Nottinghamshire County Council election, 1985

Nottinghamshire County Council election, 1985

2 May 1985

All 88 seats to Nottinghamshire County Council 45 seats needed for a majority   First party Second party   Party Labour Conservative Seats before 55 32 Seats won 48 37 Seat change 7 5 Popular vote 133,761 124,618 Percentage 40.29% 37.53%   Third party Fourth party   Party SDP–Liberal Alliance Independent Seats before 0 0 Seats won 2 1 Seat change 2 1 Popular vote 69,511 2,469 Percentage 20.93% 0.74%

Map of the results of the election in each division. Colours denote the winning party, as shown in the main table of results.

Council control before election Labour Council control after election Labour

The 1985 Nottinghamshire County Council election was held on Thursday, 2 May 1985. The whole council of eighty-eight members was up for election and the result was that the Labour Party retained control of the Council, winning forty-eight seats. The Conservatives won thirty-seven councillors and the SDP–Liberal Alliance made gains in terms of percentage vote share, but won just two seats. An Independent councillor was elected in the Retford North division.^[1][2]

Results by division

Each electoral division returned one county councillor. The candidate elected to the council in each electoral division is shown in the table below. "Unopposed" indicates that the councillor was elected unopposed.^[2]

References

(1984 ←) United Kingdom local elections, 1985 (→ 1986)
County council elections (England)	Avon Bedfordshire Berkshire Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cheshire Cleveland Cornwall Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Dorset Durham East Sussex Essex Gloucestershire Hampshire Hereford and Worcester Hertfordshire Humberside Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire Leicestershire Lincolnshire Norfolk North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Shropshire Somerset Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Warwickshire West Sussex Wiltshire
County council elections (Wales)	Clwyd Dyfed Gwent Gwynedd Mid Glamorgan Powys South Glamorgan West Glamorgan
District councils (Northern Ireland)	Northern Irish District councils Antrim Ards Armagh Ballymena Ballymoney Banbridge Belfast Carrickfergus Castlereagh Coleraine Cookstown Craigavon Derry Down Dungannon Fermanagh Larne Limavady Lisburn Magherafelt Moyle Newry and Mourne Newtownabbey North Down Omagh Strabane
Sui generis	Isles of Scilly

Council elections in Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire County Council	1889 1892 1895 1898 1901 1904 1907 1910 1913 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1934 1937 1946 1949 1952 1955 1958 1961 1964 1967 1970 1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 2009 2013 2017
Ashfield District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015
Bassetlaw District Council	1973 1976 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
Broxtowe Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015
Gedling Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015
Mansfield District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015
Newark and Sherwood District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015
Nottingham City Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1997 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015
Rushcliffe Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015
See also: Wards Boundary changes