Liverpool City Council election, 1980

Elections to Liverpool City Council were held on 6 May 1980.

Following boundary changes, the entire council was up for election (3 Councillors for each ward). The candidates with the highest number of votes in each ward were elected until 1984, the candidates with the second highest number of votes were elected until 1983 and the candidates with the third highest number of votes were elected until 1982.

The Labour party retained overall control of the council.

After the election, the composition of the council was:

Party		Seats	±
	Labour	??	??
	Liberal Party (UK)	??	??
	Conservative Party (UK)	??	??

Election result

Liverpool Local Election Result 1980
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Labour
	Liberal
	Conservative
	Green
	Communist
	Others

Ward results

* - Councillor seeking re-election

^(PARTY) - Party of former Councillor

Abercromby

Abercromby 3 seats
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Chris Davies	2,040	56%
	Liberal	Alan Troy	1,696	46%
	Liberal	David Vasmer	1,692	46%
	Labour	Owen Joseph Doyle *	1,308	36%
	Labour	Edward Shields *	1,301	36%
	Labour	Violet McCoy *	1,292	36%
	Communist	Roger o'Hara	311	8%
		Ian McFall	132
		Eric Wardle Mossford	116
		Ernest Peat	107
Majority			732
Registered electors
Turnout

Aigburth

Aigburth 3 seats
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Catherine Hancox	2,271
	Liberal	Trevor Jones	2,266
	Liberal	Peter Millea	2,054
		Olga Yvonne Hughes	2,011
	Conservative	Paul Davies Gill (PARTY)	1,950
	Conservative	John James Swainbank (PARTY)	1,926
		Frank Winstanley Longworth	841
		Francis Stanley Roderick	771
		Francis Joseph Wiles	742
Majority
Registered electors
Turnout

Allerton

Allerton 3 seats
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sheila Elizabeth Crane (PARTY)	3,169
	Conservative	James Stanislaw Ross *	2,266
	Conservative	William Herbert Fearnside *	3,135
		Hilton Robert Brown	1,092
		Michael O'Neill	1,079
		John Henry Stamper	1,006
		Thomas Henry Harte	932
	Liberal	Neville Gordon Chinn	930
	Liberal	Yetta Jacobs	831
Majority
Registered electors
Turnout

Anfield

Anfield 3 seats
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Myra Fitsimmons	1,660
	Liberal	Paul Vincent Downes	1,587
	Liberal	Catherine Kaufmann	1,570
		Helen Powell	1,559
	Conservative	Thomas Philip Pink	1,500
	Conservative	James Hugh Brash	1,465
		David Cowley	1,373
		Thomas McManus	1,302
		Andrew Williams	1,286
Majority
Registered electors
Turnout

Arundel

Arundel 3 seats
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Charles Hutchinson *	1,678
	Labour	Julie Lyon-Taylor *	1,580
		Patrick Grannell	1,536
		John Hemmingway	1,508
	Liberal	Roger Johnston	1,506
		Ian George Williams	1,463
	Conservative	Ronald Spencer Fairclough *	1,250
		Donald Malcolm Green	1,166
	Conservative	Helen Margaret Rigby	1,049
		Rosita Marc	143
Majority
Registered electors
Turnout

Breckfield

Breckfield 3 seats
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	David Michael Bruce Croft *	2,367
	Liberal	Frank McNevin *	2,3318
	Liberal	William Roberts	2,173
	Labour	John Connolly *	1,307
	Labour	Philip Howard Rowe	1,187
	Labour	Miriam Ann Jones	1,166
	Conservative	James Butterfield	484
	Conservative	Brian John Hawkins	376
	Conservative	Teresa Hawkins
Majority
Registered electors
Turnout

Broadgreen

Broadgreen 3 seats
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Rosemary Cooper *	2,066
	Liberal	James Joyce	1,847
	Liberal	Geoffrey Smith	1,766
		Barbara Lucile Walsh	1,469
		Frederick Christopher Burgess	1,474
		David James Minahan	1,448
		Charles James Lister	1,416
		John Vincent Walsh	1,427
		Richard Donald Oughton	1,395
Majority
Registered electors
Turnout

