1986 Sutton London Borough Council election

Sutton Council Election, 1986

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All 56 seats, in 25 wards in the London Borough of Sutton 29 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	51.1%
Majority party Minority party Third party   Leader Graham Tope David Trafford Unknown Party Alliance Conservative Labour Leader since 1980 N/A Leader's seat Sutton Central Worcester Park South (defeated) N/A Seats won 28 21 7 Percentage 41.9% 39.8% 16.7%
Leader of the Council before election David Trafford Conservative Elected Leader Graham Tope Liberal

The 1986 Sutton Council election took place on 8 May 1986 to elect members of Sutton London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the council went into no overall control. ^[1]

Election result

Sutton Council election result 1986

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Alliance	28				50.0	41.9
	Conservative	21				37.5	39.8
	Labour	7				12.5	16.7
	Other	0				0.0	1.7

Ward results

Beddington North (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Joan A. Dutton	1,194	46.7	+3.6
	Liberal	Sylvia K. Doubell	1,138
	Conservative	Francis McNamara*	989	38.7	−9.3
	Conservative	Roy F. Whitehair**	878
	Labour	John R. Bray	372	14.6
	Labour	Raymond G. Moore	349
Majority				8.0	12.9
Turnout				53.0	1.4
Registered electors			4,946
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing

Beddington South (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SDP	Colleen Saunders	1,406	41.2	+7.2
	SDP	Kenneth R. Bishop	1,325
	SDP	Frances Wurm	1,248
	Labour	Philip J. Bassett	1,057	31.0	+5.7
	Labour	Ms Doris A. Richards	973
	Labour	Ms Violet J. Scotter	959
	Conservative	Henry R. C. Sawyers*	946	27.8	−12.9
	Conservative	John R. Belcher	943
	Conservative	Peter A. A. Roffe	932
Majority				10.2	16.8
Turnout				48.8	2.2
Registered electors			7,245
	SDP gain from Conservative		Swing
	SDP gain from Conservative		Swing
	SDP gain from Conservative		Swing

Belmont (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Lesley Barber	1,402	61.1	−4.8
	Conservative	Joyce K M Bowley*	1,395
	Liberal	Barry Reed	693	30.2	+2.8
	SDP	Glyn Saunders	683
	Labour	B Brennan	201	8.8
	Labour	Ms J Lawler	193
Majority				30.9	−7.6
Turnout				44.5	5.0
Registered electors			5,429
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Carshalton Beeches (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Edward J Crowley*	2,108	57.9
	Conservative	Keith J Martin*	2,044
	Conservative	Mavis Peart*	2,037
	SDP	Richard Exact	906	24.9	−1.7
	Liberal	John Phillimore	882
	SDP	Gary Miles	854
	Labour	John M. Bloom	353	9.7
	Labour	Richard H. Taylor	341
	Labour	Robert C. Scarlett	314
	Green	Walter S. L. Holt	274	7.5
Majority				33.0
Turnout				50.9	4.6
Registered electors			7,082
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Carshalton Central (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SDP	John A. Jukes	1,165
	Conservative	Peter N. Baggott*	1,123
	Liberal	Robert R. Landeryou	1,119
	Conservative	John Stapley	967
	Labour	Patrick O'Keeffe	344
	Labour	Michael J. Radburn	277
	Green	William E. Fuller	132
Majority
Turnout				55.5	5.0
Registered electors			4,986
	SDP gain from Conservative		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Carshalton North (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Thomas Edward Dutton	1,450
	Liberal	Michael A. Cooper*	1,356
	Conservative	Denis Kerslake	991
	Conservative	Margaret Paull	899
	Labour	Anthony R. Powell	405
	Labour	Kathleen M. Smith	401
Majority
Turnout				55.1	0.0
Registered electors			5,475
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing

Cheam South (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Lynette G. Ranson	1,678
	Conservative	Edward G. Trevor*	1,659
	Liberal	Frank W. Sharp	449
	SDP	Agatha P. Myers	416
	Labour	Roy Baker	95
	Labour	Peter J. Henshall	88
Majority
Turnout				49.0	5.4
Registered electors			4,718
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Cheam West (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Kenneth I. Cole*	1,316
	Conservative	Deborah M. A. Mangnall*	1,279
	Liberal	Judith A. Franklin	935
	Liberal	Simon D. Wales	881
	Labour	Patricia M. Brown	165
	Labour	Catherine E. Pestano	154
Majority
Turnout				55.6	4.5
Registered electors			4,495
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Clockhouse (1)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Malcolm P. Garner	421
	SDP	Robert J. Irving	393
	Labour	Douglas J. Banks	139
Majority
Turnout				57.1	1.2
Registered electors			1,669
	Conservative hold		Swing

North Cheam (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Anthony Brett Young	1,603
	SDP	Valerie R. Price	1,526
	Conservative	Clifford C. G. Carter*	993
	Conservative	John J. Sharvill*	990
	Labour	Margaret Sinclair	176
	Labour	Kevin J. Willsher	156
Majority
Turnout				58.2	0.7
Registered electors			4,933
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing
	SDP gain from Conservative		Swing

Rosehill (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Stephen J. Penneck	1,494
	SDP	Paul K. Burstow	1,425
	Conservative	Anne M. Rawlinson	778
	Conservative	Lorna Rayne	698
	Labour	Josephine M. Harvey	317
	Labour	Jeffrey F. Hunt	306
Majority
Turnout				56.4	3.4
Registered electors			4,711
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing
	SDP gain from Conservative		Swing

St Helier North (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Patrick B. Kane*	1,638
	Labour	Albert G. A. Dyson*	1,630
	Labour	Donald B. Hopkins	1,552
	Conservative	Gwendolen M. Bates	520
	Conservative	Hilda M. Harding	507
	Conservative	Joyce G. Shanks	495
	SDP	Stanley A. G. Theed	455
	Liberal	William E. Ward	452
	SDP	Aidan P. Tierney	427
Majority
Turnout				40.4	3.8
Registered electors			6,924
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

St Helier South (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Charles J. Mansell	1,066
	Labour	John A. S. Weir	1,020
	SDP	John S. G. Bass	379
	SDP	Vinod Sharma	328
	Conservative	Timothy E. Crowley	222
	Conservative	Jeffrey E. Gregory	205
Majority
Turnout				41.3	1.6
Registered electors			4,187
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Sutton Central (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Graham Norman Tope*	1,591
	Liberal	Rev. John Aubrey Mullin*	1,521
	Conservative	Glyn H. George	508
	Conservative	Gary Eales	504
	Labour	Peter J. Storey	264
	Labour	Peter C. Randall	257
Majority
Turnout				47.6	4.8
Registered electors			5,149
	Liberal hold		Swing
	Liberal hold		Swing

Sutton Common (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Elizabeth Sharp	1,458
	Liberal	Lesley O'Connell	1,437
	Conservative	Pauline Kavanagh*	936
	Conservative	Alan Deards	918
	Labour	Allan T. Wilson	187
	Labour	Pamela L. Selous-Hedges	183
Majority
Turnout				55.8	0.1
Registered electors			4,752
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing

Sutton East (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Neil Frater	1,399
	Liberal	John F. Brennan	1,395
	SDP	Terence A. Woods	1,326
	Conservative	David Hogg	846
	Conservative	John W. Perkins	804
	Conservative	Heather Shaw	802
	Labour	Anthony R. Thorpe	585
	Labour	Jeremy L. Cullen	577
	Labour	Trevor E. Webb	534
	Independent	Lawrence Brooks	57
Majority
Turnout				52.8	0.5
Registered electors			5,774
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing
	SDP gain from Conservative		Swing

