The 1992 United Kingdom local elections were held on Thursday 7 May 1992, one month after the 1992 general election which returned the governing Conservative Party for a fourth consecutive term in office. The Conservatives won back some ground that they had lost the previous year.^[1][2]

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1992 United Kingdom local elections

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All 36 metropolitan boroughs, 114 out of 296 English districts and all 53 Scottish districts
Majority party Minority party Third party   Leader Neil Kinnock John Major Paddy Ashdown Party Labour Conservative Liberal Democrats Leader since 2 October 1983 27 November 1990 16 July 1988 Percentage 30% 46% 20% Councillors 9,102 8,288 3,728 Councillors +/- 402 303 56

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The Conservative Party gained 303 seats, bringing their number of councillors to 8,288. Their share of the vote was projected to be 46%, their highest for many years.

The main opposition Labour Party lost 402 seats and were left with 9,102 councillors. Their projected share of the vote was 30%, their lowest since 1982. Neil Kinnock was still party leader at this stage, although he had already declared his intention to resign from the position as soon as a new leader was elected; his successor was John Smith, who won the leadership contest against Bryan Gould on 18 July 1992.

The Liberal Democrats gained 56 seats and had 3,728 councillors after the elections.