Childwall

Childwall 3 seats
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Alan Newton Fearnside *	2,938
	Conservative	Mervin Kingston *	2,896
	Conservative	Stanley Airey *	2,881
		Teddy Gold	2,069
		Edward Richard Goldsmith	1,964
		William Alan Barton	1,927
		William Edward Bolland	830
		Joyce Elizabeth Edwards	807
		Leslie Evans	773
Majority
Registered electors
Turnout

Church

Church 3 seats
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Robert Fryer Symington *	3,266
	Liberal	Cyril Eric Carr *	3,231
	Conservative	Sally Atherton	3,148
		Stanley Pickering	3,044
	Liberal	Edward Martin Brash	2,859
	Liberal	Leonard Tyrer *	2,832
	Labour	Robert Julian Clarke	886
		Robert Joseph Quick	878
		David Philip Power	857
Majority
Registered electors
Turnout

Clubmoor

Clubmoor 3 seats
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Michael John Storey *	2,745
	Liberal	Angela Warburton *	2,517
	Liberal	John Bowen	2,388
	Labour	John Conolly	1,307
	Labour	Philip Howard Rowe (PARTY)	1,187
		Miriam Ann Jones	1,166
	Conservative	James Butterfield	484
	Conservative	Brian John hawkins	376
	Conservative	Teresa Hawkins	342
Majority
Registered electors
Turnout

County

County 3 seats
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Paul Clark *	1,961
	Liberal	Neil Cardwell *	1,929
	Labour	Pauline Ann Dunlop *	1,734
		Paul Raymond Kelly	1,719
		Edith Flanders	1,684
		Walter Frederick Roe	1,614
	Conservative	Henry Brown	1,223
		William Thomas	1,043
		Charles Peter Loller	1,032
Majority
Registered electors
Turnout

Croxteth

Croxteth 3 seats
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Geoffrey Elsmore Brandwoodc *	2,656
	Conservative	Frederick Robert Butler *	2,626
	Conservative	Ernest Henry Fitzpatrick *	2,607
	Labour	Francis Burke	1,289
	Labour	John Mooney	1,109
	Liberal	Ivan Clews	1,089
		Alfred Clifford Swannell	1,064
		Thomas Richard Jones	1,035
	Liberal	Eileen Margaret Clews	1,018
Majority
Registered electors
Turnout

Dingle

Dingle 3 seats
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Richard Charles Kemp	1,929
		Lisa Jones	1,881
	Liberal	Charles Collins	1,734
	Labour	Mabel Evans *	1,684
	Labour	Roy Stoddart *	1,606
	Labour	Sydney Wynne Jones *	1,490
	Conservative	David Walter Patmore	689
	Conservative	Julie Margaret Shaw	675
	Communist	James Greig	110
Majority
Registered electors
Turnout

Dovecot

Dovecot 3 seats
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Edward Burke *	2,469
	Labour	Wilfred Patrick Johnson *	2,432
	Labour	William Henry Westbury *	2,394
	Conservative	John Leslie Walsh	940
		Harold Glover	921
		William John Turner	805
		Daphne Cookson Turner	271
	Liberal	William John Cooper	254
		Elizabeth Valerie Higgins	183
Majority
Registered electors
Turnout

Everton

Everton 3 seats
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	James Parry *
	Labour	Dominic Brady (PARTY)	1,347
	Labour	James Edward Walker *	1,306
	Liberal	Kevin Andrew Sewill	451
		Peter O'Neill	437
	Liberal	William Barrow	415
	Conservative	David John Lewis	195
	Conservative	Gerard Widdows	116
	Communist	Robert Cartwright	83
Majority
Registered electors
Turnout

Fazakerley

Fazakerley 3 seats
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David John Lloyd *	2,026
		John Philip Prince	1,812
	Labour	Robert Charles Gregory	1,804
	Conservative	Tina Myrtle Gould	1,260
	Conservative	Albert Brown *	1,170
		Edwin Marshall Clein	1,087
	Liberal	Harold Glyn Rogers *	741
		John George Morgan	719
		Alan Moulton	709
Majority
Registered electors
Turnout

