1980 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election information
Main article: 1980 United Kingdom local elections
1980 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election
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1 May 1980 (1980-05-01)
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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
36.8% (38.5%)[1]
First party
Second party
Third party
Con
Lab
Lib
Leader
Harry Deverill
Richard Kimberley
Roy Perkins
Party
Conservative
Labour
Liberal
Leader's seat
Prenton
Birkenhead
Claughton
Last election
12 seats, 48.0%
9 seats, 36.2%
2 seats, 15.6%
Seats before
40
20
6
Seats won
12
9
2
Seats after
37
23
6
Seat change
3
3
0
Popular vote
44,665
36,548
14,885
Percentage
46.3%
37.9%
15.4%
Swing
1.7%
1.7%
0.2%
Map of results of 1980 election
Leader of the Council before election
Harry Deverill
Conservative
Leader of the Council after election
Harry Deverill
Conservative
The 1980 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 1 May 1980 to elect members of Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council in England.[2] This election was held on the same day as other local elections.
The first third of the council was up for election to new boundaries.[3]
Every councillor was assigned a new ward before the election took place.[4]
After the election, the composition of the council was:
Party
Seats
±
Conservative
37
3
Labour
23
3
Liberal
6
0
[5]
^"Local Election Summaries 1980". The Elections Centre. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
^"Metropolitan Borough of Wirral Election Results 1973-2012 (Pg. 5)" (PDF). The Elections Centre. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
^The Borough of Wirral (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1979
^legislation.gov.uk - The Borough of Wirral (Electoral Changes) Order 2003. Retrieved on 3 November 2015.
^"Council compositions". The Elections Centre. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
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