The second election to the Greater London Council was held on 13 April 1967, and saw the first Conservative victory for a London-wide authority since 1931.

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1967 Greater London Council election

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100 councillors 51 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party   Leader Desmond Plummer Bill Fiske Party Conservative Labour Leader since 1964 1964 Leader's seat Westminster and the City of London Havering Seats won 82 18 Seat change 46 46 Popular vote 1,136,092 732,669 Percentage 52.6% 34.0% Swing 12.5% 10.6%
Results by electoral division
Leader before election Bill Fiske Labour Party Leader after election Desmond Plummer Conservative Party

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New constituencies to be used for elections to Parliament and also for elections to the GLC had not yet been settled, so the London boroughs were used as multi-member 'first past the post' electoral areas. Westminster was joined with the City of London for this purpose. Each electoral area returned between 2 and 4 councillors.

One of the successful Conservative candidates, Sheila Bradley (Greenwich), was a school nurse for the Inner London Education Authority. It was discovered that this was a disqualifying office, as she was in effect an employee of the GLC (as ILEA was technically a committee of the GLC); she resigned on 24 May prior to the hearing of an election petition. At a by-election on 29 June, Labour gained the seat. There were two further by-elections during the term: on 7 November 1968 the Conservatives held a seat in Bromley after the death of a councillor,^[3] and on 12 December of the same year the Conservatives held a seat in Havering after one of their councillors resigned.^[4] There were two seats vacant by the end of the term. A Conservative councillor for Harrow died on 8 June 1969, and on 8 January 1970 a Conservative councillor for Hammersmith was disqualified after failing to attend a meeting of the GLC or its committees for six months.

There were two aldermanic by-elections caused by the resignation of Nelly Margaret Walton (Conservative) in 1968 and the death of Timothy James Bligh (Conservative) in 1969. Richard Maddock Brew (Conservative) was elected by the council on 8 October 1968, to serve until 1973. Maurice Stephenson (Conservative) was elected by the council on 29 April 1969, to serve until 1973.