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1959 Leeds City Council election

The 1959 Leeds municipal elections were held on Thursday 7 May 1959, with one third of the seats and extra vacancies in East Hunslet and Stanningley up for election.

Mirroring their national recovery, the Conservatives achieved a 3% swing to win the popular vote and make the only gain of the night in the marginal Wortley. The Liberals fielded their greatest number of candidates since 1951, and as such received their highest vote since then. Turnout fell by just under a percentage point from the year before to 36.3%.

Election result

|seats % = 63.3 |votes % = 46.5 |plus/minus = -3.3 |seats % = 36.7 |votes % = 49.0 |plus/minus = +2.9 |seats % = 0.0 |votes % = 4.0 |plus/minus = +0.3 |seats % = 0.0 |votes % = 0.5 |plus/minus = +0.1

The result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the council after the elections:

PartyPrevious councilNew councilCllrAldCllrAldLabour Party (UK)}}; width: 3px;"Conservative Party (UK)}}; width: 3px;"Total84288428112112Working majority
Labour55185418
Conservatives29103010

Ward results

References

References

  1. (8 May 1959). "British Elections Yield Tory Gains". [[The New York Times]].
  2. (8 May 1959). "Municipal results: Leeds". [[The Yorkshire Post]].
  3. Sharpe, L.J.. (1967). "Voting in cities: the 1964 borough elections".
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