1990_Southwark_Council_election
1990 Southwark London Borough Council election
1990 local election in England
Elections to Southwark Council were held in May 1990. The whole council was up for election. Turnout was 40.54%.
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All 64 seats up for election to Southwark London Borough Council 33 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Registered | 171,625[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Turnout | 69,572, 40.54%[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
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Labour | 37 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 57.81 | 49.89 | 81,241 | ||
Liberal Democrats | 21[notes 1] | 5 | 0 | 5 | 32.81 | 26.29 | 42,802 | ||
Conservative | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 9.38 | 20.41 | 33,231 | ||
Green | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 3,252 | |||
Independent Labour Lion Team | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.00 | 1.24 | 2,028 | ||
BNP | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.11 | 180 | |||
Communist | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.06 | 99 | |||
Total | 64 | 162,833 |
(*) - indicates an incumbent candidate
(†) - indicates an incumbent candidate standing in a different seat than which they were elected to
Abbey
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Lib Dem Focus Team | Alan S. Blake* | 931 | 53.85 | ||
Lib Dem Focus Team | Steven H. Gauge | 844 | |||
Labour | Ellen A. Brown | 687 | 40.15 | ||
Labour | Rita M. Sergeant† | 636 | |||
Conservative | Robert G. Berry | 104 | 6.00 | ||
Conservative | Betina Bilham-Ware | 93 | |||
Registered electors | 4,835 | ||||
Turnout | 1,779 | 36.79 | |||
Rejected ballots | 5 | 0.28 | |||
Lib Dem Focus Team hold | |||||
Lib Dem Focus Team hold | |||||
Rita Sergeant was a sitting councillor for Chaucer ward
Alleyn
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Josephine E. Clark | 1,209 | 49.60 | |
Labour | Cecile V. Lothian | 1,140 | ||
Conservative | Miranda Hardie | 762 | 32.04 | |
Conservative | Rev. Percy Gray† | 755 | ||
Green | Harriet A.V. Einsiedel | 240 | 10.13 | |
Liberal Democrats | Alistair K.L. Milne | 204 | 8.23 | |
Liberal Democrats | Shirley P. Theiner | 185 | ||
Registered electors | 5,607 | |||
Turnout | 2,409 | 42.96 | ||
Rejected ballots | 6 | 0.25 | ||
Labour hold | ||||
Labour hold | ||||
Percy Gray was a sitting councillor for College ward
Barset
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Gary M. Halls | 1,176 | 77.86 | |
Labour | Kenneth J. Morey | 1,123 | ||
Conservative | Charles F. Cooper | 329 | 22.14 | |
Conservative | Peter Mason | 325 | ||
Registered electors | 4,854 | |||
Turnout | 1,588 | 32.72 | ||
Rejected ballots | 15 | 0.94 | ||
Labour hold | ||||
Labour hold | ||||
Bellenden
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Bronwyn M. McKenna | 2,107 | 56.70 | |
Labour | John A. McTernan* | 2,042 | ||
Labour | Margaret E. Russell | 1,944 | ||
Conservative | Marjorie Osborn | 698 | 18.09 | |
Conservative | Victor J. Rutherford | 648 | ||
Green | Christopher J. Dodwell | 601 | 16.78 | |
Conservative | Sharon F. Spiers | 599 | ||
Liberal Democrats | John J. Egan | 318 | 8.43 | |
Liberal Democrats | Eileen Conn | 285 | ||
Registered electors | 8,687 | |||
Turnout | 3,479 | 40.05 | ||
Rejected ballots | 8 | 0.23 | ||
Labour hold | ||||
Labour hold | ||||
