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1973 Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council election

The first elections to the newly created Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council were held on 10 May 1973, with the entirety of the 60 seat council - three seats for each of the 20 wards - up for vote. The Local Government Act 1972 stipulated that the elected members were to shadow and eventually take over from the predecessor corporation on 1 April 1974. The order in which the councillors were elected dictated their term serving, with third-place candidates serving two years and up for re-election in 1975, second-placed three years expiring in 1976 and 1st-placed five years until 1978.

The election resulted in Labour gaining control of the council.

Seats	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
57	95.0	52.5	32,319	N/A
1	1.7	7.7	4,727	N/A
1	1.7	6.0	3,687	N/A
1	1.7	5.0	3,062	N/A
0	0.0	9.7	5,977	N/A
0	0.0	9.2	5,679	N/A
0	0.0	3.4	2,090	N/A
0	0.0	2.2	1,329	N/A
0	0.0	1.4	850	N/A
0	0.0	1.6	978	N/A
0	0.0	1.4	844	N/A

This resulted in the following composition of the council:

Party	New council
Labour	57
Democratic Labour	1
Independent	1
Independent Labour	1

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}±%
	Labour	1,305	78.5	N/A
	Labour	1,281
	Labour	1,188
	Democratic Labour	358	21.5	N/A
947	56.9	N/A
1,663	23.1	N/A

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,670	75.8	N/A
	Labour	1,545
	Labour	1,347
	Communist	269	12.2	N/A
	Conservative	264	12.0	N/A
1,401	63.6	N/A
2,203	21.7	N/A

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,833	59.0	N/A
	Labour	1,779
	Labour	1,772
	Citizens	879	28.3	N/A
	Citizens	801
	Citizens	728
	Conservative	393	12.7	N/A
	Conservative	391
954	30.7	N/A
3,105	35.4	N/A

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	2,339	60.1	N/A
	Labour	2,015
	Labour	1,928
	Liberal	1,260	32.4	N/A
	Liberal	1,214
	Liberal	1,176
	Conservative	290	7.5	N/A
1,079	27.7	N/A
3,889	39.7	N/A

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,623	51.7	N/A
	Labour	1,566
	Labour	1,484
	Citizens	1,211	38.6	N/A
	Citizens	1,151
	Citizens	1,066
	Conservative	304	9.7	N/A
	Conservative	291
	Conservative	221
412	13.1	N/A
3,138	39.3	N/A

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,604	72.2	N/A
	Labour	1,530
	Labour	1,461
	Conservative	363	16.3	N/A
	Ind. Socialist	255	11.5	N/A
1,241	55.9	N/A
2,222	22.1	N/A

Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Labour	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
Labour	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
Labour	Unopposed	N/A	N/A

Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Labour	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
Labour	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
Labour	Unopposed	N/A	N/A

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,762	61.1	N/A
	Labour	1,677
	Labour	1,666
	Liberal	1,121	38.9	N/A
	Liberal	991
641	22.2	N/A
2,883	45.0	N/A

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,457	38.2	N/A
	Labour	1,411
	Labour	1,266
	Independent	719	18.8	N/A
	Independent Labour	662	17.3	N/A
	Conservative	590	15.5	N/A
	Democratic Labour	390	10.2	N/A
738	19.3	N/A
3,818	44.8	N/A

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	2,227	69.5	N/A
	Labour	2,164
	Labour	2,038
	Socialist (GB)	978	30.5	N/A
1,249	39.0	N/A
3,205	32.6	N/A

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,648	57.9	N/A
	Labour	1,520
	Labour	1,334
	Communist	575	20.2	N/A
	Residents	441	15.5	N/A
	Residents	288
	Residents	198
	Conservative	181	6.4	N/A
1,073	37.7	N/A
2,845	37.2	N/A

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic Labour	2,939	41.1	N/A
	Labour	2,535	35.4	N/A
	Labour	2,270
	Labour	1,913
	Independent Labour	1,677	23.5	N/A
404	5.6	N/A
7,151	62.4	N/A

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	1,476	40.4	N/A
	Labour	1,225	33.5	N/A
	Labour	1,078
	Labour	969
	Conservative	955	26.1	N/A
	Conservative	840
	Independent	831
	Conservative	721
251	6.9	N/A
3,656	59.1	N/A

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,527	31.8	N/A
	Labour	1,348
	Independent Labour	1,289	26.9	N/A
	Labour	1,102
	Liberal	1,092	22.8	N/A
	Residents	888	18.5	N/A
238	5.0	N/A
4,796	75.6	N/A

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	735	66.0	N/A
	Labour	711
	Labour	682
	Independent Labour	378	34.0	N/A
	Independent Labour	329
	Independent Labour	273
357	32.0	N/A
1,113	21.0	N/A

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,699	69.9	N/A
	Labour	1,627
	Labour	1,548
	Independent Labour	733	30.1	N/A
	Independent Labour	495
	Independent Labour	424
966	39.8	N/A
2,432	31.2	N/A

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	3,183	63.7	N/A
	Labour	3,140
	Labour	3,127
	Liberal	1,081	21.6	N/A
	Conservative	733	14.7	N/A
2,102	42.1	N/A
4,997	44.5	N/A

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	2,336	52.7	N/A
	Labour	2,282
	Labour	2,137
	Independent	855	19.3	N/A
	Conservative	650	14.7	N/A
	Ind. Socialist	595	13.4	N/A
	Ind. Socialist	524
1,481	33.4	N/A
4,436	49.1	N/A

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,611	40.4	N/A
	Labour	1,487
	Labour	1,378
	Conservative	1,254	31.4	N/A
	Liberal	1,125	28.2	N/A
	Conservative	1,068
	Liberal	1,035
	Conservative	1,035
	Liberal	844
357	8.9	N/A
3,990	55.3	N/A

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