1976_High_Peak_Borough_Council_election

1976 High Peak Borough Council election

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Elections to High Peak Borough Council in Derbyshire, England were held in 1976. All of the council was up for election and the control of the council changed from no overall control to Conservative control.^[1]

After the election, the composition of the council was:

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	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %
Conservative	27	4	0	+4	58.7	45.3
Labour	8	0	3	-3	17.4	27.3
Liberal	2	2	0	0	4.4	6.7
Independent	9	0	1	-1	19.6	20.7
Green	0	0	0	0	0
Communist	0	0	0	0	0

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	George Chatterton	980
	Conservative	Edwin Harold Mountain	689
	Conservative	Irene Beatrice Greenhalgh	593
	Conservative	George Wharmby	578
	Independent	Peter Matthews	572
	Labour	Stephen Charles Cocks	430
	Labour	Kenneth Esplin Bracewell	410
	Labour	Ms L Whitson	380
	Independent	P Durkin	355
	Green	Geoffrey Thomas Machan	186
	Liberal	Ms G Mitchell	166
Turnout				50.3
	Independent hold		Swing
	Conservative gain from Independent		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Alfred Henry Hitchings	828
	Conservative	R Milburn	615
	Labour	C Ward	543
	Conservative	Ms E Bradbury	514
Turnout				55.2
	Labour hold		Swing
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

	Candidate	Votes
Conservative	Betty Patricia Colley	unopposed
Liberal	George Harry White	unopposed
Conservative gain from Independent		Swing
Liberal hold		Swing

1976 High Peak Borough Council election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Dennis Raymond Walter	521	68.1
	Labour	G Ellis	244	31.9
Turnout				55.9
Majority			277	36.2
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Albert Phillips	475	63.5
	Conservative	D Eva	219	29.3
	Labour	K Jones	54	7.2
Majority			256	34.2
Turnout				56.7
	Independent hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Terence Garrie Gill	903
	Labour	B Halliday	550
	Conservative	Iris Tamsons	502
	Conservative	Joyce Allwright	422
	Labour	J Wilson	422
Turnout				51.8
	Independent gain from Labour		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Fred Barnes	402	42.2
	Conservative	G Cooper	401	42.1
	Labour	I Bennett	150	15.7
Majority			1	0.1
Turnout				53.6
	Independent gain from Conservative		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Sam Wanamaker	499	70.6
	Labour	James Stanley Byford	208	29.4
Majority			291	41.2
Turnout				61.2
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Evelyn May Tomlinson	420	64.7
	Independent	Ernest Thomas Walley	229	35.3
Majority			191	29.4
Turnout				50.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	L Townsend	1016
	Conservative	Dorothy Mary Livesley	916
	Conservative	Betty Colley	834
	Labour	W Ferguson	711
	Liberal	C Weaver	648
	Labour	J Demierre	454
	Labour	Ms D Fryman	396
Turnout				50.6
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing
	Conservative gain from Independent		Swing
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Tintwistle
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Clifford Pennington	445	61.1
	Labour	David Wilcox	283	38.9
Majority			162	22.3
Turnout				67.1
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	D Brown	749
	Conservative	John Keith McMurray	718
	Independent	Frank Morris Bullough	707
	Labour	J Axon	554
	Labour	Ms M Williams	425
Turnout				50.2
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Independent gain from Labour		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Charles David Lewis	788	83.5
	Labour	Ms Moira Monteith	156	16.5
Majority			632	66.9
Turnout				63.8
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	David Holtom	1946
	Labour	R Cooke	1847
	Conservative	Michael Jackson	1845
	Labour	Francis Walter Stubbs	1835
	Conservative	D Dunn	1795
	Conservative	D Wilson	1780
	Conservative	Denys Toole	1774
	Conservative	A Stevenson	1731
	Conservative	M Ross	1717
	Labour	K Powell	1691
	Labour	S Lomas	1671
	Communist	Robert Ainsworth Heald	306
Turnout				47.7
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Alfred Edwin Jenner Leney	1547
	Conservative	Ronald Partridge	1502
	Conservative	Kenneth Guy Dickenson	1441
	Conservative	Ms A Mellor	1296
	Labour	Reginald Mann	659
	Liberal	Deryck Johnson	654
	Labour	Ms C Ashton	629
	Labour	D Carr	616
	Labour	A Pomfret	535
Turnout				48.3
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Brenda Tetlow	800	89.0
	Labour	P Keelan	99	11.0
Majority			701	78.0
Turnout				70.1
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Fredrick Bonsall Woodward	506	80.1
	Labour	J Conway	126	19.9
Majority			380	60.1
Turnout				60.6
	Independent hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Harold Hastings Littlewood	414	70.4
	Labour	Ms V Mason	174	29.6
Majority			240	40.8
Turnout				66.5
	Independent hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Roger Gilbert Hartley	287	52.7
	Independent	F Hartley	137	25.1
	Labour	B Ludden	121	22.2
Majority			150	27.5
Turnout				63.0
	Conservative gain from Independent		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	John Arthur Thomas Pritchard	391	41.6
	Conservative	G Ralston	325	34.5
	Labour	Ms C Jones	225	23.9
Majority			66	7.0
Turnout				70.1
	Independent gain from Conservative		Swing