Greater London Council election, 1981

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	Votes	Share of Vote (%)	% Change	Seats Won	Seats Change
Labour	939,457	41.8	+8.9	50	+22
Conservative	894,234	39.7	-12.8	41	-23
Liberal	323,856	14.4	+6.6	1	+1
National Front	21,582	1.0	-4.4	0	0
Social Democratic	21,582	1.0	N/A	0	0
Ecology	17,515	0.8	+0.7	0	0
Independent	7,763	0.3	+0.2	0	0
New National Front	5,877	0.3	N/A	0	0
Communist	5,275	0.2	-0.1	0	0
National Front Constitutional Movement	4,857	0.2	N/A	0	0
Workers' Revolutionary	2,753	0.1	N/A	0	0

Turnout: 2,250,118 people voted. All parties with more than 2,000 votes shown.

This was the last election to the GLC. The Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher took the decision to abolish the council in the mid-80s. For more information on this see the article, Greater London Council. Following the abolition of the GLC, there were direct elections to the Inner London Education Authority in 1986.