1988 Cumnock and Doon Valley District Council election information
Cumnock and Doon Valley District Council election
1988 Cumnock and Doon Valley District Council election
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5 May 1988 (1988-05-05)
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All 10 seats to Cumnock and Doon Valley District Council 6 seats needed for a majority
Registered
33,664
Turnout
52.6%
First party
Second party
Third party
Lab
ILab
SDP
Party
Labour
Independent Labour
SDP
Last election
10 seats, 70.2%
0 seats, 13.4%
N/A
Seats won
8
1
1
Seat change
2
1
1
Popular vote
7,655
1,399
1,163
Percentage
61.3%
11.3%
9.4%
Swing
8.9
2.1
New[note 1]
Council Leader before election
Labour
Council Leader after election
Labour
Elections to Cumnock and Doon Valley District Council were held on 5 May 1988, on the same day as the other Scottish local government elections. This was the fifth election to the district council following the local government reforms in the 1970s.
The election used the 10 wards created by the Initial Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements in 1981. Each ward elected one councillor using first-past-the-post voting.[1]
Labour maintained a large majority on the district council after winning eight of the 10 seats although four wards were uncontested after only Labour stood a candidate. Labour's vote share fell by 8.9% as they lost two seats from previous election in 1984. The newly formed Social Democratic Party (SDP) won a seat in Cumnock and Doon Valley for the first time – their only seat in Scotland at the 1988 elections – and the remaining seat was won by Independent Labour.
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^"Initial Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements". Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
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