Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council election, 1983

Elections to Trafford Council were held on Thursday, 5 May 1983. One third of the council was up for election, with each successful candidate to serve a four-year term of office, expiring in 1987. The Conservative Party retained overall control of the council.^[1]

After the election, the composition of the council was as follows:

	Seats	+/-
Conservative	36	+2
Labour	21	-1
Alliance	6	-1
Conservative hold

Ward results

Altrincham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	C. S. Gordon*	1,662	49.3	+0.4
	Labour	P. A. Baldwinson	1,087	32.2	+8.1
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	G. E. Evans	622	18.5	-8.5
Majority			575	17.1	-4.8
Turnout			3,371	41.2	-0.4
	Conservative hold		Swing

Bowdon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	G. Barker	2,956	67.9	+5.4
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	A. P. Ratcliff	920	21.1	-9.2
	Labour	J. A. Schoua	479	11.0	+3.8
Majority			2,036	46.8	+14.6
Turnout			4,355	49.6	+0.2
	Conservative hold		Swing

Broadheath
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	L. M. L. Burton*	1,833	48.8	+4.1
	Labour	R. J. Short	1,187	31.6	+4.0
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	D. E. Armstrong	736	19.6	-8.1
Majority			646	17.2	+0.2
Turnout			3,756	46.5	+0.7
	Conservative hold		Swing

Brooklands
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	J. Taylor*	2,630	63.3	-0.1
	Liberal	G. M. R. Willmott	1,029	24.8	-0.7
	Labour	R. P. F. Phillips	497	12.0	+0.9
Majority			1,601	38.5	+0.6
Turnout			4,156	51.6	+2.5
	Conservative hold		Swing

Bucklow
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	K. Rogers*	1,738	67.9	+5.2
	Conservative	M. E. Hindley	532	20.8	+1.1
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	A. C. Halliday	289	11.3	-6.3
Majority			1,206	47.1	+4.1
Turnout			2,559	37.0	+2.2
	Labour hold		Swing

Clifford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	J. S. Maher*	2,141	58.5	+4.7
	Conservative	G. V. Burrows	1,140	31.1	-0.2
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	W. C. Sumner	379	10.4	-4.5
Majority			1,001	27.3	+4.7
Turnout			3,660	43.3	+2.4
	Labour hold		Swing

Davyhulme East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	R. E. Crosbie*	1,852	44.7	-1.2
	Labour	S. Rogers	1,407	33.9	+3.7
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	A. Vernon	888	21.4	-2.5
Majority			445	10.7	-4.9
Turnout			4,147	54.3	+3.2
	Conservative hold		Swing

Davyhulme West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	B. M. Dirikis	1,950	45.4	+0.5
	Labour	L. M. Seex*	1,805	42.0	+12.6
	Social Democratic	K. W. Bower	539	12.6	-13.1
Majority			145	3.4	-12.0
Turnout			4,294	51.1	+3.6
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Flixton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	D. E. Earl*	1,885	41.8	+3.8
	Conservative	P. Schofield	1,819	40.3	-4.2
	Labour	G. Woodburn	807	17.9	+0.5
Majority			66	1.5	-5.0
Turnout			4,511	56.0	+3.5
	SDP–Liberal Alliance hold		Swing

Hale
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	N. W. Barrett*	2,444	69.2	+3.1
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	H. E. Bayliss	991	23.0	-4.7
	Labour	K. O'Hagan	337	7.8	+1.6
Majority			1,994	46.2	+7.7
Turnout			4,313	48.4	+1.8
	Conservative hold		Swing

Longford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	A. Kelly*	1,724	45.9	+0.5
	Labour	K. Silcock	1,666	44.4	+3.2
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	M. L. Kugler	363	9.7	-3.7
Majority			58	1.5	-2.7
Turnout			3,753	49.1	+2.9
	Conservative hold		Swing

