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1982 Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council election

1982 UK local government election

1982 Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council election

1982 UK local government election

Map of the results of the 1982 Wigan council election.

Elections to the Wigan Council were held on Thursday, 6 May 1982, with one third of the council up for election. The newly formed Alliance made three gains, replacing the Conservatives as the main opposition to Labour. The Alliance massively increased upon the Liberals' past participation, contesting every ward, in marked contrast to a year in which candidate variety fell to a low, with only the former Labour councillor, standing again as Independent Labour in Hindley ward, not representing the three aforementioned choices. Overall turnout was down 2.6% to 33.6%.

Election result

|seats % = 75.0 |votes % = 50.5 |plus/minus = -8.7% |seats % = 16.7 |votes % = 29.2 |plus/minus = +22.4% |seats % = 8.3 |votes % = 18.9 |plus/minus = -10.1% |seats % = 0.0 |votes % = 1.3 |plus/minus = -0.2%

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;"SDP-Liberal Alliance}}; width: 3px;"Conservative Party (UK)}}; width: 3px;"Total7272Working majority
Labour6461
SDP-Liberal Alliance36
Conservatives55

Ward results

References

References

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