1986 Tower Hamlets London Borough Council election
1986 local election in England, UK
Elections to Tower Hamlets London Borough Council were held in May 1986. The whole council was up for election. Turnout was 35.0%.
Election result
Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Alliance | 26 | 42.7 | |||||||
Labour | 24 | 44.1 | |||||||
Conservative | 0 | 7.2 |
Results
Blackwall
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Christine Shawcroft | 834 | |||
SDP | Jonathan Mathews | 788 | |||
Labour | Sunahwar Ali | 661 | |||
SDP | Russell Neale | 657 | |||
Conservative | Robert Hughes | 129 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 4,139 | 42.3 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
SDP gain from Labour | Swing |
Bow
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Patricia Catchpole | 1,198 | |||
Liberal | Ronald Lebar | 1,165 | |||
Liberal | Anthony Wilcock | 1,071 | |||
Labour | Edward Caunter | 795 | |||
Labour | Wendy Allman | 777 | |||
Labour | Thomas Redmond | 737 | |||
Conservative | Bernard Jenkin | 172 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 6,278 | 34.6 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Bromley
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Arthur Downes | 1,458 | |||
Labour | Anne Delargy | 1,450 | |||
Labour | Neil McAree | 1,403 | |||
Liberal | Beryl Day | 1,292 | |||
Liberal | Peter Hughes | 1,139 | |||
Liberal | Zofia Hart | 1,112 | |||
Conservative | Ralph Harrison | 166 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 7,383 | 41.1 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour gain from Liberal | Swing |
East India
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Terence Connolly | 906 | |||
Labour | Patrick Little | 800 | |||
Liberal | Maurice Caplan | 541 | |||
Liberal | Anthony Peter | 464 | |||
Independent Labour | David Canning | 318 | |||
Conservative | Peter Sayer | 95 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 4,925 | 36.2 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Grove
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Eric Flounders | 1,049 | |||
Liberal | Janet Ludlow | 1,011 | |||
Labour | John Griffin | 701 | |||
Labour | Julia Mainwaring | 685 | |||
Conservative | Barbara Perrott | 104 | |||
Conservative | Linda Ransom | 81 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 4,079 | 47.5 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Holy Trinity
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Stephen Charters | 1,526 | |||
Liberal | Belinda Knowles | 1,445 | |||
Liberal | John Nudds | 1,351 | |||
Labour | Michael Chalkley | 1,225 | |||
Labour | Geoffrey Cade | 1,167 | |||
Labour | Salim Ullah | 1,025 | |||
BNP | David Ettridge | 212 | |||
Conservative | Anthony Norton | 138 | |||
Conservative | Anne-Marie Pedlingham | 105 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 6,836 | 44.7 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Lansbury
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Barry Blandford | 1,119 | |||
Liberal | Gwyneth Deakins | 1,108 | |||
Liberal | Pauline Fletcher | 1,093 | |||
Labour | Stephen Bowen | 956 | |||
Labour | Paul Collins | 883 | |||
Labour | Mary Hawkins | 871 | |||
Independent Labour | Reginald Beer | 407 | |||
Independent Labour | Paul Beasley | 385 | |||
Independent Labour | George Desmond | 376 | |||
Conservative | Christopher Kingsley-Smith | 77 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 6,853 | 38.7 | |||
Liberal gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Liberal gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Liberal gain from Labour | Swing |
Limehouse
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | David Lewis | 1,223 | |||
Liberal | Stewart Rayment | 1,153 | |||
Liberal | Carolyn Manser | 1,147 | |||
Labour | Dennis Twomey | 1,142 | |||
Labour | Michael Tyrrell | 1,105 | |||
Labour | Oona Hickson | 1,055 | |||
Conservative | David Hughes | 147 | |||
Conservative | Geoffrey Lenox-Smith | 137 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 7,064 | 38.2 | |||
Liberal gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Liberal gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Liberal gain from Labour | Swing |
Millwall
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Alan Porter | 1,119 | |||
Labour | Maria Shanahan | 1,114 | |||
Labour | Timothy Staten | 1,013 | |||
SDP | John Moore | 822 | |||
SDP | Brian Kettell | 738 | |||
Island Independent | Peter Wade | 702 | |||
Island Independent | George Pye | 701 | |||
Island Independent | William Kilgour | 687 | |||
SDP | Arthur Praag | 664 | |||
Conservative | Peter Holland | 204 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 8,480 | 33.8 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Park
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Terence Cowley | 1,154 | |||
Liberal | Brian Williams | 1,153 | |||
Labour | Belle Harris | 781 | |||
