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The 1976 Hyndburn Borough Council election for the Hyndburn Borough Council was held in May 1976. [1]
Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | 14 | 10 | 29.2% | 29.77% | |||||
Conservative | 33 | 12 | 68.8% | 60.24% | |||||
Liberal | 1 | 2 | 2.1% | 6.92% | |||||
National Front | 1.47% | ||||||||
Independent | 1.31% | ||||||||
Communist | 0.29% | ||||||||
... * denotes sitting councillor defeated
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Phyllis Hargreaves | 687 | |||
Labour | Basil Whitham | 519 | |||
Conservative | George Granville Broadhurst | 407 | |||
Conservative | Richard Harwood | 270 | |||
... | spoilt votes | 5 | ... | ||
Majority | 280 | ||||
Majority | 112 | ||||
Turnout | 1,057 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Wallace Haines | 367 | |||
Conservative | Mary Mortimer | 263 | |||
... | spoilt votes | 5 | ... | ||
Majority | 104 | ||||
Turnout | 630 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Sarah Josephine Pratt | 1,290 | |||
Conservative | Jessie Hughes | 1,192 | |||
Conservative | Raymond Duckworth | 1,103 | |||
Conservative | Herbert Taylor | 1,093 | |||
Liberal | Fredrick Maurice Ellison | 596 | |||
Liberal | Aldan Unwin | 555 | |||
National Front | Kenneth Ian Dobson | 436 | |||
... | spoilt votes | 19 | ... | ||
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 | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Alice Owens | 595 | |||
Labour | Gerald David Smith | 489 | |||
Conservative | 'Peter Vincent Favell | 478 | |||
Labour | Robert Eddleston | 422 | |||
National Front | David Andrew Riley | 245 | |||
Independent | Robert Rigg | 192 | |||
... | spoilt votes | 8 | ... | ||
Majority | 117 | ||||
Majority | 11 | ||||
Turnout | 1,301 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Parkinson | 485 | |||
Conservative | Alan Benson | 473 | |||
Labour | Ann Elizabeth Sudders * | 438 | |||
... | spoilt votes | 0 | ... | ||
Majority | 47 | ||||
Majority | 35 | ||||
Turnout | 862 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Kenneth John Marsden | 861 | |||
Conservative | Velma Rennison | 791 | |||
Conservative | Brian Fairley | 785 | |||
Liberal | Margaret Martin | 772 | |||
Liberal | Alan Dinwoodle Lund * | 678 | |||
Liberal | Alan Thomas Leeming | 594 | |||
National Front | Dave Cronshaw | 373 | |||
... | spoilt votes | 11 | ... | ||
Majority | 89 | ||||
Majority | 19 | ||||
Majority | 13 | ||||
Turnout | 1,837 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Mary-Lou Cleak | 509 | |||
Labour | Kenneth Curtis | 492 | |||
Conservative | Patricia Harwood | 464 | |||
Labour | Dave Walter Keeley | 427 | |||
... | spoilt votes | 8 | ... | ||
Majority | 45 | ||||
Majority | 28 | ||||
Turnout | 994 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Christopher Dillon | 923 | |||
Labour | John Pickup | 918 | |||
Labour | Thomas Bramley | 777 | |||
Conservative | Elizabeth Court | 774 | |||
Labour | Clifford Westell * | 763 | |||
Conservative | Alfred Jameson | 683 | |||
Liberal | Henry Batty | 556 | |||
Liberal | David O'Hanlon | 549 | |||
... | spoilt votes | 6 | ... | ||
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
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Doris Grant | 525 | |||
Labour | Walter Farrimond | 475 | |||
Conservative | Douglas John Deakin | 449 | |||
Conservative | Joseph Anthony Hindley | 448 | |||
... | spoilt votes | 1 | ... | ||
Majority | 76 | ||||
Majority | 26 | ||||
Turnout | 1.005 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Church
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Leonard Dickinson | 270 | |||
Conservative | Raymond Prestage | 146 | |||
... | spoilt votes | 3 | ... | ||
Majority | 124 | ||||
Turnout | 416 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Jack Grime | Uncontested | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Riley | 423 | |||
Labour | Christina Rogan | 213 | |||
Liberal | Harold Stuttard | 64 | |||
... | spoilt votes | 1 | ... | ||
Majority | 124 | 30.0% | |||
Turnout | 700 | ||||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Clayton-Le-Moors
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Elizabeth Hoyle | 1,789 | |||
Conservative | Philip Gilbraith | 1,737 | |||
Conservative | Jennie Jackson | 1,606 | |||
Conservative | John Clifton Downing | 1,583 | |||
Labour | Arthur Lewis | 894 | |||
Labour | Margaret Muriel Sims | 851 | |||
... | spoilt votes | 6 | ... | ||
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
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Jessie Marie Hall | 1,406 | |||
Conservative | William Birch Sumner | 1,338 | |||
Conservative | Keith Owen | 1,284 | |||
Conservative | Terrence Owen | 1,220 | |||
Labour | Thomas Lambert | 829 | |||
Labour | James Hocking | 793 | |||
Labour | Francis Livesey | 750 | |||
Labour | Jean Ann Sunner | 682 | |||
... | spoilt votes | 6 | ... | ||
Majority | 577 | ||||
Majority | 509 | ||||
Majority | 455 | ||||
Majority | 391 | ||||
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Wyn Frankland | 915 | |||
Conservative | Angela Margaret Hanson | 912 | |||
Labour | George Slynn | 879 | |||
Conservative | Maurice Kezler | 872 | |||
Labour | Joseph Hayhurst * | 840 | |||
Labour | Anthony Tattersall * | 779 | |||
... | spoilt votes | 8 | ... | ||
Majority | 43 | ||||
Majority | 40 | ||||
Majority | 7 | ||||
Turnout | 1,930 | ||||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Oswaldtwistle
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Finch | 1,228 | |||
Conservative | Monica Margaret Browning | 1,206 | |||
Conservative | Doris Clegg | 1,173 | |||
Conservative | Thomas Leslie Rushton | 1,134 | |||
Labour | Alfred Newsham * | 958 | |||
Independent | Clifford Walsh | 745 | |||
Liberal | Ian Raymond Thorpe | 504 | |||
... | spoilt votes | 9 | ... | ||
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 | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Joseph Kenneth Hargreaves | 1,330 | |||
Conservative | Bessie Margaret Sandiford | 1,263 | |||
Conservative | Edward Francis Hill | 1,234 | |||
Conservative | Thomas Wilfred Renshaw | 1,187 | |||
Labour | John Malcolm Farmer | 808 | |||
Communist | Thomas Marshall | 205 | |||
... | spoilt votes | 6 | ... | ||
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
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Donald John McNeil | 1,362 | |||
Labour | Allan Critchlow | 1,323 | |||
Conservative | Edward Edmondson | 1,146 | |||
Conservative | Peter John Rushton | 1,171 | |||
Conservative | Anthony William Davies | 1,058 | |||
Labour | Fredrick Beck Parkinson * | 855 | |||
Labour | Robert Harry Peel | 748 | |||
Labour | John James Palmer | 632 | |||
... | spoilt votes | 9 | ... | ||
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 | ||||
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