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1998 United Kingdom local elections

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Field	Value
election_name	1998 United Kingdom local elections
country	United Kingdom
type	legislative
previous_election	1997 United Kingdom local elections
previous_year	1997
next_election	1999 United Kingdom local elections
next_year	1999
seats_for_election	All 32 London boroughs, all 36 metropolitan boroughs,
10 out of 46 unitary authorities and 88 out of 238 English districts
election_date	7 May 1998
1blank	Councils
2blank	Councils +/-
3blank	Councillors
4blank	Councillors +/-
<!-- Labour -->	image1	[[File:Tony Blair 1997.jpg	160x160px]]
leader1	Tony Blair
leader_since1	21 July 1994
party1	Labour Party (UK)
percentage1	38%
1data1	94
2data1	2
3data1	2,240
4data1	88
<!-- Conservative -->	image2	[[File:William Hague MP (3156637603) (cropped).jpg	160x160px]]
leader2	William Hague
leader_since2	19 June 1997
party2	Conservative Party (UK)
percentage2	32%
1data2	8
2data2	1
3data2	1,085
4data2	256
<!-- Liberal Democrats -->	image3	[[Image:Paddy Ashdown (2005) (cropped).jpg	160x160px]]
leader3	Paddy Ashdown
leader_since3	16 July 1988
party3	Liberal Democrats (UK)
percentage3	25%
1data3	14
2data3	7
3data3	853
4data3	114
map_image	[[File:UK 1998 Local Election Results.svg	Results of the 1998 United Kingdom local elections]]
map_caption	Colours denote the winning party, as shown in the table of results.

10 out of 46 unitary authorities and 88 out of 238 English districts

The 1998 United Kingdom local elections were held on Thursday 7 May 1998. All London borough council seats were elected as well a third of the seats on each of the Metropolitan Boroughs. Some unitary authorities and District councils also had elections. There were no local elections in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.

These elections took place on the same day as the referendum on establishing the Greater London Authority.

The governing Labour Party, contesting its first national elections since returning to government 12 months previously, enjoyed great success, now having control of 94 councils, with the second placed Liberal Democrats now controlling 14 and the opposition Conservatives (now led by William Hague) a mere eight.

A by-election for the European Parliament was also held in the Yorkshire South constituency; Labour retained the seat.

Results

Councils	Councillors	Gain	Loss	Change	Total	Gain	Loss	Change
		+2	94			-88	2,240
		-7	14			-114	853
		+1	8			+256	1,085
Other	0	0	0	0			-57	146
		+4	50	—	—	—	—

England

London boroughs

In all 32 London boroughs the whole council was up for election.

Council	Previous control	Result	Details	Barking and Dagenham	Barnet	Bexley	Brent	Bromley	Camden	Croydon	Ealing	Enfield	Greenwich	Hackney	Hammersmith and Fulham	Haringey	Harrow	Havering	Hillingdon	Hounslow	Islington	Kensington and Chelsea	Kingston upon Thames	Lambeth	Lewisham	Merton	Newham	Redbridge	Richmond upon Thames	Southwark	Sutton	Tower Hamlets	Waltham Forest	Wandsworth	Westminster
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Metropolitan boroughs

All 36 English Metropolitan borough councils had one third of their seats up for election.

Council	Previous control	Result	Details	Barnsley	Birmingham	Bolton	Bradford	Bury	Calderdale	Coventry	Doncaster	Dudley	Gateshead	Kirklees	Knowsley	Leeds	Liverpool	Manchester	Newcastle upon Tyne	North Tyneside	Oldham	Rochdale	Rotherham	Salford	Sandwell	Sefton	Sheffield	Solihull	South Tyneside	St Helens	Stockport	Sunderland	Tameside	Trafford	Wakefield	Walsall	Wigan	Wirral	Wolverhampton
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Unitary authorities

Whole council

The whole of the Isle of Wight council was up for election.

Council	Previous control	Result	Details	Isle of Wight
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Third of council

In 9 English Unitary authorities one third of the council was up for election.

Council	Previous control	Result	Details	Bristol	Derby	Hartlepool	Kingston upon Hull	Milton Keynes	Portsmouth	Southampton	Stoke-on-Trent	Swindon
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District councils

In 88 English district authorities one third of the council was up for election.

Council	Previous control	Result	Details	Adur	Amber Valley	Barrow-in-Furness	Basildon	Basingstoke and Deane	Bassetlaw	Bedford	Brentwood	Broadland	Broxbourne	Burnley	Cambridge	Cannock Chase	Carlisle	Cheltenham	Cherwell	Chester	Chorley	Colchester	Congleton	Craven	Crawley	Crewe and Nantwich	Daventry	Eastbourne	Eastleigh	Ellesmere Port and Neston	Elmbridge	Epping Forest	Exeter	Fareham	Gloucester ‡	Gosport	Great Yarmouth	Harlow	Harrogate	Hart	Hastings	Havant	Hertsmere	Huntingdonshire	Hyndburn	Ipswich	Lincoln	Macclesfield	Maidstone	Mole Valley	Newcastle-under-Lyme	North Hertfordshire	Norwich	Nuneaton and Bedworth	Oxford	Pendle	Penwith	Preston	Purbeck	Redditch	Reigate and Banstead	Rochford	Rossendale	Rugby	Runnymede	Rushmoor	Shrewsbury and Atcham	South Bedfordshire	South Cambridgeshire	South Lakeland	St Albans	Stevenage	Stratford-on-Avon	Stroud	Swale	Tamworth	Tandridge	Three Rivers	Tunbridge Wells	Watford	Waveney	Welwyn Hatfield	West Lancashire	West Lindsey	West Oxfordshire	Weymouth and Portland	Winchester	Woking	Worcester	Worthing	Wyre Forest
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‡ New ward boundaries

References

Vote 1998 BBC News
The local elections of 7 May 1998 and the London referendum. House of Commons Library Research Paper 98/59.
"Local Elections results", The Times 9 May 1998 page 46

References

"Local Elections Handbook 1998". Local Government Chronicle Elections Centre.
"Council compositions".

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