United Kingdom local elections, 1988

5 May 1988

All 36 metropolitan boroughs, 109 out of 296 English districts and all 53 Scottish districts

	Majority party	Minority party	Third party

Leader	Margaret Thatcher	Neil Kinnock	David Steel & Robert Maclennan
Party	Conservative	Labour	Social and Liberal Democrats
Leader since	11 February 1975	2 October 1983	7 July 1976 & 28 August 1987
Percentage	39%	38%	18%
Councillors +/-	9	76	122

Local elections were held in the United Kingdom in 1988.^[1]^[2] The Conservative government held its ground and remained ahead in the projected popular vote.

The national projected share of the vote was Conservative 39%, Labour 38%, Social and Liberal Democrats 18%. The Conservatives gained 9 seats, Labour gained 76 seats and the SLD lost 122 seats.

These were the first national elections contested by the SLD, which had just been formed as a merger of the SDP and Liberals after several years of the alliance.

England

Metropolitan boroughs

Council			Details
Barnsley	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Birmingham	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Bolton	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Bradford	Labour	No overall control gain	Details
Bury	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Calderdale	No overall control	No overall control hold	Details
Coventry	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Doncaster	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Dudley	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Gateshead	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Kirklees	No overall control	No overall control hold	Details
Knowsley	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Leeds	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Liverpool	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Manchester	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Newcastle upon Tyne	Labour	Labour hold	Details
North Tyneside	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Oldham	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Rochdale	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Rotherham	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Salford	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Sandwell	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Sefton	No overall control	No overall control hold	Details
Sheffield	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Solihull	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
South Tyneside	Labour	Labour hold	Details
St Helens	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Stockport	No overall control	No overall control hold	Details
Sunderland	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Tameside	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Trafford	No overall control	Conservative gain	Details
Wakefield	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Walsall	No overall control	Labour gain	Details
Wigan	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Wirral	No overall control	No overall control hold	Details
Wolverhampton	No overall control	Labour gain	Details

District councils

Council			Details
Adur	Social and Liberal Democrats	Social and Liberal Democrats hold	Details
Amber Valley	No overall control	Conservative gain	Details
Barrow-in-Furness	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Basildon	No overall control	No overall control hold	Details
Basingstoke and Deane	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Bassetlaw	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Blackburn	No overall control	Labour gain	Details
Brentwood	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Bristol	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Broadland	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Broxbourne	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Burnley	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Cambridge	No overall control	Labour gain	Details
Cannock Chase	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Carlisle	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Cheltenham	No overall control	No overall control hold	Details
Cherwell	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Chester	No overall control	No overall control hold	Details
Chorley	No overall control	No overall control hold	Details
Colchester	No overall control	No overall control hold	Details
Congleton	No overall control	No overall control hold	Details
Craven	No overall control	No overall control hold	Details
Crawley	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Crewe and Nantwich	No overall control	No overall control hold	Details
Daventry	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Derby	Labour	Conservative gain	Details
Eastbourne	Social and Liberal Democrats	Conservative gain	Details
Eastleigh	No overall control	Social and Liberal Democrats gain	Details
Ellesmere Port and Neston	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Elmbridge	No overall control	Conservative gain	Details
Epping Forest	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Exeter	No overall control	No overall control hold	Details
Fareham	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Gloucester	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Gosport	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Great Yarmouth	No overall control	No overall control hold	Details
Halton	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Harlow	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Harrogate	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Hart	No overall control	No overall control hold	Details
Hartlepool	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Hastings	No overall control	No overall control hold	Details
Havant	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Hertsmere	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Huntingdonshire	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Hyndburn	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Ipswich	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Kingston upon Hull	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Lincoln	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Macclesfield	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Maidstone	No overall control	No overall control hold	Details
Milton Keynes	No overall control	No overall control hold	Details
Mole Valley	No overall control	No overall control hold	Details
Newcastle-under-Lyme	Labour	Labour hold	Details
North Bedfordshire	No overall control	No overall control hold	Details
North Hertfordshire	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Norwich	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Nuneaton and Bedworth	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Oadby and Wigston	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Oxford	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Pendle	Social and Liberal Democrats	Social and Liberal Democrats hold	Details
Penwith	No overall control	No overall control hold	Details
Peterborough	No overall control	No overall control hold	Details
Portsmouth	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Preston	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Purbeck	No overall control	No overall control hold	Details
Reading	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Redditch	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Reigate and Banstead	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Rochford	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Rossendale	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Rugby	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Runnymede	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Rushmoor	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Shrewsbury and Atcham	No overall control	No overall control hold	Details
Slough	Labour	Labour hold	Details
South Bedfordshire	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
South Cambridgeshire	Independent	Independent hold	Details
South Lakeland	No overall control	No overall control hold	Details
Southampton	No overall control	Labour gain	Details
Southend-on-Sea	No overall control	No overall control hold	Details
St Albans	No overall control	Conservative gain	Details
Stevenage	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Stoke-on-Trent	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Stratford-on-Avon	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Stroud	No overall control	No overall control hold	Details
Swale	No overall control	No overall control hold	Details
Tamworth	Conservative	No overall control gain	Details
Tandridge	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Thamesdown	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Three Rivers	Social and Liberal Democrats	Social and Liberal Democrats hold	Details
Thurrock	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Tonbridge and Malling	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Torbay	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Tunbridge Wells	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Watford	Labour	No overall control gain	Details
Waveney	No overall control	No overall control hold	Details
Welwyn Hatfield	Labour	Labour hold	Details
West Lancashire	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
West Lindsey	Social and Liberal Democrats	No overall control gain	Details
West Oxfordshire	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Weymouth and Portland	No overall control	No overall control hold	Details
Winchester	No overall control	No overall control hold	Details
Woking	No overall control	No overall control hold	Details
Wokingham	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Worcester	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Worthing	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Wyre Forest	No overall control	No overall control hold	Details
York	Labour	Labour hold	Details

