Liverpool City Council election, 1988

Elections to Liverpool City Council were held on 5 May 1988. One third of the council was up for election and the Labour party kept overall control of the council.^[1]

After the election, the composition of the council was:

	Seats	±
Labour	??	??
Social and Liberal Democrats	??	??
Conservatives	??	??
Independent	??	??
Others	??	??

Election result

Liverpool Local Election Result 1988
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Labour	23	3	0	+3	70%	55%	86,383
	Social and Liberal Democrats	7	1	2	-1	21%	14%	22,352
	Conservative	2	0	2	-2	6%	12%	18,242
	Liberal	2			2	6%	3%	5,222
	Social Democratic	0			0	0%	1%	1,914
	Green	0			0	0%	1%	1,769
	Communist	0			0	0%	0.3%	400

^[2]

Ward results

These results are compared with the 1984 elections when councillors were elected for a four-year term. * = Councillor elected in 1984 and standing for re-election.

Abercromby

Abercromby
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	K. Feintuck	2,070	81%	+1%
	Social and Liberal Democrats	Carole Matthews	186	7%	-3%
	Conservative	P. Lee	180	7%
	Communist	P. Carroll	129	5%	+2%
Majority			1,884
Turnout			2,565
	Labour hold		Swing	+1%

Aigburth

Aigburth
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Cathy Hancox *	2,475	43%	-10%
	Labour	K. Taft	2,079	36%	+9%
	Conservative	N. Liddell	965	17%	-2%
	Green	Joanne Cook	272	5%
Majority			396
Turnout			5,791
	Liberal hold		Swing	-10%

Allerton

Allerton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	T. Smith	2,029	36%	+12%
	Social and Liberal Democrats	M. Ali	1,642	29%	+3%
	Conservative	M. Kingston	1,532	27%	-23%
	Social Democratic	R. Gould	399	7%
	Green	R. Cantwell	100	2%
Majority			387
Turnout			5,702
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	+12%

Anfield

Anfield
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Judith Nelson	2,890	51%	+8%
	Social and Liberal Democrats	R. Jump	2,147	38%	0%
	Conservative	Myra Fitzsimmons	518	9%	-10%
	Social Democratic	J. Prince	105	2%
Majority			743
Turnout			5,660
	Labour hold		Swing	+8%

Arundel

Arundel
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Victoria Roberts	2,381	52%	+10%
	Social and Liberal Democrats	B. Grocott	1,559	34%	-9%
	Conservative	D. Patmore	346	8%	-7%
	Green	G. Thomson	213	5%
	Communist	J. Crawley	47	1%	0%
Majority			822
Turnout			4,546
	Labour gain from Social and Liberal Democrats		Swing	+3.5

Breckfield

Breckfield
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mary McGiveron	3,148	77%	+27%
	Social and Liberal Democrats	H. Burt	663	16%	-30%
	Conservative	Elizabeth Bayley	266	7%	+3%
Majority			2,485
Turnout			4,077
	Labour hold		Swing

Broadgreen

Broadgreen
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social and Liberal Democrats	Rosie Cooper *	3,109	51%	+3%
	Labour	F. Gillard	2,599	42%	-1%
	Conservative	J. Baldwin	314	5%	-5%
	Green	Nina Morgan	61	1%
	Social Democratic	R. Nolan	46	1%
Majority			510
Turnout			6,129
	Liberal hold		Swing

Childwall

Childwall
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social and Liberal Democrats	Eddie Clein *	3,146	52%	+4%
	Labour	R. Kennedy	1,527	25%	+6%
	Conservative	Helen Rigby	1,215	20%	-14%
	Green	A. Willan	185	3%
Majority			1,619
Turnout			6,073
	Social and Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Church

Church
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social and Liberal Democrats	Mike Storey *	3,564	54%	+4%
	Labour	J. Ashton	1,783	26%	+7%
	Conservative	T. Pink	1,153	17%	-14%
	Green	Janet Cantwell	201	3%
Majority			1,826
Turnout			6,656
	Social and Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Clubmoor

