1982 Bromley London Borough Council election

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The 1982 Bromley Council election took place on 6 May 1982 to elect members of Bromley London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Conservative party stayed in overall control of the council. [1]

Contents

Background

Election result

Ward results

Beckenham

Anerley (2)
PartytestVotes%±%
SDP Christopher Richard Gaster* 1,365 40.9
SDP Paul H Brown* 1,341
Labour Ian M Haig1,06331.9
Labour Dominic P Herlihy
Conservative Roland Lees90727.2
Conservative Albert George Miles
Clock House (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative David J Harding* 1,831 44.6
Conservative Terence Stanley* 1,719
SDP Olga L Roberts1,42434.7+18.4
Liberal Stephen J Marshall
Labour Bryan Edwin Freake1,46120.7-14.6
Labour David N P Radlett
Majority9.9+1.2
Turnout 50.3
Conservative hold Swing
Copers Cope (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John L Pritchard* 57.8 -16.8
Conservative Charles George Priest*
SDP Laurence J Cox21.3+10.1
Liberal William Alan Macdonald MacCormick
Ind. Conservative Christopher John Elgar12.7n/a
Labour Ann M Silverman8.2-6.0
Labour Eric H Turner
Majority36.5-23.9
Turnout 45.1+5.4
Conservative hold Swing
Eden Park (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Francis J D Cooke* 58.5 -7.4
Conservative Peter F Dixon*
Liberal Christine Oakenfull32.4+15.2
Liberal Derek G Brent
Labour Wendy C Palace9.0-7.9
Labour Brian Stapleton
Majority26.1-22.7
Turnout 50.1+4.3
Conservative hold Swing
Kelsey Park (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Michael John B Tickner* 74.1 -4.0
Conservative Maurice J Mason*
Liberal Paul David Nash20.3+6.4
SDP Andrew F Clyro
Labour Philip Cooke5.6-2.4
Labour Finola M Dignan
Majority53.8-4.4
Turnout 50.9+5.5
Conservative hold Swing
Lawrie Park & Kent House (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Richard D. Foister* 51.3 -5.6
Conservative John Arthur M. Lewis*
SDP Bryan C Friend25.1+18.4
SDP Geoffrey P Farrington
Labour Laurence R Pocock23.7-12.6
Labour Derek K Robbins
Penge (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Heather Isabel Donovan 940 36.0 +30.2
Labour Arthur J Mansfield* 911 34.9 -16.6
Liberal Jonathan R Coninx906
Labour Barbara Pedley*902
Conservative Robert G Straker76129.1-4.2
Conservative Rita Horowitz725
Majority1.119.2
Turnout 38.9
Liberal gain from Labour Swing +9.6
Shortlands (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Bernard E G Davies* 2,818 75.0 -7.2
Conservative Brian R Reading*
SDP Graham R F Till73319.5+10.9
Liberal Melanie L Worman
Labour Pauline M Jones2045.4-3.8
Labour Jonathan A M Patterson
Majority55.5
Turnout 51.7
Conservative hold Swing

Chislehurst

Bickley (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Maurice Bentley Kenward* 76.9 -10.0
Conservative Margaret Doreen Moir
Conservative Simon J C Randall*
SDP Colin T Hawksworth25.8+15.2
Liberal Ervin G Muller
Liberal Stephen G Trimmer
Labour Gwendoline I Mansfield7.3-5.2
Labour Paul W Francis
Labour Harry J Belsey
Majority41.2-23.2
Turnout 50.9+5.4
Conservative hold Swing -11.6
Chislehurst (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Joan Bryant* 72.1 -3.4
Conservative Edward A J Rayner
Conservative Charles Christopher Seward Reeves*
SDP Muriel A Letman18.1+9.0
Liberal John P Hassall
Liberal Stephen R Walls
Labour Edgar C H Smith9.9-5.5
Labour Martyn G Jenkins
Labour Ralph E Hunte
Majority54.0-6.2
Turnout 49.8-0.8
Conservative hold Swing
Mottingham (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Alistair Huistean Macdonald* 45.7 -18.3
Labour Elizabeth A Vincent
Conservative Amanda J Hunt30.2+1.9
Conservative Martin Tweed
Liberal Brian Harry Taylor24.1+20.1
SDP Peter H Anderson
Majority15.5-20.2
Turnout 44.1-6.5
Labour hold Swing -10.1
Plaistow & Sundridge (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Richard B Jackson* 59.5 -0.3
Conservative Dorothy Joan Laird*
Conservative Arthur J Wilkinson*
Liberal Michael F Deves26.4+17.1
SDP Ian G Anderson
Liberal David C Pike
Labour Geoffrey C Whitlow14.1-16.8
Labour Peter R Haswell
Labour Nicholas Anthony Wright
Majority33.1+4.1
Turnout 45.5+1.4
Conservative hold Swing +2.0
St Paul's Cray (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Walter K Mansfield* 40.1 -21.7
Conservative Gladys P Hobbs 1,547 36.0 +4.1
Labour Selwyn H Ward 1,528
Labour Ronald William Huzzard1,518
Conservative Dennis E Kershaw1,508
Conservative Albert E Stayte1,493
SDP Sylvia Conway23.9+17.6
SDP John M Barber
Liberal Peter Alan Janikoun
Majority29.9-25.8
Turnout 38.0-1.0
Conservative gain from Labour Swing +12.9

Orpington

Chelsfield & Goddington (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Michael A Lowe 55.7 -11.7
Conservative Reginald G Adams*
Conservative Joseph T Heath*
Liberal Patrick McNally38.4+17.5
Liberal John C A Sachs
Liberal Sidney C O Langford
Labour Linda T Tyler6.0-5.7
Labour Ronald G D'Olley
Labour Leonard David Hall
Majority17.3-29.1
Turnout 54.9+4.3
Conservative hold Swing -14.5
Crofton (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Paul Martin Bonter 61.0 -6.2
Conservative Peter Sturdy
SDP Peter J B Paul33.5+10.6
Liberal Harry Anthony Silvester
Labour John Fowler5.5-4.4
Labour Magali P Williamson
Majority33.5-16.8
Turnout 55.4+2.2
Conservative hold Swing -8.4
Farnborough (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Eric Norman Goodman* 76.9 -5.1
Conservative Jennifer Mary Hillier*
Liberal Terence Frank Clark23.4+11.5
Liberal Roy T Hawkins
Labour Geoffrey J Ball4.8-6.4
Labour Catherine M Hossack
Majority48.4-16.6
Turnout 50.5-0.2
Conservative hold Swing -8.4
Orpington Central (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Michael A Minter* 50.0
Conservative David Malcolm Dear
Liberal Christopher Stewart Maines39.1+16.9
SDP Michael Sullivan
Labour Simon D Gale12.8-15.0
Labour Nigel Williamson
Majority8.9-13.2
Turnout 49.6+4.0
Conservative hold Swing -6.6
Petts Wood & Knoll (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Joan Hatcher* 68.6 -22.4
Conservative Michael J Edwards
Conservative Brian V Atkinson*
Ind. Conservative Peter Charles Woods30.4n/a
SDP Beatrice W Hedley19.3-1.9
Liberal Graham Leslie Arthur
Liberal Irene R Hinchcliffe
Labour Jeffrey R Bartley4.1-6.1
Labour Marcus R Shellard
Labour Peter John Tozer
Majority15.8-31.6
Turnout 53.6-0.2
Conservative hold Swing -15.8
St Mary Cray (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Harry R Stranger 39.0 -3.4
Conservative Norman F Mingay
Conservative Bruce G Panes 1,831
Labour Doris Partridge*1,67333.3-
Labour Keith R Morton*
Labour Martin E Synan
Liberal James C Loveday27.6+19.1
Liberal John W Hand
SDP David C Churney
Majority6.712.4
Turnout 44.5+2.4
Conservative gain from Labour Swing +6.2

Ravensbourne

Biggin Hill (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative David W Hanscomb* 59.7 -4.0
Conservative David Robert Haslam*
Liberal Malcolm Bruce Westbrook32.3+13.9
Liberal Geoffrey Colin Gostt
Labour Alison N Sheldrake8.0-9.9
Labour Mairede C Thomas
Majority27.4-17.8
Turnout 52.1+3.5
Conservative hold Swing -8.9
Bromley Common & Keston (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Colin R English 53.2 -2.1
Conservative Raymond L Ainsby*
Conservative Russell Lawrence Mellor*
Liberal Robert H Smith25.1+18.7
Liberal Martin Alan Curry
SDP Catherine Mary Boston
Labour Naomi V Carter21.7-12.8
Labour Mark Cole
Labour Rodger A Macpherson
Majority28.1+7.2
Turnout 41.5-0.9
Conservative hold Swing +3.6
Darwin (1)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Peter John Bloomfield 67.6 -6.3
Liberal Derek J Goldsmith25.8+10.7
Labour John R Willman6.7-4.3
Majority41.8-17.0
Turnout 56.6+3.0
Conservative hold Swing -8.5
Hayes (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Ernest Dennis Barkway* 64.9 -9.7
Conservative Philip Geoffrey Jones*
Conservative James F David*
Liberal William Ivor Shipley28.0+16.3
Liberal Ronald Coverson
SDP Anne Wendy Chaplin
Labour Julian R Smith7.1-6.6
Labour Stephen J Robert
Labour Charles J Wallace
Majority36.9-24.0
Turnout 44.3+3.5
Conservative hold Swing -12.0
Martins Hill & Town (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative William F D Walker* 53.5 -11.0
Conservative Anthony Millar Wilkinson*
Liberal Jennifer M Hawke34.4+24.2
SDP David B Hunt
Labour Susan L Dudding12.1-13.1
Labour Alan M Pickering
Majority19.0-20.3
Turnout 43.4+6.3
Conservative hold Swing -10.1
West Wickham North (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Montague I Blasey* 67.8 -9.8
Conservative Percy C Read*
Liberal John Raymond Maydwell24.3+14.8
SDP Phyllis S Vickers
Labour Desmond P Atkinson7.9-5.0
Labour Hugh P Atkinson
Majority43.5-21.2
Turnout 48.3+3.1
Conservative hold Swing -10.6
West Wickham South (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Kenneth V Crask* 70.4 -4.6
Conservative Leslie G Whitman*
SDP Richard Henry Redden23.8+15.6
Liberal Gordon J Stephens
Labour Richard Richards5.8-11.0
Labour Gordon D Wright
Majority46.6-11.5
Turnout 48.3+1.9
Conservative hold Swing -5.7

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