City of Edinburgh District Council election, 1980

Map showing the results by Council ward.

Elections for the City of Edinburgh District Council took place on 1 May 1980, alongside elections to the councils of Scotland's various other districts. The Conservatives, who had previously controlled a majority on the council, were reduced to being just shy of a majority. The Conservatives continued to rule the council however, with Liberal support.

The election saw 4 new wards being added to Edinburgh; Fort, Shandon, Haymarket, and Tollcross. All, minus Tollcross, (which was won by the Conservatives) were won by Labour.^[1]

Turnout was 160,330.^[1]

Aggregate results

City of Edinburgh District Council election, 1980^[1]
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Conservative	31	2	2			40.01	64,151
	Labour	25	7	3	4		36.82	59,041
	Liberal	2	2	0	2		11.37	18,232
	SNP	3	0	3	3		9.35	14,990
	Independent	1	0	0			1.36	2157
	Independent Labour	1	1	0	1		0.70	1118
	Scottish Ecology	0	0	0		0	0.36	576
	Communist	0	0	0		0	0.04	65

Ward Results

1st, Queensferry
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	J. Milne	1,431	65.8
	Labour	W. Nelson	745	34.2
Majority			686	31.5
Turnout			2,176
	Independent hold		Swing

2nd, Kirkliston
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SNP	D. Williams	1,088	45.1
	Conservative	G. Brown	668	27.7
	Labour	G. Grieve	657	27.2
Majority			420	17.4
Turnout			2,413
	SNP hold		Swing

3rd, Balerno
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	R. Powell	1,513	51.8
	SNP	Mary Stein	723	24.7
	Labour	D. Lindsay	687	23.5
Majority			723	24.7
Turnout			2,923
	Conservative hold		Swing

4th, Baberton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Elizabeth Roberson	1,573	47.0
	Liberal	J. McCreesh	716	21.4
	SNP	Shona Cole	582	17.4
	Labour	D. Anderson	473	14.1
Majority			857	25.6
Turnout			3,344
	Conservative hold		Swing

40th, Tollcross (New Seat)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	K. Alexander	887
	Labour	S. Gilmore	727
	Liberal	A. Hajducki	290
	SNP	J. Mitchell	188
	Scottish Ecology	S. Whitaker	127
Majority			160
Turnout
	Conservative gain from (New Seat)

42nd, Holyrood
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	R. Kerle	1105
	Independent	G. Forbes	613
	Conservative	B. Monteith	300
	SNP	C. Cunningham	207
	Communist	Carol Downes	19
Majority			492
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

53rd, Colinton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	J. D. Maclennan	2,693	88.5
	Labour	E. Fallon	350	11.5
Majority			2,343
Turnout			3,043
	Conservative hold		Swing

56th, Fairmilehead
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	B. Meek	2,343	69.5
	Liberal	M. Dougall	776	23.0
	Labour	I. Christie	252	7.5
Majority			1,567	46.5
Turnout			3,371
	Conservative hold		Swing

References

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