11	Labour	8
Carmarthen Borough Council	2	6	Unknown	3
Castleford Borough Council	10	10	Labour	9
Chard Borough Council	1	4	Labour	3
Cheltenham Borough Council	9	9	Labour	4
Chester County Borough Council	7	14	Labour	8
Chesterfield Borough Council	12	12	Labour	10
Chichester	3	6	The Liberal Party	3
Chippenham Borough Council	3	7	Conservative	3
Christchurch Borough Council	6	8	Conservative	6
Cleethorpes	2	2	Conservative	1
Cleethorpes Borough Council	3	3	Labour	2
Clitheroe Borough Council	1	4	Conservative	3
Colchester Borough Council	9	9	Labour	7
Colne Borough Council	6	6	Labour	4
Colwyn Bay Borough Council	7	7	Independent	4
Congleton	2	5	Labour	3
Congleton Borough Council	2	4	Conservative	3
Conway Borough Council	4	4	Independent	2
Coventry County Borough Council	18	18	Labour	14
Cowbridge	1	5	Unknown	5
Crewe Borough Council	8	8	Labour	8
Crosby Borough Council	9	9	Conservative	5
Croydon	20	60	Conservative	30
Darlington County Borough Council	11	12	Labour	8
Darwen Borough Council	6	6	Labour	4
Daventry Borough Council	1	6	Labour	6
Deal Borough Council	4	9	Conservative	5
Denbigh Borough Council	1	4	Independent	4
Derby County Borough Council	18	18	Labour	13
Devizes Borough Council	3	6	Conservative	4
Dewsbury County Borough Council	9	9	Labour	7
Doncaster County Borough Council	12	12	Labour	10
Dover Borough Council	6	7	Labour	5
Droitwich Borough Council	1	4	Conservative	4
Dudley County Borough Council	15	16	Labour	15
Dukinfield Borough Council	3	7	Labour	7
Durham	3	3	Labour	2
Durham Borough Council	4	5	Labour	3
Ealing	20	60	Labour	40
East Retford Borough Council	3	7	Conservative	4
Eastbourne County Borough Council	10	10	Conservative	6
Eastleigh	2	2	Labour	2
Eastleigh Borough Council	5	5	Labour	3
Ellesmere Port Borough Council	8	8	Labour	5
Enfield	30	60	Conservative	32
Evesham Borough Council	5	5	Independent	4
Exeter County Borough Council	17	18	Conservative	9
Eye Borough Council	1	4	Independent	4
Falmouth Borough Council	4	4	Labour	2
Farnworth	3	3	Labour	3
Farnworth Borough Council	3	3	Labour	3
Faversham	3	3	Labour	2
Faversham Borough Council	1	1	IndCon	1
Fleetwood Borough Council	6	7	Conservative	4
Flint Borough Council	6	6	Labour	5
Folkestone Borough Council	9	9	Conservative	5
Gateshead County Borough Council	12	12	Labour	10
Glossop Borough Council	3	7	Labour	4
Gloucester County Borough Council	11	11	Labour	8
Godalming Borough Council	4	7	Conservative	5
Goole Borough Council	6	7	Labour	5
Gosport Borough Council	11	13	Labour	7
Grantham Borough Council	6	7	Labour	6
Gravesend Borough Council	8	9	Labour	8
Great Yarmouth County Borough Council	12	12	Labour	9
Greenwich	27	60	Labour	55
Grimsby County Borough Council	14	15	Labour	10
Guildford	1	1	The Liberal Party	1
Guildford Borough Council	7	7	Conservative	4
Hackney	20	60	Labour	60
Halesowen Borough Council	8	8	Labour	4
Halifax County Borough Council	15	15	Labour	9
Hammersmith and Fulham	21	60	Labour	58
Haringey	20	60	Labour	41
Harrogate Borough Council	9	9	Conservative	5
Harrow	15	56	Labour	27
Hartlepool County Borough Council	15	17	Labour	12
Haslingden Borough Council	6	6	Labour	4
Hastings County Borough Council	8	8	Labour	3
Haverfordwest Borough Council	1	4	Independent	4
Havering	20	55	Labour	30
Hedon Borough Council	1	3	Independent	3
Hemel Hempstead	7	7	Labour	5
Hemel Hempstead Borough Council	2	2	Labour	2
Henley on Thames Borough Council	2	5	Independent	2
Hereford Borough Council	6	6	Labour	3
Hertford Borough Council	3	7	Conservative	6
Heywood Borough Council	9	9	Labour	6
High Wycombe Borough Council	4	8	Labour	5
Hillingdon	18	60	Labour	36
Hounslow	20	60	Labour	47
Hove	2	2	Conservative	1
Hove Borough Council	8	8	Unknown	7
Huddersfield County Borough Council	15	16	Labour	10
Hyde Borough Council	3	6	Labour	5
