Liverpool City Council election, 1984

Elections to Liverpool City Council were held on 3 May 1984. One third of the council was up for election and the Labour party retained overall control of the council.^[1]

After the election, the composition of the council was:

	Seats	±
Labour	??	??
Liberal	??	??
SDP	??	??
Conservative	??	??

Election result

Liverpool Local Election Result 1984
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Labour	21				63%	46%	90,219
	Liberal	10				29%	35%	67,234
	Conservative	3				9%	19%	37,055
	Communist	0				0%	0.1%	250

^[2]

Ward results

Abercromby

Abercromby
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	J. A. Devaney	2,739	80%
	Liberal	C. J. Leahy	350	10%
	Conservative	H. V. Tracy-Forster	252	7%
	Communist	F. Carroll	92	3%
Majority			2,389
Registered electors			8,960
Turnout			3,433	38%

Aigburth

Aigburth
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Cathy Hancox	3,683	53%
	Labour	J. D. Williams	1,901	27%
	Conservative	J. Mass	1,329	19%
Majority			1,782
Registered electors			13,502
Turnout			6,913	51%

Allerton

Allerton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sheila Craine	3,446	50%
	Social Democratic	W. M. Scott	1,783	26%
	Labour	Dawn Booth	1,609	24%
Majority			1,663
Registered electors			12,717
Turnout			6,838	54%

Anfield

Anfield
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jacqueline Crowley	2,870	43%
	Liberal	R. Johnston	2,553	38%
	Conservative	Myrna Fitzsimmons	1,308	19%
Majority			317
Registered electors			12,540
Turnout			6,731	54%

Arundel

Arundel
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	S. J. Hicks	2,404	43%
	Labour	M. V. Roberts	2,334	42%
	Conservative	H. M. Rigby	815	15%
	Communist	J. C. Blevin	63	1%
Majority			70
Registered electors			12,114
Turnout			5,616	46%

Breckfield

Breckfield
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	S. J. Ellison	2,911	50%
	Liberal	D. M. B. Croft	2,699	46%
	Conservative	A. Brill	208	4%
Majority			212
Registered electors			11,508
Turnout			5,818	51%

Broadgreen

Broadgreen
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Rosemary Cooper	3,500	48%
	Labour	R. Quinn	2,982	41%
	Conservative	S. Fitzsimmons	756	10%
Majority			518
Registered electors			13,532
Turnout			7,238	53%

Childwall

Childwall
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Eddie Clein	3,694	48%
	Conservative	W. A. N. Fearenside	2,581	34%
	Labour	D. J. Phillips	1,429	19%
Majority			1,113
Registered electors			13,718
Turnout			7,704	56%

Church

Church
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Mike Storey	4,306	50%
	Conservative	R. F. Symington	2,656	31%
	Labour	P. J. Thompson	1,661	19%
Majority			1,650
Registered electors			14,897
Turnout			8,623	58%

Clubmoor

Clubmoor
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	W. Lafferty	4,050	60%
	Liberal	J. P. Prince	1,693	25%
	Conservative	A. G. Wilson	1,002	15%
Majority			2,357
Registered electors			13,926
Turnout			6,745	48%

County

County
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Paul Clark	3,932	54%
	Labour	M. P. Bolland	2,971	40%
	Conservative	C. P. Loller	439	6%
Majority			961
Registered electors			12,973
Turnout			7,342	57%

Croxteth

Croxteth
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	G. E. Brandwood	3,413	47%
	Labour	Frank Vaudrey	2,299	31%
	Social Democratic	S. F. Jacobs	1,603	22%
Majority			1,114
Registered electors			13,703
Turnout			7,315	53%

Dingle

Dingle
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	P. Ferguson	3,095	52%
	Liberal	Richard Kemp	2,339	39%
	Conservative	D. W. Patmore	462	8%
	Communist	J. Cook	30	1%
Majority			756
Registered electors			11,453
Turnout			5,926	52%

