All 36 metropolitan boroughs, 123 out of 296 English districts and all 53 Scottish districts
Majority party
Minority party
Third party
Leader
Margaret Thatcher
Neil Kinnock
David Steel and David Owen
Party
Conservative
Labour
Alliance
Leader since
11 February 1975
2 October 1983
7 July 1976 and 21 June 1983
Percentage
38%
37%
21%
Councillors
10,393
8,870
2,331
Councillors +/-
164
88
160
Local elections were held in the United Kingdom in 1984.[1][2] There was a slight reversal in the Conservative government's fortunes, but the party remained ahead. The projected share of the vote was Conservatives 38%, Labour 37%, Liberal-SDP Alliance 21%.
Labour gained 88 seats, bringing their number of councillors to 8,870 in the first elections under the leadership of Neil Kinnock who had succeeded Michael Foot the previous autumn.
The Conservatives lost 164 seats, leaving them with 10,393 councillors.
The SDP-Liberal Alliance, now led by David Owen, gained 160 seats and finished with 2,331 councillors.
Three parliamentary by-elections were also held on the same day in the Cynon Valley, Stafford and South West Surrey constituencies. Labour held Cynon Valley, and the Conservatives held Stafford and South West Surrey.
^Rallings, Colin; Thrasher, Michael. Local Elections Handbook 1984. The Elections Centre. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
^"Council compositions". The Elections Centre. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
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