1980_Liverpool_City_Council_election

1980 Liverpool City Council election

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Elections to Liverpool City Council were held on 6 May 1980.

Following boundary changes, the entire council was up for election (3 Councillors for each ward). The candidates with the highest number of votes in each ward were elected until 1984, the candidates with the second highest number of votes were elected until 1983 and the candidates with the third highest number of votes were elected until 1982.

After the election, the composition of the council was:

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Ward results

* - Councillor seeking re-election

^(PARTY) - Party of former Councillor

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Proceedings of the Council 1980 - 1981 Vol 1 May - Sept

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"Liverpool City Council Election Results 1973 – 2012" (PDF). Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher, The Elections Centre, Plymouth University. Retrieved 1 December 2015.

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Party		Seats;
	Labour	40
	Liberal	38
	Conservative	21

	Seats	Seats %	Votes %	Votes
Labour	40	38%	36%	51,649
Liberal	38	40%	33%	47,536
Conservative	21	21%	29%	42,512
Communist	0	0%	1.0%	1,473
Ind. Conservative	0	0%	0.6%	821
Independent Liberal	0	0%	0.2%	308

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Chris Davies	2,040	56%
	Liberal	Alan Troy	1,696	46%
	Liberal	David Vasmer	1,692	46%
	Labour	Owen Joseph Doyle *	1,308	36%
	Labour	Edward Shields *	1,301	36%
	Labour	Violet McCoy *	1,292	36%
	Communist	Roger o'Hara	311	8%
	Conservative	Ian McFall	132	3%
	Conservative	Eric Wardle Mossford	116	3%
	Conservative	Ernest Peat	107	3%
Majority			732
Registered electors			10,455
Turnout			3,791	36%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Catherine Hancox	2,271	45%
	Liberal	Trevor Jones	2,266	45%
	Liberal	Peter Millea	2,054	41%
	Conservative	Olga Yvonne Hughes	2,011	40%
	Conservative	Paul Davies Gill ^(PARTY)	1,950	39%
	Conservative	John James Swainbank ^(PARTY)	1,926	38%
	Labour	Frank Winstanley Longworth	841	17%
	Labour	Francis Stanley Roderick	771	15%
	Labour	Francis Joseph Wiles	742	15%
Majority			260
Registered electors			13,245
Turnout			5,062	38%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Sheila Elizabeth Crane	3,169	61%
	Conservative	James Stanislaw Ross *	2,266	61%
	Conservative	William Herbert Fearnside *	3,135	60%
	Labour	Hilton Robert Brown	1,092	21%
	Labour	Michael O'Neill	1,079	21%
	Labour	John Henry Stamper	1,006	19%
	Liberal	Thomas Henry Harte	932	18%
	Liberal	Neville Gordon Chinn	930	18%
	Liberal	Yetta Jacobs	831	16%
Majority			2,077
Registered electors			12,660
Turnout			5,193	41%