Gillmoss

Gillmoss 3 seats
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Edward Deakin Roderick *	2,181
	Labour	Peter John Murphy *	2,112
	Labour	William Ralph Snell *'	1,978
	Conservative	Alfred Gore	456
	Conservative	Pauline Dougherty	434
		William Edward Brown	413
		June Jones	245
		Marguerite Dagny Bridge	231
		Audrey May Loughney	199
Majority
Registered electors
Turnout

Granby

Granby 3 seats
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alexander Doswell *	1,910
	Labour	John Dunstan Hamilton *	1,805
	Labour	David Raymond Leach (PARTY)	1,649
	Liberal	Arthur Eric Damsell	1,162
		Adrian Michael Bell	969
	Liberal	Jeffrey Lamb	921
	Conservative	Arthur Palin	478
	Conservative	William Thomas	442
		Edward John Donald Williams	441
	Communist	Jack Kay	10
Majority
Registered electors
Turnout

Grassendale

Grassendale 3 seats
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Harold Lea	3,464
	Conservative	Thomas Lyrian Hobday	3,443
	Conservative	Ernest Francis Pine	3,312
	Liberal	Gerard Patrick Scott	1,268
		Iris Hilda Rothwell	1,203
	Liberal	Barbara Kemp	1,149
		Alfred Vincent Rule	791
		Elizabeth Frances Kingdom	737
		Keith John Connolly	700
Majority
Registered electors
Turnout

Kensington

Kensington 3 seats
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Francis Joseph Doran *	2,806
	Liberal	Graham Hulme (PARTY)	2,637
	Liberal	Joyce Grace Stephenson (PARTY)	2,567
		Leonard Ashworth	737
		Vincent Peter Hyams	724
	Labour	Glynn George Pratt	707
		Mary Davis	408
		David Evans	401
		Robert James Wilson	360
Majority
Registered electors
Turnout

Melrose

Melrose 3 seats
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Lafferty *	1,855
	Labour	William Francis Burke (PARTY)	1,692
	Labour	Michael George Dalling (PARTY)	1,399
		Annetta McDonnell	491
		Steven Loughney	481
		Ronald Joseph Taylor	444
		Julie Ann Carpenter	416
		Daniel Gerard Dougherty	407
		Frank Oldham	355
		James Joseph Hasting	96
		Maureen Owens	95
		Helen Barlow	90
Majority
Registered electors
Turnout

Netherley

Netherley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Margaret Rose Delaney *	2,003
	Labour	Derek Anthony Hatton *	1,979 *
	Labour	Heather Bryers *	1,894
		James Connor	522
		James Anthony Dougherty	486
	Conservative	William David Henry	458
		Audrey Elsie Ralph	239
		Mary Stubbs	213
		Owen Henry Williams	212
		Brian O'Keefe	148
Majority
Registered electors
Turnout

Old Swan

Old Swan 3 seats
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Peter Joseph Lloyd *	1,743
	Liberal	Josephine Smith	1,725
	Liberal	Francis Richard Haywood	1,603
	Liberal	Peter Mahon *	1,586
		Jane Ann Hollinshead	1,514
	Labour	Michael Joseph Smith	1,405
	Conservative	William Henry Connolly	1,053
		Donald Ellis	1,022
		Alan Graham Wilson	931
	Independent Liberal	Keith McCullough	308
	Independent Liberal	William John McCullough	293
	Communist	Harry Mohin	127
Majority
Registered electors
Turnout

Picton

Picton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Pamela Bradley *	3,471
	Liberal	John Bradley (PARTY)	3,461
	Liberal	Herbert Edward Herrity *	3,202
		Graham John Barrett	1,164
	Labour	Ernest Albert Taylor	1,131
		John Swarbrooke	1,034
		Iain Sutherland Picton	405
		Felicity Anne Hopkin	403
		Hugh Robert Johnston	394
	Communist	John Gilbert Volleamere	151
Majority
Registered electors
Turnout

