1986 Sheffield City Council election

1986 Sheffield City Council election
30 of 87 seats to Sheffield City Council ; 44 seats needed for a majority
	Map showing the results of the 1986 Sheffield City Council elections.
Majority party before election; Labour Party (UK) ;	Majority party after election; Labour Party (UK) ;

Last updated August 17, 2023

Elections to Sheffield City Council were held on 8 May 1986. One third of the council was up for election. Since the 1984 election, the Conservatives had successfully defended two seats in Broomhill and Labour had held one of their Park seats in by-elections the following year.^[1]

Election result

Sheffield Local Election Result 1986
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
Labour	22	2	0	+2	73.3	53.7	75,901	-0.9
Alliance	3	0	0	0	10.0	25.3	35,810	+4.8
Conservative	5	0	2	-2	16.6	20.0	28,267	-4.6
Independent Labour	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.5	700	N/A
Independent	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.2	279	N/A
Green	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.2	224	+0.1
Revolutionary Communist	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.1	128	New
Christian Ecology	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.1	84	New
Communist	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0	64	-0.2

This result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the Council after the elections:

Party		Previous council	New council
	Labour	61	63
	Conservatives	17	15
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	9	9
Total		87	87
Working majority		35	39

Ward results

Beauchief ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Thomas Seaton	2,466	39.6	-14.7
	Labour	George Munn**	2,319	37.2	+11.0
	Alliance (SDP)	John White	1,440	23.1	+3.7
Majority			147	2.4	-25.7
Turnout			6,225	40.6
	Conservative hold		Swing	-12.8

George Munn was a sitting councillor for Darnall ward

Birley ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Donald Gow	3,622	65.5	+1.6
	Alliance (SDP)	Cyril Skipworth	1,152	20.8	+6.6
	Conservative	George Salter	750	13.6	-8.3
Majority			2,470	44.7	+2.7
Turnout			5,524	34.0
	Labour hold		Swing	-2.5

Brightside^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rae Whitfield*	2,940	76.0	+5.7
	Alliance (SDP)	George Wilson	604	15.6	-2.8
	Conservative	Simon Braggs	325	8.4	-2.8
Majority			2,336	60.4	+8.5
Turnout			3,869	29.5
	Labour hold		Swing	+4.2

Broomhill^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Woodcock	2,222	39.8	+4.1
	Alliance (SDP)	Jane Padget	1,763	31.6	+10.7
	Conservative	Giles Orton	1,595	28.6	-14.8
Majority			459	8.2	+0.5
Turnout			5,580	41.8
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	-3.3

Burngreave^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Brian Flanagan	3,237	79.6	+26.4
	Alliance (Liberal)	Khalid Mahmood	831	20.4	-21.4
Majority			2,406	59.2	+47.8
Turnout			4,068	32.5
	Labour hold		Swing	+23.9

Castle^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Peter Horton*	3,179	83.9	+6.0
	Conservative	Joan Graham	377	9.9	-2.9
	Alliance (SDP)	Muhammad Zahur	234	6.2	-2.0
Majority			2,802	74.0	+8.9
Turnout			3,790	29.1
	Labour hold		Swing	+4.4

Chapel Green^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Alliance (Liberal)	Susan Ward	3,103	47.8	-8.3
	Labour	Peter Duff	2,970	45.7	+9.0
	Conservative	Mary Hyatt	418	6.4	-0.7
Majority			132	2.1	-17.3
Turnout			6,491	38.9
	Alliance hold		Swing	-8.6

Darnall^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Choudry Walayat	1,899	42.1	-23.1
	Alliance (Liberal)	Dennis Boothroyd	1,219	27.0	+13.2
	Independent Labour	Sheila Rehman	700	15.5	+15.5
	Conservative	Colin Cavill	686	15.2	-5.8
Majority			680	15.1	-29.1
Turnout			4,504	31.1
	Labour hold		Swing	-18.1

