Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council election, 1979

The Metropolitan Borough of Bolton shown within England.

Elections to Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council were held on 3 May 1979 on the same day as the General Election. The Conservatives retained control of the Council by a majority of 1 seat.

24 seats were contested, with 14 being won by the Labour Party, 9 by the Conservatives and 1 by the Liberal Party.

After the election, the composition of the Council was

Election result

Bolton Local Election Result 1979
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Conservative	9	0	10	-10	{{{seats %}}}	46.7	70,549	-4.2
	Labour	14	10	0	+10	{{{seats %}}}	46.4	70,115	+4.3
	Liberal	1	1	1	+0	{{{seats %}}}	6.8	10,279	+2.1

Ward results

Astley Bridge
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	A Hibbert	5,087	66.6	-7.4
	Labour	McCracken	2,546	33.4	+11.5
Majority			2541	33.2	-18.9
Turnout			7,633	78.6	+41.2
	Conservative hold		Swing	Con to Labour 9.4

Bradshaw North and South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	K Howarth	4,099	73.8	-6.2
	Labour	C Benjamin	1,457	26.2	+6.2
Majority			2,642	47.5	-12.5
Turnout			5,556	78.9	+47.9
	Conservative hold		Swing	Con to Labour 6.2

Bradford Ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	C Skull	2,348	79.4	-7.6
	Conservative	H Kolia	648	21.6	+11.8
Majority			1,700	56.7	-19.5
Turnout			2,996	74.7	+33.7
	Labour hold		Swing	Labour to Con 9.7

Bromley Cross, Eagley and Egerton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	A O'Neil	4,670	36.2
	Conservative	T Mulligan	4,379	33.9
	Labour	J Mason	1,981	15.3
	Labour	M Woodcock	1,878	14.5
Majority
Turnout			12,908	72.9	+35.8
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Church East and North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	J Farmer	2,270	58.4	-5.4
	Conservative	M Drinkwater	1,618	41.6	+7.8
Majority			652	16.8	-13.2
Turnout			3,888	76.8	+31.8
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	Labour to Con 6.6

Darcy Lever cum Breightmet
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	K McIvor	5,203	59.1	+8.5
	Conservative	A Chadbond	3,598	40.9	-6.9
Majority			1,605	18.2	+15.4
Turnout			8,801	75.3	+37.8
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	Con to Labour 7.7

Dean cum Lostock
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	R Ward	3,639	59.4	-12.4
	Labour	G Harkin	1,928	31.5	+11.2
	Liberal	S Roberts	563	9.2	+4.0
Majority			1,711	27.9	-23.7
Turnout			6,130	78.9	+40.1
	Conservative hold		Swing	Con to Labour 11.8

Derby
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	S Walsh	3,382	76.7	+2.6
	Conservative	J Shore	888	20.1	-2.9
	Communist	A Johnson	139	3.2	+0.3
Majority			2,494	56.6	+5.5
Turnout			4,409	73.2	+36.2
	Labour hold		Swing	Con to Labour 2.7

Farnworth North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	D Butterfield	3,152	47.8	-4.7
	Conservative	D Jones	2,205	33.4	-5.7
	Liberal	G Barrow	1,238	18.8	+10.5
Majority			947	14.3	+0.9
Turnout			6,595	71.4	+40.0
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	Con to Lib 8.1

Farnworth South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	P Johnston	3,689	56.3	-4.0
	Conservative	B Coote	1,598	24.4	-6.0
	Liberal	L Bale	1,262	19.3	+10.0
Majority			2,091	31.9	+1.9
Turnout			6,549	70.6	+40.6
	Labour hold		Swing	Con to Lib 8.0

Great Lever
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	L Williamson	4,408	55.1	+3.9
	Conservative	L Huyton	3,598	44.9	-3.9
Majority			810	10.1	+8.2
Turnout			8,006	76.9	+42.3
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	Con to Labour 3.9

Halliwell
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	J Fish	2,972	43.2	+17.6
	Labour	R Johnson	2,171	31.5	-5.6
	Conservative	J Walsh	1,743	25.3	-10.2
Majority			801	11.6
Turnout			6,886	78.0	+37.0
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	Con to Lib 13.9