Pirrie

Pirrie 3 seats
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Hugh Dalton *	2,884
	Labour	Michael Black *	2,587
	Labour	Peter Owens *	2,374
	Conservative	Christine Perkins	887
	Conservative	Joan Mary Wright	848
	Conservative	Muriel May Brown
	Liberal	Thomas Owen	665
	Liberal	Charles Mayes	508
	Liberal	Marion Josephine Cardwell	482
Majority
Registered electors
Turnout

St. Mary's

St. Mary's
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Edward Loyden	2,351
	Labour	Stanley Ronald Maddox *	2,089
	Labour	Robert Charles Evans	2,039
		Elizabeth Foster	1,319
		Derek Raymond Hawes	1,280
	Conservative	Robert Albert Parkes	1,249
		Philip James Message	301
		Georgina May Owen	291
		James Martin Loughney	277
	Communist	John Malcolm McQueen	199
Majority
Registered electors
Turnout

Smithdown

Smithdown
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Anne Clitherow	2,130
	Liberal	Joseph Sydney Clitherow	2,046
	Liberal	Ernest Richard Stephenson	1,949
		Peter Thomas Devaney	1,391
		Paul Herbert Gray	1,240
		Joseph Stanton	1,239
		John Atherton	285
	Conservative	James McDermott	234
		Rolland Louis Zollner	129
Majority
Registered electors
Turnout

Speke

Speke
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Joseph Maudsley *	2,005
	Labour	Kenneth McKenzie Stewart *	1,877
	Labour	John McLean *	1,833
	Conservative	Thomas Morrison	524
	Conservative	Ann Nugent	409
	Conservative	Edward Gordon Shaw	407
	Liberal	Susan Jean Downes	134
	Liberal	Veronica Margaret Best	122
	Liberal	Eileen Dunlop	130
Majority
Registered electors
Turnout

Tuebrook

Tuebrook
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Robert Gore	2,467
	Liberal	John Thomas Jones	2,147
	Liberal	Richard Pine	2,210
	Labour	John Eric Roberts *	1,414
	Conservative	John Irving *	1,362
		Terence McDonald	1,311
		Kathleen Margaret Mary Coombes	1,186
		William Scott	1,083
		Eric Lloyd	1,077
Majority
Registered electors
Turnout

Valley

Valley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Henry Smith	1,923
	Labour	Anthony John Byrne	1,882
	Labour	Terence Harrison	`1863
	Conservative	Stephen Fitzsimmons	999
	Conservative	Susan Elizabeth Byrom	988
	Conservative	Stephen Richard Marsden	931
	Liberal	Henry Ronald Jones	625
	Liberal	Marie Fox	622
	Liberal	Edward Jameson	620
Majority
Registered electors
Turnout

Vauxhall

Vauxhall
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Paul Orr *	1,726
	Labour	Anthony Dunford *	1,668
	Labour	Joseph Morgan *	1,657
		Thomas Vincent Browne	385
	Liberal	Stephen Richard Radford	352
		Grahame Young	301
		Charles Edward Jennings	88
		Thomas Stockdale	80
		Charles Edwin Thorne	77
		William Albertina	77
Majority
Registered electors
Turnout

Warbreck

Warbreck
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ronald Gould	1,849
	Conservative	Reginald Bernard Flude *	1,811
	Conservative	Ian Brown	1,681
	Liberal	Joseph Lang *	1,525
	Labour	Paul John Summerfeld *	1,486
	Liberal	Elsie Joan Lang	1,447
	Liberal	Richard John Roberts	1,393
	Labour	Peter Francis McAllister	1,386
	Labour	Joseph Aidan Devaney	1,345
Majority
Registered electors
Turnout

Woolton

Woolton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ruth Dean *	3,883
	Conservative	Christopher Geoffrey Hallows	3,770
	Conservative	Anthony McVeigh	3,798
	Labour	Philip Richard Martin	1,010
	Labour	Owen McDonough	998
	Labour	David Alan Bradbury	923
		Philip Martin Freeman	469
		Richard Powell	438
		Ann Ryan	423
Majority
Registered electors
Turnout

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