1986 Bromley London Borough Council election

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The 1986 Bromley Council election took place on 8 May 1986 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 Paul H Brown* 1,591 45.8 +4.9
SDP Christopher Richard Gaster* 1,580
Labour Michael J D'Arcy1,28236.9+5.0
Labour Wendy C Palace
Conservative Nicholas M Grove60317.3-9.9
Conservative Benjamin W C Waterhouse579
Majority8.9-0.5
Turnout 44.7
Social Democratic hold Swing -0.0
Clock House (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative David J Harding* 1,644 40.6 -4.0
Conservative Roderick A Reed 1,507
SDP Anne Wendy Chaplin1,36933.8-0.9
Liberal Stephen R Walls1,318
Labour Mark C Mason1,03825.6+4.9
Labour Andrew S Berry1,033
Majority6.8-3.1
Turnout 50.6+0.3
Conservative hold Swing -1.5
Copers Cope (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Christopher John Elgar* 66.3 +8.5
Conservative Charles George Priest*
Liberal Julie D King20.6-0.7
SDP Peter Townsend
Labour Malcolm R Newbury13.1+4.9
Labour Eric H Turner
Majority45.7+9.2
Turnout 41.7-3.4
Conservative hold Swing +4.6
Eden Park (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Francis J D Cooke* 56.0 -2.5
Conservative Albert George Miles
SDP Richard Evans28.9-3.5
Liberal Bernice Nieto
Labour Maureen T Laurence15.1+6.1
Labour Ciaran J Tyndall
Majority27.1+1.0
Turnout 44.9-5.2
Conservative hold Swing +0.5
Kelsey Park (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Maurice J Mason* 70.9 -3.2
Conservative Michael John B Tickner*
SDP John P S Hordern20.8+0.5
Liberal George L Whitehorn
Labour Janice M Cooke8.3+2.7
Labour Bryan Edwin Freake
Majority50.1-3.7
Turnout 46.7-4.2
Conservative hold Swing -1.8
Lawrie Park & Kent House (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Richard D. Foister* 46.6 -4.7
Conservative John Arthur M. Lewis*
Labour Michael J Curran32.9+9.2
Labour Derek K Robbins
Liberal Paul David Nash20.5-4.6
SDP Richard Holbech Boultbee
Majority13.7-13.9
Turnout 46.9
Conservative hold Swing -6.9
Penge (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Arthur J Mansfield* 1,369 43.4 +8.5
Labour Laurence R Pocock 1,199
Liberal Heather Isabel Donovan*96330.5-5.5
Liberal Jonathan R Coninx908
Conservative Penelope J Hunter82426.1-3.0
Conservative Geoffrey J Winnard802
Majority12.914.0
Turnout 43.1+4.2
Labour gain from Liberal Swing +7.0
Shortlands (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Charnley 66.9 -8.1
Conservative Brian R Reading*
SDP Stuart Philip Bayliss23.9+4.4
Liberal John S Oakenfull
Labour Pauline M Jones9.2+3.8
Labour Philip Cooke
Majority43.0-12.5
Turnout 46.5-5.2
Conservative hold Swing -6.2

Chislehurst

Bickley (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative David Malcolm Dear 50.5 -26.4
Conservative Margaret Doreen Moir
Conservative Simon J C Randall* 2,894
Liberal Ervin G Muller*2,51243.1+17.3
SDP Gillian L Collins
Liberal Maureen T Brodie
Labour Herbert J Gentry
Labour Gwendoline I Mansfield6.4-0.9
Labour Howard E Kniveton
Majority54.1+12.9
Turnout 50.9+5.4
Conservative hold Swing +6.4
Chislehurst (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Joan Bryant* 60.4 -11.7
Conservative Charles Christopher Seward Reeves*
Conservative Joan Kathleen Wykes
Labour Charles Phillips21.2+11.3
Labour Ronald D Deadman
Labour Peter G Warner
SDP Muriel A Letman18.4+0.3
SDP Robert Turgoose
Liberal Robert R V Woollett
Majority39.1-14.9
Turnout 45.5-4.3
Conservative hold Swing
Mottingham (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Alistair Huistean Macdonald* 45.7 +3.2
Labour Patricia A Waitman
Conservative Michael John Hennessey26.2-4.0
SDP Peter H Anderson26.0+1.9
Liberal Brian Harry Taylor
Conservative Julian Patrick Greville Grainger
Majority21.5+6.0
Turnout 48.9+4.8
Labour hold Swing +3.0
Plaistow & Sundridge (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Richard B Jackson* 52.5 -7.0
Conservative Dorothy Joan Laird*
Conservative Arthur J Wilkinson*
Liberal Michael F Deves28.6+2.2
SDP William A Scally
Liberal Lennard Douglas Woods
Labour Madeline A Borland18.9+4.8
Labour Rex V Barnes
Labour Nicholas Anthony Wright
Majority33.1-9.2
Turnout 45.5-1.2
Conservative hold Swing -4.6
St Paul's Cray (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Walter Kenneth Mansfield* 40.1 +10.3
Labour Selwyn H Ward*
Labour Ira G Walters J
Conservative Gladys P Hobbs*28.6-7.4
Conservative Bernard J Cobley
Conservative Albert E Stayte
Liberal George H Watson20.9-3.0
SDP Stephen J Wilson
SDP Terence E Simpson
Majority21.8-8.1
Turnout 40.6+2.6
Labour gain from Conservative Swing