Hythe Borough Council	4	4	Conservative	3
Ilkeston Borough Council	6	7	Labour	5
Ipswich County Borough Council	14	14	Labour	10
Islington	19	60	Labour	60
Jarrow Borough Council	7	7	Labour	5
Keighley	7	7	Labour	6
Keighley Borough Council	3	3	Conservative	2
Kensington and Chelsea	15	60	Conservative	39
Kettering Borough Council	9	9	Labour	5
Kidderminster Borough Council	7	8	Labour	5
Kidwelly Borough Council	1	4	Labour	2
Kingston upon Hull County Borough Council	21	21	Labour	19
Kingston upon Thames	24	60	Conservative	40
Lambeth	20	60	Labour	51
Launceston Borough Council	1	5	Unknown	5
Leamington Spa Borough Council	8	8	Conservative	5
Leeds County Borough Council	30	31	Labour	21
Leicester County Borough Council	16	16	Labour	13
Leigh Borough Council	8	8	Labour	7
Lewes	1	2	Labour	2
Lewes Borough Council	2	4	Conservative	2
Lewisham	23	60	Labour	56
Lichfield Borough Council	6	7	Labour	3
Lincoln County Borough Council	10	10	Labour	9
Liverpool County Borough Council	40	40	Labour	31
Llanelly Borough Council	3	6	Labour	6
Llanfyllin Borough Council	1	4	Independent	4
Llanidloes Borough Council	1	4	Independent	4
Lowestoft Borough Council	10	10	Labour	10
Luton County Borough Council	12	12	Labour	9
Lydd Borough Council	1	4	Unknown	4
Lytham St Anne's Borough Council	8	8	Conservative	7
Maidenhead Borough Council	1	1	Labour	1
Maidstone Borough Council	8	8	Labour	3
Malmesbury Borough Council	1	5	Independent	5
Manchester County Borough Council	33	99	Labour	81
Mansfield Borough Council	3	6	Labour	4
Margate Borough Council	10	10	Conservative	5
Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council	8	8	Labour	6
Merton	14	54	Labour	29
Middleton Borough Council	9	9	Labour	8
Monmouth Borough Council	1	5	Conservative	3
Montgomery Borough Council	1	2	Independent	2
Morecambe & Heysham Borough Council	9	9	Conservative	6
Morley Borough Council	11	11	Labour	6
Morpeth Borough Council	1	4	Independent	2
Mossley Borough Council	3	6	Labour	3
Neath Borough Council	3	6	Labour	4
Nelson	7	8	Labour	8
Nelson Borough Council	1	1	Labour	1
New Romney Borough Council	1	4	Unknown	4
NEWARK	6	6	Conservative	3
Newbury	1	2	The Liberal Party	2
Newbury Borough Council	2	5	Conservative	2
Newcastle under Lyme Borough Council	12	12	Labour	9
Newcastle upon Tyne County Borough Council	19	38	Labour	25
Newham	24	60	Labour	53
Newport (isle of Wight) Borough Council	6	6	Labour	3
Newport County Borough Council	13	13	Labour	12
Northampton County Borough Council	12	12	Labour	8
Norwich County Borough Council	16	17	Labour	13
Nottingham County Borough Council	18	20	Labour	15
Nuneaton Borough Council	8	8	Labour	7
Okehampton Borough Council	1	4	Unknown	4
Oldham County Borough Council	13	15	Labour	14
Ossett Borough Council	4	4	Labour	4
Oxford County Borough Council	15	15	Labour	10
Pembroke Borough Council	1	3	Unknown	3
Penzance Borough Council	2	4	Unknown	4
Peterborough	1	1	Labour	1
Peterborough Borough Council	8	8	Labour	6
Plymouth County Borough Council	22	22	Labour	13
Pontefract Borough Council	6	6	Labour	5
Poole	10	11	Conservative	6
Poole Borough Council	1	1	Conservative	1
Port Talbot Borough Council	8	8	Labour	5
Portsmouth County Borough Council	16	16	Labour	9
Preston County Borough Council	12	12	Labour	11
Prestwich Borough Council	6	6	Conservative	5
Pudsey	7	8	Labour	4
Pwllheli Borough Council	2	4	Independent	4
Rawtenstall Borough Council	6	6	Labour	6
Reading County Borough Council	13	13	Labour	10
Redbridge	17	60	Conservative	41
Richmond (Yorks) Borough Council	1	4	Independent	4
Richmond upon Thames	18	54	Conservative	36
Ripon Borough Council	2	5	Conservative	2
Rochdale County Borough Council	12	12	Labour	9
Romsey Borough Council	1	4	Conservative	2
Rotherham County Borough Council	11	13	Labour	11
