All 32 London boroughs, all 36 metropolitan boroughs, 123 out of 296 English districts, 1 local education authority and all 12 Scottish regions
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
34%
37%
26%
Councillors +/-
975
13
338
The 1986 United Kingdom local elections were held on Thursday 8 May 1986.[1][2][3] There was a 3% reduction in the number of councillors, owing to the abolition of the Greater London Council and the Metropolitan County Councils.
The national projected share of the vote was Labour 37%, Conservative 34%, Liberal-SDP Alliance 26%. The Conservatives lost 975 seats, Labour gained 13 seats and the Liberal-SDP Alliance gained 338 seats.
Two parliamentary by-elections were also held on the same day in the West Derbyshire and Ryedale constituencies. The Conservatives held West Derbyshire, though only by 100 votes. The Alliance gained Ryedale from the Conservatives.
^Rallings, Colin; Thrasher, Michael. Local Elections Handbook 1986, Volume 1. The Elections Centre. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
^Rallings, Colin; Thrasher, Michael. Local Elections Handbook 1986, Volume 2. The Elections Centre. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
^"Council compositions". The Elections Centre. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
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