Dovecot

Dovecot
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	E. Burke	3,454	70%
	Conservative	J. F. MacMillan	849	17%
	Liberal	C. Mayes	654	13%
Majority			2,605
Registered electors			11,965
Turnout			4,957	41%

Everton

Everton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	J. Parry	3,186	87%
	Conservative	C. Freemantle	282	8%
	Liberal	J. P. Murray	213	6%
Majority			2,904
Registered electors			9,290
Turnout			3,681	40%

Fazakerley

Fazakerley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	D. J. Lloyd	3,293	60%
	Conservative	A. Brown	1,091	20%
	Social Democratic	S. D. Jones	1,080	20%
Majority			2,202
Registered electors			11,448
Turnout			5,464	48%

Gillmoss

Gillmoss
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	A. L. Rimmer	3,836	77%
	Conservative	P. C. Ferris	634	13%
	Social Democratic	B. Coleman	490	10%
Majority			3,202
Registered electors			11,927
Turnout			4,960	42%

Granby

Granby
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	A. Doswell	2,715	56%
	Liberal	A. Damsell	1,890	39%
	Conservative	D. N. Gillott	187	4%
	Communist	E. F. Caddick	65	1%
Majority			825
Registered electors			10,350
Turnout			4,857	47%

Grassendale

Grassendale
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	J. C. Greenwood	4,221	55%
	Conservative	J. H. Lea	2,511	33%
	Labour	S. D. Flemming	958	12%
Majority			1,710
Registered electors			12,313
Turnout			7,690	62%

Kensington

Kensington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	A. D. Fogg	3,001	49%
	Liberal	Frank Doran	2,679	44%
	Conservative	T. Caulfield	422	7%
Majority			322
Registered electors			12,600
Turnout			6,102	48%

Melrose

Melrose
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	V. J. Wagner	3,303	58%
	Liberal	D. Vasmer	2,116	37%
	Conservative	Angela Oliver	246	4%
Majority			1,187
Registered electors			11,779
Turnout			5,665	48%

Netherley

Netherley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	W. Harper	2,566	72%
	Social Democratic	Ian Phillips	580	16%
	Conservative	Ann Nugent	431	12%
Majority			1,986
Registered electors			7,730
Turnout			3,577	46%

Old Swan

Old Swan
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	P. J. Lloyd	3,126	51%
	Liberal	J. Rossington	2,136	35%
	Conservative	Pauline Dougherty	887	14%
Majority			990
Registered electors			11,989
Turnout			6,149	51%

Picton

Picton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Pamela Bradley	3,569	56%
	Labour	A. C. Snowden	2,391	37%
	Conservative	S. M. Sugden	419	7%
Majority			1,178
Registered electors			11,626
Turnout			6,379	55%

Pirrie

Pirrie
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	H. Dalton	3,949	70%
	Social Democratic	D. Stephenson	804	14%
	Conservative	M. Kingston	880	16%
Majority			3,069
Registered electors			12,242
Turnout			5,633	46%

St. Mary's

St. Mary's
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	A. Mulhearn	2,972	51%
	Liberal	M. N. Bestel	2,149	37%
	Conservative	M. S. Gill	727	12%
Majority			823
Registered electors			11,613
Turnout			5,848	50%

Smithdown

Smithdown
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Dorothy Matthews	2,884	59%
	Liberal	Anne Clitherow	1,810	37%
	Conservative	S. J. Melia	173	4%
Majority			1,074
Registered electors			10,331
Turnout			4,867	47%

Speke

Speke 2 seats
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	J. Ord	3,607	80%
	Labour	F. M. Dowling	3,543	79%
	Liberal	J. D. Ball	466	10%
	Liberal	Katherine Watson	405	10%
	Conservative	C. W. Harpin	427	9%
	Conservative	K. G. Watkin	363	8%
Majority			3,141
Registered electors			9,715
Turnout			4,500	46%