1980_Liverpool_City_Council_election

1980 Liverpool City Council election

Election result

Ward results

Abercromby

Aigburth

Allerton

Anfield

Arundel

Breckfield

Broadgreen

Childwall

Church

Clubmoor

County

Croxteth

Dingle

Dovecot

Everton

Fazakerley

Gillmoss

Granby

Grassendale

Kensington

Melrose

Netherley

Old Swan

Picton

Pirrie

St. Mary's

Smithdown

Speke

Tuebrook

Valley

Vauxhall

Warbreck

Woolton

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Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Myra Fitsimmons	1,660	36%
	Liberal	Paul Vincent Downes	1,587	34%
	Liberal	Catherine Kaufmann	1,570	34%
	Liberal	Helen Powell	1,559	34%
	Conservative	Thomas Philip Pink	1,500	32%
	Conservative	James Hugh Brash	1,465	32%
	Labour	David Cowley	1,373	30%
	Labour	Thomas McManus	1,302	28%
	Labour	Andrew Williams	1,286	28%
Majority			73
Registered electors			12,809
Turnout			4,620	36%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Charles Hutchinson *	1,678	37%
	Labour	Julie Lyon-Taylor *	1,580	35%
	Labour	Patrick Grannell	1,536	34%
	Liberal	John Hemmingway	1,508	33%
	Liberal	Roger Johnston	1,506	33%
	Labour	Ian George Williams	1,463	32%
	Conservative	Ronald Spencer Fairclough *	1,250	27%
	Conservative	Donald Malcolm Green	1,166	25%
	Conservative	Helen Margaret Rigby	1,049	23%
	Communist	Rosita Marc	143	3%
Majority			170
Registered electors			12,446
Turnout			4,579	37%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	David Michael Bruce Croft *	2,367	57%
	Liberal	Frank McNevin *	2,318	56%
	Liberal	William Roberts	2,173	52%
	Labour	John Connolly *	1,307	31%
	Labour	Philip Howard Rowe	1,187	29%
	Labour	Miriam Ann Jones	1,166	28%
	Conservative	James Butterfield	484	12%
	Conservative	Brian John Hawkins	376	9%
	Conservative	Teresa Hawkins	342	8%
Majority			1,060
Registered electors			11,928
Turnout			4,158	35%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Rosemary Cooper *	2,066	42%
	Liberal	James Joyce	1,847	37%
	Liberal	Geoffrey Smith	1,766	36%
	Conservative	Frederick Christopher Burgess	1,474	30%
	Labour	David James Minahan	1,448	29%
	Labour	Barbara Lucile Walsh	1,427	29%
	Labour	John Vincent Walsh	1,427
	Conservative	Charles James Lister	1,416	29%
	Conservative	Richard Donald Oughton	1,395	28%
Majority			592
Registered electors			13,688
Turnout			4,941	36%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	William Alan Newton Fearnside *	2,938	50%
	Conservative	Mervin Kingston *	2,896	50%
	Conservative	Stanley Airey *	2,881	49%
	Liberal	Teddy Gold	2,069	35%
	Liberal	Edward Richard Goldsmith	1,964	34%
	Liberal	William Alan Barton	1,927	33%
	Labour	William Edward Bolland	830	14%
	Labour	Joyce Elizabeth Edwards	807	14%
	Labour	Leslie Evans	773	13%
Majority			869
Registered electors			13,663
Turnout			5,837	43%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Robert Fryer Symington *	3,266	44%
	Liberal	Cyril Eric Carr *	3,231	44%
	Conservative	Sally Atherton	3,148	43%
	Conservative	Stanley Pickering	3,044	41%
	Liberal	Edward Martin Brash	2,859	39%
	Liberal	Leonard Tyrer *	2,832	38%
	Labour	Robert Julian Clarke	886	12%
	Labour	Robert Joseph Quick	878	12%
	Labour	David Philip Power	857	12%
Majority			35
Registered electors			15,000
Turnout			7,383	49%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Michael John Storey *	2,745	54%
	Liberal	Angela Warburton *	2,517	50%
	Liberal	John Bowen	2,388	47%
	Labour	William Paul Lafferty	1,750	34%
	Labour	Henry Rimmer	1,738	34%
	Labour	Alexander Gamble	1,712	34%
	Conservative	David Conway	587	12%
	Conservative	Stanley Hicklin	583	11%
	Conservative	Gertrude Edna McNeill	560	11%
Majority			995
Registered electors			13,768
Turnout			5,082	37%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Paul Clark *	1,961	40%
	Liberal	Neil Cardwell *	1,929	39%
	Labour	Pauline Ann Dunlop *	1,734	35%
	Labour	Paul Raymond Kelly	1,719	35%
	Liberal	Edith Flanders	1,684	34%
	Labour	Walter Frederick Roe	1,614	33%
	Conservative	Henry Brown	1,223	25%
	Conservative	William Thomas	1,043	21%
	Conservative	Charles Peter Loller	1,032	21%
Majority			227
Registered electors			13,531
Turnout			4,918	36%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Geoffrey Elsmore Brandwoodc *	2,656	53%
	Conservative	Frederick Robert Butler *	2,626	52%
	Conservative	Ernest Henry Fitzpatrick *	2,607	52%
	Labour	Francis Burke	1,289	26%
	Labour	John Mooney	1,109	22%
	Liberal	Ivan Clews	1,089	22%
	Labour	Alfred Clifford Swannell	1,064	21%
	Liberal	Thomas Richard Jones	1,035	21%
	Liberal	Eileen Margaret Clews	1,018	20%
Majority			1,367
Registered electors			13,040
Turnout			5,034	39%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Richard Charles Kemp	1,929	44%
	Liberal	Lisa Jones	1,881	43%
	Liberal	Charles Collins	1,734	39%
	Labour	Mabel Evans *	1,684	38%
	Labour	Roy Stoddart *	1,606	36%
	Labour	Sydney Wynne Jones *	1,490	34%
	Conservative	David Walter Patmore	689	16%
	Conservative	Julie Margaret Shaw	675	15%
	Conservative	John Astley Watson	650	15%
	Communist	James Greig	110	2.5%
Majority			245
Registered electors			11,800
Turnout			4,412	37%