Heaton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	B Hurst	3,382	83.0	-4.6
	Labour	J Jenkins	691	17.0	+4.6
Majority			2,691	66.1	-9.0
Turnout			4,073	83.6	+37.6
	Conservative hold		Swing	Con to Labour 4.6

Horwich North, Central and East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	A Oakley	4,262	66.0	+18.8
	Conservative	S Dawson	2,193	34.0	-18.8
Majority			2,069	32.0
Turnout			6,455	76.2	+37.3
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	Con to Labour 18.8

Horwich South and Blackrod
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	E Johnson	2,760	51.9	+14.0
	Conservative	J Jolley	2,560	48.1	-14.2
Majority			200	3.7	-0.3
Turnout			5,320	79.4	+36.5
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	Con to Labour 14.1

Hulton and Rumworth
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	T Anderton	4,046	52.7	+8.1
	Conservative	R Carr	3,629	47.3	-3.6
Majority			417	5.4
Turnout			7,675	78.2	+39.1
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	Con to Labour 5.8

Kearsley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	W Robinson	2,912	43.6	+0.6
	Liberal	J Rothwell	2,158	32.3	-2.0
	Conservative	J Tomlinson	1,602	24.0	+1.3
Majority			754	11.3	+2.6
Turnout			6,672	77.5	+34.2
	Labour gain from Liberal		Swing	Lib to Con 1.6

Little Lever
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	A Lawton	2,957	45.5	-17.4
	Labour	L Sanderson	2,542	39.2	+8.2
	Liberal	W Crook	993	15.3	+9.2
Majority			415	6.4	-25.5
Turnout			6,492	80.5	+41.2
	Conservative hold		Swing	Con to Labour 12.8

Smithills
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	S Collier	4,475	52.6	-18.6
	Labour	J Knight	2,932	34.5	+12.0
	Liberal	D Walmsley	1,093	12.9	+6.6
Majority			1,543	18.1	-30.5
Turnout			8,500	79.3	+46.2
	Conservative hold		Swing	Con to Labour 15.3

Tonge
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	D Eastwood	4,598	53.2	+11.3
	Conservative	J Rigby	4,050	46.8	-7.8
Majority			548	6.3
Turnout			8,648	76.4	+34.7
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	Con to Lab 9.5

West Ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	G Hart	3,693	66.4	+2.6
	Conservative	M Kershaw	1,867	33.6	-0.5
Majority			1,826	32.8	+3.1
Turnout			5,560	70.0	+35.7
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	Con to Lab 1.5

Westhoughton East and Hulton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	J Smith	3,624	66.2	-6.1
	Labour	P Jones	1,847	33.8	+6.1
Majority			1,777	32.5	-12.2
Turnout			5,471	79.9	+42.1
	Conservative hold		Swing	Con to Labour 6.1

Westhoughton North, Central and South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	P Woodcock	3,419	58.4	-1.8
	Conservative	A Prince	2,440	41.6	+1.8
Majority			979	16.7	-3.8
Turnout			5,859	75.2	+37.8
	Labour hold		Swing	Labour to Con 1.8

References

(1978 ←) United Kingdom local elections, 1979 (→ 1980)

Metropolitan boroughs	Barnsley Birmingham Bradford Bolton Bury Calderdale Coventry Doncaster Dudley Gateshead Kirklees Knowsley Leeds Liverpool Manchester Newcastle North Tyneside Oldham Rochdale Rotherham Salford Sandwell Sefton Sheffield Solihull South Tyneside St Helens Stockport Sunderland Tameside Trafford Wakefield Walsall Wigan Wirral Wolverhampton

