1973 High Peak Borough Council election

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The first elections to High Peak Borough Council in Derbyshire, England were held in 1973. The Borough Council was formed by absorbing the municipal boroughs of Buxton and Glossop, the urban districts of New Mills and Whaley Bridge, and the rural districts of Chapel-en-le-Frith and Tintwistle.

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As it was a new borough, all of the council was up for election. No party got an overall majority of councillors, meaning that the council became no overall control. [1]

After the election, the composition of the council was:

Election result

High Peak Local Election Result 1973 [2] [3]
PartySeatsGainsLossesNet gain/lossSeats %Votes %Votes+/−
  Conservative 23230+235033.0
  Labour 11110+1123.929.5
  Liberal 220+24.420.4
  Independent 10100+1021.717.1
  Green 00000230
  Communist 00000

Ward results

All Saints
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent George Chatterton927
Independent Peter Matthews690
Conservative Edwin Harold Mountain591
Labour Robert Pocklington554
Labour Reginald Grills479
Labour Kenneth Esplin Bracewell458
Conservative William Cowin432
Conservative Thomas Herbert Mettham399
Liberal Kevin John Hill343
Green Geoffrey Thomas Machan230
Turnout 64.9
Independent win (new seat)
Independent win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Barmoor
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Oswald Milnerunopposed
Independent win (new seat)
Barms
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Alfred Henry Hitchings844
Labour Noel Ratcliffe718
Conservative Clive Halliday Pedlow411
Conservative Margaret Wood370
Turnout 52.2
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)
Blackbrook
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal George Harry White869
Independent Keith Holford609
Conservative Gertrude Gordon Sharp439
Conservative William John Ayres277
Turnout 80.9
Liberal win (new seat)
Independent win (new seat)
Buxton Central
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Dennis Raymond Walter37158.80
Labour Charles Anthony Scouler15123.93
Liberal Sylvia June Dunlevy10917.27
Turnout 63145.4
Majority22034.86
Conservative win (new seat)
Chapel East
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Albert Phillips38557.81
Conservative William Hutchinson19228.83
Liberal Denis Grundy8913.36
Majority19328.98
Turnout 66650.0
Independent win (new seat)
Chapel West
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Muriel Bertha Bradbury644
Conservative Kenneth Victor Bradwell589
Labour Melvyn Wright438
Liberal Aubrey Ross-Sharp404
Labour Eric Fox354
Turnout 56.2
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
College
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Elizabeth Jane Allanunopposed
Conservative Ronald Herbert Kennettunopposed
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Corbar
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Margaret Beatrice Millican679
Conservative Alan Keith Allman618
Liberal Evelyn Mary Briggs384
Turnout 48
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Cote Heath
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Terence Garrie Gill768
Labour William Barton Morley728
Conservative John Francis Charles Pontin329
Conservative Joyce Allwright325
Turnout 38.1
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)
Hayfield
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Edmund Houghton73579.89
Labour Jacqueline Elizabeth Cowley18520.11
Majority55059.78
Turnout 92052.2
Conservative win (new seat)
Ladybower
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Constance Rita Bedfordunopposed
Conservative win (new seat)
Limestone Peak
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Evelyn May Tomlinson44859.50
Independent Ernest Thomas Walley30540.50
Majority14318.99
Turnout 75360.6
Conservative win (new seat)
New Mills North
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour P A Shaw732
Independent Frank Morris Bullough727
Labour J Axon825
Liberal Harry Norman Burfoot708
Labour J C Martin587
Liberal D Brown552
Liberal T Shepley499
Turnout 63.3
Labour win (new seat)
Independent win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)
New Mills South
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Frederick Stanway Kitchen908
Conservative L T Townsend872
Labour W H Ferguson809
Conservative Dorothy May Livesley798
Liberal J R Lawton639
Labour F A Roberts627
Labour J H De Mierre598
Liberal E Lavin464
Turnout 69.9
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)
Peveril
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Charles David Lewis54859.82
Independent Eric Marples24626.86
Labour James Powell12213.32
Majority30232.97
Turnout 91661.6
Conservative win (new seat)
St. Andrew's / St. Charles' (Hadfield)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour William George Campbell1577
Labour Kenneth David Hoy1508
Conservative Garfield Julian Tomlinson Davies1361
Conservative Sheila Duncan1331
Conservative Denys Toole1326
Conservative Michael Jackson1319
Labour Peter Keelan1316
Labour Francis Walter Stubbs1305
Labour Eric Read1274
Labour James Stanley Byford1238
Liberal Ida Evelyn Walton1215
Communist Robert Ainsworth Heald221
Turnout 54.3
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
St. James'
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Ronald Partridge1063
Conservative Alfred Edwin Jenner Leney1005
Liberal Deryck Johnson994
Conservative Kenneth Guy Dickenson944
Conservative William Derek Dunn937
Labour Harold Edward Dunkerley690
Labour Lesley Ann Fowler573
Turnout 59.4
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Liberal win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
St John's (Charlesworth)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Brenda Tetlow57263.77
Liberal Joyce Booth Bamforth23826.53
Labour David Walker Bowman879.70
Majority33437.24
Turnout 89772.5
Conservative win (new seat)
Stone Bench
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour William Clifford Poulter943
Labour James Henry Poulton744
Independent Robin Mark Rogers234
Turnout 38.2
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)
Tintwistle
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Thomas Henry Quayle45363.00
Labour Ralph Bennett26637.00
Majority18726.00
Turnout 71966.6
Conservative win (new seat)
Whaley Bridge (Fernilee)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Fredrick Bonsall Woodward36463.30
Labour Catherine Honor Harlow21136.70
Majority15326.60
Turnout 57554.8
Independent win (new seat)
Whaley Bridge (Furness Vale)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Harold Hastings Littlewood32360.72
Labour Margaret Stephen Tait Davies13625.56
Independent Clifford Mealor7313.72
Majority18735.16
Turnout 53260.5
Independent win (new seat)
Whaley Bridge (Taxal)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Roger Gilbert Hartley34859.18
Labour Edgar Winfield24040.82
Majority10818.36
Turnout 58864.9
Independent win (new seat)
Whaley Bridge (Yeardsley)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Ralph Frederic Plumley23529.34
Independent John Arthur Thomas Pritchard19424.22
Liberal Constance Ann Smith19023.72
Labour George Kenneth Brown18222.72
Majority415.12
Turnout 80164.1
Conservative win (new seat)

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References

  1. "Election 2007, Local Council Elections, High Peak council". news.bbc.co.uk. 4 May 2007.
  2. Colin Rallings; Michael Thrasher (1 May 2003). Local Elections in Britain: A Statistical Digest. University of Plymouth Local Government Chronicle Elections Centre. ISBN   0948858354.
  3. Colin Rallings; Michael Thrasher. "High Peak Borough Council Election Results 1973-2012" (PDF). www.electionscentre.co.uk. The Election Centre, Plymouth University. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 August 2020.