Dore^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jack Thompson*	3,271	49.4	-9.0
	Labour	Maureen Whitebrook	1,853	28.0	+2.6
	Alliance (Liberal)	Edith Fawcett	1,498	22.6	+6.5
Majority			1,418	21.4	-11.6
Turnout			6,622	40.1
	Conservative hold		Swing	-5.8

Ecclesall^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Stuart Dawson	3,156	47.7	-8.6
	Conservative	Jeremy Richardson	3,021
	Alliance (Liberal)	Arthur Fawthrop	2,117	32.0	+7.6
	Alliance (Liberal)	Christine Freeman	1,975
	Labour	Roy Darke	1,343	20.3	+1.1
	Labour	Jeane Cromar	1,335
Majority			1,039	15.7	+10.4
Turnout			6,616	42.3
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing	-8.1

Firth Park^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Joan Barton*	3,470	80.6	+3.4
	Conservative	Angela Knight	517	12.0	+1.2
	Independent	Nisar Qureshi	279	6.5	+6.5
	Revolutionary Communist	Carolyn Pryce	39	0.9	+0.9
Majority			2,953	68.6	+3.3
Turnout			4,305	30.8
	Labour hold		Swing	+1.1

Hallam^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ian Fey	2,885	40.5	-14.4
	Alliance (SDP)	John Knight	2,489	34.9	+10.4
	Labour	Christopher Walker	1,749	24.5	+4.0
Majority			396	5.6	-24.8
Turnout			7,123	48.9
	Conservative hold		Swing	-12.4

Handsworth^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Kenneth Hartley	3,582	69.2	+3.3
	Alliance (SDP)	Marguerite Crangle	803	15.5	+2.3
	Conservative	Shirley Clayton	707	13.6	-7.2
	Christian Ecology	Roger Dunn	84	1.6	+1.6
Majority			2,779	53.7	+8.6
Turnout			5,176	34.2
	Labour hold		Swing	+0.5

Heeley^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mukesh Savani*	3,117	58.6	-2.4
	Conservative	Nicholas Asiam	1,091	20.5	-5.9
	Alliance (SDP)	Raymond Mellor	1,058	19.9	+7.4
	Revolutionary Communist	Steven Brown	47	0.9	+0.9
Majority			2,026	38.1	+3.5
Turnout			5,313	35.0
	Labour hold		Swing	+1.7

Hillsborough^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Penelope Peysner	3,235	50.2	-1.6
	Alliance (Liberal)	Francis Butler	1,996	31.0	+6.4
	Conservative	Michael Warner	1,213	18.8	-4.7
Majority			1,239	19.2	-8.0
Turnout			6,444	42.5
	Labour hold		Swing	-4.0

Intake^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Deborah Matthews	3,188	61.2	+2.2
	Conservative	Elizabeth Bradbury	1,153	22.1	-4.4
	Alliance (SDP)	Francis Pierce	866	16.6	+2.1
Majority			2,035	39.1	+6.6
Turnout			5,207	32.9
	Labour hold		Swing	+3.3

Manor^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Howard Capelin*	Unopposed	*N/A*	-82.0
Majority			N/A	N/A
Turnout			N/A	N/A
	Labour hold		Swing	N/A

Mosborough^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ian Saunders	3,758	65.1	-1.9
	Conservative	Evelyn Millward	1,022	17.7	-3.9
	Alliance (SDP)	Hilary Gooch	995	17.2	+5.9
Majority			2,736	47.4	+2.0
Turnout			5,775	28.9
	Labour hold		Swing	+1.0

Nether Edge^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Qurban Hussain	2,386	39.1	-4.0
	Conservative	Christine Smith*	1,854	30.4	-9.2
	Alliance (Liberal)	George Manley	1,628	26.7	+11.4
	Green	Jane Beharrell	224	3.7	+1.9
Majority			532	8.7	+5.2
Turnout			6,092	43.9
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	+2.6

