1978 Camden London Borough Council election

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1978 Camden Council election
  1974 4 May 1978 1982  

All 59 seats to Camden Borough Council
30 seats needed for a majority
 First partySecond party
  No image wide.svg No image wide.svg
Leader Roy Shaw Alan Greengross
Party Labour Conservative
Leader since19751974
Leader's seatGraftonFrognal
Last election48 seats12 seats
Seats won3326
Seat changeDecrease2.svg15Increase2.svg14
Popular vote28,48226,895
Percentage47.8%45.2%

Camden UK local election 1978 map.svg
Map of the results of the 1978 election to Camden London Borough Council. Labour in red, Conservatives in blue.

Council Control before election


Labour

Council Control


Labour

The 1978 Camden Council election took place on 4 May 1978 to elect members of Camden London Borough Council in London, the United Kingdom. The whole council was up for election, using new ward boundaries, with one less councillor than had been elected at the 1974 election.

Contents

Labour were re-elected with an outright majority, but the Conservatives made gains across the borough, after losing heavily in the 1971 and 1974 elections. The Conservatives gained from Labour three seats in the southern Holborn and St Pancras South parliamentary constituency and eleven in the north (three in the Highgate ward and eight across the Hampstead parliamentary constituency).

Election result

Camden local election results 1978 [1]
PartySeatsGainsLossesNet gain/lossSeats %Votes %Votes+/−
  Labour 33−1554.247.828,482
  Conservative 26+1445.845.226,895
  Liberal 000.04.12,454
 Others000.02.91,707

Ward results

Adelaide

Adelaide (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Julian Tobin 1,825
Conservative Donald Degerdon 1,793
Conservative Graham Hirschfield 1,749
Labour Peter Gresham1,223
Labour Nova Gresham1,208
Labour Nirmal Roy1,133
Liberal Jacqueline Kelly224
Liberal Nicholas Collins204
Liberal Kwamina Sackey169
Turnout
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Belsize

Belsize (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Anthony Beaton 1,712
Conservative Tony Kerpel 1,667
Conservative Michael Brahams 1,641
Labour Roy Mathias981
Labour Arthur Soutter979
Labour Verghese Varkki924
Liberal Anne Box306
Liberal Hilary Hawkins275
Turnout
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Bloomsbury

Bloomsbury (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Martin McNeill 1,494
Conservative David Harris 1,399
Labour John Thane 1,385
Labour Glyn Thomas1,373
Conservative Christopher Radmore1,355
Conservative David Stone1,310
Turnout
Labour win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

Brunswick

Brunswick (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Kenneth Avery 1,131
Conservative Andre Potier 1,017
Labour Ricardo de Freitas1,015
Labour David Offenbach966
Turnout
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Camden

Camden (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Anne Robertson 852
Labour Ivor Walker 775
Conservative David Coleman496
Conservative Ronald Sears440
National Front John Philpot59
National Front Esther Sizer54
Turnout
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

Castlehaven

Castlehaven (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour John Tysoe 1,000
Labour John Lipetz 996
Conservative Thomas Crawford439
Conservative Denis Friis406
National Front Gordon Callow76
National Front Malcolm Keith66
Turnout
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

Caversham

Caversham (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Nick Bosanquet 1,289
Labour Phil Turner 1,120
Conservative Lilian O'Callaghan721
Conservative Morag Valentine718
National Front Michael Harkins117
National Front Bernard Robinson108
Communist Elizabeth Harrison100
Turnout
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

Chalk Farm

Chalk Farm (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Jonathan Sofer 1,336
Labour Derek Jarman 1,223
Conservative Anthony Blackburn1,089
Conservative Peter White1,013
Turnout
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

Fitzjohns

Fitzjohns (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Ronald King 994
Conservative John Athisayam 920*
Labour John St. John485
Labour Peter David477
Liberal Olive Paynton193
Turnout
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Fortune Green

Fortune Green (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Richard Almond 1,055
Conservative John Steel 1,010
Labour Haydn Gott852
Labour Robert Hale788
Liberal Clive Agran203
Liberal Bryan Karet180
National Front Paul Kavanagh37
National Front Carol Warren31
Turnout
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Frognal

Frognal (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Alan Greengross 1,363
Conservative Julian Harrison 1,319
Labour Alan Yates481
Labour Richard Wigley453
Liberal Brian Sugden258
Turnout
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Gospel Oak

