1984 City of Lincoln Council election

Election held in City of Lincoln Council in 1984

1984 City of Lincoln Council election^[1]^[2]

← 1983

3 May 1984

1986 →

11 of the 33 seats to City of Lincoln Council
17 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party

Party	Labour	Conservative
Last election	23	10
Seats won	9	2
Seats after	25	8
Seat change	2	2
Popular vote	13,268	9,554
Percentage	54.0%	38.9%

Map showing the results the 1984 Lincoln City Council elections by ward. Red shows Labour seats and blue shows the Conservatives seats.

Council control before election

Labour

Council control after election

Labour

The 1984 City of Lincoln Council election took place on 3 May 1984. This was on the same day as other local elections. One third of the council was up for election: the seats of which were last contested in 1980. The Labour Party retained control of the council.

Overall results

1984 City of Lincoln Council Election
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Labour	9	2	0	2	81.8	54.0	13,268	10.7
	Conservative	2	0	2	2	18.2	38.9	9,554	1.0
	Alliance	0	0	0		0.0	5.8	1,426	4.2
	Ecology	0	0	0		0.0	0.6	142	0.2
	Ind. Conservative	0	0	0		0.0	0.8	202	New
Total		11						24,592

All comparisons in vote share are to the corresponding 1980 election.

Ward results

Abbey

Abbey^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	J. Robertson	1,339	66.0%
	Conservative	J. Frost	691	34.0%
Turnout				37.3%
	Labour hold

Birchwood

Boultham^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Wright	1,183	56.0%
	Conservative	Cumberhulme	929	44.0%
Turnout				35.0%
	Labour hold

Boultham

Boultham^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Ralph Toofany^[4]	1,276	49.9%
	Conservative	P. Samways	958	37.5%
	Alliance	Addlesee	257	10.1%
	Ecology	C. Moulton	64	2.5%
Turnout				51.3%
	Labour hold

Bracebridge

Bracebridge^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Phoenix	917	38.2%
	Labour	Fipperd	887	36.9%
	Alliance	Robins	397	16.5%
	Ind. Conservative	P. Roe	202	8.4%
Turnout				41.1%
	Conservative hold

Carholme

Carholme^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	C. Ireland	1,278	51.0%
	Labour	Parker	1,229	49.0%
Turnout				45.6%
	Conservative hold

Castle

Castle^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Withers	1,433	66.1%
	Conservative	M. Mellows	736	33.9%
Turnout				41.4%
	Labour gain from Conservative

Longdales

Longdales^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	D. Miller	1,390	59.1%
	Conservative	R. Long	963	40.9%
Turnout				48.5%
	Labour hold

Minster

Minster^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Courtney	1,419	47.8%
	Conservative	Horn	1,215	40.9%
	Alliance	Feeney	337	11.3%
Turnout				48.2%
	Labour gain from Conservative

Moorland

Moorland^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	N. Baldock	880	44.4%
	Conservative	Keat	665	33.6%
	Alliance	Tromans	435	22.0%
Turnout				39.7%
	Labour hold

Park

Park^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	J. Plant	1,010	61.3%
	Alliance	Adams	559	33.9%
	Ecology	K. Yates	78	4.7%
Turnout				33.0%
	Labour hold

Tritton

Tritton^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	H. Hubbard	1,222	65.5%
	Conservative	Spratt	643	34.5%
Turnout				43.0%
	Labour hold

References

^ "Council compositions by year". The Elections Centre.
^ "Local Election Summaries 1984". The Elections Centre.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k "City of Lincoln Council Election Results 1973-2012". Elections Centre. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
^ "Councillors - Boultham ward". Archived from the original on 19 April 2003. Retrieved 4 November 2019.