District councils (England)	Adur Allerdale Alnwick Amber Valley Arun Ashfield Ashford Aylesbury Vale Babergh Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke and Deane Bassetlaw Bath Beaconsfield Berwick-upon-Tweed Beverley Blaby Blackburn Blackpool Blyth Valley Bolsover Boothferry Boston Bournemouth Bracknell Braintree Breckland Brentwood Bridgnorth Brighton Bristol Broadland Bromsgrove Broxbourne Broxtowe Burnley Cambridge Cannock Chase Canterbury Caradon Carlisle Carrick Castle Morpeth Castle Point Charnwood Chelmsford Cheltenham Cherwell Chesterfield Chester-le-Street Chester Chichester Chiltern Chorley Christchurch Cleethorpes Colchester Congleton Copeland Corby Cotswold Craven Crawley Crewe and Nantwich Dacorum Darlington Dartford Daventry Derby Derwentside Dover Durham Easington East Cambridgeshire East Devon East Hampshire East Hertfordshire East Lindsey East Northamptonshire East Staffordshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Eden Ellesmere Port and Neston Elmbridge Epping Forest Epsom and Ewell Erewash Exeter Fareham Fenland Forest Heath Forest of Dean Fylde Gedling Gillingham Glanford Gloucester Gosport Gravesham Great Yarmouth Grimsby Guildford Halton Hambleton Harborough Harlow Harrogate Hartlepool Hart Hastings Havant Hereford Hertsmere High Peak Hinckley and Bosworth Holderness Horsham Hove Hull Huntingdon Hyndburn Ipswich Kennet Kerrier Kettering Kingswood Lancaster Langbaurgh Leicester Leominster Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Macclesfield Maidstone Maldon Malvern Hills Mansfield Medina Medway Melton Mendip Mid Bedfordshire Mid Devon Mid Suffolk Mid Sussex Middlesbrough Milton Keynes Mole Valley New Forest Newbury Newark Newcastle-under-Lyme North Bedfordshire North Cornwall North Devon North Dorset North East Derbyshire North Hertfordshire North Kesteven North Norfolk North Shropshire North Warwickshire North West Leicestershire North Wiltshire North Wolds Northampton Northavon Norwich Nottingham Nuneaton Oadby and Wigston Oswestry Oxford Pendle Penwith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Purbeck Reading Redditch Reigate and Banstead Restormel Ribble Valley Richmondshire Rochford Rossendale Rother Rugby Runnymede Rushcliffe Rushmoor Rutland Ryedale Salisbury Scarborough Scunthorpe Sedgefield Sedgemoor Selby Sevenoaks Shepway Shrewsbury and Atcham Slough Spelthorne South Bedfordshire South Cambridgeshire South Derbyshire South Hams South Herefordshire South Holland South Lakeland South Kesteven South Norfolk South Northamptonshire South Oxfordshire South Ribble South Shropshire South Staffordshire South Wight Southampton Southend-on-Sea Spelthorne St Albans St Edmundsbury Stafford Staffordshire Moorlands Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-on-Avon Stroud Suffolk Coastal Surrey Heath Swale Tamworth Tandridge Taunton Deane Teesdale Teignbridge Tendring Test Valley Tewkesbury Thamesdown Thanet The Wrekin Three Rivers Thurrock Tonbridge and Malling Torbay Torridge Tunbridge Wells Tynedale Uttlesford Vale of White Horse Vale Royal Wansbeck Wansdyke Warrington Warwick Watford Waveney Waverley Wealden Wear Valley Wellingborough Welwyn Hatfield West Derbyshire West Devon West Dorset West Lancashire West Lindsey West Norfolk West Oxfordshire West Somerset West Wiltshire Weymouth and Portland Wimborne Windsor and Maidenhead Winchester Woking Wokingham Woodspring Worcester Worthing Wychavon Wycombe Wyre Wyre Forest Yeovil York

District councils (Wales)	Aberconwy Afan Alyn and Deeside Anglesey - Ynys Môn Arfon Blaenau Gwent Brecknock Cardiff Carmarthen Ceredigion Colwyn Cynon Valley Delyn Dinefwr Dwyfor Glyndŵr Islwyn Llanelli Lliw Valley Meirionnydd Merthyr Tydfil Monmouth Montgomery Neath Newport Ogwr Preseli Radnor Rhondda Rhuddlan Rhymney Valley South Pembrokeshire Swansea Taff-Ely Torfaen Vale of Glamorgan Wrexham Maelor

Referendums	Scottish devolution Welsh devolution

See also: UK General election European Parliament election

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