Mersey St. Marys
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	R. P. Bannister*	2,631	59.7	-2.6
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	J. B. Weightman	1,185	26.9	+2.0
	Labour	N. J. Bentham	592	13.4	+0.6
Majority			1,446	32.8	-4.6
Turnout			4,408	46.5	+4.1
	Conservative hold		Swing

Park
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	R. A. Tully	1,435	49.3	+7.8
	Conservative	D. Meadowcroft	1,097	37.7	-1.9
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	C. R. Hedley	377	13.0	-5.9
Majority			338	11.6	+9.7
Turnout			2,909	45.7	+7.2
	Labour hold		Swing

Priory
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	J. M. Phillipson*	1,670	46.7	+2.8
	Conservative	G. N. Beck	1,279	35.7	-5.3
	Labour	N. P. J. Cowell	629	17.6	+2.5
Majority			391	10.9	+8.0
Turnout			3,578	45.1	+5.5
	SDP–Liberal Alliance hold		Swing

Sale Moor
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	C. H. Merry*	1,488	40.5	+0.5
	Conservative	J. W. Robinson	1,290	35.1	+0.2
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	R. C. Tweed	892	24.3	-0.8
Majority			198	5.4	+0.3
Turnout			3,670	46.7	+4.4
	Labour hold		Swing

St. Martins
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	G. H. Mountain	1,987	52.6	+16.5
	Conservative	S. G. Brownhill*	1,275	33.7	-9.5
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	E. P. M. Wollaston	516	13.7	-7.0
Majority			712	18.8	+11.8
Turnout			3,778	44.2	+0.9
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Stretford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	H. Walker*	1,886	47.4	-3.9
	Labour	J. F. L. Wood	1,598	40.1	+9.9
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	L. L. Sumner	498	12.5	-6.0
Majority			288	7.2	-14.1
Turnout			3,982	48.0	+3.4
	Conservative hold		Swing

Talbot
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	H. C. Cronshaw*	1,843	62.1	+3.5
	Conservative	S. M. Dirikis	781	26.3	+0.8
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	R. J. Allan	346	11.6	-4.3
Majority			1,062	35.8	+2.8
Turnout			2,970	39.6	+0.6
	Labour hold		Swing

Timperley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	W. J. Watkins*	2,003	45.4	-0.2
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	G. K. Stuart	1,834	41.6	-1.5
	Labour	R. Crewe	575	13.0	+1.8
Majority			169	3.8	+3.8
Turnout			4,412	49.1	+3.7
	Conservative hold		Swing

Urmston (2 vacancies)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	A. L. Brown	1,706	23.2	-0.3
	Conservative	C. Warbrick	1,600	21.8	-3.1
	Labour	D. Acton	1,269	17.3	+7.8
	Labour	A. G. Hodson	1,095	14.9	+3.0
	Social Democratic	P. J. Carlon	867	11.8	-2.9
	Social Democratic	H. Laffey	815	11.1	-4.3
Majority			331	4.5	-15.5
Turnout			7,352	50.2	+2.7
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Village
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	D. Merrell	1,643	38.1	+2.2
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	R. B. Slack*	1,515	35.1	-9.2
	Labour	E. A. Starkey	1,157	26.8	+7.0
Majority			128	3.0	-5.4
Turnout			4,315	51.8	+8.5
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing

References

↑ "Trafford M. B. C. Election Results Sheet, 6 May 1983", Trafford M.B.C.(1983).