Nether Shire^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alan Wigfield*	3,453	78.4	+7.8
	Alliance (SDP)	George Clayton	585	13.3	-4.9
	Conservative	John Harrington	366	8.3	-2.8
Majority			2,868	65.1	+12.7
Turnout			4,404	33.2
	Labour hold		Swing	+6.3

Netherthorpe^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	James Steinke	2,986	73.6	+3.0
	Alliance (Liberal)	Peter McNutt	1,072	26.4	+8.2
Majority			1,914	47.2	-5.2
Turnout			4,058	32.3
	Labour hold		Swing	-2.6

Norton^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	James Moore*	3,406	63.7	+0.9
	Conservative	Nigel Ball	971	18.1	-6.6
	Alliance (Liberal)	Anita Norris	967	18.1	+5.7
Majority			2,435	45.6	+7.5
Turnout			5,344	39.1
	Labour hold		Swing	+3.7

Owlerton^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Mathews*	2,918	74.0	-0.7
	Alliance (Liberal)	Philip Taylor	583	14.8	+3.1
	Conservative	Lorna Banham	440	11.1	-2.5
Majority			2,335	59.2	-2.1
Turnout			3,941	29.9
	Labour hold		Swing	-1.9

Park^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Doris Mulhearn*	2,901	82.8	-0.2
	Alliance (Liberal)	Donald Smith	332	9.5	+3.2
	Conservative	Cissie Reynolds	269	7.7	-2.9
Majority			2,569	73.3	+0.9
Turnout			3,502	24.7
	Labour hold		Swing	-1.7

Sharrow^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ruth Midgley	2,440	64.7	-4.3
	Alliance (SDP)	Mohammed Malik	648	17.2	-10.8
	Conservative	Anne Smith	577	15.3	+15.3
	Communist	Walter Hartley	64	1.7	-1.2
	Revolutionary Communist	Edmund Price	42	1.1	+1.1
Majority			1,792	47.5	+6.5
Turnout			3,771	31.2
	Labour hold		Swing	+3.2

South Wortley^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Alliance (Liberal)	Philip Howson*	3,601	47.7	+8.1
	Labour	John Buckley	2,730	36.1	+1.1
	Conservative	Elizabeth Conboy	1,223	16.2	-9.2
Majority			871	11.6	+7.0
Turnout			7,554	41.7
	Alliance hold		Swing	+3.5

Southey Green^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Patricia Nelson	Unopposed	*N/A*	-85.4
Majority			N/A	N/A
Turnout			N/A	N/A
	Labour hold		Swing	N/A

Stocksbridge^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Alliance (Liberal)	Malcolm Brelsford*	1,896	47.6	-0.7
	Labour	John Johnston	1,664	41.8	-0.0
	Conservative	Beryl Fleming	420	10.5	+0.7
Majority			232	5.8	-0.7
Turnout			3,980	38.2
	Alliance hold		Swing	-0.3

Walkley^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Carol Bullement	3,334	53.9	-8.4
	Alliance (SDP)	David Brown	2,330	37.7	+15.3
	Conservative	Paul Makin	515	8.3	-7.0
Majority			1,004	16.2	-23.7
Turnout			6,179	42.9
	Labour hold		Swing	-11.8

Related Research Articles

Elections to Sheffield City Council were held on 7 May 1998. One third of the council was up for election, and the Labour Party kept overall control of the council.

Sheffield City Council elections took place on Thursday 6 May 2010. There were 28 seats up for election in 2010, one of the three councillors from each ward. Since the previous election, Liberal Democrat councillor Frank Taylor had defected to an Independent leaving the Liberal Democrats with 44 councillors. Turnout was up dramatically with it being held alongside the general election, to 62.6%. The higher turnout helped mainly Labour against their electoral rivals, who managed to return the council to no overall control with three gains. This was bolstered by the newly elected Liberal Democrat in Walkley defecting to Labour immediately after being elected.

