Elections to

Tower Hamlets London Borough Council Tower Hamlets London Borough Council, also known as Tower Hamlets Council, is the local authority for the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in Greater London, England. It is a London borough council, one of 32 in London. The council has been under ...

were held on 9 May 1968. The whole council was up for election. Turnout was 14.3%. Until

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, each London council had

aldermen An alderman is a member of a municipal assembly or council in many jurisdictions founded upon English law with similar officials existing in the Netherlands (wethouder) and Belgium (schepen). The term may be titular, denoting a high-ranking membe ...

, in the ratio of one aldermen to six councillors. Tower Hamlets had ten aldermen. Following the elections, Tower Hamlets elected five aldermen, who served until

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. The remaining five aldermen had been elected in

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and would serve until

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. All aldermen on Tower Hamlets were Labour.

Election result

Ward results

Bethnal Green Central

Bethnal Green East

Bethnal Green North

Bethnal Green South

Bethnal Green West

Bow North

Bow South

Bromley

Holy Trinity

Limehouse

Poplar East

Poplar Millwall

Poplar South

Poplar West

Redcoat

St Dunstan's

St Katherine's

St Mary's

Shadwell

Spitalfields

References

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1968 Events January–February * January 1968, January – The I'm Backing Britain, I'm Backing Britain campaign starts spontaneously. * January 5 – Prague Spring: Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Cze ...

1968 London Borough council elections 20th century in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets