1983 High Peak Borough Council election

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Elections to High Peak Borough Council in Derbyshire, England were held on 5 May 1983. All of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control. [1]

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After the election, the composition of the council was:

Election result

High Peak local election result 1983 [2]
PartySeatsGainsLossesNet gain/lossSeats %Votes %Votes+/−
  Conservative 1826-440.91
  Labour 1442+231.82
  Alliance 2114.55
  Independent 1021+122.73

Ward results

All Saints
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Stephen Charles Cocks1272
Independent George Chatterton1220
Labour Frank Dyson Vaughan1019
Conservative Edwin Harold Mountain638
Conservative Michael Jackson593
Turnout
Labour hold Swing
Independent hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Barmoor
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Harold Henry Cartledge40271.02
Labour James Britt16428.98
Majority 23842.05
Turnout 566
Conservative hold Swing
Barms
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Alfred Henry Hitchings1142
Labour Barbara Mary Langham754
Conservative Michael Kenneth Diamond499
Alliance Ian Doxford Hedley341
Turnout
Independent hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Blackbrook
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent George Harry White827
Conservative Brian Colley615
Conservative Albert Peter Inglefield547
Alliance David John Oliver424
Labour Christopher Alan Birt247
Turnout
Independent gain from Liberal Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Buxton Central
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Robert George Morris47556.21
Alliance Brenda Ann Bryant22126.15
Labour Stanley Burden14917.63
Majority 25430.06
Turnout 845
Conservative hold Swing
Chapel East
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Albert Phillips31143.02
Independent Stanley William Clives21830.15
Labour Brian Joseph Fisher19426.83
Majority 9312.86
Turnout 723
Independent hold Swing
Chapel West
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Muriel Bertha Bradbury629
Conservative Ann Stewart Young619
Conservative Kenneth Victor Bradwell505
Labour Peter Keith Jones381
Alliance Peter John Ashenden372
Independent Desmond Francis Bryan318
Labour Thomas Manion305
Turnout
Independent gain from Conservative Swing
Conservative hold Swing
College
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Elizabeth Jane Inglefield805
Conservative Alan Keith Allman702
Alliance Winifred Nancie Adams562
Alliance Barbara Roseann Hedley519
Labour Gillian Taylor159
Turnout
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Corbar
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Margaret Beatrice Millican781
Conservative Peter De Leighton Brooke762
Alliance Josephine Cresswell460
Labour Michael Pearson-Smith380
Turnout
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Cote Heath
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Alliance Michael Robert Leslie Loader752
Labour Noel Ratcliffe728
Labour Jane Ann McGrother617
Conservative Joan Mary Chape616
Alliance Alan Hall501
Turnout
Alliance gain from Labour Swing
Labour hold Swing
Gamesley
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour John Francis967
Labour Richard John Cooke863
Conservative James Wildgoose211
Alliance Judith Mary Marquand162
Turnout
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Hayfield
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Herbert David Mellor63564.14
Labour John Anthony Bull35535.86
Majority 28028.28
Turnout 990
Conservative gain from Independent Swing
Ladybower
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative George Albert Bingham54381.65
Independent James Cusick12218.35
Majority 42163.31
Turnout 665
Conservative hold Swing
Limestone Peak
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Evelyn May Tomlinson56881.03
Labour Gregory Francis Monks13318.97
Majority 43562.05
Turnout 701
Independent hold Swing
New Mills North
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Dorothy Mary Livesley983
Conservative Dorothy May Brennand978
Labour Martin Huddleston946
Alliance Roy Bickerton940
Labour Lawrence Gordon Allen914
Labour John Graham Eary868
Turnout
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Labour gain from Conservative Swing
New Mills South
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Alliance Harry Norman Burfoot801
Labour John James Fernley766
Labour Marion Williams762
Conservative William Robinson475
Conservative Ronald Ferguson330
Turnout
Alliance hold Swing
Labour gain from Conservative Swing
Peveril
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Charles David Lewis70570.93
Alliance Angela Helen Kellie18618.71
Labour James Powell10310.36
Majority 51952.21
Turnout 994
Independent hold Swing
St. Andrew's
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Mary Kathleen Holtom824
Labour John Hallsworth715
Conservative David Wilson621
Conservative Thomas Farnsworth566
Alliance Christopher Thomas O’Brien318
Turnout
Labour gain from Conservative Swing
Labour gain from Conservative Swing
St. Charles'
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour David Holtom907
Labour Francis Walter Stubbs799
Conservative William John Wood522
Conservative Cynthia Violet Mitchell470
Alliance Trevor Jones Randall276
Turnout
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
St. James'
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Alfred Edwin Jenner Leney924
Conservative Leslie Ernest Proctor847
Conservative Susan Jane Von Achten833
Labour Christopher Sydney Turner766
Labour Amy Wood682
Labour Arthur Harrison Gilbert631
Alliance Christopher Mellor579
Alliance Robert Michael Love502
Turnout
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
St John's
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Brenda Tetlow78080.25
Labour Peter John William Holland19219.75
Majority 58860.49
Turnout 972
Conservative hold Swing
Simmondley
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Percy Phipps52251.94
Labour John Alfred Pagett25024.88
Independent Joyce Ashley23323.18
Majority 27227.06
Turnout 1005
Conservative hold Swing
Stone Bench
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour James Henry Poulton898
Labour Raymond Vernon Browne837
Alliance Robert Keith Taylor369
Conservative Arnold Bennett340
Conservative David Pearson289
Turnout
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Tintwistle
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Wright Brownhill Cooper47761.63
Labour Douglas Carr29738.37
Majority 18023.26
Turnout 774
Conservative gain from Labour Swing
Whaley Bridge
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Jean Elizabeth Hallam2108
Independent John Arthur Thomas Pritchard1208
Independent Fredrick Bonsall Woodward1111
Conservative Harold Hastings Littlewood711
Conservative James Gordon Pollitt619
Alliance Christopher Richard Warhurst Weaver550
Labour Valerie Mason423
Alliance Paula Marguerite Butler398
Labour Philip John Taylor231
Labour Roger Wilkinson214
Turnout
Independent hold Swing
Independent hold Swing
Independent gain from Conservative Swing

References

  1. ↑ "BBC NEWS | Election 2007 | Local Council Elections | High Peak council".
  2. ↑ Source: Rallings and Thrasher, Local Elections in Britain: A Statistical Digest, 2003
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