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Elections to Altrincham Council were held on Thursday, 13 May 1971. One third of the councillors were up for election, with each successful candidate to serve a three-year term of office. The Conservative Party retained overall control of the council. [1] [2]
| Party | Votes | Seats | Full Council | |||||||
| Conservative Party | 5,842 (36.3%) |  0.5 | 3 (30.0%) | 3 / 10 | 5 | 17 (53.1%) | 17 / 32 | |||
| Labour Party | 4,999 (31.0%) |  6.0 | 4 (40.0%) | 4 / 10 | 3 | 7 (21.7%) | 7 / 32 | |||
| Liberal Party | 5,018 (31.2%) | 5.8 | 3 (30.0%) | 3 / 10 | 2 | 6 (18.8%) | 6 / 32 | |||
| Independent | 0 (0.0%) |  | 0 (0.0%) | 0 / 10 | | 2 (6.3%) | 2 / 32 | |||
| Communist Party | 245 (1.5%) | 0.4 | 0 (0.0%) | 0 / 10 | | 0 (0.0%) | 0 / 32 | |||
| 7 | 6 | 2 | 17 |
| 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 6 | 6 | 12 |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | E. M. Hoyle* | 1,184 | 94.9 | +29.0 | |
| Communist | A. Cooper | 63 | 5.1 | +2.3 | |
| Majority | 1,121 | 89.8 | +61.2 | ||
| Turnout | 1,247 | ||||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | R. Crossman | 746 | 64.3 | +9.7 | |
| Conservative | H. Scholar | 415 | 35.7 | -9.7 | |
| Majority | 331 | 28.6 | +19.4 | ||
| Turnout | 1,161 | ||||
| Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | J. Webb | 893 | 28.9 | ||
| Labour | W. Oliver | 876 | 28.4 | ||
| Conservative | W. Simm | 571 | 18.5 | ||
| Conservative | V. T. J. Symond | 565 | 18.3 | ||
| Communist | E. Sheldon | 182 | 5.9 | ||
| Majority | 305 | 9.9 | |||
| Turnout | 3,087 | ||||
| Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
| Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | K. Harrison* | uncontested | |||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | E. Faulkner | 795 | 26.6 | N/A | |
| Conservative | F. R. Metcalf* | 753 | 25.2 | N/A | |
| Liberal | B. C. Lynch | 738 | 24.7 | N/A | |
| Conservative | H. E. Ablard | 702 | 28.4 | N/A | |
| Majority | 15 | 0.5 | |||
| Turnout | 2,988 | ||||
| Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | M. R. Farnsworth | 993 | 52.9 | 0 | |
| Conservative | A. E. Jackson* | 885 | 47.1 | 0 | |
| Majority | 108 | 5.8 | 0 | ||
| Turnout | 1,878 | ||||
| Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | M. W. F. Hiett* | 1,465 | 70.7 | +4.7 | |
| Conservative | E. Nisbet | 607 | 29.3 | -4.7 | |
| Majority | 858 | 41.4 | +9.4 | ||
| Turnout | 2,072 | ||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | A. R. Weedall* | 1,344 | 36.6 | N/A | |
| Labour | J. Hutchinson | 1,300 | 35.4 | N/A | |
| Liberal | R. Bowker | 1,027 | 28.0 | N/A | |
| Majority | 44 | 1.2 | |||
| Turnout | 3,671 | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
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