7 May 1981 (England & Wales) 20 May 1981 (Northern Ireland)
1982 →
1 Unicameral area, all 6 metropolitan counties, all 39 non-metropolitan counties, 1 sui generis authority, all 26 Northern Irish districts and all 8 Welsh counties
Majority party
Minority party
Third party
Leader
Margaret Thatcher
Michael Foot
David Steel
Party
Conservative
Labour
Liberal
Leader since
11 February 1975
10 November 1980
7 July 1976
Percentage
38%
41%
17%
Councillors
10,545
8,999
1,455
Councillors +/-
1,193
988
306
Colours denote the winning party, as shown in the main table of results.
Local elections were held in the United Kingdom in May 1981.[1][2]
^Rallings, Colin; Thrasher, Michael. Local Elections Handbook 1981. The Elections Centre. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
^"Council compositions". The Elections Centre. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
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