1983 Warwick District Council election

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The 1983 Warwick District Council election was held on Thursday 5 May 1983 to elect all 45 members of Warwick District Council to a four-year term, the same day as other local elections in the United Kingdom. The election was held under new boundaries following changes which decreased the number of councillors from 58 to 45. It was preceded by the 1979 election and followed by the 1987 election. The Conservative Party held control of the council. Turnout across the council was 52.0%. [1]

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Results summary

1983 Warwick District Council election [1] [2]
PartySeatsNet gain/lossSeats %Votes %Votes+/−
  Conservative 3168.9
  Labour 715.6
  Alliance 48.9
  Ratepayers 36.7
  Independent 00.0

Ward results

Bishop's Tachbrook

Bishop's Tachbrook (1 seat) [1] [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative Cecil Wilkins [a] Unopposed
Registered electors 2,552
Conservative win (new seat)

Budbrooke

Budbrooke (1 seat) [1] [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative Alan Skinner 570 60.5
Alliance John Haselgrove23024.4
Labour David Griffin14215.1
Majority34036.1
Total valid votes94299.3
Rejected ballots70.7
Turnout 94950.5
Registered electors 1,880
Conservative win (new seat)

Cubbington

Cubbington (2 seats) [1] [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative Clifford Cleaver [b] 1,285 54.7
Conservative John Hammon [c] 1,119 47.6
Alliance David Saul74531.7
Alliance Carol O'Donnell66228.2
Labour David French26911.5
Labour William Evans26211.2
Total valid votes2,34999.9
Rejected ballots30.1
Turnout 2,35253.9
Registered electors 4,360
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Keniworth Abbey

Kenilworth Abbey (3 seats) [1] [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative Kenneth Rawnsley [d] 1,934 50.0
Conservative Michael Coker [e] 1,823 47.1
Conservative John Cooke 1,787 46.2
Alliance Jack Bastock [f] 1,76645.6
Alliance Leslie Windybank1,57740.7
Alliance Haydn Thomas [g] 1,55740.2
Labour Melanie Lomas3138.1
Labour Geoffrey Cleave3007.8
Labour Teresa Blackwell2947.6
Total valid votes3,87099.2
Rejected ballots330.8
Turnout 3,90362.6
Registered electors 6,236
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Kenilworth Park Hill

Kenilworth Park Hill (2 seats) [1] [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative Spencer Harrison [h] 911 46.4
Alliance Robert Butler [i] 898 45.7
Conservative Thomas Dalton89645.6
Alliance Paul Weatherall84042.8
Labour John Airey1829.3
Labour Christopher Payne1668.5
Total valid votes1,96399.7
Rejected ballots50.3
Turnout 1,96861.6
Registered electors 3,195
Conservative win (new seat)
Alliance win (new seat)

Kenilworth St. John's

Kenilworth St. John's (3 seats) [1] [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative Robert Wooller 2,029 58.8
Conservative John Wilson [j] 2,009 58.2
Conservative James Whitby [k] 1,933 56.0
Alliance William Wozencroft [l] 1,17033.9
Alliance John Whitehouse83024.1
Alliance Mary Harrison73321.2
Labour Brenda Payne65118.9
Labour Mark Juby56416.3
Total valid votes3,45199.5
Rejected ballots190.5
Turnout 3,47057.4
Registered electors 6,049
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Lapworth

Lapworth (1 seat) [1] [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative John Walker [m] Unopposed
Registered electors 2,377
Conservative win (new seat)

Leamington Brunswick

Leamington Brunswick (3 seats) [1] [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Labour Roger Grenville 1,973 64.8
Labour Ian Frost 1,917 62.9
Labour Estelle Morris [n] 1,846 60.6
Conservative Peter Jennings59219.4
Conservative Anthony Fitzpatrick57518.9
Conservative Clive Lee54918.0
Alliance Anne Walker2668.7
Alliance David Alexander2648.7
Alliance Peter Wales2498.2
Total valid votes3,04799.7
Rejected ballots100.3
Turnout 3,05745.2
Registered electors 6,761
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

Leamington Clarendon

Leamington Clarendon (3 seats) [1] [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative Robert Coombes [o] 1,104 49.4
Conservative David Leigh-Hunt 1,002 44.8
Conservative Sydney Ward 1,002 44.8
Labour Anthony Fry66229.6
Labour Josephine Miles64428.8
Labour Susan Atkinson63728.5
Alliance Shelia Grainger42519.0
Alliance Kenneth Chisholm38917.4
Alliance Daphne Hinton37016.5
Total valid votes2,23699.8
Rejected ballots50.2
Turnout 2,24146.3
Registered electors 4,842
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Leamington Crown

