High Peak Borough Council election, 1983

Elections to High Peak Borough Council in Derbyshire, England were held on 5 May 1983. All of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control.^[1]

After the election, the composition of the council was:

Conservative 18
Labour 14
SDP-Liberal Alliance 2
Independent 10

Election result

High Peak Local Election Result 1983^[2]
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Conservative	18	2	6	-4	40.91
	Labour	14	4	2	+2	31.82
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	2	1	1		4.55
	Independent	10	2	1	+1	22.73

Ward results

All Saints
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Stephen Charles Cocks	1272
	Independent	George Chatterton	1220
	Labour	Frank Dyson Vaughan	1019
	Conservative	Edwin Harold Mountain	638
	Conservative	Michael Jackson	593
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing
	Independent hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Barmoor
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Harold Henry Cartledge	402	71.02
	Labour	James Britt	164	28.98
Majority			238	42.05
Turnout			566
	Conservative hold		Swing

Barms
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Alfred Henry Hitchings	1142
	Labour	Barbara Mary Langham	754
	Conservative	Michael Kenneth Diamond	499
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	Ian Doxford Hedley	341
Turnout
	Independent hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Blackbrook
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	George Harry White	827
	Conservative	Brian Colley	615
	Conservative	Albert Peter Inglefield	547
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	David John Oliver	424
	Labour	Christopher Alan Birt	247
Turnout
	Independent gain from Liberal		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Buxton Central
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Robert George Morris	475	56.21
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	Brenda Ann Bryant	221	26.15
	Labour	Stanley Burden	149	17.63
Majority			254	30.06
Turnout			845
	Conservative hold		Swing

Chapel East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Albert Phillips	311	43.02
	Independent	Stanley William Clives	218	30.15
	Labour	Brian Joseph Fisher	194	26.83
Majority			93	12.86
Turnout			723
	Independent hold		Swing

Chapel West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Muriel Bertha Bradbury	629
	Conservative	Ann Stewart Young	619
	Conservative	Kenneth Victor Bradwell	505
	Labour	Peter Keith Jones	381
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	Peter John Ashenden	372
	Independent	Desmond Francis Bryan	318
	Labour	Thomas Manion	305
Turnout
	Independent gain from Conservative		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

College
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Elizabeth Jane Inglefield	805
	Conservative	Alan Keith Allman	702
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	Winifred Nancie Adams	562
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	Barbara Roseann Hedley	519
	Labour	Gillian Taylor	159
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Corbar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Margaret Beatrice Millican	781
	Conservative	Peter De Leighton Brooke	762
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	Josephine Cresswell	460
	Labour	Michael Pearson-Smith	380
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Cote Heath
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	Michael Robert Leslie Loader	752
	Labour	Noel Ratcliffe	728
	Labour	Jane Ann McGrother	617
	Conservative	Joan Mary Chape	616
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	Alan Hall	501
Turnout
	SDP–Liberal Alliance gain from Labour		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Gamesley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Francis	967
	Labour	Richard John Cooke	863
	Conservative	James Wildgoose	211
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	Judith Mary Marquand	162
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Hayfield
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Herbert David Mellor	635	64.14
	Labour	John Anthony Bull	355	35.86
Majority			280	28.28
Turnout			990
	Conservative gain from Independent		Swing

Ladybower
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Albert Bingham	543	81.65
	Independent	James Cusick	122	18.35
Majority			421	63.31
Turnout			665
	Conservative hold		Swing

Limestone Peak
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Evelyn May Tomlinson	568	81.03
	Labour	Gregory Francis Monks	133	18.97
Majority			435	62.05
Turnout			701
	Independent hold		Swing

New Mills North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Dorothy Mary Livesley	983
	Conservative	Dorothy May Brennand	978
	Labour	Martin Huddleston	946
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	Roy Bickerton	940
	Labour	Lawrence Gordon Allen	914
	Labour	John Graham Eary	868
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

New Mills South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	Harry Norman Burfoot	801
	Labour	John James Fernley	766
	Labour	Marion Williams	762
	Conservative	William Robinson	475
	Conservative	Ronald Ferguson	330
Turnout
	SDP–Liberal Alliance hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Peveril
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Charles David Lewis	705	70.93
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	Angela Helen Kellie	186	18.71
	Labour	James Powell	103	10.36
Majority			519	52.21
Turnout			994
	Independent hold		Swing

St. Andrew's
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mary Kathleen Holtom	824
	Labour	John Hallsworth	715
	Conservative	David Wilson	621
	Conservative	Thomas Farnsworth	566
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	Christopher Thomas O’Brien	318
Turnout
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

St. Charles'
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Holtom	907
	Labour	Francis Walter Stubbs	799
	Conservative	William John Wood	522
	Conservative	Cynthia Violet Mitchell	470
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	Trevor Jones Randall	276
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

St. James'
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Alfred Edwin Jenner Leney	924
	Conservative	Leslie Ernest Proctor	847
	Conservative	Susan Jane Von Achten	833
	Labour	Christopher Sydney Turner	766
	Labour	Amy Wood	682
	Labour	Arthur Harrison Gilbert	631
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	Christopher Mellor	579
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	Robert Michael Love	502
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

St John's
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Brenda Tetlow	780	80.25
	Labour	Peter John William Holland	192	19.75
Majority			588	60.49
Turnout			972
	Conservative hold		Swing

Simmondley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Percy Phipps	522	51.94
	Labour	John Alfred Pagett	250	24.88
	Independent	Joyce Ashley	233	23.18
Majority			272	27.06
Turnout			1005
	Conservative hold		Swing

Stone Bench
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	James Henry Poulton	898
	Labour	Raymond Vernon Browne	837
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	Robert Keith Taylor	369
	Conservative	Arnold Bennett	340
	Conservative	David Pearson	289
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Tintwistle
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Wright Brownhill Cooper	477	61.63
	Labour	Douglas Carr	297	38.37
Majority			180	23.26
Turnout			774
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Whaley Bridge
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Jean Elizabeth Hallam	2108
	Independent	John Arthur Thomas Pritchard	1208
	Independent	Fredrick Bonsall Woodward	1111
	Conservative	Harold Hastings Littlewood	711
	Conservative	James Gordon Pollitt	619
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	Christopher Richard Warhurst Weaver	550
	Labour	Valerie Mason	423
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	Paula Marguerite Butler	398
	Labour	Philip John Taylor	231
	Labour	Roger Wilkinson	214
Turnout
	Independent hold		Swing
	Independent hold		Swing
	Independent gain from Conservative		Swing

References

↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/vote2007/councils/html/17uh.stm
↑ Source: Rallings and Thrasher, Local Elections in Britain: A Statistical Digest, 2003

Council elections in Derbyshire

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See also: Wards Boundary changes

(1982 ←) United Kingdom local elections, 1983 (→ 1984)

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