Netherley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Margaret Rose Delaney *	2,003	69%
	Labour	Derek Anthony Hatton *	1,979 *	68%
	Labour	Heather Bryers *	1,894	65%
	Conservative	James Connor	522	18%
	Conservative	James Anthony Dougherty	486	17%
	Conservative	William David Henry	458	16%
	Liberal	Audrey Elsie Ralph	239	8%
	Liberal	Mary Stubbs	213	7%
	Liberal	Owen Henry Williams	212	7%
	Communist	Brian O'Keefe	148	5.1%
Majority			1,481
Registered electors			9,365
Turnout			2,912	31%

Picton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Pamela Bradley *	3,471	67%
	Liberal	John Bradley ^(PARTY)	3,461	67%
	Liberal	Herbert Edward Herrity *	3,202	62%
	Labour	Graham John Barrett	1,164	22%
	Labour	Ernest Albert Taylor	1,131	22%
	Labour	John Swarbrooke	1,034	20%
	Conservative	Iain Sutherland Picton	405	7.8%
	Conservative	Felicity Anne Hopkin	403	7.8%
	Conservative	Hugh Robert Johnston	394	7.6%
	Communist	John Gilbert Volleamere	151	2.9%
Majority			2,307
Registered electors			11,719
Turnout			5,191	44%

