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1976 Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council election

1976 UK local government election

1976 UK local government election

Elections to Wigan Council were held on 6 May 1976, with one third of the seats up for election. Four Conservative gains and an Independent in Ward 23 regaining a seat reduced Labour's working majority to 40 seats. Two seats (Ward 4 and Ward 21) went uncontested, and turnout rose to 34.0% - a return to 1973 levels after a sizeable fall the previous year.

Election result

|seats % = 70.8 |votes % = 51.3 |plus/minus = +2.1 |seats % = 25.0 |votes % = 40.8 |plus/minus = 0.0 |seats % = 4.2 |votes % = 2.9 |plus/minus = +0.4 |seats % = 0.0 |votes % = 3.9 |plus/minus = -2.9 |seats % = 0.0 |votes % = 0.6 |plus/minus = +0.6 |seats % = 0.0 |votes % = 0.4 |plus/minus = -0.3

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

PartyPrevious councilNew councilLabour Party (UK)}}; width: 3px;"Conservative Party (UK)}}; width: 3px;"Liberal Party (UK)}}; width: 3px;"Independent (politician)}}; width: 3px;"Total7272Working majority
Labour6156
Conservatives1014
Liberals11
Independent01

Ward results

References

References

  1. "Wigan Council results from 1973 to 2008". wigan.gov.uk.
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