Sheffield City Council elections took place on Thursday 3 May 2012 as part of the 2012 United Kingdom local elections.

Elections to Sheffield City Council were held on 4 May 1978. One third of the council was up for election.

Elections to Sheffield City Council were held on 5 May 1983. One third of the council was up for election.

Elections to Sheffield City Council were held on 3 May 1984. One third of the council was up for election.

Elections to Sheffield City Council were held on 5 May 1988. One third of the council was up for election.

Elections to Sheffield City Council were held on 4 May 1990. One third of the council was up for election.

Elections to Sheffield City Council were held on 2 May 1991. One third of the council was up for election. Since the previous election, Richard Old had defected from the Conservatives, sitting as an Independent Conservative. His failure to win re-election for the Ecclesall ward returned them to 11 seats.

Elections to Sheffield City Council were held on 7 May 1992. One third of the council was up for election.

Elections to Sheffield City Council were held on 5 May 1994. One third of the council was up for election. Since the previous election, three by-elections had taken place, resulting in two Lib Dem gains from Labour in Brightside and Walkley and a successful hold of a Dore seat by the Conservatives. This, along with a defection from Burngreave councillor James Jamison, left Labour down three, the Liberal Democrats up two and the Conservatives unchanged going into this election.

Elections to Sheffield City Council were held on 5 May 1995. One third of the council was up for election.

Elections to Sheffield City Council were held on 3 May 1996. One third of the council was up for election.

Elections to Sheffield City Council were held on 6 May 1999 with one third of the council was up for election. Previous to this election, there had been a by-election in Park, resulting in a Liberal Democrat gain from Labour, effectively cancelling out the concurrent defection of sitting Stocksbridge councillor Alan Pears from the Lib Dems to Labour. The election saw the Liberal Democrats gain control of the council - the first time since its formation for it not to be controlled by Labour. The results themselves were more favourable to Labour than recent elections. However, they suffered double-digit losses, with the Liberal Democrats sustaining their recent election surges.

Elections to Sheffield City Council were held on 4 May 2000. One third of the council was up for election. Previous to this election, two Liberal Democrats – Robert Watson and Trefor Morgan – became Independents. Similarly there were two Labour defections, long-time Labour councillor Dorothy Walton went to the Liberal Democrats and Michael Smith became an Independent.

Sheffield's Municipal elections were held on 10 May 1962. One- third of the council was up for election, as well as vacancies in Moor and Park. Previous to this election, there had been two by-elections in June for Hallam and Woodseats, which were safely held by the Conservatives. The election saw a record number of 84 candidates, with the Liberals contesting half of the city's wards and the Communists and the Union Movement over a third. The increased presence of the Liberals helped them to triple their vote on the previous year's, and nearly see to a gain in Hillsborough. There were, however, no seats exchanged for the second year running. Turnout was 31.8%, down slightly on the previous year.

The Sheffield City Council election was held on 7 May 1964, with one third of the council up for election. The election campaign was quieter than most, with fewer parties contesting, and a smaller number of candidates than recent years. The election seen no change in seats, and a slightly reduced turnout of 29%.

This year's Sheffield City Council election was held 13 May 1965. One third of the council was up for election, with as many as four double vacancies in the wards of Crookesmoor, Owlerton, Walkley and Woodseats. The Conservatives managed to gain one of the Walkley seats up for election, as the only gain of the night. Overall turnout fell by a tenth on the previous year's, to 26.2%.

The 1966 Sheffield City Council elections were held in May, with one third of the council up for election and double vacancies in five wards - Cathedral, Ecclesall, Manor, Tinsley and Woodseats. There were no changes in seats, with overall turnout slumping to a low of 22.5% being the main story of the night.