Vauxhall
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Paul Orr *	1,726	76%
	Labour	Anthony Dunford *	1,668	73%
	Labour	Joseph Morgan *	1,657	73%
	Liberal	Thomas Vincent Browne	385	17%
	Liberal	Stephen Richard Radford	352	15%
	Liberal	Grahame Young	301	13%
	Conservative	Charles Edward Jennings	88	3.4%
	Conservative	Thomas Stockdale	80	3.5%
	Conservative	Charles Edwin Thorne	77	3.4%
	Communist	William Albertina	77	3.4%
Majority			1,341
Registered electors			9,306
Turnout			2,276	24%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Edward Burke *	2,469	67%
	Labour	Wilfred Patrick Johnson *	2,432	66%
	Labour	William Henry Westbury *	2,394	65%
	Conservative	John Leslie Walsh	940	26%
	Conservative	Harold Glover	921	25%
	Conservative	William John Turner	805	22%
	Liberal	Daphne Cookson Turner	271	7%
	Liberal	William John Cooper	254	7%
	Liberal	Elizabeth Valerie Higgins	183	5%
Majority			1,529
Registered electors			11,893
Turnout			3,680	31%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	James Parry *	1,530	68%
	Labour	Dominic Brady ^(PARTY)	1,347	60%
	Labour	James Edward Walker *	1,306	58%
	Liberal	Kevin Andrew Sewill	451	20%
	Liberal	Peter O'Neill	437	19%
	Liberal	William Barrow	415	18%
	Conservative	David John Lewis	195	9%
	Conservative	Gerard Widdows	116	5%
	Communist	Robert Cartwright	83	3.7%
Majority			1,079
Registered electors			10,870
Turnout			2,259	21%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	David John Lloyd *	2,026	50%
	Labour	John Philip Prince	1,812	45%
	Labour	Robert Charles Gregory	1,804	45%
	Conservative	Tina Myrtle Gould	1,260	31%
	Conservative	Albert Brown *	1,170	29%
	Conservative	Edwin Marshall Clein	1,087	27%
	Liberal	Harold Glyn Rogers *	741	18%
	Liberal	John George Morgan	719	18%
	Liberal	Alan Moulton	709	18%
Majority			766
Registered electors			11,893
Turnout			4,027	34%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Edward Deakin Roderick *	2,181	76%
	Labour	Peter John Murphy *	2,112	73%
	Labour	*William Ralph Snell '**	1,978	69%
	Conservative	Alfred Gore	456	16%
	Conservative	Pauline Dougherty	434	15%
	Conservative	William Edward Brown	413	14%
	Liberal	June Jones	245	9%
	Liberal	Marguerite Dagny Bridge	231	8%
	Liberal	Audrey May Loughney	199	7%
Majority			1,725
Registered electors			12,029
Turnout			2,882	24%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Alexander Doswell *	1,910	52%
	Labour	John Dunstan Hamilton *	1,805	49%
	Labour	David Raymond Leach ^(PARTY)	1,649	45%
	Liberal	Arthur Eric Damsell	1,162	32%
	Liberal	Adrian Michael Bell	969	26%
	Liberal	Jeffrey Lamb	921	25%
	Conservative	Arthur Palin	478	13%
	Conservative	William Thomas	442	12%
	Conservative	Edward John Donald Williams	441	12%
	Communist	Jack Kay	10	3.4%
Majority			748
Registered electors			11,964
Turnout			3,674	31%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	John Harold Lea	3,464	55%
	Conservative	Thomas Lyrian Hobday	3,443	54%
	Conservative	Ernest Francis Pine	3,312	52%
	Liberal	Gerard Patrick Scott	1,268	20%
	Liberal	Iris Hilda Rothwell	1,203	19%
	Liberal	Barbara Kemp	1,149	18%
	Independent Conservative	Kenneth Bruce Jacques	821	13%
	Labour	Alfred Vincent Rule	791	12%
	Labour	Elizabeth Frances Kingdom	737	12%
	Labour	Keith John Connolly	700	11%
Majority			2,196
Registered electors			12,305
Turnout			6,344	52%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Francis Joseph Doran *	2,806	71%
	Liberal	Graham Hulme ^(PARTY)	2,637	67%
	Liberal	Joyce Grace Stephenson ^(PARTY)	2,567	65%
	Labour	Leonard Ashworth	737	19%
	Labour	Vincent Peter Hyams	724	18%
	Labour	Glynn George Pratt	707	18%
	Conservative	Mary Davis	408	10%
	Conservative	David Evans	401	10%
	Conservative	Robert James Wilson	360	9%
Majority			2,069
Registered electors			12,254
Turnout			3,951	32%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	William Lafferty *	1,855	65%
	Labour	William Francis Burke ^(PARTY)	1,692	59%
	Labour	Michael George Dalling ^(PARTY)	1,399	49%
	Liberal	Annetta McDonnell	491	17%
	Liberal	Steven Loughney	481	17%
	Liberal	Ronald Joseph Taylor	444	16%
	Conservative	Julie Ann Carpenter	416	15%
	Conservative	Daniel Gerard Dougherty	407	14%
	Conservative	Frank Oldham	355	12%
	People's	James Joseph Hasting	96	3.4%
	People's	Maureen Owens	95	3.3%
	People's	Helen Barlow	90	3.1%