Clubmoor
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Keva Coombes	4,159	'77%	+27%
	Social and Liberal Democrats	Ann Collinge	666	12%	-13%
	Conservative	W. Connolly	520	10%	-5%
	Communist	K. McDonough	73	1%
Majority			3,493
Turnout			5,418
	Labour hold		Swing

County

County
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social and Liberal Democrats	Paul Clark *	3,188	49%	-5%
	Labour	Sylvia Renilson	3,100	48%	+8%
	Conservative	H. Quayle	164	3%	-3%
Majority			88
Turnout			6,452
	Social and Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Croxteth

Croxteth
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social and Liberal Democrats	Elaine Kinahan	2,163	36%	+12%
	Labour	Catherine Rigby	1,885	31%	0%
	Conservative	G. Brandwood *	1,745	29%	-18%
	Social Democratic	Joan Reece	218	4%
	Green	I. Graham	15	0.2%
Majority			278
Turnout			6,026
	Social and Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing

Dingle

Dingle
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	R. Lafferty	3,215	70%	+18%
	Social and Liberal Democrats	W. Lamont	1,044	23%	-16%
	Conservative	G. Earle	272	6%	-2%
	Communist	J. Cook	30	1%	0%
Majority			2,171
Turnout			4,561
	Labour hold		Swing

Dovecot

Dovecot
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Harry Rimmer	2,622	'77%	-7%
	Social and Liberal Democrats	Norman Mills	429	13%	0%
	Conservative	Audrey Bowness	356	10%	-7%
Majority			2,193
Turnout			3,407
	Labour hold		Swing

Everton

Everton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Knibb	1,988	92%	+5%
	Social and Liberal Democrats	M. Key	98	5%	+1%
	Conservative	R. Fairclough	72	3%	-5%
Majority			1,890
Turnout			2,158
	Labour hold		Swing

Fazakerley

Fazakerley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Frank Vaudrey	3,465	77%	+17%
	Liberal Democrat	C. Mayes	541	12%	-8%
	Conservative	J. Atkinson	495	11%	-9%
Majority			2,924
Turnout			4,501
	Labour hold		Swing	+17%

Gillmoss

Gillmoss
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	S. Ledwich	3,239	80%	+3%
	Conservative	S. North	383	9%	-4%
	Social and Liberal Democrats	C. Leahy	342	8%	-2%
	Green	Susan Ellison	103	3%
Majority			2,897
Turnout			4,067
	Labour hold		Swing

Granby

Granby
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	P. Hughes	2,959	82%	+26%
	Social and Liberal Democrats	E. Chin	335	9%	-30%
	Conservative	Henrietta Edwards	200	6%	+2%
	Communist	E. Caddick	121	3%	+2%
Majority			2,624
Turnout			3,615
	Labour hold		Swing

Grassendale

Grassendale
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social and Liberal Democrats	W. Bullock	3,405	53%	-2%
	Labour	Eileen Turnbull	1,183	18%	+6%
	Conservative	S. Marsden	1,656	26%	-5%
	Green	P. Kavanagh	197	3%
Majority			2,222
Turnout			6,441
	Social and Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Kensington

Kensington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	K. Ratcliffe	2,525	52%	+3%
	Social and Liberal Democrats	Richard Kemp	2,026	42%	-2%
	Conservative	R. Bethell	196	4%	+3%
	Green	F. Wainwright	84	2%
Majority			499
Turnout			4,831
	Labour hold		Swing

Melrose

Melrose
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mary Kidd	3,519	82%	+24%
	Social and Liberal Democrats	J. Murray	537	13%	-24%
	Conservative	Ann Nugent	220	5%	+1%
Majority			2,982
Turnout			4,276
	Labour hold		Swing

Netherley

Netherley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Lesley Mahmood	2,106	79%	+7%
	Social and Liberal Democrats	Caroline Barnett	439	16%	0%
	Conservative	Maureen Murphy	134	5%	-7%
Majority			1,667
Turnout			2,679
	Labour hold		Swing