The 2016 United Kingdom local elections held on Thursday 5 May 2016 were a series of local elections which were held in 124 local councils and also saw 4 mayoral elections in England which also coincided with elections to the Scottish Parliament, the Welsh Assembly, the Northern Ireland Assembly, the London Assembly, the London mayoral election and the England and Wales Police and crime commissioners. By-elections for the Westminster seats of Ogmore and Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough were also held. These proved to be David Cameron's last local elections as leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister as he resigned two months later following the defeat of Remain in the referendum on Britain's continuing membership of the European Union which was held seven weeks later.

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 "Sheffield Local Elections 1973-1995 scans" . Retrieved 20 June 2011.

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.

[results-1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 "Sheffield Local Elections 1973-1995 scans" . Retrieved 20 June 2011.

[1]

v t e (1985 ←) 1986 United Kingdom local elections (→ 1987)
London boroughs	Barking and Dagenham Barnet Bexley Brent Bromley Camden Croydon Ealing Enfield Greenwich Hackney Hammersmith and Fulham Haringey Harrow Havering Hillingdon Hounslow Islington Kensington and Chelsea Kingston upon Thames Lambeth Lewisham Merton Newham Redbridge Richmond upon Thames Southwark Sutton Tower Hamlets Waltham Forest Wandsworth Westminster
Metropolitan boroughs	Barnsley Birmingham Bradford Bolton Bury Calderdale Coventry Doncaster Dudley Gateshead Kirklees Knowsley Leeds Liverpool Manchester Newcastle North Tyneside Oldham Rochdale Rotherham Salford Sandwell Sefton Sheffield Solihull South Tyneside St Helens Stockport Sunderland Tameside Trafford Wakefield Walsall Wigan Wirral Wolverhampton
District councils (England)	Adur Amber Valley Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke and Deane Bassetlaw Bath Blackburn Brentwood Brighton Bristol Broadland Broxbourne Burnley Cambridge Cannock Chase Carlisle Cheltenham Cherwell Chester Chorley Colchester Congleton Craven Crawley Crewe and Nantwich Daventry Derby East Devon Eastbourne Eastleigh Ellesmere Port and Neston Elmbridge Epping Forest Exeter Fareham Gillingham Gloucester Gosport Great Grimsby Great Yarmouth Halton Harlow Harrogate Hart Hartlepool Hastings Havant Hereford Hertsmere Hinckley and Bosworth Huntingdonshire Hyndburn Ipswich Kingston upon Hull Leicester Leominster Lincoln Macclesfield Maidstone Mid Sussex Milton Keynes Mole Valley Newcastle-under-Lyme North Bedfordshire North Hertfordshire Norwich Nuneaton and Bedworth Oadby and Wigston Oxford Pendle Penwith Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Purbeck Reading Redditch Reigate and Banstead Rochford Rossendale Rugby Runnymede Rushmoor Scunthorpe Shrewsbury and Atcham Slough South Bedfordshire South Cambridgeshire South Herefordshire South Lakeland Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-on-Avon Stroud Swale Tamworth Tandridge Thamesdown Three Rivers Thurrock Tonbridge and Malling Torbay Tunbridge Wells Watford Waveney Welwyn Hatfield West Dorset West Lancashire West Lindsey West Oxfordshire Weymouth and Portland Winchester Woking Wokingham Woodspring Worcester Worthing Wyre Forest York
Regional councils (Scotland)	Borders Central Dumfries and Galloway Fife Grampian Highland Lothian Orkney Shetland Strathclyde Tayside Western Isles
LEAs	Inner London Education Authority

v t e Council elections in South Yorkshire
Barnsley	1973 1975 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023
Doncaster	1973 1975 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2017 2021
Rotherham	1973 1975 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2021
Sheffield	1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1945 1946 1947 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1975 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023
South Yorkshire CC	1973 1977 1981 Abolished
West Riding CC	1889 1892 1895 1898 1901 1904 1907 1910 1913 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1934 1937 1946 1949 1952 1955 1958 1961 1964 1967 1970 Abolished
Metro Mayor	2018 2022
See also: Wards Boundary changes

1986 Sheffield City Council election

Contents

Election result

Ward results

Related Research Articles

References