High Peak Borough Council election, 1979
Elections to High Peak Borough Council in Derbyshire, England were held on 7 May 1979. All of the council was up for election and control of the council changed from Conservative control to no overall control.[1]
Boundary changes since the 1976 local elections reduced the number of seats by 2.
After the election, the composition of the council was:
Election result
High Peak Local Election Result 1979[2] |
Party |
Seats |
Gains |
Losses |
Net gain/loss |
Seats % |
Votes % |
Votes |
+/− |
|
Conservative |
22 |
0 |
5 |
-5 |
50 |
|
|
|
|
Labour |
12 |
4 |
0 |
+4 |
27.3 |
|
|
|
|
Liberal |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
4.5 |
|
|
|
|
Independent |
8 |
0 |
1 |
-1 |
18.2 |
|
|
|
Ward results
All Saints |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Labour |
Stephen Charles Cocks |
1561 |
|
|
|
Independent |
George Chatterton |
1480 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Christopher Sydney Turner |
1313 |
|
|
|
(unknown) |
Kenneth Trevor Powell |
1147 |
|
|
|
(unknown) |
Irene Beatrice Greenhalgh |
1145 |
|
|
|
Liberal |
Robert Michael Love |
1012 |
|
|
Turnout |
|
|
|
|
Labour win (new seat) |
|
Independent win (new seat) |
|
Labour win (new seat) |
Barms |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Independent |
Alfred Henry Hitchings |
1467 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Barbara Mary Langham |
1108 |
|
|
|
Conservative |
Albert Peter Inglefield |
801 |
|
|
|
(unknown) |
Cecil George Wallace |
720 |
|
|
Turnout |
|
|
|
|
Independent win (new seat) |
|
Labour win (new seat) |
Chapel East |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Independent |
Albert Phillips |
622 |
55.59 |
|
|
(unknown) |
Cheryl Mary Dawson |
337 |
30.11 |
|
|
Independent |
Desmond Francis Bryan |
160 |
14.30 |
|
Majority |
285 |
25.47 |
|
Turnout |
1119 |
|
|
|
Independent win (new seat) |
Cote Heath |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Labour |
Terence Garrie Gill |
910 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Noel Ratcliffe |
824 |
|
|
|
(unknown) |
Dennis Roy Surrey |
654 |
|
|
|
(unknown) |
Heather Michelle Robinson |
491 |
|
|
|
(unknown) |
Iris Tamsons |
397 |
|
|
Turnout |
|
|
|
|
Labour win (new seat) |
|
Labour win (new seat) |
Gamesley |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Labour |
John Francis |
1420 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Richard John Cooke |
1346 |
|
|
|
(unknown) |
Harry Lemon |
498 |
|
|
|
(unknown) |
Lynn Watson |
460 |
|
|
|
(unknown) |
Robert Ainsworth Heald |
37 |
|
|
Turnout |
|
|
|
|
Labour win (new seat) |
|
Labour win (new seat) |
Hayfield |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Independent |
Fred Barnes |
854 |
57.16 |
|
|
Conservative |
Herbert David Mellor |
407 |
27.24 |
|
|
Labour |
David John Wilcox |
233 |
15.60 |
|
Majority |
447 |
29.92 |
|
Turnout |
1494 |
|
|
|
Independent win (new seat) |
Limestone Peak |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Independent |
Evelyn May Tomlinson |
unopposed |
|
|
|
Independent win (new seat) |
New Mills South |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Conservative |
John Keith McMurray |
1226 |
|
|
|
Liberal |
Harry Norman Burfoot |
1155 |
|
|
|
Labour |
Lawrence Gordon Allen |
858 |
|
|
|
(unknown) |
Frank Morris Bullough |
758 |
|
|
|
(unknown) |
Dorothy Edna Fryman |
424 |
|
|
Turnout |
|
|
|
|
Conservative win (new seat) |
|
Liberal win (new seat) |
Peveril |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Independent |
Charles David Lewis |
unopposed |
|
|
|
Independent win (new seat) |
St John's |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Conservative |
Brenda Tetlow |
934 |
82.00 |
|
|
(unknown) |
Joan Wilcox |
205 |
18.00 |
|
Majority |
729 |
64.00 |
|
Turnout |
1139 |
|
|
|
Conservative win (new seat) |
Simmondley |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Conservative |
William Roderick Heath |
674 |
43.07 |
|
|
(unknown) |
Michael William Slattery |
470 |
30.03 |
|
|
Independent |
Joyce Ashley |
421 |
26.90 |
|
Majority |
204 |
13.04 |
|
Turnout |
1565 |
|
|
|
Conservative win (new seat) |
Stone Bench |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Labour |
William Barton Morley |
1577 |
|
|
|
Labour |
James Henry Poulton |
1398 |
|
|
|
(unknown) |
Alexander Taylor-Clague |
553 |
|
|
Turnout |
|
|
|
|
Labour win (new seat) |
|
Labour win (new seat) |
Tintwistle |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Labour |
Ralph Bennett |
480 |
51.67 |
|
|
(unknown) |
Clifford Pennington |
449 |
48.33 |
|
Majority |
31 |
3.33 |
|
Turnout |
929 |
|
|
|
Labour win (new seat) |
Whaley Bridge |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Independent |
John Arthur Thomas Pritchard |
2193 |
|
|
|
Independent |
Fredrick Bonsall Woodward |
1854 |
|
|
|
Conservative |
Harold Hastings Littlewood |
1601 |
|
|
|
(unknown) |
Martin Struan Burch |
1203 |
|
|
|
Labour |
George Kenneth Brown |
1147 |
|
|
|
(unknown) |
Bernard George Everett |
887 |
|
|
Turnout |
|
|
|
|
Independent win (new seat) |
|
Independent win (new seat) |
|
Conservative win (new seat) |
References
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