Local government Local government is a generic term for the lowest tiers of governance or public administration within a particular sovereign state. Local governments typically constitute a subdivision of a higher-level political or administrative unit, such a ...

elections An election is a formal group decision-making process whereby a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operated ...

took place in

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, and some other parts of the

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on Thursday 7 May 1998. All

London borough The London boroughs are the current 32 districts of England, local authority districts that together with the City of London make up the administrative area of Greater London, England; each is governed by a London borough council. The present ...

council seats were up for election. The

1998 Greater London Authority referendum The 1998 Greater London Authority referendum was held in Greater London on 7 May 1998. The referendum asked whether there was support for creating a Greater London Authority composed of a directly elected Mayor of London and a London Assembly ...

was held in the same voting locations.

Results summary

*Turnout: 1,738,868 voters cast ballots, a turnout of 34.8% (-11.4%).

Councils results

Overall councillor numbers

Borough result maps

File:Barnet UK local election 1998 map.svg, Barnet 1998 results map File:Camden_UK_local_election_1998_map.svg, Camden 1998 results map File:Hammersmith and Fulham London UK local election 1998 map.svg, Hammersmith and Fulham 1998 results map

References

{{United Kingdom elections May 1998 in the United Kingdom

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