Local elections were held in the United Kingdom in 1986.
There was a 3% reduction in the number of councillors, owing to the abolition of the Greater London Council and the Metropolitan County Councils.
The national projected share of the vote was Labour 37%, Conservative 34%, Liberal-SDP Alliance 26%. The Conservatives lost 975 seats, Labour gained 13 seats and the Liberal-SDP Alliance gained 338 seats.
Summary of results
England
London boroughs
In all 32 London boroughs the whole council was up for election.
Metropolitan boroughs
All 36 metropolitan borough councils had one third of their seats up for election.
District councils
Whole council
In 2 districts the whole council was up for election.
In 2 districts there were new ward boundaries, following further electoral boundary reviews by the
Local Government Boundary Commission for England.
‡ New ward boundaries
Third of council
In 121 districts one third of the council was up for election.
Local education authority
This was the first and only election to the directly elected local education authority established by the
Local Government Act 1985
The Local Government Act 1985 is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom. Its main effect was to abolish the six county councils of the metropolitan counties that had been set up in 1974, 11 years earlier, by the Local Government Act 1972 ...
. However, it was short-lived, being abolished four years later by the
Education Reform Act 1988.
Scotland
Regional councils
References
Local elections 2006. House of Commons Library Research Paper 06/26.Vote 1999 BBC NewsVote 2000 BBC News
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