Orpington

Chelsfield & Goddington (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Reginald G Adams* 2,827 45.6 -10.1
Liberal Jonathan Harold Fryer 2,775 44.7 +6.3
Conservative Joseph T Heath* 2,752
Conservative Bruce G Panes2,714
Liberal Kathleen A Jolly2,576
Liberal Sidney C O Langford2,561
Labour Ronald G D'Olley9.7+3.7
Labour Trevor E Phillips
Labour David N Humphreys
Majority0.8-16.5
Turnout 51.9-3.0
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing +8.2
Crofton (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Paul Martin Bonter* 51.5 -9.5
Conservative Peter Sturdy*
Liberal Phillip F Dearle36.9+3.4
Liberal Harry Anthony Silvester
Labour Geoffrey H Ball11.6+6.1
Labour Graham E Kom
Majority14.6-18.9
Turnout 48.6-6.8
Conservative hold Swing -9.4
Farnborough (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Eric Norman Goodman* 63.7 -13.2
Conservative Jennifer Mary Hillier*
Liberal Terence Frank Clark27.3+3.9
Liberal Paul D Solloway
Labour Alfred C Morgan8.9+4.1
Labour Kei'h Warren
Majority36.4-12.0
Turnout 47.9-2.6
Conservative hold Swing -6.0
Orpington Central (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Christopher Stewart Maines 1,617 43.3 +4.2
Liberal Michael John Norris 1,535
Conservative Anthony M Owen1,24233.3-16.7
Conservative Robert G Straker1,123
Labour Gillian A Collins21.5+8.7
Labour Keith A Galley
Independent Elridge Griffiths1.8
Majority10.018.9
Turnout 49.7+0.1
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing +9.4
Petts Wood & Knoll (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Joan Hatcher* 58.0 -10.6
Conservative Michael J Edwards*
Conservative Brian V Atkinson*
Liberal Aubrey James Curry32.8+13.5
SDP Beatrice W Hedley
Liberal John A Martin
Labour Rosalie Huzzard9.2+5.1
Labour Lynn Ann Sellwood
Labour Susan Ann Polydorou
Majority25.2+9.4
Turnout 51.4-2.2
Conservative hold Swing +4.6
St Mary Cray (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour John Richard Holbrook 1,896 37.6 +4.3
Labour Ronald William Huzzard 1,878
Labour Mark J Smith 1,774
Liberal Richard J Gardner1,61732.1+4.5
Conservative Norman F Mingay*1,52730.3-8.7
Liberal Martin Alan Curry1,475
Conservative Harry R Stranger*1,463
Liberal Duncan Keith Borrowman1,453
Conservative Martin R Reef1,413
Majority5.5
Turnout 44.5+2.4
Labour gain from Conservative Swing

Ravensbourne

Biggin Hill (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative David Robert Haslam* 1,881
Conservative Arthur Ronald Edgington 1,837
Liberal Robert F Hatch1,468
SDP Joan E Welfare1,340
Labour Stuart N Copping361
Labour Joyce E Galley333
Majority
Turnout 47.1-5.0
Conservative hold Swing
Bromley Common & Keston (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Robert H Smith* 2,475 42.6 +
Conservative Raymond L Ainsby* 2,442 42.0 -11.2
Conservative John Hawes 2,361
Liberal Paul Jeremy Hudson Booth2,351
SDP Catherine Mary Boston2,298
Conservative Andrew D Clift2,264
Labour David R Blackman15.4-6.3
Labour Geoffrey D Williams
Labour Pamela C Remon
Majority28.128.7
Turnout 45.9+4.4
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing +14.3
Darwin (1)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Peter John Bloomfield* 69.7 +2.1
Liberal Derek J Goldsmith22.1-3.7
Labour Martin E Synan8.2+1.5
Majority47.6+5.8
Turnout 50.3-6.3
Conservative hold Swing +2.95
Hayes (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Ernest Dennis Barkway* 53.0 -11.9
Conservative Philip Geoffrey Jones*
Conservative Nigel G Kelsh
Liberal William Ivor Shipley36.3+8.3
SDP Richard J McKeogh
SDP Graham Frederick Keith Radford
Labour Peter W Rance10.8+3.7
Labour Marcus R Shellard
Labour Peter R Adamczyk-Haswell
Majority16.7-20.2
Turnout 46.5+2.2
Conservative hold Swing -10.1
Martins Hill & Town (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative William F D Walker* 48.6 -4.9
Conservative Anthony Millar Wilkinson*
Liberal Jennifer M Hawke35.9+1.5
SDP Roger Wakefield
Labour Alton S Kelly15.6+3.5
Labour Gordon Thomas Yates
Majority12.7-6.3
Turnout 38.6-4.8
Conservative hold Swing -3.1
West Wickham North (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Montague I Blasey* 56.9 -10.9
Conservative Brian Charles Humphrys
SDP Richard J Cox35.0+10.7
Liberal Peter N F Ward
Labour Frank P Atkinson8.1+0.2
Labour Leslie G Druce
Majority21.9-21.6
Turnout 47.6-0.7
Conservative hold Swing -10.8
West Wickham South (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Kenneth V Crask* 56.9 -10.5
Conservative John Frederick Ivan Gray
SDP Richard Henry Redden300.8+7.0
Liberal Irene B Jenkins
Labour Richard Richards8.1+2.3
Labour Gordon D Wright
Majority21.9-24.7
Turnout 47.3-1.0
Conservative hold Swing -12.3

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