Scottish regional elections, 1978

2 May 1978 (1978-05-02)

	First party	Second party


Leader	James Callaghan	Margaret Thatcher
Party	Labour	Conservative
Leader since	5 April 1976	11 February 1975

	Third party	Fourth party

Leader	David Steel	William Wolfe
Party	Liberal	SNP
Leader since	1976	1969

Colours denote the winning party with outright control

Regional elections were held in Scotland on Tuesday 2 May 1978, as part of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973. They saw a resurgence of support for the Labour Party, retaining control of Strathclyde and Fife and winning Central and Lothian.

National results

Summary of the 1978 Scottish regional council election results^[1]^[2]


Parties		Votes %
	Labour	39.6
	SNP	20.9
	Conservative	30.3
	Liberal	2.3
	Independent/Other	6.8
Total

More Details can be found: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC on 3 and 4 May 1978

Results by council area

Council^[3]^[4]	Labour	Conservative	SNP	Liberal & SDP	Independent	Other		Details
Borders‡							Independent hold	Details
Central‡							Labour Gain	Details
Dumfries and Galloway‡							Independent hold	Details
Fife‡							Labour hold	Details
Grampian‡	13	33	2	2	3	0	Conservative Hold	Details
Highland‡							Independent Hold	Details
Lothian‡	26	18	3	1	1	0	Labour Gain	Details
Orkney‡							Independent Hold	Details
Shetland‡							Independent Hold	Details
Strathclyde‡	73	25	2	2	1	0	Labour Hold	Details
Tayside‡	15	25	0	0	6	0	Conservative Hold	Details
Na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles)‡							Independent Hold	Details

References

↑ McConnell, Alan (2004), Scottish Local Government, Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 978-0-7486-2005-0
↑ Rallings, Colin; Thrasher, Michael (2013). Local Elections in Britain. Routledge. pp. Table 7.5.
↑ 3 May
↑ 4 May

Elections and referendums in Scotland

Parliamentary elections	Pre-1707 1999 2003 2007 2011 2016

Local elections	1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1977 1978 1980 1982 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1995 1999 2003 2007 2012 2017

Referendums	1979 1997 2014

Local referendums	Scottish licensing referendums, 1920 Strathclyde (water) 1994 Edinburgh (congestion charge) 2005

See also: Elections in Great Britain (1707–1800) United Kingdom Politics of Scotland

(1977 ←) United Kingdom local elections, 1978 (→ 1979)

London boroughs	Barking Barnet Bexley Brent Bromley Camden Croydon Ealing Enfield Greenwich Hackney Hammersmith Haringey Harrow Havering Hillingdon Hounslow Islington Kensington and Chelsea Kingston upon Thames Lambeth Lewisham Merton Newham Redbridge Richmond upon Thames Southwark Sutton Tower Hamlets Waltham Forest Wandsworth Westminster

Metropolitan boroughs	Barnsley Birmingham Bradford Bolton Bury Calderdale Coventry Doncaster Dudley Gateshead Kirklees Knowsley Leeds Liverpool Manchester Newcastle North Tyneside Oldham Rochdale Rotherham Salford Sandwell Sefton Sheffield Solihull South Tyneside St Helens Stockport Sunderland Tameside Trafford Wakefield Walsall Wigan Wirral Wolverhampton

District councils (England)	Basingstoke and Deane Brentwood Broxbourne Burnley Cambridge Cannock Chase Chorley Colchester Congleton Eastbourne Eastleigh Ellesmere Port and Neston Elmbridge Fareham Halton Harlow Hart Hartlepool Havant Hertsmere Huntingdon Milton Keynes Mole Valley Pendle Peterborough Preston Rochford Rossendale Runnymede Shrewsbury and Atcham South Bedfordshire South Cambridgeshire Southend-on-Sea Tamworth Tandridge Thamesdown Three Rivers Tunbridge Wells Watford Welwyn Hatfield West Lancashire Winchester Woking

Regional councils (Scotland)	Borders Central Dumfries and Galloway Fife Grampian Highland Lothian Orkney Shetland Strathclyde Tayside Western Isles

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