Tuebrook

Tuebrook
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	S. R. Radford	3,492	53%
	Labour	J. E. Roberts	2,412	36%
	Conservative	J. Irving	706	11%
Majority			1,080
Registered electors			12,419
Turnout			6,610	53%

Valley

Valley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	H. Smith	2,961	63%
	Conservative	S. R. Marsden	1,054	22%
	Liberal	Veronica Best	688	15%
Majority			1,907
Registered electors			9,778
Turnout			4,703	48%

Vauxhall

Vauxhall
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Paul Orr	3,031	94%
	Conservative	H. W. Drohan	208	6%
Majority			2,823
Registered electors			8,038
Turnout			2,823	40%

Warbreck

Warbreck
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Elsie Lang	2,707	40%
	Labour	T. A. Prout	2,515	37%
	Conservative	R. Gould	1,558	23%
Majority			192
Registered electors			13,914
Turnout			6,780	49%

Woolton

Woolton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ruth Dean	4,696	69%
	Labour	R. J. Lafferty	1,208	18%
	Liberal	D. E. Huish	951	14%
Majority			3,488
Registered electors			12,857
Turnout			3,488	53%

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References

(1983 ←) United Kingdom local elections, 1984 (→ 1985)

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 Amber Valley Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke and Deane Bassetlaw Blackburn Brentwood Bristol Broadland Broxbourne Burnley Cambridge Cannock Chase Carlisle Cheltenham Cherwell Chester Chorley Colchester Congleton Craven Crawley Crewe and Nantwich Daventry Derby East Devon Eastbourne Eastleigh Ellesmere Port and Neston Elmbridge Epping Forest Exeter Fareham Gloucester Gosport Great Yarmouth Halton Harlow Harrogate Hartlepool Hart Hastings Havant Hertsmere Hinckley and Bosworth Hull Huntingdon Hyndburn Ipswich Lincoln Macclesfield Maidstone Milton Keynes Mole Valley Newcastle-under-Lyme North Bedfordshire North Hertfordshire Norwich Nuneaton and Bedworth Oadby and Wigston Oxford Pendle Penwith Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Purbeck Reading Redditch Reigate and Banstead Rochford Rossendale Rugby Runnymede Rushmoor Shrewsbury and Atcham Slough South Bedfordshire South Cambridgeshire South Lakeland Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-on-Avon Stroud Swale Tamworth Tandridge Thamesdown Three Rivers Thurrock Tonbridge and Malling Torbay Tunbridge Wells Watford Waveney Welwyn Hatfield West Dorset West Lancashire West Lindsey West Oxfordshire Weymouth and Portland Winchester Woking Wokingham Worcester Worthing Wyre Forest York

District councils (Scotland)	Aberdeen Angus Annandale and Eskdale Argyll and Bute Badenoch and Strathspey Banff and Buchan Bearsden and Milngavie Berwickshire Caithness Clackmannan Clydebank Clydesdale Cumbernauld and Kilsyth Cumnock and Doon Valley Cunninghame Dumbarton Dundee Dunfermline East Kilbride East Lothian Eastwood Edinburgh Ettrick and Lauderdale Falkirk Glasgow Gordon Hamilton Inverclyde Inverness Kilmarnock and Loudoun Kincardine and Deeside Kirkcaldy Kyle and Carrick Lochaber Midlothian Monklands Moray Motherwell Nairn Nithsdale North East Fife Perth and Kinross Renfrew Ross and Cromarty Roxburgh Skye and Lochalsh Stewartry Stirling Strathkelvin Sutherland Tweeddale West Lothian Wigtown

See also: European Parliament election

Council elections in Merseyside

Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council	1973 1975 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016

Liverpool City Council	1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1945 1946 1947 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1975 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015

Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council	1973 1975 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015

St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council	1973 1975 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015

Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council	1973 1975 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015

Merseyside County Council	1973 1977 1981 Abolished

See also: Wards Boundary changes

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