Labour hold | ||||
Bricklayers
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Lib Dem Focus Team | Graham Nash | 1,671 | 63.35 | |
Lib Dem Focus Team | Anne Scovell | 1,602 | ||
Labour | Lindsay N.P. Thomas | 831 | 31.08 | |
Labour | Isaac G. Bellinfante | 775 | ||
Conservative | Miles Baxter | 153 | 5.57 | |
Conservative | Damian R. Cornell | 134 | ||
Registered electors | 6,087 | |||
Turnout | 2,730 | 44.85 | ||
Rejected ballots | 5 | 0.18 | ||
Lib Dem Focus Team hold | ||||
Lib Dem Focus Team hold | ||||
Browning
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Lib Dem Focus Team | Paul Cheesman | 1,521 | 57.09 | |
Lib Dem Focus Team | Alex Goldie | 1,485 | ||
Lib Dem Focus Team | Patricia A. Matheson† | 1,464 | ||
Labour | Harry Canagasabey | 1,005 | 37.05 | |
Labour | Ronald A.McI. North | 1,002 | ||
Labour | Winston W. Stafford† | 895 | ||
Conservative | Helen G. Hall | 172 | 5.86 | |
Conservative | Girish Pattni | 145 | ||
Conservative | Hui L. Man | 142 | ||
Registered electors | 7,490 | |||
Turnout | 2,834 | 37.84 | ||
Rejected ballots | 6 | 0.21 | ||
Lib Dem Focus Team gain from Labour | ||||
Lib Dem Focus Team gain from Labour | ||||
Lib Dem Focus Team hold | ||||
Patricia Matheson was a sitting councillor for Dockyard ward
Winston Stafford was a sitting councillor for St Giles ward
Brunswick
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Labour | Ian D. Driver | 1,598 | 72.74 | |
Labour | John E. Maurice* | 1,596 | ||
Labour | Lilian V. Naish | 1,595 | ||
Conservative | Lilian J. Dawson | 543 | 22.74 | |
Conservative | Douglas J. Mitchell | 480 | ||
Conservative | David J. Mason | 475 | ||
Communist | Eric L. Hodson | 99 | 4.51 | |
Registered electors | 7,374 | |||
Turnout | 2,362 | 32.03 | ||
Rejected ballots | 17 | 0.72 | ||
Labour hold | ||||
Labour hold | ||||
Labour hold | ||||
Burgess
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Liberal Democrats | Rose E. Colley* | 1,011 | 58.60 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ronald Holt | 944 | ||
Labour | Piers R. Corbyn* | 655 | 38.05 | |
Labour | Jay Hall | 615 | ||
Conservative | Sheila Mackey | 59 | 3.36 | |
Conservative | Stephen Mackey | 52 | ||
Registered electors | 4,339 | |||
Turnout | 1,760 | 40.56 | ||
Rejected ballots | 5 | 0.28 | ||
Liberal Democrats hold | ||||
Liberal Democrats gain from Labour | ||||
Cathedral
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Lib Dem Focus Team | Hilary J. Wines* | 1,353 | 60.97 | |
Lib Dem Focus Team | Richard H. Shearman† | 1,221 | ||
Labour | Anne V. Worsley | 682 | 31.55 | |
Labour | Shirley I. Reese | 649 | ||
Conservative | Harriette E. Blum | 159 | 7.48 | |
Conservative | Mark J. Tunstill | 156 | ||
Registered electors | 5,415 | |||
Turnout | 2,250 | 41.55 | ||
Rejected ballots | 13 | 0.58 | ||
Lib Dem Focus Team hold | ||||
Lib Dem Focus Team gain from Labour | ||||
Richard Shearman was a sitting councillor for Rotherhithe ward
Chaucer
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Lib Dem Focus Team | Anna M. McGettigan* | 1,279 | 42.65 | |
Labour | John D. Johnson | 1,263 | 43.32 | |
Labour | Sonya J.H. Murison | 1,237 | ||
Lib Dem Focus Team | Leroy G. Arscott | 1,195 | ||
Labour | Bernard White | 1,179 | ||
Lib Dem Focus Team | Robert J.S. Skelly | 1,146 | ||
Green | Richard A.C. Laming | 251 | 8.87 | |
Conservative | Maureen Jansen | 177 | 5.16 | |
Conservative | James Gourlay | 137 | ||
Conservative | Jack C. Wolff | 123 | ||
Registered electors | 7,968 | |||
Turnout | 2,946 | 36.97 | ||
Rejected ballots | 3 | 0.10 | ||
Lib Dem Focus Team hold | ||||
Labour hold | ||||
Labour hold | ||||
College
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Conservative | Nicholas G. Eriksen | 1,585 | 50.91 | |
Conservative | Heather V. Kirby | 1,540 | ||
Labour | Martin W. Chapman | 1,128 | 36.52 | |
Labour | Gerda Glage | 1,114 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Patricia M. Mynott | 399 | 12.57 | |
Liberal Democrats | Eileen J. Neale | 372 | ||
Registered electors | 6,089 | |||
Turnout | 3,157 | 51.85 | ||
Rejected ballots | 6 | 0.19 | ||
Conservative hold | ||||
Conservative hold | ||||
Consort
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Labour | David F. Fryer† | 1,254 | 75.45 | |
Labour | Sally C. Keeble* | 1,253 | ||
Conservative | Leslie N. Brown | 429 | 24.55 | |
Conservative | Michael Bungy | 387 | ||
Registered electors | 5,154 | |||
Turnout | 1,828 | 35.47 | ||
Rejected ballots | 14 | 0.77 | ||
Labour hold | ||||
Labour hold | ||||
David Fryer was a sitting councillor for Browning ward
Dockyard
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Lib Dem Focus Team | David C. Buxton | 1,807 | 48.25 | |
Lib Dem Focus Team | Elizabeth Denton | 1,772 | ||
Lib Dem Focus Team | Ronald A. Kendrick* | 1,745 | ||
Labour | Rebecca Corfield | 1,290 | 33.00 | |
Labour | Simon J. McKeown | 1,181 | ||
Labour | Michael Geater† | 1,170 | ||
Conservative | Christopher W.S. Phillips | 706 | 18.75 | |
Conservative | Thomas A. Owen | 688 | ||
Conservative | Andrew J. Raca | 677 | ||
Registered electors | 8,915 | |||
Turnout | 3,875 | 43.47 | ||
Rejected ballots | 11 | 0.28 | ||
Lib Dem Focus Team hold | ||||
Lib Dem Focus Team hold | ||||
Lib Dem Focus Team hold | ||||
Michael Geater was a sitting councillor for St Giles ward
Faraday
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Labour | Alan E. Cotter | 1,546 | 57.51 | |
Labour | Charles Cherrill | 1,505 | ||
Labour | John J. Lauder† | 1,451 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Martine Bonner | 776 | 28.74 | |
Liberal Democrats | Linda Hall | 762 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Jonathan N. Hunt | 711 | ||
Conservative | Michael A. Roberts | 367 | 13.75 | |
Conservative | David Sandford | 361 | ||
Conservative | Maureen Tomison | 350 | ||
Registered electors | 9,363 | |||
Turnout | 3,015 | 32.20 | ||
Rejected ballots | 4 | 0.13 | ||
Labour hold | ||||
Labour hold | ||||
Labour hold | ||||
John Lauder was a sitting councillor for Brunswick ward
Friary
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Eric A. Godfrey | 1,128 | 50.19 | |
Labour | Robert I. Wingfield* | 1,021 | ||
Labour | Marjorie Henriquez* | 958 | ||
Independent Labour Lion Team | Tony D. Goss* | 766 | 32.75 | |
Independent Labour Lion Team | Ann Goss† | 704 | ||
Independent Labour Lion Team | Brian W. McKeon† | 558 | ||
Conservative | John R. Board | 239 | 11.00 | |
Conservative | Angela H. Meakin | 225 | ||
Conservative | Roy Taylor | 216 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Mark C. Allen | 139 | 6.06 | |
Liberal Democrats | Sandra V. Gray | 126 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Anne M. Sheehan | 111 | ||
Registered electors | 6,413 | |||
Turnout | 2,297 | 35.82 | ||
Rejected ballots | 14 | 0.61 | ||
Labour hold | ||||
Labour hold | ||||
Labour gain from Independent Labour Lion Team | ||||