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

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 Allerdale Alnwick Amber Valley Arun Ashfield Ashford Aylesbury Vale Babergh Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke and Deane Bassetlaw Bath Berwick-upon-Tweed Beverley Blaby Blackburn Blackpool Blyth Valley Bolsover Boothferry Boston Bournemouth Bracknell Braintree Breckland Brentwood Bridgnorth Brighton Bristol Broadland Bromsgrove Broxbourne Broxtowe Burnley Cambridge Cannock Chase Canterbury Caradon Carlisle Carrick Castle Morpeth Castle Point Charnwood Chelmsford Cheltenham Cherwell Chesterfield Chester-le-Street Chester Chichester Chiltern Chorley Christchurch Cleethorpes Colchester Congleton Copeland Corby Cotswold Craven Crawley Crewe and Nantwich Dacorum Darlington Dartford Daventry Derby Derwentside Dover Durham Easington East Cambridgeshire East Devon East Hampshire East Hertfordshire East Lindsey East Northamptonshire East Staffordshire East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Eden Ellesmere Port and Neston Elmbridge Epping Forest Epsom and Ewell Erewash Exeter Fareham Fenland Forest Heath Forest of Dean Fylde Gedling Gillingham Glanford Gloucester Gosport Gravesham Great Grimsby Great Yarmouth Guildford Halton Hambleton Harborough Harlow Harrogate Hartlepool Hart Hastings Havant Hereford Hertsmere High Peak Hinckley and Bosworth Holderness Horsham Hove Hull Huntingdon Hyndburn Ipswich Kennet Kerrier Kettering King's Lynn and West Norfolk Kingswood Lancaster Langbaurgh Leicester Leominster Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Macclesfield Maidstone Maldon Malvern Hills Mansfield Medina Melton Mendip Mid Bedfordshire Mid Devon Mid Suffolk Mid Sussex Middlesbrough Milton Keynes Mole Valley New Forest Newbury Newark Newcastle-under-Lyme North Bedfordshire North Cornwall North Devon North Dorset North East Derbyshire North Hertfordshire North Kesteven North Norfolk North Shropshire North Warwickshire North West Leicestershire North Wiltshire Northampton Northavon Norwich Nottingham Nuneaton and Bedworth Oadby and Wigston Oswestry Oxford Pendle Penwith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Purbeck Reading Redditch Reigate and Banstead Restormel Ribble Valley Richmondshire Rochester-upon-Medway Rochford Rossendale Rother Rugby Runnymede Rushcliffe Rushmoor Rutland Ryedale Salisbury Scarborough Scunthorpe Sedgefield Sedgemoor Selby Sevenoaks Shepway Shrewsbury and Atcham Slough Spelthorne South Bedfordshire South Bucks South Cambridgeshire South Derbyshire South Hams South Herefordshire South Holland South Lakeland South Kesteven South Norfolk South Northamptonshire South Oxfordshire South Ribble South Shropshire South Staffordshire South Wight Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans St Edmundsbury Stafford Staffordshire Moorlands Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-on-Avon Stroud Suffolk Coastal Surrey Heath Swale Tamworth Tandridge Taunton Deane Teesdale Teignbridge Tendring Test Valley Tewkesbury Thamesdown Thanet The Wrekin Three Rivers Thurrock Tonbridge and Malling Torbay Torridge Tunbridge Wells Tynedale Uttlesford Vale of White Horse Vale Royal Wansbeck Wansdyke Warrington Warwick Watford Waveney Waverley Wealden Wear Valley Wellingborough Welwyn Hatfield West Derbyshire West Devon West Dorset West Lancashire West Lindsey West Oxfordshire West Somerset West Wiltshire Weymouth and Portland Wimborne Windsor and Maidenhead Winchester Woking Wokingham Woodspring Worcester Worthing Wychavon Wycombe Wyre Wyre Forest Yeovil York

District councils (Wales)	Aberconwy Afan Alyn and Deeside Anglesey - Ynys Môn Arfon Blaenau Gwent Brecknock Cardiff Carmarthen Ceredigion Colwyn Cynon Valley Delyn Dinefwr Dwyfor Glyndŵr Islwyn Llanelli Lliw Valley Meirionnydd Merthyr Tydfil Monmouth Montgomery Neath Newport Ogwr Preseli Radnor Rhondda Rhuddlan Rhymney Valley South Pembrokeshire Swansea Taff-Ely Torfaen Vale of Glamorgan Wrexham Maelor

See also: UK General election

Council elections in Greater Manchester

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See also: Wards Boundary changes

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