Leamington Crown (3 seats) [1] [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative Roy Charles [p] 780 35.8
Conservative Patricia Robinson 763 35.0
Conservative Michael Kemp 740 34.0
Labour William Drury69632.0
Labour Paul Hamilton67831.1
Labour Julia Weare [q] 67130.8
Alliance Virginia Breakwell63629.2
Alliance Robert Lindley60727.9
Alliance Alan Boad58226.7
Total valid votes2,17799.9
Rejected ballots20.1
Turnout 2,17945.4
Registered electors 4,798
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Leamington Manor

Leamington Manor (3 seats) [1] [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative Stanley Birch [r] 1,722 55.3
Conservative Peter Barton [s] 1,693 54.4
Conservative John Higgins [t] 1,587 51.0
Alliance Margaret Begg1,08034.7
Alliance Roger Copping1,04233.5
Alliance Clifford Harris96330.9
Labour Reginald Long2859.2
Labour David Deaton2688.6
Labour Helen Vitali2508.0
Total valid votes3,11399.8
Rejected ballots50.2
Turnout 3,11853.3
Registered electors 5,855
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Leamington Milverton

Leamington Milverton (3 seats) [1] [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Alliance Valerie Davis 1,442 45.0
Alliance Philip Emm 1,362 42.5
Alliance Charles Bevan 1,353 42.2
Conservative Margaret Bull [u] 1,24838.9
Conservative Christopher Clark [v] 1,19537.3
Conservative George Cox [w] 1,16436.3
Labour Susan Byrd51916.2
Labour Deborah Moore48115.0
Labour Cynthia Beckett45314.1
Total valid votes3,20899.8
Rejected ballots50.2
Turnout 3,21356.5
Registered electors 5,690
Alliance win (new seat)
Alliance win (new seat)
Alliance win (new seat)

Leamington Willes

Leamington Willes (3 seats) [1] [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative Balraj Dhesi 1,130 40.9
Labour Peter Byrd 1,075 38.9
Labour Richard Chessum 1,018 36.9
Conservative Edward Doyle [x] 97435.3
Labour John Haw94834.3
Conservative Brian Docker91733.2
Alliance Rachel Chesterfield36013.0
Alliance Anthony Bainbridge28410.3
Alliance Andrew Wiggin28210.2
Total valid votes2,76299.7
Rejected ballots90.3
Turnout 2,77152.3
Registered electors 5,296
Conservative win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

Leek Wootton

Leek Wootton (1 seat) [1] [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative Josephine Compton Unopposed
Registered electors 2,191
Conservative win (new seat)

Radford Semele

Radford Semele (1 seat) [1] [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative Charles Lane 518 50.4
Alliance Carole Burke20820.2
Independent Michael Doody18618.1
Labour Patricia Bacon11611.3
Majority31030.2
Total valid votes1,02898.7
Rejected ballots141.3
Turnout 1,04254.5
Registered electors 1,912
Conservative win (new seat)

Stoneleigh

Stoneleigh (1 seat) [1] [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative Peter Simpson [y] 578 57.6
Alliance Vera Royston42642.4
Majority15215.1
Total valid votes1,00497.3
Rejected ballots282.7
Turnout 1,03242.7
Registered electors 2,416
Conservative win (new seat)

Warwick North

Warwick North (3 seats) [1] [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative Alfred Boxley 1,453 45.0
Conservative John Morley [z] 1,414 43.8
Conservative Alfred Hunt 1,373 42.5
Alliance Paul Rich86726.9
Alliance Barbara Keeley86626.8
Labour Sylvia Budge86326.7
Labour David Nash85226.4
Labour Humphrey Griffiths [aa] 83625.9
Alliance Robert Behrens80825.0
Total valid votes3,22899.3
Rejected ballots240.7
Turnout 3,25248.0
Registered electors 6,782
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Warwick South

Warwick South (2 seats) [1] [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative Gerald Guest [ab] 1,339 67.3
Conservative Leo Howlett [ac] 1,258 63.2
Labour Ross Beadle32716.4
Labour Anthony Davison30815.5
Alliance Cyril Hellberg29114.6
Alliance David Ballard28714.4
Total valid votes1,98997.8
Rejected ballots452.2
Turnout 2,03448.2
Registered electors 4,221
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Warwick West

Warwick West (3 seats) [1] [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Labour Agnes Leddy [ad] 1,333 47.1
Labour James Savory 1,251 44.2
Conservative Cherrie Chandley [ae] 1,230 43.4
Conservative Frank Chandley1,15340.7
Labour David Steed1,08838.4
Conservative John Cross97734.5
Alliance Albert Allan36312.8
Alliance Anne Boyland33811.9
Alliance Colin Aubury33311.8
Total valid votes2,83397.7
Rejected ballots672.3
Turnout 2,90049.1
Registered electors 5,909
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Whitnash

Whitnash (3 seats) [1] [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Ratepayers Bernard Kirton [af] 1,949 65.6
Ratepayers Kathleen Crutchley 1,439 49.1
Ratepayers Anthony Heath 1,348 46.0
Conservative Harry Hughes75025.6
Conservative Alasdair Cook61020.8
Conservative Frederick Bremridge59720.4
Labour Francis Ball54918.8
Labour Rober Rae50517.2
Labour Irene Adam48216.5
Total valid votes2,92898.0
Rejected ballots592.0
Turnout 2,98754.9
Registered electors 5,438
Ratepayers win (new seat)
Ratepayers win (new seat)
Ratepayers win (new seat)

Notes

  1. ↑ Cecil Wilkins was elected in 1979 as the candidate for the Conservative Party in the Barford, Norton Lindsey, Sherbourne and Wasperton ward.
  2. ↑ Clifford Cleaver was elected in 1979 as a candidate for the Conservative Party in the former Cubbington ward.
  3. ↑ John Hammon was elected in 1979 as the candidate for the Conservative Party in the Blackdown, Eathorpe, Hunningham, Offchurch, Old Milverton, Wappenbury and Weston-Under-Wetherley ward.
  4. ↑ Kenneth Rawnsley was elected in 1979 as a candidate for the Conservative Party in the Kenilworth Castle ward.
  5. ↑ Michael Coker was elected in 1979 as a candidate for the Conservative Party in the Kenilworth Castle ward.
  6. ↑ Jack Bastock was elected in 1979 as a candidate for the Liberal Party in the Kenilworth Abbey and Borrowell ward.
  7. ↑ Haydn Thomas was elected in 1979 as a candidate for the Liberal Party in the Kenilworth Abbey and Borrowell ward.
  8. ↑ Spencer Harrison was elected in 1979 as a candidate for the Conservative Party in the former Kenilworth Park Hill ward.
  9. ↑ Robert Butler was elected in 1979 as a candidate for the Liberal Party in the former Kenilworth Park Hill ward.
  10. ↑ John Wilson was elected in 1979 as a candidate for the Conservative Party in the Kenilworth Windy Arbour ward.
  11. ↑ James Whitby was elected in 1979 as a candidate for the Conservative Party in the Kenilworth Windy Arbour ward.
  12. ↑ William Wozencroft was elected in 1979 as a candidate for the Labour Party in the former Kenilworth St. John's ward.
  13. ↑ John Walker was elected in 1979 as the candidate for the Conservative Party in the Beausale, Guy's Cliffe, Haseley, Hatton, Honiley and Leek Wootton ward.
  14. ↑ Estelle Morris was elected in 1979 as a candidate for the Labour Party in the Leamington Kingsway ward.
  15. ↑ Robert Coombes was elected in 1979 as a candidate for the Conservative Party in the Leamington Campion ward.
  16. ↑ Roy Charles was elected in 1979 as a candidate for the Conservative Party in the former Leamington Willes ward.
  17. ↑ Julia Weare was elected in 1979 as a candidate for the Labour Party in the former Leamington Crown ward.
  18. ↑ Stanley Birch was elected in 1979 as a candidate for the Conservative Party in the former Leamington Manor ward.
  19. ↑ Peter Barton was elected in 1979 as a candidate for the Conservative Party in the former Leamington Manor ward.
  20. ↑ John Higgins was elected in 1979 as a candidate for the Conservative Party in the Leamington Beverley ward.
  21. ↑ Margaret Bull was elected in 1979 as a candidate for the Conservative Party in the Leamington Albany ward.
  22. ↑ Christopher Clark was elected in 1979 as a candidate for the Conservative Party in the Leamington Albany ward.
  23. ↑ George Cox was elected in 1979 as a candidate for the Conservative Party in the Leamington Albany ward.
  24. ↑ Edward Doyle was elected in 1979 as a candidate for the Conservative Party in the former Leamington Willes ward.
  25. ↑ Peter Simpson was elected in 1979 as the candidate for the Conservative Party in the Ashow, Baginton, Bubbenhall and Stoneleigh ward.
  26. ↑ John Morley was elected in 1979 as a candidate for the Conservative Party in the Warwick Central ward.
  27. ↑ Humphrey Griffiths was elected in 1979 as a candidate for the Labour Party in the Leamington Crown ward.
  28. ↑ Gerald Guest was elected in 1979 as a candidate for the Conservative Party in the Warwick East ward.
  29. ↑ Leo Howlett was elected in 1979 as a candidate for the Conservative Party in the Warwick East ward.
  30. ↑ Agnes Leddy was elected in 1979 as a candidate for the Labour Party in the former Warwick West ward.
  31. ↑ Cherrie Chandley was elected in 1979 as a candidate for the Conservative Party in the former Warwick West ward.
  32. ↑ Bernarnd Kirton was elected in 1979 as the candidate for the Ratepayers' Association in the former Whitnash ward.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 "Warwick District Council Elections 1983". Warwick District Council. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Rallings, Colin; Thrasher, Michael. "Warwick District Council Election Results 1973-2011" (PDF). The Elections Centre. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
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