Majority			1,364
Registered electors			11,308
Turnout			2,858	25%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Peter Joseph Lloyd *	1,743	36%
	Liberal	Josephine Smith	1,725	36%
	Liberal	Francis Richard Haywood	1,603	33%
	Liberal	Peter Mahon *	1,586	33%
	Labour	Jane Ann Hollinshead	1,514	31%
	Labour	Michael Joseph Smith	1,405	29%
	Conservative	William Henry Connolly	1,053	22%
	Conservative	Donald Ellis	1,022	21%
	Conservative	Alan Graham Wilson	931	19%
	Independent Liberal	Keith McCullough	308	6.4%
	Independent Liberal	William John McCullough	293	6.1%
	Communist	Harry Mohin	127	2.6%
Majority			18
Registered electors			12,292
Turnout			4,829	39%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Hugh Dalton *	2,884	62%
	Labour	Michael Black *	2,587	56%
	Labour	Peter Owens *	2,374	51%
	Conservative	Muriel May Brown	1,067	23%
	Conservative	Christine Perkins	887	19%
	Conservative	Joan Mary Wright	848	18%
	Liberal	Thomas Owen	665	14%
	Liberal	Charles Mayes	508	11%
	Liberal	Marion Josephine Cardwell	482	10%
Majority			1,817
Registered electors			12,054
Turnout			4,616	38%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Edward Loyden	2,351	56%
	Labour	Stanley Ronald Maddox *	2,089	50%
	Labour	Robert Charles Evans	2,039	49%
	Conservative	Elizabeth Foster	1,319	32%
	Conservative	Derek Raymond Hawes	1,280	31%
	Conservative	Robert Albert Parkes	1,249	30%
	Liberal	Philip James Message	301	7.2%
	Liberal	Georgina May Owen	291	7.0%
	Liberal	James Martin Loughney	277	6.6%
	Communist	John Malcolm McQueen	199	4.8%
Majority			1,032
Registered electors			12,745
Turnout			4,170	33%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Anne Clitherow	2,130	56%
	Liberal	Joseph Sydney Clitherow	2,046	54%
	Liberal	Ernest Richard Stephenson	1,949	51%
	Labour	Peter Thomas Devaney	1,391	37%
	Labour	Paul Herbert Gray	1,240	33%
	Labour	Joseph Stanton	1,239	33%
	Conservative	John Atherton	285	7.5%
	Conservative	James McDermott	234	6.1%
	Conservative	Rolland Louis Zollner	129	3.4%
Majority			739
Registered electors			11,095
Turnout			3,806	34%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	George Joseph Maudsley *	2,005	75%
	Labour	Kenneth McKenzie Stewart *	1,877	70%
	Labour	John McLean *	1,833	69%
	Conservative	Thomas Morrison	524	20%
	Conservative	Ann Nugent	409	15%
	Conservative	Edward Gordon Shaw	407	15%
	Liberal	Susan Jean Downes	134	5.0%
	Liberal	Eileen Dunlop	130	4.9%
	Liberal	Veronica Margaret Best	122	4.6%
Majority			1,871
Registered electors			10,168
Turnout			2,663	26%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Robert Gore	2,467	47%
	Liberal	John Thomas Jones	2,147	41%
	Liberal	Richard Pine	2,210	42%
	Labour	John Eric Roberts *	1,414	27%
	Conservative	John Irving *	1,362	26%
	Labour	Terence McDonald	1,311	25%
	Labour	Kathleen Margaret Mary Coombes	1,186	23%
	Conservative	William Scott	1,083	21%
	Conservative	Eric Lloyd	1,077	21%
Majority			1,053
Registered electors			12,449
Turnout			5,243	42%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Henry Smith	1,923	54%
	Labour	Anthony John Byrne	1,882	53%
	Labour	Terence Harrison	1,863	53%
	Conservative	Stephen Fitzsimmons	999	28%
	Conservative	Susan Elizabeth Byrom	988	28%
	Conservative	Stephen Richard Marsden	931	26%
	Liberal	Henry Ronald Jones	625	18%
	Liberal	Marie Fox	622	18%
	Liberal	Edward Jameson	620	17%
Majority			924
Registered electors			10,501
Turnout			3,547	34%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Ronald Gould	1,849	38%
	Conservative	Reginald Bernard Flude *	1,811	37%
	Conservative	Ian Brown	1,681	35%
	Liberal	Joseph Lang *	1,525	31%
	Labour	Paul John Summerfeld *	1,486	31%
	Liberal	Elsie Joan Lang	1,447	30%
	Liberal	Richard John Roberts	1,393	29%
	Labour	Peter Francis McAllister	1,386	29%
	Labour	Joseph Aidan Devaney	1,345	28%
Majority			324
Registered electors			13,086
Turnout			4,860	37%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Ruth Dean *	3,883	72%
	Conservative	Anthony McVeigh	3,798	71%
	Conservative	Christopher Geoffrey Hallows	3,770	70%
	Labour	Philip Richard Martin	1,010	19%
	Labour	Owen McDonough	998	19%
	Labour	David Alan Bradbury	923	17%
	Liberal	Philip Martin Freeman	469	9%
	Liberal	Richard Powell	438	8%
	Liberal	Ann Ryan	423	8%
Majority			2,873
Registered electors			12,808
Turnout			5,362	42%