Royal Tunbridge Wells Borough Council	4	9	Conservative	7
Rugby Borough Council	9	9	Labour	6
Ryde Borough Council	5	7	Conservative	4
Rye Borough Council	1	4	Independent	3
Saffron Walden Borough Council	1	4	Labour	3
Sale Borough Council	7	7	Conservative	3
Salford County Borough Council	16	17	Labour	16
Salisbury	3	3	Labour	3
Salisbury Borough Council	7	7	Conservative	3
Sandwich Borough Council	1	4	Conservative	3
Scarborough Borough Council	6	7	Conservative	4
Scunthorpe	9	9	Labour	9
Scunthorpe Borough Council	1	1	Labour	1
Sheffield County Borough Council	27	27	Labour	21
Shrewsbury	11	11	Labour	6
Slough	9	9	Labour	8
Slough Borough Council	2	2	Conservative	1
Solihull County Borough Council	10	10	Independent	5
South Shields County Borough Council	15	15	Labour	11
Southampton County Borough Council	18	19	Labour	15
Southend-on-Sea County Borough Council	16	16	Conservative	8
Southport County Borough Council	15	17	Conservative	10
Southwark	23	60	Labour	58
Spenborough Borough Council	10	10	Labour	6
St Albans	5	5	Conservative	2
St Albans Borough Council	2	2	Conservative	2
St Austell with Fowey Borough Council	8	8	Unknown	8
St Helens County Borough Council	10	10	Labour	9
Stafford Borough Council	9	9	Labour	7
Stalybridge Borough Council	4	8	Labour	6
Stockport County Borough Council	18	19	Labour	14
Stoke-on-Trent County Borough Council	24	25	Labour	25
Stourbridge Borough Council	8	9	Conservative	5
Stratford on Avon Borough Council	3	5	Independent	3
Stratford-On-Avon	1	2	Independent	1
Stretford Borough Council	8	8	Conservative	4
Sudbury Borough Council	1	4	Labour	4
Sunderland County Borough Council	22	22	Labour	16
Sutton	25	51	Conservative	25
Sutton Coldfield	9	11	Conservative	9
Sutton Coldfield Borough Council	1	1	Conservative	1
Swansea County Borough Council	15	15	Labour	10
Swindon	2	5	Labour	4
Swindon Borough Council	4	8	Labour	8
Tamworth	2	4	Labour	4
Tamworth Borough Council	2	5	Labour	4
Taunton Borough Council	7	8	Conservative	4
Teesside County Borough Council	26	26	Labour	20
Tewkesbury Borough Council	1	4	Conservative	2
Tiverton Borough Council	3	6	The Liberal Party	3
Todmorden Borough Council	6	6	Labour	3
Torbay County Borough Council	12	12	Conservative	8
Tower Hamlets	20	60	Labour	60
Tynemouth County Borough Council	9	9	Labour	6
Wakefield County Borough Council	11	11	Labour	8
Wallasey County Borough Council	16	16	Labour	9
Wallsend Borough Council	9	10	Labour	9
Walsall County Borough Council	15	15	Labour	11
Waltham Forest	16	48	Labour	39
Wandsworth	20	60	Labour	53
Warley County Borough Council	15	15	Labour	13
Warrington County Borough Council	9	9	Labour	9
Warwick	2	4	Conservative	3
Warwick Borough Council	1	4	Labour	4
Watford	10	11	Labour	8
Watford Borough Council	1	1	The Liberal Party	1
Welshpool Borough Council	4	4	Independent	3
West Bromwich County Borough Council	15	15	Labour	13
Westminster	18	60	Conservative	38
Weston-Super-Mare	8	8	Conservative	6
Weymouth & Melcombe Regis Borough Council	10	10	Labour	7
Whitehaven Borough Council	6	6	Labour	5
Whitley Bay	7	7	Labour	4
Whitley Bay Borough Council	1	1	Independent	1
Widnes Borough Council	8	8	Labour	6
Wigan County Borough Council	14	15	Labour	12
Wilton Borough Council	1	4	Unknown	4
Winchester	2	2	Conservative	1
Winchester Borough Council	4	4	The Liberal Party	2
Wisbech Borough Council	4	8	Conservative	4
Wolverhampton County Borough Council	20	20	Labour	13
Worcester County Borough Council	12	12	Labour	8
Workington	4	6	Unknown	4
Workington Borough Council	1	2	Unknown	2
Worksop Borough Council	6	6	Labour	4
Worthing Borough Council	10	10	Conservative	8
Wrexham	3	3	Conservative	1
Wrexham Borough Council	6	7	Labour	4
YEOVIL	1	1	Independent	1
York County Borough Council	13	13	Labour	10