1979 High Peak Borough Council election
Elections to High Peak Borough Council in Derbyshire, England, the United Kingdom were held on 7 May 1979. All of the council was up for election and control of the council changed from Conservative control to no overall control.[1]
Boundary changes since the 1976 local elections reduced the number of seats by 2.
After the election, the composition of the council was:
- Conservative 22
- Labour 12
- Liberal 2
- Independent 8
Election result
[edit]| Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | 22 | 0 | 5 | -5 | 50 | ||||
| Labour | 12 | 4 | 0 | +4 | 27.3 | ||||
| Liberal | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.5 | ||||
| Independent | 8 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 18.2 | ||||
Ward results
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Stephen Charles Cocks | 1561 | |||
| Independent | George Chatterton | 1480 | |||
| Labour | Christopher Sydney Turner | 1313 | |||
| Labour | Kenneth Trevor Powell | 1147 | |||
| Conservative | Irene Beatrice Greenhalgh | 1145 | |||
| Liberal | Robert Michael Love | 1012 | |||
| Turnout | |||||
| Labour win (new seat) | |||||
| Independent win (new seat) | |||||
| Labour win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Harold Henry Cartledge | 622 | 73.35 | ||
| Labour | Peter Keith Jones | 226 | 26.65 | ||
| Majority | 396 | 46.70 | |||
| Turnout | 848 | 81.1 | |||
| Independent win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Alfred Henry Hitchings | 1467 | |||
| Labour | Barbara Mary Langham | 1108 | |||
| Conservative | Albert Peter Inglefield | 801 | |||
| Conservative | Cecil George Wallace | 720 | |||
| Turnout | 83.7 | ||||
| Labour win (new seat) | |||||
| Labour win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Betty Patricia Colley | unopposed | |||
| Liberal | George Harry White | unopposed | |||
| Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
| Liberal win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Dennis Raymond Walter | unopposed | |||
| Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Albert Phillips | 622 | 55.59 | ||
| Conservative | Cheryl Mary Dawson | 337 | 30.11 | ||
| Independent | Desmond Francis Bryan | 160 | 14.30 | ||
| Majority | 285 | 25.47 | |||
| Turnout | 1119 | 82.0 | |||
| Independent win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Muriel Bertha Bradbury | unopposed | |||
| Conservative | Kenneth Victor Bradwell | unopposed | |||
| Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
| Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Elizabeth Jane Inglefield | unopposed | |||
| Conservative | Joyce Mary Craufurd-Stuart | unopposed | |||
| Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
| Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Margaret Beatrice Millican | 1219 | |||
| Conservative | Alan Keith Allman | 1034 | |||
| Labour | Robert Garside | 590 | |||
| Turnout | 72.9 | ||||
| Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
| Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Terence Garrie Gill | 910 | |||
| Labour | Noel Ratcliffe | 824 | |||
| Conservative | Dennis Roy Surrey | 654 | |||
| Conservative | Heather Michelle Robinson | 491 | |||
| Independent | Iris Tamsons | 397 | |||
| Turnout | 68.6 | ||||
| Independent win (new seat) | |||||
| Labour win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | John Francis | 1420 | |||
| Labour | Richard John Cooke | 1346 | |||
| Conservative | Harry Lemon | 498 | |||
| Conservative | Lynn Watson | 460 | |||
| Communist | Robert Ainsworth Heald | 37 | |||
| Turnout | 77.2 | ||||
| Labour win (new seat) | |||||
| Labour win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Fred Barnes | 854 | 57.16 | ||
| Conservative | Herbert David Mellor | 407 | 27.24 | ||
| Labour | David John Wilcox | 233 | 15.60 | ||
| Majority | 447 | 29.92 | |||
| Turnout | 1494 | 80.0 | |||
| Independent win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | George Albert Bingham | 775 | 82.53 | ||