Labour | Sean Gardiner | 766 | |||
Conservative | David Ranson | 86 | |||
Conservative | John Livingstone | 73 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 4,854 | 44.1 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Redcoat
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Christopher Birt | 1,184 | |||
Liberal | Ludlow Smith | 1,158 | |||
Labour | Stephen Joseph | 920 | |||
Labour | Walter Leary | 907 | |||
Conservative | Paul Ingham | 159 | |||
Conservative | Peter Ainsworth | 126 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 5,269 | 45.5 | |||
Liberal gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Liberal gain from Labour | Swing |
St Dunstan's
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Susan Carlyle | 1,227 | |||
Labour | Terence Sullivan | 1,191 | |||
Labour | Jahangir Alam | 1,142 | |||
Liberal | Julian Brett-Freeman | 1,058 | |||
Liberal | Lesley Morpurgo | 924 | |||
Liberal | Philip Truscott | 911 | |||
National Front | Roger Evans | 256 | |||
Conservative | Maureen Bashford | 241 | |||
Conservative | Kevin Collins | 214 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 6,742 | 40.7 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
St James'
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Barrie Duffey | 833 | |||
Labour | Albert Jacob | 800 | |||
Labour | Eileen Short | 782 | |||
Liberal | Mark Hook | 757 | |||
Conservative | Hugh Hunter | 134 | |||
Conservative | Hugh Smith | 127 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 5,222 | 35.5 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
Labour gain from Liberal | Swing |
St Katharine's
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John Rowe | 1,651 | |||
Labour | Ashek Ali | 1,562 | |||
Labour | Mohammed Ahmed | 1,513 | |||
SDP | Konor Ali | 714 | |||
SDP | George Clark | 695 | |||
SDP | Moshahid Hussain | 640 | |||
Conservative | Adrian George | 461 | |||
Conservative | Andrew Smith | 410 | |||
Conservative | Sheila Folan | 371 | |||
Independent | Stephen Smith | 84 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 8,668 | 34.9 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
St Mary's
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Robert Ashkettle | 948 | |||
Labour | Barnett Saunders | 861 | |||
SDP | Abdul Barik | 316 | |||
SDP | Paul Mathurin | 253 | |||
Conservative | Mohammad Ali | 218 | |||
Conservative | Robert Ingram | 147 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 4,848 | 31.1 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
St Peter's
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Brenda Collins | 1,324 | |||
Liberal | Patrick Streeter | 1,316 | |||
Liberal | Andrew Goodchild | 1,291 | |||
Labour | Maureen Caldon | 904 | |||
Labour | Rosemary Maher | 871 | |||
Labour | Joseph Ramanoop | 838 | |||
Conservative | Amanda Drury | 171 | |||
Conservative | Nicholas Greenfield | 143 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 7,525 | 33.9 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Shadwell
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Albert Lilley | 1,121 | |||
Labour | Charles Mudd | 1,101 | |||
Labour | John Riley | 1,057 | |||
SDP | David Webb | 881 | |||
SDP | John Minch | 868 | |||
SDP | Geoffrey White | 810 | |||
Conservative | Ronald Mitchell | 198 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 6,265 | 35.7 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Spitalfields
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Abbas Uddin | 1,246 | |||
Labour | Ghulam Mortuza | 1,019 | |||
Labour | Philip Maxwell | 988 | |||
Independent | Muhammed Huque | 837 | |||
SDP | Akikur Rahman | 590 | |||
SDP | William Kelly | 444 | |||
Independent Labour | Syed Islam | 402 | |||
SDP | Muhammed Mustafa | 387 | |||
Conservative | Jane Emmerson | 215 | |||
Independent | Betty Wright | 199 | |||
Conservative | Andrew Chapman | 189 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 5,648 | 45.2 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour gain from Independent | Swing |
Weavers
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Jeremy Shaw | 1,645 | |||
Liberal | Jeanette Welsh | 1,530 | |||
Liberal | Kofi Appiah | 1,496 | |||
Labour | Susan Hurley | 1,336 | |||
Labour | Mohammed Ludi | 1,227 | |||
Labour | John Onslow | 1,201 | |||
Conservative | Lillian Ingram | 184 | |||
Conservative | Linda O'Connell | 146 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 7,505 | 42.5 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing |
References
- ^ Rallings, Colin; Thrasher, Michael (1993). Local Elections in Britain: A Statistical Digest. Plymouth: Local Government Chronicle Elections Centre.
- ^ London Borough Council Elections, 8 May 1986. London: Research and Intelligence Unit, London Residuary Body. 1990.
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- See also
- Elections in London Boroughs
- Middlesex County Council elections