Ann Goss was a sitting councillor for Browning ward
Brian McKeon was a sitting councillor for Waverley ward
Liddle
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Labour | Mary Ellery* | 1,246 | 88.03 | |
Labour | Daniel McCarthy* | 1,079 | ||
Labour | Deborah Welch* | 1,028 | ||
Conservative | Lawrence D. Kennedy | 178 | 11.97 | |
Conservative | Richard J. Malyon | 148 | ||
Conservative | Kola Olushola | 131 | ||
Registered electors | 8,487 | |||
Turnout | 1,537 | 18.11 | ||
Rejected ballots | 16 | 1.04 | ||
Labour hold | ||||
Labour hold | ||||
Labour hold | ||||
Lyndhurst
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Aubyn StJ. Graham* | 1,846 | 48.76 | |
Labour | Helen M. Shreeve | 1,738 | ||
Labour | Hassan V. Vahib | 1,570 | ||
Conservative | John P. Edwards† | 1,074 | 28.56 | |
Conservative | Mark C. Marshall | 975 | ||
Conservative | Diana M. Ladas | 969 | ||
Green | Peter D. Reid | 453 | 12.86 | |
Liberal Democrats | Alison Farrow | 349 | 9.82 | |
Liberal Democrats | Richard M. Newby | 343 | ||
Registered electors | 8,780 | |||
Turnout | 3,488 | 39.73 | ||
Rejected ballots | 3 | 0.09 | ||
Labour hold | ||||
Labour hold | ||||
Labour hold | ||||
John Edwards was a sitting councillor for Ruskin ward
Newington
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Mark B. Howarth* | 2,016 | 60.27 | |
Labour | Jeremy S. Fraser* | 1,996 | ||
Labour | Roy F. Kennedy* | 1,976 | ||
Conservative | Clive W. Jones | 601 | 17.15 | |
Conservative | Doris J. Pearce | 558 | ||
Conservative | Douglas H. Pearce | 545 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Neville Clemens | 414 | 11.23 | |
Liberal Democrats | Gillian Clemens | 395 | ||
Green | Pauline Christopher | 376 | 11.35 | |
Liberal Democrats | Shirley Petrucci | 306 | ||
Registered electors | 8,775 | |||
Turnout | 3,471 | 39.56 | ||
Rejected ballots | 7 | 0.20 | ||
Labour hold | ||||
Labour hold | ||||
Labour hold | ||||
Riverside
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Lib Dem Focus Team | Elizabeth C. Cole | 1,358 | 50.44 | |
Lib Dem Focus Team | George H. Dunk* | 1,299 | ||
Lib Dem Focus Team | Patricia R. Molloy | 1,285 | ||
Labour | Coral A. Newell* | 1,172 | 40.73 | |
Labour | Rupert J. Doyle | 1,034 | ||
Labour | Leonard D. Fisher | 978 | ||
Conservative | Richard Coultman | 247 | 8.83 | |
Conservative | Anthony Powell | 236 | ||
Conservative | Nicola Meaden | 206 | ||
Registered electors | 6,747 | |||
Turnout | 2,879 | 42.67 | ||
Rejected ballots | 4 | 0.14 | ||
Lib Dem Focus Team hold | ||||
Lib Dem Focus Team hold | ||||
Lib Dem Focus Team gain from Labour | ||||
Rotherhithe
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Lib Dem Focus Team | Frank Pemberton* | 1,706 | 64.20 | |
Lib Dem Focus Team | Victor D. Jones* | 1,649 | ||
Lib Dem Focus Team | Jacqueline E. Bassom* | 1,584 | ||
Labour | John P. Burke | 743 | 25.04 | |
Labour | David C. Brasier | 736 | ||
Labour | Alexander S. Coveney | 448 | ||
BNP | Stephen J. Tyler | 180 | 7.02 | |
Conservative | Pippa E. Holt | 104 | 3.74 | |
Conservative | Stephen Hill | 95 | ||
Conservative | John van der Walt | 88 | ||
Registered electors | 5,900 | |||
Turnout | 2,731 | 46.29 | ||
Rejected ballots | 5 | 0.18 | ||
Lib Dem Focus Team hold | ||||
Lib Dem Focus Team hold | ||||
Lib Dem Focus Team hold | ||||
Ruskin
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Conservative | David S. Bradbury | 1,900 | 41.18 | |
Conservative | Tobias W.H. Eckersley | 1,894 | ||
