High Peak Council election, 1973

The first elections to High Peak Borough Council in Derbyshire, England were held in 1973. The Borough Council was formed by absorbing the municipal boroughs of Buxton and Glossop, the urban districts of New Mills and Whaley Bridge, and the rural districts of Chapel-en-le-Frith and Tintwistle.

As it was a new borough, all of the council was up for election. No party managed to get an overall majority of councillors, meaning that the council became no overall control.^[1]

After the election, the composition of the council was:

Conservative 23
Labour 11
Liberal 2
Independent 10

Election result

High Peak Local Election Result 1973^[2]
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/-
	Conservative	23	23	0	+23	50	33.0
	Labour	11	11	0	+11	23.9	29.5
	Liberal	2	2	0	+2	4.4	20.4
	Independent (politician)	10	10	0	+10	21.7	17.1
	Green	0	0	0	0	0		230
	Communist	0	0	0	0	0

Ward results

All Saints
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	George Chatterton	927
	Independent	Peter Matthews	690
	Conservative	Edwin Harold Mountain	591
	Labour	Robert Pocklington	554
	Labour	Reginald Grills	479
	Labour	Kenneth Esplin Bracewell	458
	Conservative	William Cowin	432
	Conservative	Thomas Herbert Mettham	399
	Liberal	Kevin John Hill	343
	Green	Geoffrey Thomas Machan	230
Turnout
	Independent win (new seat)
	Independent win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

Barmoor
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Oswald Millner	unopposed
	Independent win (new seat)

Barms
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alfred Henry Hitchings	844
	Labour	Noel Ratcliffe	718
	Conservative	Clive Halliday Pedlow	411
	Conservative	Margaret Wood	370
Turnout
	Labour win (new seat)
	Labour win (new seat)

Blackbrook
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	George Harry White	869
	Independent	Keith Holford	609
	Conservative	Gertrude Gordon Sharp	439
	Conservative	William John Ayres	277
Turnout
	Liberal win (new seat)
	Independent win (new seat)

Buxton Central
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Dennis Raymond Walter	371	58.80
	Labour	Charles Anthony Scouler	151	23.93
	Liberal	Sylvia June Dunlevy	109	17.27
Turnout			631
Majority			220	34.86
	Conservative win (new seat)

Chapel East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Albert Phillips	385	57.81
	Conservative	William Hutchinson	192	28.83
	Liberal	Denis Grundy	89	13.36
Majority			193	28.98
Turnout			666
	Independent win (new seat)

Chapel West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Muriel Bertha Bradbury	644
	Conservative	Kenneth Victor Bradwell	589
	Labour	Melvyn Wright	438
	Liberal	Aubrey Ross-Sharp	404
	Labour	Eric Fox	354
Turnout
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

College
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Elizabeth Jane Allan	unopposed
	Conservative	Ronald Herbert Kennett	unopposed
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

Corbar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Margaret Beatrice Millican	679
	Conservative	Alan Keith Allman	618
	Liberal	Evelyn Mary Briggs	384
Turnout
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

Cote Heath
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Terence Garrie Gill	768
	Labour	William Barton Morley	728
	Conservative	John Francis Charles Pontin	329
	Conservative	Joyce Allwright	325
Turnout
	Labour win (new seat)
	Labour win (new seat)

Hayfield
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Edmund Houghton	735	79.89
	Labour	Jacqueline Elizabeth Cowley	185	20.11
Majority			550	59.78
Turnout			920	59.59
	Conservative win (new seat)

Ladybower
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Constance Rita Bedford	unopposed
	Conservative win (new seat)

Limestone Peak
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Evelyn May Tomlinson	448	59.50
	Independent	Ernest Thomas Walley	305	40.50
Majority			143	18.99
Turnout			753
	Conservative win (new seat)

New Mills North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	P A Shaw	732
	Independent	Frank Morris Bullough	727
	Labour	J Axon	825
	Liberal	Harry Norman Burfoot	708
	Labour	J C Martin	587
	Liberal	D Brown	552
	Liberal	T Shepley	499
Turnout
	Labour win (new seat)
	Independent win (new seat)
	Labour win (new seat)

New Mills South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Frederick Stanway Kitchen	908
	Conservative	L T Townsend	872
	Labour	W H Ferguson	809
	Conservative	Dorothy May Livesley	798
	Liberal	J R Lawton	639
	Labour	F A Roberts	627
	Labour	J H De Mierre	598
	Liberal	E Lavin	464
Turnout
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Labour win (new seat)

Peveril
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Charles David Lewis	548	59.82
	Independent	Eric Marples	246	26.86
	Labour Party (UK)	James Powell	122	13.32
Majority			302	32.97
Turnout			916
	Conservative win (new seat)

St. Andrew's / St. Charles'
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William George Campbell	1577
	Labour	Kenneth David Hoy	1508
	Conservative	Garfield Julian Tomlinson Davies	1361
	Conservative	Sheila Duncan	1331
	Conservative	Denys Toole	1326
	Conservative	Michael Jackson	1319
	Labour	Peter Keelan	1316
	Labour	Francis Walter Stubbs	1305
	Labour	Eric Read	1274
	Labour	James Stanley Byford	1238
	Liberal	Ida Evelyn Walton	1215
	Communist	Robert Ainsworth Heald	unknown
Turnout
	Labour win (new seat)
	Labour win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

St. James'
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ronald Partridge	1063
	Conservative	Alfred Edwin Jenner Leney	1005
	Liberal	Deryck Johnson	994
	Conservative	Kenneth Guy Dickenson	944
	Conservative	William Derek Dunn	937
	Labour	Harold Edward Dunkerley	690
	Labour	Lesley Ann Fowler	573
Turnout
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Liberal win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

St John's
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Brenda Tetlow	572	63.77
	Liberal	Joyce Booth Bamforth	238	26.53
	Labour	David Walker Bowman	87	9.70
Majority			334	37.24
Turnout			897
	Conservative win (new seat)

Stone Bench
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Clifford Poulter	943
	Labour	James Henry Poulton	744
	Independent	Robin Mark Rogers	234
Turnout
	Labour win (new seat)
	Labour win (new seat)

Tintwistle
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Thomas Henry Quayle	453	63.00
	Labour	Ralph Bennett	266	37.00
Majority			187	26.00
Turnout			719
	Conservative win (new seat)

Whaley Bridge 1
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Fredrick Bonsall Woodward	364	63.30
	Labour	Catherine Honor Harlow	211	36.70
Majority			153	26.61
Turnout			575
	Independent win (new seat)

Whaley Bridge 2
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Harold Hastings Littlewood	323	60.72
	Labour	Margaret Stephen Tait Davies	136	25.56
	Independent	Clifford Mealor	73	13.72
Majority			187	35.15
Turnout			532
	Independent win (new seat)

Whaley Bridge 3
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Roger Gilbert Hartley	348	59.18
	Labour	Edgar Winfield	240	40.82
Majority			108	18.37
Turnout			588
	Independent win (new seat)

Whaley Bridge 4
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ralph Frederic Plumley	235	29.34
	Independent	John Arthur Thomas Pritchard	194	24.22
	Liberal	Constance Ann Smith	190	23.72
	Labour	George Kenneth Brown	182	22.72
Majority			41	5.12
Turnout			801
	Conservative win (new seat)

References

^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/vote2007/councils/html/17uh.stm
^ Source: Rallings and Thrasher, Local Elections in Britain: A Statistical Digest, 2003

Preceded by Creation of Borough	High Peak local elections	Succeeded by High Peak Council election, 1976