Scottish regional elections, 1986

8 May 1986 (1986-05-08)

	First party	Second party


Leader	Neil Kinnock	Margaret Thatcher
Party	Labour	Conservative
Leader since	2 October 1983	11 February 1975
Seats won	223	65
Seat change	37	54
Percentage	43.9	16.9
Swing	6.3	8.2

	Third party	Fourth party

Leader	David Steel	Gordon Wilson
Party	SDP–Liberal Alliance	SNP
Leader since	1976	15 September 1979
Seats won	40	36
Seat change	15	13
Percentage	15.1	18.2
Swing	3.0	4.8

Colours denote the winning party with outright control

Results by ward

Regional elections were held in Scotland on Thursday 8 May 1986, under the terms of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973. The previous elections had been held in 1982. The elections took place a year before the Conservative's third general election victory. Elections took place in England and Wales on the same day.

National results

Summary of the 1986 Scottish regional council election results^[1]


Parties		Votes %	+/-	Wards
	Labour	43.9		223
	SNP	18.2		36
	Conservative	16.9		65
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	15.1		40
	Independent	4.8		79
Total		45.2	??	524

Party performance

Labour continued to make gains, increasing their number of councillors in most of the areas contested. The Conservatives suffered heavy losses, losing control of Lothian council to labour and Grampian and Tayside councils to no overall control. They lost all their Councillors in Dumfries and Galloway. The SNP vote failed to recover from its decline since 1980.

Results by council area

Council	Labour	Conservative	Liberal & SDP	SNP	Other/IND	Total number of seats	Turnout		Details
Borders‡	0	6 (-2)	2 (-1)	2 (+1)	14 (+1)	23	37.02%	Independent hold	Details
Central‡	23 (+1)	4	1	5	1 (-1)	34	47.49%	Labour hold	Details
Dumfries and Galloway‡	7 (+3)	0 (-4)	4 (+2)	5 (+2)	19 (-3)	35	40.66%	Independent hold	Details
Fife‡	30 (+3)	4 (-5)	8 (+3)	2 (+1)	2 (-1)	46	46.74%	Labour hold	Details
Grampian‡	18 (+2)	15 (-11)	12 (+7)	9 (+5)	3	57	35.61%	No overall control gain from Conservatives	Details
Highland‡	6 (+1)	2 (+1)	2 (-1)	2 (+1)	40 (-2)	52	41.85%	Independent Hold	Details
Lothian‡	30 (+7)	13 (-8)	3	2 (+1)	1	49	49.21%	Labour Labour gain from NOC	Details
Orkney‡	0	-	-	-	24	24	??%	Independent Hold	Details
Shetland‡	4 (+1)	-	-	-	21 (-1)	25	??%	Independent Hold	Details
Strathclyde‡	88 (+8)	6 (-8)	5 (+1)	1 (-1)	3	103	45.46%	Labour Hold	Details
Tayside‡	20 (+8)	14 (-13)	1 (+1)	9 (+4)	2	46	47.64%	No overall control Gain from Conservative	Details
Na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles)‡	0	-	-	-	30	30	??%	Independent Hold	Details

References

↑ McConnell, Alan (2004), Scottish Local Government, Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 978-0-7486-2005-0

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See also: Elections in the Kingdom of Scotland (Pre-1707) Great Britain (1707–1800) United Kingdom Politics of Scotland

(1985 ←) United Kingdom local elections, 1986 (→ 1987)

London boroughs	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 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)	Adur Amber Valley Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke and Deane Bassetlaw Bath Blackburn Brentwood Brighton Bristol Broadland Broxbourne Burnley Cambridge Cannock Chase Carlisle Cheltenham Cherwell Chester Chorley Colchester Congleton Craven Crawley Crewe and Nantwich Daventry Derby East Devon Eastbourne Eastleigh Ellesmere Port and Neston Elmbridge Epping Forest Exeter Fareham Gillingham Gloucester Gosport Great Grimsby Great Yarmouth Halton Harlow Harrogate Hart Hartlepool Hastings Havant Hereford Hertsmere Hinckley and Bosworth Huntingdonshire Hyndburn Ipswich Kingston upon Hull Leicester Leominster Lincoln Macclesfield Maidstone Mid Sussex 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 Scunthorpe Shrewsbury and Atcham Slough South Bedfordshire South Cambridgeshire South Herefordshire 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 Dorset West Lancashire West Lindsey West Oxfordshire Weymouth and Portland Winchester Woking Wokingham Woodspring Worcester Worthing Wyre Forest York

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

LEAs	Inner London Education Authority

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