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All 35 seats to Dumfries and Galloway Regional Council 18 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The second Dumfries and Galloway regional council election was held on 2 May 1978, a year after the second district council elections.
Turnout was down. Only 15 of the 35 wards in the region were contested. [1] [2]
| Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
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| Independent | 27 |  6 | 77.1 | 67.4 | 13,087 | 14.3 | |||
| Conservative | 5 | 5 | 0 |  5 | 14.3 | 15.7 | 3,050 | New | |
| Labour | 2 |  | 5.7 | 12.3 | 2,382 | 1.1 | |||
| SNP | 1 | 1 | 2.9 | 3.7 | 711 | 2.5 | |||
| Independent Labour | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 0.0 | 0.9 | 183 | New | |
Source: [1]
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