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1984 East Kilbride District Council election

Elections to East Kilbride District Council were held on 3 May 1984, on the same day as the other Scottish local government elections. This was the fourth election to the district council following the local government reforms in the 1970s.

Elections to East Kilbride District Council were held on 3 May 1984, on the same day as the other Scottish local government elections. This was the fourth election to the district council following the local government reforms in the 1970s.

The election was the first to use the 16 wards created by the Initial Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements in 1980 – an increase of one from the previous arrangements. Each ward elected one councillor using first-past-the-post voting.

Labour maintained control of the district council after winning 14 of the 16 seats – an increase of two – and taking more than half of the popular vote. The remaining two seats were won by the Conservatives. Despite taking a fifth of the vote and coming second in the popular vote, the Scottish National Party (SNP) lost their representation on the district council just seven years after winning control of the council.

Party	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	14	2	0	2	87.5	55.4	15,312	2.3
	2	0	0		12.5	12.2	3,366	5.4
	0	0	1	1	0.0	20.0	5,514	7.2
	0	0	0		0.0	5.4	1,513	New
	0	0	0		0.0	4.4	1,231	3.4
	0	0	0		0.0	1.8	509	1.3
	0	0	0		0.0	0.3	102	0.1
	0	0	0		0.0	0.2	68	New
Total	16						27,615

Note: Boundary changes resulted in a net increase of one seat overall.

Source:

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}±%
	Labour	1,348	66.9	4.0
	Conservative	334	16.6	3.6
	SNP	264	13.1	3.9
	Ecology	68	3.4	New
1,014	50.3	7.6
2,014	49.2	1.4
4,098
	Labour hold	4.0

Source:

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,156	63.1	10.3
	SNP	344	18.8	22.6
	SDP	325	17.7	New
812	44.3	32.9
1,825	45.9	1.9
3,995
	Labour hold	10.3

Source:

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,139	72.2	2.0
	SNP	435	27.6	1.6
704	44.6	3.6
1,574	40.5	3.9
3,897
	Labour hold	2.0

Source:

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,073	65.6	12.1
	SNP	544	33.3	16.4
529	32.3	0.4
1,617	40.4	4.3
4,049
	Labour hold	12.1

Source:

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	775	46.5	9.2
	SDP	378	22.7	New
	Conservative	306	18.4	3.2
	SNP	203	12.2	10.5
397	23.8	9.2
1,662	41.8	0.6
3,985
	Labour hold	16.1

Source:

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,134	70.8	1.3
	SNP	456	28.5	1.1
678	42.3	2.4
1,590	39.0	3.9
4,102
	Labour hold	1.3

Source:

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,115	62.3	1.5
	SNP	377	21.1	5.3
	Liberal	293	16.4	New
738	41.2	6.8
1,785	42.8	0.8
4,181
	Labour hold	1.5

Source:

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	605	39.5	17.2
	Conservative	390	25.5	10.5
	SDP	319	20.8	New
	SNP	216	14.1	14.0
215	14.0	14.6
1,530	44.3	7.4
3,459
	Labour hold	13.8

Source:

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	902	48.3	3.8
	Conservative	304	16.3	5.3
	SNP	229	12.3	23.3
	Independent	221	11.8	New
	Liberal	134	7.2	New
	Communist	76	4.1	New
598	32.0	23.1
1,866	49.2	4.2
3,791
	Labour hold	13.5

Source:

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,155	56.9	3.6
	Liberal	524	25.8	New
	SNP	344	17.0	1.1
631	31.1	8.2
2,023	51.0	1.4
3,930
	Labour hold	3.6

Source:

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	823	50.7	2.1
	SNP	799	49.2	2.0
24	1.5	N/A
1,622	56.1	7.2
2,895
	Labour gain from SNP	2.1

Source:

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,193	74.0	12.6
	SNP	410	25.4	10.2
783	48.6	22.8
1,603	40.3
3,996
	Labour hold	12.6

Source:

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,025	57.0	2.3
	Independent	288	16.0	New
	SDP	245	13.6	New
	SNP	236	13.1	10.6
737	41.0	5.4
1,794	45.4	1.5
3,963
	Labour hold	2.3

Source:

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	904	49.6	3.2
	Labour	505	27.7	0.4
	SDP	246	13.5	New
	SNP	165	9.1	17.1
399	21.9	2.8
1,820	40.9	4.6
4,456
	Conservative hold	1.4

Source:

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	957	53.0	4.4
	Labour	412	22.8	3.1
	Liberal	280	15.5	New
	SNP	156	8.6	8.0
545	31.2	0.3
1,805	42.2	8.7
4,282
	Conservative hold	4.4

Source:

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	952	64.0
	SNP	336	22.6
	Conservative	171	11.5
	Communist	26	1.7
616	41.4
1,485	40.2
3,695
	Labour win (new seat)

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