Greater London Council election, 1981

7 May 1981

92 councillors

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Andrew McIntosh	Horace Cutler	Adrian Slade
Party	Labour	Conservative	Liberal
Leader's seat	Tottenham	Harrow West	Richmond
Seats won	50	41	1

Results by parliamentary constituency.

Leader of the GLC before election

Horace Cutler
Conservative

Elected Leader of the GLC

Ken Livingstone
Labour

There was an election to the Greater London Council held on 7 May 1981. Councillors were elected to serve until elections in May 1985. Those elections were cancelled and the term was extended until 1 April 1986.^[1]

Whilst the moderate leader of the Labour GLC group Andrew McIntosh led the party into the election, and became GLC Leader. Within 24 hours however McIntosh's leadership was toppled by Ken Livingstone; a member of the party's more militant left-wing.

Results

	Votes	Share of Vote (%)	% Change	Candidates	Seats Won	Seats Change
Labour	939,457	41.8	+8.9	92	50	+22
Conservative	894,234	39.7	-12.8	92	41	-23
Liberal	323,856	14.4	+6.6	89	1	+1
National Front	21,582	1.0	-4.4	41	0	0
Social Democratic Alliance	21,582	1.0	N/A	10	0	0
Ecology	17,515	0.8	+0.7	38	0	0
Independent	7,763	0.3	+0.2	25	0	0
New National Front	5,877	0.3	N/A	18	0	0
Communist	5,275	0.2	-0.1	16	0	0
Nationalist Party	4,857	0.2	N/A	23	0	0
Workers Revolutionary	2,753	0.1	N/A	16	0	0
Save London Action Group	1,727	0.1	N/A	13	0	0
Abolish the GLC	1,158	0.1	N/A	7	0	0
Irish National Party	793	0.0	N/A	3	0	0
Fellowship	637	0.0	0.0	1	0	0
Independent Conservative	362	0.0	0.0	1	0	0
New Britain	346	0.0	0.0	1	0	0
Workers (Leninist)	145	0.0	N/A	1	0	0
Revolutionary Communist	116	N/A	0.0	1	0	0
Socialist (GB)	83	N/A	0.0	1	0	0

Turnout: 2,250,118 people voted. All parties shown.^[2]

This was the last election to the GLC. The Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher took the decision to abolish the council in the mid-1980s. For more information on this see the article, Greater London Council. Following the abolition of the GLC, there was a direct election to the Inner London Education Authority in 1986.

References

(1980 ←) United Kingdom local elections, 1981 (→ 1982)

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