Gospel Oak (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Ronald Hefferman 1,125
Labour Tessa Jowell 1,059
Conservative Peter Barber546
Conservative Anthony Earl-Williams523
Communist Kenneth Herbert102
Turnout
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

Grafton

Grafton (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Christopher Gardiner 1,058
Labour Roy Shaw 1,049
Conservative David Roberts455
Conservative John Martin454
National Front Linda Evans71
National Front Ian Tomkins56
Workers Revolutionary Granville Jones37
Turnout
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

Hampstead Town

Hampstead Town (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Ian Tommison 1,251
Conservative Gwyneth Williams 1,234
Labour Philip Grenall647
Labour David Bookless628
Liberal Nigel Barnes297
Save London AllianceAnthony Diamond61
Turnout
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Highgate

Highgate (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Martin Morton 2,026
Conservative Roger James 1,961
Conservative Derek Spencer 1,966
Labour Walter Burgess1,809
Labour David Webster1,787
Labour Albert Crouch1,774
Communist Margaret Lee194
Turnout
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Holborn

Holborn (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Derek Godfrey 1,234
Labour Julian Fulbrook 1,224
Conservative Edith Martin1,080
Conservative Brian Rathbone1,080
Turnout
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

Kilburn

Kilburn (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Patrick Driscoll 1,242
Labour Neil Fletcher 1,214
Labour Ken Livingstone 1,198
Conservative Peter Bolton999
Conservative Ann McMullen983
Conservative Ronald Rees980
Independent Labour Francis Rochford496
Independent Labour Albert Skinner442
Liberal Richard Waddington155
Liberal John Billouin141
Liberal Catherine Wilson128
Turnout
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

King's Cross

King's Cross (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Anthony Craig 840
Labour Roderick Cordara 812
Conservative John Glendinning777
Conservative Aileen Griffith758
Communist Patricia Langton48
Workers Revolutionary Margaret Obank40
Turnout
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

Priory

Priory (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour William Budd 1,211
Labour Margaret Bowman 1,184
Conservative Iain Horsburgh903
Conservative Richard Smith902
Liberal Patrick Cooney91
Liberal Alastair Seaton80
Communist Alan Thomas51
Turnout
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

Regent's Park

Regent's Park (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour John Mills 1,714
Labour Florence Parnell 1,699
Labour Andrew Bethell 1,685
Conservative Laurence Atlas1,551
Conservative Ian Parsley-Taylor1,522
Conservative Catherine Mallison1,510
National Front Sydney Daly145
National Front Gwendoline Evans129
National Front Martin Moloney127
Turnout
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

St John's

St John's (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Sarah Peltier 1,187
Labour Maureen Robinson 1,170
Conservative Paul Brandt546
Conservative Roland Walker536
Turnout
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

St Pancras

St Pancras (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Michael Morrissey 1,024
Labour Joan Hymans 1,005
Conservative Anthony Cheverton386
Conservative Catherine O'Sullivan362
National Front John Haines79
National Front John Warren61
Communist Jeffrey Sawtell39
Turnout
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

Somers Town

Somers Town (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Brian Duggan 1,095
Labour Thomas Devine 1,093
Conservative Jacqueline Austin443
Conservative Noel Moncaster399
National Front Andrew Cordier73
National Front Andrew Kimber59
Turnout
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

South End

South End (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Anthony Kemp 1,107
Conservative Anthony Robinson 1,081
Labour Michael Boye-Anawomah1,007
Labour John Chanin969
Liberal Robert Pellegrinetti215
Communist Hubert Bevan98
Turnout
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Swiss Cottage

Swiss Cottage (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative David Osborne 1,648
Conservative Michael Flynn 1,633
Conservative Brian Stoner 1,602
Labour Christopher Heginbotham1,343
Labour Enyd Norman1,326
Labour Denis MacShane 1,274
Liberal Andrew Bridgwater297
Liberal Jillian Newbrook292
Liberal Janet Heller291
Turnout
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

West End

West End (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Neil Bourhill 953
Labour Kevin Gould 938
Conservative Cathleen Mainds911
Labour Sandra Wynn896
Liberal Ida Linfield215
Liberal Martin Biermann209
Turnout
Conservative win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

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