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    1992 local elections handbook

    Final edition

    Scheduled council elections held between April and June 1992, from our ward results. This is the final edition. Where our results for a council are incomplete, its figures will be too low.

    Councils
    183
    Wards
    2,357
    Seats
    1,634
    Candidates
    7,279
    Votes
    5,390,921

    Seats won by party

    PartySeatsCandidatesVotesVote share*
    Conservative
    7192,2312,278,91443.6%
    Labour
    6752,2301,863,87135.6%
    Liberal Democrats
    2241,8911,024,60819.6%
    RES
    42116,0970.3%
    LIB
    45318,7740.4%
    RATE
    366,5960.1%
    Ind Lab
    24916,5310.3%
    A Ind
    119150.0%
    Ind Con
    183,3180.1%
    IND RATE
    113,0210.1%

    *Note on vote share: this is each party's share of the votes cast in the wards we hold for 1992. It is not an estimate for the whole country: many councils did not vote this year, some of our results may be missing, and in wards with several seats each voter had several votes.

    National Equivalent Vote — our estimate

    What each party's share might have been if the whole of Great Britain had voted in 1992. Built from 2,251 wards that did vote, compared like-for-like with the last time each ward voted, then carried across the places that didn't vote using the change in their region. Shown beside the Elections Centre's published figure where we hold it.

    PartyOur estimateElections Centre
    CON
    44.8%46%
    LAB
    27.9%30%
    LD
    16.3%20%
    IND
    5.0%—
    Lib/Sdp
    1.3%—
    GRN
    1.2%—
    All
    0.6%—

    How far to trust this: it is an estimate, not a count. It uses each party's best-placed candidate in each ward, so multi-seat wards don't inflate anyone. Parties that stand in only a few places stay in those places. Where our ward records are incomplete for a year, the estimate is less reliable — compare it with the Elections Centre column.

    Councils changing hands (15)

    CouncilBeforeAfter
    BasildonNo overall controlConservative
    BuryLabourNo overall control
    CalderdaleLabourNo overall control
    CongletonLiberal DemocratsNo overall control
    DudleyLabourNo overall control
    LiverpoolLabourNo overall control
    Milton KeynesLabourNo overall control
    RochdaleLabourNo overall control
    South CambridgeshireOtherNo overall control
    WalsallLabourNo overall control
    Welwyn HatfieldLabourConservative
    West OxfordshireOtherNo overall control
    WirralLabourNo overall control
    WokingNo overall controlConservative
    WolverhamptonLabourNo overall control

    Every council (183)