Sutton South (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter H. Geiringer*	1,769
	Conservative	Paul T. Mangnall*	1,756
	Conservative	Richard T. Barber*	1,753
	SDP	Carol Campbell	926
	SDP	Dora C. Flew	905
	Liberal	Cicely J. Willis	868
	Labour	Geoffrey Brennan	449
	Labour	Gary M. Brennan	433
	Labour	Patrick J. J. Cunnane	413
	Green	Richard F. Allen	136
Majority
Turnout				43.1	6.4
Registered electors			7,785
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Sutton West (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Christopher Caswill	1,549
	Liberal	Lynette Gleeson	1,442
	Conservative	Simon McIlwaine	902
	Conservative	Linda Verner	886
	Labour	Christopher E. Jones	149
	Labour	Ronald S. Williams	143
Majority
Turnout				59.1	1.9
Registered electors			4,473
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing
	Liberal hold		Swing

Wallington North (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jack Izard*	1,693
	Conservative	Joan Quattrucci	1,636
	Conservative	Michael Pike	1,626
	Liberal	Joseph Farrelly	1,254
	SDP	Kishore Gumaste	1,182
	Liberal	Robert Landeryou	1,179
	Labour	John Willmot	460
	Labour	Susan F. Gammon	458
	Labour	Peter J. Turner	442
	Green	Jacqueline M. W. Dow	149
	Green	Nick McDonagh-Greaves	118
	Green	Walter S. L. Holt	113
Majority
Turnout				50.4	4.2
Registered electors			7,136
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Wallington South (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Frederick Townsend*	1,147
	Conservative	Lynda Burrows	1,101
	Conservative	David Waterman	1,093
	SDP	Richard Sammons	1,049
	Liberal	Alison Rogers	963
	SDP	John Drage	959
	Conservative Democratic	Robert F. Johnson	787
	Conservative Democratic	Carole J. Dalby	634
	Conservative Democratic	Stuart D. Earley	579
	Labour	David N. Murray	502
	Labour	Michael J. McLoughlin	486
	Labour	Clive S. Poge	463
	Green	Helene G. McDonagh-Greaves	122
Majority
Turnout				46.7	1.2
Registered electors			7,472
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Wandle Valley (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Michael R. Woolley*
	Labour	Malcolm C. Smith*	883
	SDP	June S. Crow	638
	SDP	John F. Barlow	631
	Conservative	Alan S. May	351
	Conservative	Alison J. Pike	317
Majority
Turnout				52.0	0.9
Registered electors			3,871
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Woodcote (1)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Graham Witham*	957
	Liberal	Graham Sharp	248
	Labour	Ann K. Poge	82
	Green	Peter F. Ticher	39
Majority
Turnout				49.8	4.1
Registered electors			2,667
	Conservative hold		Swing

Worcester Park North (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Ruth Mary Shaw	1,835
	Liberal	Keith J. S. Pitkin	1,810
	SDP	Gareth W. Campbell	1,788
	Conservative	Peter A. C. Woolley*	1,376
	Conservative	Janet S. Woolley*	1,372
	Conservative	Ann Tims*	1,349
	Labour	Susanne J. Mitchell	317
	Labour	John F. Graham	304
	Labour	Lina Graham	280
Majority
Turnout				54.9	2.3
Registered electors			6,782
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing
	SDP gain from Conservative		Swing

Worcester Park South (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Roger D. Roberts	1,489
	SDP	Michael J. Shaw	1,422
	Conservative	Richard Anthony Kerslake*	1,163
	Conservative	David J. H. Trafford*	1,070
	Labour	Patrick R. Imrie	144
	Labour	Alan P. Matusevics	130
Majority
Turnout				62.5	0.5
Registered electors			4,632
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing
	SDP gain from Conservative		Swing

Wrythe Green (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SDP	Teresa M. Munro	1,446
	Liberal	Duncan R. Ponikwer	1,385
	Conservative	John Howard	739
	Conservative	Bruce Newman	732
	Labour	Richard T. Mackie	595
	Labour	Frank L. Syratt	530
Majority
Turnout				53.3	2.0
Registered electors			5,474
	SDP gain from Conservative		Swing
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing

References

1. "London Borough Council Elections 8 May 1986" (PDF). London Datastore. London Residuary Body. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 December 2014. Retrieved 29 March 2015.