Conservative | Stephen P. Charge | 1,890 | ||
Labour | David Stephens | 1,809 | 35.59 | |
Labour | Richard D. Exel | 1,557 | ||
Labour | Wycliffe R. Kempadoo | 1,548 | ||
Green | Priscilla M. Waugh | 638 | 13.86 | |
Liberal Democrats | Bernard Webb | 463 | 9.37 | |
Liberal Democrats | Benedict S. Rich | 435 | ||
Liberal Democrats | John T. Weedy | 396 | ||
Registered electors | 7,659 | |||
Turnout | 4,426 | 57.79 | ||
Rejected ballots | 6 | 0.14 | ||
Conservative hold | ||||
Conservative hold | ||||
Conservative hold | ||||
Rye
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Conservative | Irene A. Kimm* | 1,447 | 42.65 | |
Labour | Christopher G. Hughes | 1,425 | 42.92 | |
Labour | Peter Crome | 1,401 | ||
Conservative | Trevor A. Pitman* | 1,361 | ||
Green | Garth P.W. Robertson | 282 | 8.57 | |
Liberal Democrats | Christine M. Watson | 206 | 5.86 | |
Liberal Democrats | Hung K.P. Lee | 179 | ||
Registered electors | 6,565 | |||
Turnout | 3,320 | 50.57 | ||
Rejected ballots | 4 | 0.12 | ||
Conservative hold | ||||
Labour gain from Conservative | ||||
St Giles
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Labour | John F. Roberts | 1,765 | 58.30 | |
Labour | Anthony G. Ritchie* | 1,699 | ||
Labour | Michael H. Idun | 1,627 | ||
Conservative | James Lambert | 497 | 16.45 | |
Conservative | Archibald J. Norman | 473 | ||
Conservative | Bruce C. Embleton | 468 | ||
Green | David S. Donaldson | 411 | 14.12 | |
Liberal Democrats | Emma M. Hewett | 327 | 11.13 | |
Liberal Democrats | Peter E. Duff | 324 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Helen J. Smith | 322 | ||
Registered electors | 8,880 | |||
Turnout | 2,888 | 32.52 | ||
Rejected ballots | 5 | 0.17 | ||
Labour hold | ||||
Labour hold | ||||
Labour hold | ||||
The Lane
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Labour | Leslie H. Alden* | 1,317 | 61.44 | |
Labour | Anne P. Bernadt | 1,261 | ||
Conservative | Malcolm G.W. Wilson | 534 | 25.40 | |
Conservative | Peter B. Conkey | 532 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Philip J. Bonnington | 290 | 13.16 | |
Liberal Democrats | Thomas W. Webster | 262 | ||
Registered electors | 5,729 | |||
Turnout | 2,262 | 39.48 | ||
Rejected ballots | 6 | 0.27 | ||
Labour hold | ||||
Labour hold | ||||
Waverley
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Labour | Michael A. Gibson | 1,313 | 51.64 | |
Labour | Pamela E. Smith† | 1,273 | ||
Lib Dem Focus Team | Celia G. Cooke | 779 | 30.59 | |
Lib Dem Focus Team | Kevin Daws | 752 | ||
Conservative | David J. Harvey | 466 | 17.77 | |
Conservative | Peter A. Withrington | 424 | ||
Registered electors | 5,513 | |||
Turnout | 2,643 | 47.94 | ||
Rejected ballots | 3 | 0.11 | ||
Labour hold | ||||
Labour hold | ||||
Pamela Smith was a sitting councillor for The Lane ward
- Includes results from Lib Dem Focus Team candidates
- Minors, Michael; Grenham, Dennis. "London Borough Council Elections - 3rd May 1990 - Summary of voting statistics by ward - continued" (PDF). London Datastore. London Research Centre. p. 134. Retrieved 11 April 2024.
- Minors, Michael; Grenham, Dennis. "London Borough Council Elections - 3rd May 1990" (PDF). London Datastore. London Research Centre. pp. 72–74, 134–135. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
- Rallings, Colin; Thrasher, Michael. "London Borough of Southwark Election Results 1964-2010" (PDF). Elections Centre. Plymouth University. pp. 8–9. Retrieved 10 April 2024.