Old Swan

Old Swan
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	J. Fitzsimmons	2,975	65%	+14%
	Social and Liberal Democrats	J. Berman	739	16%	-19%
	Conservative	G. Powell	684	15%	-1%
	Social Democratic	J. Herbert	184	4%
Majority			2,236
Turnout			4,582
	Labour hold		Swing

Picton

Picton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social and Liberal Democrats	Pam Bradley *	2,730	47%	-9%
	Labour	Margaret Clarke	2,717	47%	+10%
	Conservative	I. Bishop	221	4%	-3%
	Green	D. Williams	112	2%
Majority			13
Turnout			5,780
	Social and Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Pirrie

Pirrie
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Dot Gavin	3,958	84%	+14%
	Social and Liberal Democrats	Hilary Owen	412	9%	-5%
	Conservative	P. Aldcroft	329	7%	-9%
Majority			3,546
Turnout			4,699
	Labour hold		Swing

St. Mary's

St. Mary's
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Frank O'Donoghue	3,599	67%	+16%
	Social and Liberal Democrats	C. Hughes	1,454	27%	-10%
	Conservative	Innes Fleming	275	5%	-7%
	Green	D. Lindsay	60	1%
Majority			2,145
Turnout			5,388
	Labour hold		Swing

Smithdown

Smithdown
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	D. Bermingham	2,791	77%	+18%
	Social and Liberal Democrats	Mary Young	648	18%	= -19%
	Conservative	F. Ryan	193	5%	+1%
Majority			2,143
Turnout			3,632
	Labour hold		Swing

Speke

Speke
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	S. Wilde	2,972	84%	+25%
	Social and Liberal Democrats	Victoria Clein	287	8%	-29%
	Conservative	A. Faver	270	8%	+4%
Majority			2,685
Turnout			3,529
	Labour hold		Swing

Tuebrook

Tuebrook
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Steve Radford *	2,747	52%	-1%
	Labour	S. Sullivan	2,291	43%	+7%
	Conservative	Edna Rodick	282	5%	-6%
Majority			456
Turnout			5,320
	Liberal hold		Swing	-1%

Valley

Valley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sylvia Sharpey-Shafer	2,636	73%	+10%
	Social and Liberal Democrats	G. Cleaeys	714	20%	+5%
	Conservative	W. Dobinson	242	7%	-15%
Majority			1,922
Turnout			3,592
	Labour hold		Swing

Vauxhall

Vauxhall
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Paul Orr *	1,818	93%	-1%
	Social and Liberal Democrats	S. McHugh	92	5%
	Conservative	R. Knox	51	3%	-3%
Majority			1,726
Turnout			1,961
	Labour hold		Swing	-1%

Warbreck

Warbreck
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	H. Chase	3,144	52%	+15%
	Social and Liberal Democrats	Elsie Lang	2,430	40%	0%
	Conservative	Martha Thornton	492	8%	-15%
Majority			714
Turnout			6,066
	Labour gain from Social and Liberal Democrats		Swing	+3.5

Woolton

Woolton 2 seats
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	J. Backhouse	2,301	39%	-30%
	Conservative	S. Fitzsimmons	2,241	38%	-31%
	Social and Liberal Democrats	Ron Gould	1,487	25%	+11%
	Social and Liberal Democrats	Ian Phillips	1,424	25%	+11%
	Labour	A. White	1,057	18%	0%
	Labour	S. Balmer	1,056	18%	0%
	Social Democratic		918	15%
	Green	J. Hulton	166	3%
Majority			814
Turnout			5,928
	Conservative hold		Swing

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References

(1987 ←) United Kingdom local elections, 1988 (→ 1989)

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 Eastbourne Eastleigh Ellesmere Port and Neston Elmbridge Epping Forest Exeter Fareham Gloucester Gosport Great Yarmouth Halton Harlow Harrogate Hartlepool Hart Hastings Havant Hertsmere Hull Huntingdonshire 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 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

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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