1988 Stevenage Borough Council election

1988 Stevenage Borough Council election^[1]^[2]

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5 May 1988

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13 of the 39 seats to Stevenage Borough Council
20 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Party	Labour	SLD	Conservative
Last election	26	12	1
Seats before	25	12	1
Seats won	13	0	0
Seats after	27	10	1
Seat change	2	2
Popular vote	12,845	4,390	6,084
Percentage	54.9%	18.7%	26.0%

Map showing the results of contested wards in the 1988 Stevenage Borough Council elections.

Council control before election

Labour

Council control after election

Labour

The 1988 Stevenage Borough Council election took place on 5 May 1988. This was on the same day as other local elections. One third of the council was up for election; the seats which were last contested in 1984. The Labour Party retained control of the council, which it had held continuously since its creation in 1973.

Overall results[edit]

1988 Stevenage Borough Council Election
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Labour	13	2	0	2	100.0	54.9	12,845	7.1
	Conservative	0	0	0		0.0	26.0	6,084	2.1
	SLD	0	0	2	2	0.0	18.7	4,390	5.4
	Green	0	0	0		0.0	0.4	95	New
Total		13						23,414

	Labour hold

All comparisons in seats and vote share are to the corresponding 1984 election.

Ward results[edit]

Bandley Hill[edit]

Bandley Hill^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	D. Woodward	1,504	69.3%
	Conservative	F. Warner	410	18.9%
	SLD	D. Cleary	255	11.8%
Turnout				36.3%
	Labour hold

Bedwell Plash[edit]

Bedwell Plash^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	M. Downing	1,166	69.2%
	Conservative	M. Mowe	389	23.1%
	SLD	J. Wren	131	7.8%
Turnout				42.8%
	Labour hold

Chells[edit]

Chells^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	K. Vale	769	66.9%
	Conservative	A. Ffinch	249	21.7%
	SLD	Horne J.	132	11.5%
Turnout				35.8%
	Labour hold

Longmeadow[edit]

Longmeadow^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	P. Davies	1,034	42.5%
	SLD	D. Millbrow	749	30.8%
	Conservative	L. Irons	648	26.7%
Turnout				48.0%
	Labour gain from SLD

Martins Wood[edit]

Martins Wood^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	G. Marshall	834	40.6%
	Conservative	J. Devey	623	30.3%
	SLD	Herbert P.	503	24.5%
	Green	M. Fowler	95	4.6%
Turnout				43.4%
	Labour hold

Mobbsbury[edit]

Mobbsbury^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	R. Davies	753	46.3%
	SLD	C. Lewis	626	38.5%
	Conservative	G. Smith	247	15.2%
Turnout				46.8 %
	Labour gain from SLD

Monkswood[edit]

Monkswood^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	B. Jackson	763	73.4%
	Conservative	S. Huetson	183	17.6%
	SLD	P. Younger	93	9.0%
Turnout				42.5%
	Labour hold

Old Stevenage[edit]

Old Stevenage^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	H. Morris	1,158	47.6%
	Conservative	F. Haine	1,044	42.9%
	SLD	A. Christy	230	9.5%
Turnout				46.2%
	Labour hold

Pin Green[edit]

Pin Green^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	A. Campbell	1,001	61.9%
	Conservative	M. Allen	436	26.9%
	SLD	V. Kelleher	181	11.2%
Turnout				41.5%
	Labour hold

Roebuck[edit]

Roebuck^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	F. Schofield	979	48.3%
	SLD	T. Allen	547	27.0%
	Conservative	P. McPartland	501	24.7%
Turnout				48.2%
	Labour hold

St Nicholas[edit]

St Nicholas^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	R. Fowler	742	46.5%
	SLD	J. Lucioli	528	33.1%
	Conservative	S. Woods	325	20.4%
Turnout				41.9%
	Labour hold

Shephall[edit]

Shephall^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	R. Clark	935	70.0%
	Conservative	D. Mynott	273	20.4%
	SLD	A. Simister	127	9.5%
Turnout				38.4%
	Labour hold

Symonds Green[edit]

Symonds Green^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	S. Munden	1,207	53.6%
	Conservative	M. Notley	756	33.6%
	SLD	G. Balderstone	288	12.8%
Turnout				42.3%
	Labour hold

References[edit]

^ "Council compositions by year". The Elections Centre.
^ "Local Election Summaries 1988". The Elections Centre.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m "Stevenage Borough Council Election Results 1973–2012" (PDF). Retrieved 11 July 2019.

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