1976 Hyndburn Borough Council election

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The 1976 Hyndburn Borough Council election for the Hyndburn Borough Council was held in May 1976. [1]

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Results

Hyndburn local election result 1976
PartySeatsGainsLossesNet gain/lossSeats %Votes %Votes+/−
  Labour 141029.2%29.77%
  Conservative 331268.8%60.24%
  Liberal 122.1%6.92%
  National Front 1.47%
  Independent 1.31%
  Communist 0.29%

By ward

... * denotes sitting councillor defeated

Accrington West (2 seats - electorate 2518)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Phyllis Hargreaves687
Labour Basil Whitham519
Conservative George Granville Broadhurst407
Conservative Richard Harwood270
...spoilt votes5...
Majority 280
Majority 112
Turnout 1,057
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Accrington Central (1 seat- electorate 1454)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Wallace Haines367
Conservative Mary Mortimer263
...spoilt votes5...
Majority 104
Turnout 630
Labour hold Swing
Accrington North (4 seats - electorate 5426)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Sarah Josephine Pratt1,290
Conservative Jessie Hughes1,192
Conservative Raymond Duckworth1,103
Conservative Herbert Taylor1,093
Liberal Fredrick Maurice Ellison596
Liberal Aldan Unwin555
National Front Kenneth Ian Dobson436
...spoilt votes19...
Majority 694
Majority 596
Majority 507
Majority 497
Turnout 1,959
Conservative gain from Liberal Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Accrington Peel Park (2 seats - electorate 2907)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Alice Owens595
Labour Gerald David Smith489
Conservative 'Peter Vincent Favell478
Labour Robert Eddleston422
National Front David Andrew Riley245
Independent Robert Rigg192
...spoilt votes8...
Majority 117
Majority 11
Turnout 1,301
Conservative hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Accrington East (2 seats electorate 2068)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative William Parkinson485
Conservative Alan Benson473
Labour Ann Elizabeth Sudders *438
...spoilt votes0...
Majority 47
Majority 35
Turnout 862
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative gain from Labour Swing
Accrington South (3 seats electorate 4,532)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Kenneth John Marsden861
Conservative Velma Rennison791
Conservative Brian Fairley785
Liberal Margaret Martin772
Liberal Alan Dinwoodle Lund *678
Liberal Alan Thomas Leeming594
National Front Dave Cronshaw373
...spoilt votes11...
Majority 89
Majority 19
Majority 13
Turnout 1,837
Liberal hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative gain from Liberal Swing
Higher Antley (2 seats electorate 2,200)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Mary-Lou Cleak509
Labour Kenneth Curtis492
Conservative Patricia Harwood464
Labour Dave Walter Keeley427
...spoilt votes8...
Majority 45
Majority 28
Turnout 994
Labour hold Swing
Conservative gain from Labour Swing
Spring Hill (4 seats electorate 4,464)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Christopher Dillon923
Labour John Pickup918
Labour Thomas Bramley777
Conservative Elizabeth Court774
Labour Clifford Westell *763
Conservative Alfred Jameson683
Liberal Henry Batty556
Liberal David O'Hanlon549
...spoilt votes6...
Majority 160
Majority 155
Majority 14
Majority 11
Turnout 1,935
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Conservative gain from Labour Swing

Huncoat

Huncoat (2 seats electorate 1,965)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Doris Grant525
Labour Walter Farrimond475
Conservative Douglas John Deakin449
Conservative Joseph Anthony Hindley448
...spoilt votes1...
Majority 76
Majority 26
Turnout 1.005
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

Church

Church St. James (1 seat electorate 1,039)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Leonard Dickinson270
Conservative Raymond Prestage146
...spoilt votes3...
Majority 124
Turnout 416
Labour hold Swing
Church Chapel & Elmfield (1 seat electorate ??)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Jack GrimeUncontested
Labour hold Swing
Church Dill Hall (1 seat electorate 1,235)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Riley423
Labour Christina Rogan213
Liberal Harold Stuttard64
...spoilt votes1...
Majority 12430.0%
Turnout 700
Conservative gain from Labour Swing

Clayton-Le-Moors

Clayton-Le-Moors & Altham (4 seats electorate 5,506)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Elizabeth Hoyle1,789
Conservative Philip Gilbraith1,737
Conservative Jennie Jackson1,606
Conservative John Clifton Downing1,583
Labour Arthur Lewis894
Labour Margaret Muriel Sims851
...spoilt votes6...
Majority 895
Majority 843
Majority 712
Majority 689
Turnout 2,580
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing

Great Harwood

Great Harwood North & West (4 seats electorate 4,418)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Jessie Marie Hall1,406
Conservative William Birch Sumner1,338
Conservative Keith Owen1,284
Conservative Terrence Owen1,220
Labour Thomas Lambert829
Labour James Hocking793
Labour Francis Livesey750
Labour Jean Ann Sunner682
...spoilt votes6...
Majority 577
Majority 509
Majority 455
Majority 391
Turnout
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Great Harwood East & South (3 seats electorate 3,892)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Wyn Frankland915
Conservative Angela Margaret Hanson912
Labour George Slynn879
Conservative Maurice Kezler872
Labour Joseph Hayhurst *840
Labour Anthony Tattersall *779
...spoilt votes8...
Majority 43
Majority 40
Majority 7
Turnout 1,930
Conservative gain from Labour Swing
Conservative gain from Labour Swing
Labour hold Swing

Oswaldtwistle

Oswaldtwistle St Michael's & St Paul's (4 seats electorate 5,305)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative William Finch1,228
Conservative Monica Margaret Browning1,206
Conservative Doris Clegg1,173
Conservative Thomas Leslie Rushton1,134
Labour Alfred Newsham *958
Independent Clifford Walsh745
Liberal Ian Raymond Thorpe504
...spoilt votes9...
Majority 270
Majority 248
Majority 215
Majority 176
Turnout =2,324
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative gain from Labour Swing
Oswaldtwistle Foxhill Bank & St Oswalds (4 seats electorate 5,634)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Joseph Kenneth Hargreaves 1,330
Conservative Bessie Margaret Sandiford1,263
Conservative Edward Francis Hill1,234
Conservative Thomas Wilfred Renshaw1,187
Labour John Malcolm Farmer808
Communist Thomas Marshall205
...spoilt votes6...
Majority 522
Majority 455
Majority 426
Majority 379
Turnout 2,127
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative gain from Labour Swing

Rishton

Rishton (4 seats electorate 4,597)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Donald John McNeil1,362
Labour Allan Critchlow1,323
Conservative Edward Edmondson1,146
Conservative Peter John Rushton1,171
Conservative Anthony William Davies1,058
Labour Fredrick Beck Parkinson *855
Labour Robert Harry Peel748
Labour John James Palmer632
...spoilt votes9...
Majority 304
Majority 265
Majority 88
Majority 113
Turnout 2,362
Conservative hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative gain from Labour Swing

References

  1. ↑ "Hyndburn Council election records". Hyndburn Council election records. May 1976.
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