Council elections in Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire County Council

Boston Borough Council

1973
1976
1979
1983
1987
1991
1995
1999
2003
2007
2011
2015
2019
2023

East Lindsey District Council

1973
1976
1979
1983
1987
1991
1995
1999
2003
2007
2011
2015
2019
2023

City of Lincoln Council

North East Lincolnshire Council

1995
1999
2003
2004
2006
2007
2008
2010
2011
2012
2014
2015
2016
2018
2019
2021
2022
2023

North Kesteven District Council

1973
1976
1979
1983
1987
1991
1995
1999
2003
2007
2011
2015
2019
2023

North Lincolnshire Council

1995
1999
2003
2007
2011
2015
2019
2023

South Holland District Council

1973
1976
1979
1983
1987
1991
1995
1999
2003
2007
2011
2015
2019
2023

South Kesteven District Council

1973
1976
1979
1983
1987
1991
1995
1999
2003
2007
2011
2015
2019
2023

West Lindsey District Council

1973
1976
1979
1980
1982
1983
1984
1986
1987
1988
1990
1991
1992
1994
1995
1996
1998
1999
2000
2002
2003
2004
2006
2007
2008
2010
2011
2012
2014
2015
2019
2023

Former councils
Holland County Council	1889 1892 1895 1898 1901 1904 1907 1910 1913 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1934 1937 1946 1949 1952 1955 1958 1961 1964 1967 1970 Abolished
Humberside County Council	1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 Abolished
Kesteven County Council	1889 1892 1895 1898 1901 1904 1907 1910 1913 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1934 1937 1946 1949 1952 1955 1958 1961 1964 1967 1970 Abolished
Lindsey County Council	1889 1892 1895 1898 1901 1904 1907 1910 1913 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1934 1937 1946 1949 1952 1955 1958 1961 1964 1967 1970 Abolished
Boothferry Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 Abolished
Cleethorpes Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 Abolished
Glanford Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 Abolished
Great Grimsby Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 Abolished
Scunthorpe Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 Abolished

See also: Wards
Boundary changes

v t e (1983 ←) 1984 United Kingdom local elections (→ 1985)
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)	Adur Amber Valley Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke and Deane Bassetlaw Bath Blackburn Brentwood Brighton Bristol Broadland Broxbourne Burnley Cambridge Cannock Chase Carlisle Cheltenham Cherwell Chester Chorley Colchester Congleton Craven Crawley Crewe and Nantwich Daventry Derby East Devon Eastbourne Eastleigh Ellesmere Port and Neston Elmbridge Epping Forest Exeter Fareham Gillingham Gloucester Gosport Great Grimsby Great Yarmouth Halton Harlow Harrogate Hart Hartlepool Hastings Havant Hereford Hertsmere Hinckley and Bosworth Huntingdon Hyndburn Ipswich Kingston upon Hull Leicester Leominster Lincoln Macclesfield Maidstone Mid Sussex Milton Keynes Mole Valley Newcastle-under-Lyme North Bedfordshire North Hertfordshire Norwich Nuneaton and Bedworth Oadby and Wigston Oxford Pendle Penwith Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Purbeck Reading Redditch Reigate and Banstead Rochford Rossendale Rugby Runnymede Rushmoor Scunthorpe Shrewsbury and Atcham Slough South Bedfordshire South Cambridgeshire South Herefordshire South Lakeland Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-on-Avon Stroud Swale Tamworth Tandridge Thamesdown Three Rivers Thurrock Tonbridge and Malling Torbay Tunbridge Wells Watford Waveney Welwyn Hatfield West Dorset West Lancashire West Lindsey West Oxfordshire Weymouth and Portland Winchester Woking Wokingham Woodspring Worcester Worthing Wyre Forest York
District councils (Scotland)	Aberdeen Angus Annandale and Eskdale Argyll and Bute Badenoch and Strathspey Banff and Buchan Bearsden and Milngavie Berwickshire Caithness Clackmannan Clydebank Clydesdale Cumbernauld and Kilsyth Cumnock and Doon Valley Cunninghame Dumbarton Dundee Dunfermline East Kilbride East Lothian Eastwood Edinburgh Ettrick and Lauderdale Falkirk Glasgow Gordon Hamilton Inverclyde Inverness Kilmarnock and Loudoun Kincardine and Deeside Kirkcaldy Kyle and Carrick Lochaber Midlothian Monklands Moray Motherwell Nairn Nithsdale North East Fife Perth and Kinross Renfrew Ross and Cromarty Roxburgh Skye and Lochalsh Stewartry Stirling Strathkelvin Sutherland Tweeddale West Lothian Wigtown
See also: European Parliament election