| Labour | James Stanley Byford | 164 | 17.47 | ||
| Majority | 611 | 65.07 | |||
| Turnout | 939 | 82.1 | |||
| Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Evelyn May Tomlinson | unopposed | |||
| Independent win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Dorothy May Brennand | 1574 | |||
| Conservative | Dorothy Mary Livesley | 1571 | |||
| Conservative | John Edward Mone | 1545 | |||
| Liberal | Graham Martin Doughty | 1525 | |||
| Labour | Stephen John Herbert Dearden | 1152 | |||
| Turnout | |||||
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| Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | John Keith McMurray | 1226 | |||
| Liberal | Harry Norman Burfoot | 1155 | |||
| Labour | Lawrence Gordon Allen | 858 | |||
| Conservative | Frank Morris Bullough | 758 | |||
| Labour | Dorothy Edna Fryman | 424 | |||
| Turnout | |||||
| Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
| Liberal win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Charles David Lewis | unopposed | |||
| Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Michael Jackson | 1125 | |||
| Conservative | Ronald Ferguson | 1077 | |||
| Labour | Josephine Elizabeth Hopkin | 1065 | |||
| Labour | John Alfred Pagett | 1048 | |||
| Communist | Juleen Barbara Clarke | 83 | |||
| Turnout | 78.4 | ||||
| Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
| Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | David Holtom | 1218 | |||
| Labour | Francis Walter Stubbs | 1115 | |||
| Conservative | Cynthia Violet Mitchell | 787 | |||
| Conservative | Denys Toole | 777 | |||
| Communist | Terence O’Toole | 119 | |||
| Turnout | 76.6 | ||||
| Labour win (new seat) | |||||
| Labour win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | George Wharmby | 1513 | |||
| Conservative | Kenneth Guy Dickenson | 1422 | |||
| Conservative | Alfred Edwin Jenner Leney | 1407 | |||
| Labour | Reginald Mann | 1353 | |||
| Labour | Ceilia Ashton | 1323 | |||
| Labour | David Carr | 1308 | |||
| Turnout | 71.2 | ||||
| Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
| Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
| Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Brenda Tetlow | 934 | 82.00 | ||
| Labour | Joan Wilcox | 205 | 18.00 | ||
| Majority | 729 | 64.00 | |||
| Turnout | 1139 | 83.6 | |||
| Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | William Roderick Heath | 674 | 43.07 | ||
| Labour | Michael William Slattery | 470 | 30.03 | ||
| Liberal | Joyce Ashley | 421 | 26.90 | ||
| Majority | 204 | 13.04 | |||
| Turnout | 1565 | 82.5 | |||
| Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | William Barton Morley | 1577 | |||
| Labour | James Henry Poulton | 1398 | |||
| Conservative | Alexander Taylor-Clague | 553 | |||
| Turnout | 75.6 | ||||
| Labour win (new seat) | |||||
| Labour win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Ralph Bennett | 480 | 51.67 | ||
| Conservative | Clifford Pennington | 449 | 48.33 | ||
| Majority | 31 | 3.33 | |||
| Turnout | 929 | 86.0 | |||
| Labour win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | John Arthur Thomas Pritchard | 2193 | |||
| Independent | Fredrick Bonsall Woodward | 1854 | |||
| Conservative | Harold Hastings Littlewood | 1601 | |||
| Labour | Martin Struan Burch | 1203 | |||
| Labour | George Kenneth Brown | 1147 | |||
| Conservative | Bernard George Everett | 887 | |||
| Turnout | |||||
| Independent win (new seat) | |||||
| Independent win (new seat) | |||||
| Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
References
[edit]- ^ "English local elections 2007". www.bbc.co.uk. BBC News. 4 May 2007.
- ^ Colin Rallings; Michael Thrasher (1 May 2003). Local Elections in Britain: A Statistical Digest. University of Plymouth Local Government Chronicle Elections Centre. ISBN 0948858354.
- ^ Colin Rallings; Michael Thrasher. "High Peak Borough Council Election Results 1973-2012" (PDF). www.electionscentre.co.uk. The Election Centre, Plymouth University. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 August 2020.