Scotland

District councils

Main article: Scottish local elections, 1988

Council			Details
Aberdeen	Labour	No overall control gain	Details
Angus	SNP	SNP hold	Details
Annandale and Eskdale	Independent	SSLD gain	Details
Argyll	Independent	Independent hold	Details
Badenoch and Strathspey	Independent	Independent hold	Details
Banff and Buchan	Independent	Independent hold	Details
Bearsden and Milngavie	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Berwickshire	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Caithness	Independent	Independent hold	Details
Clackmannan	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Clydebank	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Clydesdale	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth	Labour	No overall control gain	Details
Cumnock and Doon Valley	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Cunninghame	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Dumbarton	Labour	No overall control gain	Details
Dundee	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Dunfermline	Labour	Labour hold	Details
East Kilbride	Labour	Labour hold	Details
East Lothian	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Eastwood	Conservative	Conservative hold	Details
Edinburgh	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Ettrick and Lauderdale	Independent	Independent hold	Details
Falkirk	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Glasgow	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Gordon	Independent	No overall control gain	Details
Hamilton	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Inverclyde	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Inverness	Independent	Independent hold	Details
Kilmarnock and Loudoun	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Kincardine and Deeside	Independent	Independent hold	Details
Kirkcaldy	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Kyle and Carrick	Conservative	Labour gain	Details
Lochaber	Independent	Independent hold	Details
Midlothian	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Monklands	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Moray	Independent	Independent hold	Details
Motherwell	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Nairn	Independent	Independent hold	Details
Nithsdale	Independent	Labour gain	Details
North East Fife	SSLD	SSLD hold	Details
Perth and Kinross	Conservative	No overall control gain	Details
Renfrew			Details
Ross and Cromarty	Independent	Independent hold	Details
Roxburgh	Independent	Independent hold	Details
Skye and Lochalsh	Independent	Independent hold	Details
Stewartry	Independent	Independent hold	Details
Stirling	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Strathkelvin	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Sutherland	Independent	Independent hold	Details
Tweeddale	Independent	Independent hold	Details
West Lothian	Labour	Labour hold	Details
Wigtown	Independent	Independent hold	Details

References

↑ Rallings, Colin; Thrasher, Michael. Local Elections Handbook 1988, Volume 1. The Elections Centre. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
↑ Rallings, Colin; Thrasher, Michael. Local Elections Handbook 1988, Volume 2. The Elections Centre. Retrieved 3 May 2016.

(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

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