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1969 Leeds City Council election

Local election in the United Kingdom


Local election in the United Kingdom

The 1969 Leeds municipal election was held on 8 May 1969, with one third of the councillors up for election. The Conservative incumbent in Armley had defected to Independent Conservative in the interim and hoped to defend it as such.

In contrast to their performance nationally, the Tories fell back upon their peak the previous year, with Labour managing to stabilise their support somewhat. The sole beneficiary (unlike last year, the Communists dropped back to their normal support) were the Liberals, who obtained their largest vote since 1963. In total three seats changed hands, with a spectacular gain in West Hunslet by the Liberals from the Conservatives, another loss of the latter's to Labour in Osmondthorpe, offset a little by a comfortable win back in Armley from their former incumbent.

Election result

|seats % = 76.7 |votes % = 58.7 |plus/minus = -2.6 |seats % = 16.7 |votes % = 27.9 |plus/minus = -0.0 |seats % = 6.7 |votes % = 11.3 |plus/minus = +6.8 |seats % = 0.0 |votes % = 1.7 |plus/minus = -4.4 |seats % = 0.0 |votes % = 0.4 |plus/minus = +0.4

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

PartyPrevious councilNew councilCllrAldCllrAldConservative Party (UK)}}; width: 3px;"Labour Party (UK)}}; width: 3px;"Liberal Party (UK)}}; width: 3px;"Independent Conservative}}; width: 3px;"Total90309030120120Working majority
Conservatives74257325
Labour125135
Liberals3040
Independent Conservative1000

Ward results

References

References

  1. (9 May 1969). "British Laborites Again Set Back in Local Voting". [[The New York Times]].
  2. (9 May 1969). "Municipal results: Leeds". [[The Yorkshire Post]].
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