London local elections, 1978

4 May 1978

All 1,908 on all 32 London boroughs

	First party	Second party

Leader	Margaret Thatcher	James Callaghan
Party	Conservative	Labour
Leader since	11 February 1975	5 April 1976
Councils	17	14
Councils +/–	4	4
Councillors	960	882
Councillors +/–	247	208

London borough councils by political control following election

Local government elections took place in London, and some other parts of the United Kingdom on Thursday 4 May 1978. Ward changes took place in every borough, except Enfield which increased the total number of councillors by 41 from 1,867 to 1,908.

All London borough council seats were up for election. The previous Borough elections in London were in 1974.^[1]

Council results

Council			Details
Barking	Labour	Labour	Details
Barnet	Conservative	Conservative	Details
Bexley	Conservative	Conservative	Details
Brent	Labour	Labour	Details
Bromley	Conservative	Conservative	Details
Camden	Labour	Labour	Details
Croydon	Conservative	Conservative	Details
Ealing	Labour	Conservative	Details
Enfield	Conservative	Conservative	Details
Greenwich	Labour	Labour	Details
Hackney	Labour	Labour	Details
Hammersmith	Labour	No overall control	Details
Haringey	Labour	Labour	Details
Harrow	Conservative	Conservative	Details
Havering	No overall control	Conservative	Details
Hillingdon	Labour	Conservative	Details
Hounslow	Labour	Labour	Details
Islington	Labour	Labour	Details
Kensington and Chelsea	Conservative	Conservative	Details
Kingston upon Thames	Conservative	Conservative	Details
Lambeth	Labour	Labour	Details
Lewisham	Labour	Labour	Details
Merton	Conservative	Conservative	Details
Newham	Labour	Labour	Details
Redbridge	Conservative	Conservative	Details
Richmond upon Thames	Conservative	Conservative	Details
Southwark	Labour	Labour	Details
Sutton	Conservative	Conservative	Details
Tower Hamlets	Labour	Labour	Details
Waltham Forest	Labour	Labour	Details
Wandsworth	Labour	Conservative	Details
Westminster	Conservative	Conservative	Details

Overall councillor numbers

London local elections 1978 Councillor statistics
Party		Seats	Net Gain/Loss
	Conservative	960	+247
	Labour	882	-208
	Liberal	30	+3
	Others	36	-1

References

↑ Minors, Michael; Grenham, Dennis. "London Borough Council Elections 7 May 1998 including the Greater London Authority Referendum results" (PDF). Demographic and Statistical Studies. London Research Centre. Retrieved 29 May 2014.

(1977 ←) United Kingdom local elections, 1978 (→ 1979)

London boroughs	Barking Barnet Bexley Brent Bromley Camden Croydon Ealing Enfield Greenwich Hackney Hammersmith Haringey Harrow Havering Hillingdon Hounslow Islington Kensington and Chelsea Kingston upon Thames Lambeth Lewisham Merton Newham Redbridge Richmond upon Thames Southwark Sutton Tower Hamlets Waltham Forest Wandsworth Westminster

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)	Basingstoke and Deane Brentwood Broxbourne Burnley Cambridge Cannock Chase Chorley Colchester Congleton Eastbourne Eastleigh Ellesmere Port and Neston Elmbridge Fareham Halton Harlow Hart Hartlepool Havant Hertsmere Huntingdon Milton Keynes Mole Valley Pendle Peterborough Preston Rochford Rossendale Runnymede Shrewsbury and Atcham South Bedfordshire South Cambridgeshire Southend-on-Sea Tamworth Tandridge Thamesdown Three Rivers Tunbridge Wells Watford Welwyn Hatfield West Lancashire Winchester Woking

Regional councils (Scotland)	Borders Central Dumfries and Galloway Fife Grampian Highland Lothian Orkney Shetland Strathclyde Tayside Western Isles

London borough council elections

By year	1964 1968 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018

By borough	Barking and Dagenham Barnet Bexley Brent Bromley Camden Croydon Ealing Enfield Greenwich Hackney Hammersmith and Fulham Haringey Harrow Havering Hillingdon Hounslow Islington Kensington and Chelsea Kingston Lambeth Lewisham Merton Newham Redbridge Richmond Southwark Sutton Tower Hamlets Waltham Forest Wandsworth Westminster

See also	List of electoral wards in Greater London List of Greater London boundary changes

Elections and referendums in the United Kingdom

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Referendums	1975 2011 2016

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