1979 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election information
Main article: 1979 United Kingdom local elections
1979 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election
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3 May 1979 (1979-05-03)
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23 of 66 seats (One Third and one by-election) to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council 34 seats needed for a majority
Turnout
75.3% (39.7%)[1]
First party
Second party
Third party
Con
Lab
Lib
Leader
Harry Deverill
Richard Kimberley
Gordon Lindsay
Party
Conservative
Labour
Liberal
Leader's seat
Prenton
Argyle-Clifton-Holt
Grange and Oxton
Last election
14 seats, 55.7%
6 seats, 28.4%
3 seats, 15.4%
Seats before
45
16
5
Seats won
12
9
2
Seats after
40
20
6
Seat change
5
4
1
Popular vote
93,891
70,639
30,430
Percentage
48.0%
36.2%
15.6%
Swing
7.7%
7.8%
0.2%
Map of results of 1979 election
Leader of the Council before election
Harry Deverill
Conservative
Leader of the Council after election
Harry Deverill
Conservative
The 1979 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 3 May 1979 to elect members of Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council in England.[2] This election was held on the same day as other local elections.
After the election, the composition of the council was:
Party
Seats
±
Conservative
40
5
Labour
20
4
Liberal
6
1
[3]
^"Local Election Summaries 1979". The Elections Centre. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
^"Metropolitan Borough of Wirral Election Results 1973-2012 (Pg. 4 and 5)" (PDF). The Elections Centre. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
^"Council compositions". The Elections Centre. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
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