Scottish District local elections, 1984

1982 ←

3 May 1984 (1984-05-03)

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Local elections were held in Scotland on Thursday 3 May 1984, to elect members to all 53 district councils under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, which had established the two-tier system of regions and districts. This was the first election to take place after the 1983 landslide victory for Mrs Thatcher, which resulted in the Labour taking control of City of Edinburgh for the first time.

1 National results
2 Results by council area
3 Notes and references
4 See also

National results

e • d **Summary of the 1984 Scottish district council election results^[1]**
Parties		Votes %	Wards
	Labour	45.7	545
	SNP	11.7	59
	Conservative	21.4	189
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	12.8	78
	Independent	6.8	267
	Other
Total		n/a	~1158

Results by council area

The numbers of seats on each council before and after the election were as follows:^[2]

Borders

Council	Labour	Conservative	Liberal & SDP	Independent
Berwickshire	0	8 (-3)	SDP 1	0	Conservative hold
Ettrick and Lauderdale	2 (+1)	1 (-1)	0	13	Independent hold
Roxburgh	0	5	Lib 3 (+2) SDP 1	7 (-2)	Independents lose to NOC
Tweeddale	0	0	0	10	Independent hold

Central

Council	Labour	Conservative	SNP	Independent
Clackmannan	7 (+3)	1	2 (-3)	0	Labour hold
Falkirk	25 (+1)	2 (-1)	7 (+1)	2 (-1)	Labour hold
Stirling	11 (+1)	8 (-1)	0	1	Labour hold

Dumfries and Galloway

Council	Labour	Conservative	SNP	Liberal	Independent	Other
Annandale and Eskdale	0	0	0	4 (+4)	12 (-4)	0	Independent hold
Nithsdale	6 (+1)	7 (+1)	7 (+1)	0	7 (-4)	Independent Labour 1 (+1)	No Overall Control
Stewartry	0	0	0	0	12	0	Independent hold
Wigtown	0	0	1 (+1)	0	13 (-1)	0	Independent hold

Fife

Council	Labour	Conservative	SNP	Liberal & SDP	Independent	Other
Dunfermline‡	24	2	1	Lib 3 SDP 3	0	Communist 1	Labour hold
Kirkcaldy‡	30	3	1	SDP 2 Lib 1	2	Ratepayers 1	Labour hold
North-East Fife	0	6 (-4)	0	Liberal 10 (+4)	2	0	Liberal gain from Conservatives

‡ New ward boundaries

Grampian

Council	Labour	Conservative	SNP	Liberal	Independent
Banff and Buchan	0	2 (+1)	5	0	11 (-1)	Independent hold
City of Aberdeen‡	28	8	0	14	0	Labour hold
Gordon	0	3 (-1)	0	2 (+1)	7	Independent hold
Kincardine and Deeside	0	3	1	1	7	Independent hold
Moray	1 (+1)	0	2 (+1)	0	15 (-2)	Independent hold

Highland

Council	Labour	Conservative	SNP	Liberal & SDP	Independent	Other
Badenoch and Strathspey‡ 1 vacancy	0	0	1	0	9	0	Independent hold
Caithness 1 vacancy	0	0	0	Lib 1	14	0	Independent hold
Inverness‡	8 (-1)	0	0	Lib 2	18 (+1)	0	Independent hold
Lochaber‡	5	0	0	0	8	Independent Labour 2	Independent hold
Nairn	1 (+1)	0	0	0	9 (-1)	0	Independent hold
Ross and Cromarty‡ 1 vacancy	2	1	0	0	18	0	Independent hold
Skye and Lochalsh	0	0	0	SDP 1 (+1)	10 (-1)	0	Independent hold
Sutherland	0	0	0	0	14	0	Independent hold

‡ Changes in ward boundaries

Lothian

Council	Labour	Conservative	SNP	Liberal	Independent
City of Edinburgh	34 (+8)	22 (-9)	2	4 (+3)	0 (-2)	Labour gain from NOC
East Lothian	11 (+1)	6(-1)	0	0	0	Labour hold
Midlothian	14 (+1)	1	0	1	0 (-1)	Labour hold
West Lothian‡	19	0	2	0	3	Labour hold