    CouncilWardsSeatsBeforeAfter
    Adur1314Liberal DemocratsLiberal Democrats
    Amber Valley76LabourLabour
    Amber Valley88——
    Barnsley2222LabourLabour
    Barrow-in-Furness1212No overall controlNo overall control
    Basildon1415No overall controlConservative
    Basingstoke and Deane70ConservativeConservative
    Bassetlaw150——
    Bath1618——
    Bath & North East Somerset11—Conservative
    Bedford80——
    Birmingham3939LabourLabour
    Blackburn2012——
    Blackburn with Darwen1011LabourLabour
    Bolton2020LabourLabour
    Bradford3031LabourLabour
    Brentwood1212Liberal DemocratsLiberal Democrats
    Brighton11——
    Brighton & Hove1412—Conservative
    Bristol, City of150LabourLabour
    Broadland1616ConservativeConservative
    Bromsgrove12ConservativeConservative
    Broxbourne1413ConservativeConservative
    Burnley1617LabourLabour
    Bury1616LabourNo overall control
    Calderdale1820LabourNo overall control
    Cannock Chase120LabourLabour
    Carlisle1610——
    Cheltenham110Liberal DemocratsLiberal Democrats
    Cherwell1717ConservativeConservative
    Chorley130No overall controlNo overall control
    City of Chester120——
    Colchester56No overall controlNo overall control
    Colchester1514——
    Congleton1414——
    Congleton11Liberal DemocratsNo overall control
    Coventry1819LabourLabour
    Craven90——
    Crawley97LabourLabour
    Crewe and Nantwich110LabourLabour
    Cumberland55—Conservative
    Daventry1313ConservativeConservative
    Derby97No overall controlNo overall control
    Derbyshire66LabourLabour
    Doncaster2121LabourLabour
    Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council100——
    Dudley2426LabourNo overall control
    East Suffolk77—Labour
    Eastbourne1010Liberal DemocratsLiberal Democrats
    Eastleigh66No overall controlNo overall control
    Eastleigh119——
    Ellesmere Port and Neston1414LabourLabour
    Elmbridge150No overall controlNo overall control
    Epping Forest160ConservativeConservative
    Exeter1314No overall controlNo overall control
    Fareham1414ConservativeConservative
    Gateshead11LabourLabour
    Gateshead2121——
    Gillingham30No overall controlNo overall control
    Gloucester44No overall controlNo overall control
    Gloucester76——
    Gosport1011Liberal DemocratsLiberal Democrats
    Great Grimsby150——
    Great Yarmouth1213——
    Great Yarmouth44LabourLabour
    Halton150LabourLabour
    Harlow50LabourLabour
    Harrogate110No overall controlNo overall control
    Hart70No overall controlNo overall control
    Hartlepool100——
    Hastings1211No overall controlNo overall control
    Havant1414No overall controlNo overall control
    Hereford99Liberal DemocratsLiberal Democrats
    Hertsmere1214ConservativeConservative
    Huntingdonshire60ConservativeConservative
    Hyndburn11LabourLabour
    Hyndburn1413——
    Ipswich1615LabourLabour
    Kingston Upon Hull2020—Labour
    Kirklees210LabourLabour
    Knowsley190LabourLabour
    Leeds250——
    Lincoln1112LabourLabour
    Liverpool3436LabourNo overall control
    Macclesfield130——
    Maidstone120No overall controlNo overall control
    Manchester3334LabourLabour
    Milton Keynes1515LabourNo overall control
    Mole Valley80——
    Newcastle Upon Tyne2626LabourLabour
    Newcastle-under-Lyme150LabourLabour
    Newport1515LabourLabour
    North East Lincolnshire1516—Labour
    North Hertfordshire1717ConservativeConservative
    North Lincolnshire1313—Labour
    North Tyneside1816——
    North Tyneside11LabourLabour
    Norwich1618LabourLabour
    Nuneaton and Bedworth120LabourLabour
    Oldham2021LabourLabour
    Oxford1818LabourLabour
    Pendle1616——
    Pendle11LabourLabour
    Penwith80No overall controlNo overall control
    Peterborough120No overall controlNo overall control
    Portsmouth1313No overall controlNo overall control
    Preston1917LabourLabour
    Purbeck77No overall controlNo overall control
    Reading1515LabourLabour
    Redditch910LabourLabour
    Reigate & Banstead120——
    Rhondda90——
    Rochdale2122LabourNo overall control
    Rochford1314No overall controlNo overall control
    Rossendale1212LabourLabour
    Rotherham1413——
    Rotherham910LabourLabour
    Rugby33No overall controlNo overall control
    Rugby1313——
    Runnymede100ConservativeConservative
    Rushmoor1413ConservativeConservative
    Salford32LabourLabour
    Salford1819——
    Sandwell210LabourLabour
    Scunthorpe80——
    Sefton2323No overall controlNo overall control
    Sheffield200LabourLabour
    Shrewsbury and Atcham100No overall controlNo overall control
    Slough1313LabourLabour
    Solihull160——
    South Bedfordshire1716ConservativeConservative
    South Cambridgeshire130OtherNo overall control
    South Herefordshire120OtherOther
    South Lakeland170No overall controlNo overall control
    South Tyneside2020LabourLabour
    Southampton1514LabourLabour
    Southend-On-Sea1314ConservativeConservative
    St Albans2019No overall controlNo overall control
    St Edmundsbury11—Conservative
    St. Albans90——
    St. Helens1818LabourLabour
    Stevenage33LabourLabour
    Stevenage109——
    Stockport2119——
    Stoke On Trent1917LabourLabour
    Stratford-on-Avon70——
    Stroud120No overall controlNo overall control
    Sunderland2525LabourLabour
    Swale100No overall controlNo overall control
    Swansea100LabourLabour
    Tameside140LabourLabour
    Tamworth80——
    Thamesdown1711—Labour
    Three Rivers1617No overall controlNo overall control
    Thurrock110——
    Trafford2324ConservativeConservative
    Tunbridge Wells99——
    Tunbridge Wells78ConservativeConservative
    Wakefield160LabourLabour
    Wales11——
    Walsall180LabourNo overall control
    Watford1212LabourLabour
    Watford Borough Council50——
    Waveney169——
    Welwyn Hatfield1313——
    Welwyn Hatfield22LabourConservative
    West Lancashire1818No overall controlNo overall control
    West Lindsey80No overall controlNo overall control
    West Oxfordshire120OtherNo overall control
    West Sussex11ConservativeConservative
    Weymouth and Portland100No overall controlNo overall control
    Wigan2526LabourLabour
    Winchester20No overall controlNo overall control
    Winchester120——
    Wirral2222LabourNo overall control
    Woking1111No overall controlConservative
    Wokingham1818ConservativeConservative
    Wolverhampton2021LabourNo overall control
    Worcester1213LabourLabour
    Worthing1212ConservativeConservative
    Wyre Forest110——
    YEOVIL22—Labour
    York110LabourLabour

    See also Election Health for 1992's competitiveness figures and Council Control.