Nottinghamshire County Council election, 1973

12 April 1973

All 89 seats to Nottinghamshire County Council 45 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party

Party	Labour	Conservative
Seats won	54	35
Popular vote	121,230	111,750
Percentage	48.78%	44.96%

Council control after election

Labour

The 1973 Nottinghamshire County Council election was held on Thursday, 12 April 1973. The election resulted in the Labour Party winning an overall majority of seats on the council.^[1]^[2]

The election was the first to take place to the new non-metropolitan county council of Nottinghamshire as defined by the Local Government Act 1972, which had reformed local government in England and Wales. The council acted as a "shadow authority" until 1 April 1974, when it gained control from its predecessor county council, which had been established by the Local Government Act 1888.^[3]

Whilst previously the City of Nottingham was an independent county borough and therefore not included within the administrative county of Nottinghamshire or involved in the election of county councillors, the new administrative county included Nottingham for the first time as a non-metropolitan district.^[4]^[5] Nottingham would subsequently regain independent control over its affairs when it became a unitary authority in 1998.^[6]

Results by division

Each electoral division returned either one, two or three county councillors. The candidate elected to the council in each electoral division is shown in the table below. "Unopposed" indicates that the councillor was elected unopposed.^[2]

Electoral Division		Party	Councillor	Votes
	Arnold East	Labour	A. Lester	2,078
	Arnold South	Conservative	J. Lester	2,924
	Arnold West	Conservative	R. Griffin	1,853
	Balderton	Conservative	R. Jenkins	1,829
	Basford No. 1 (Newthorpe)	Conservative	C. Minkley	2,656
	Basford No. 2	Labour	A. Rutherford	2,139
	Basford No. 3	Conservative	A. Belper	1,821
	Basford No. 4	Labour	B. Sharrard	Unopposed
	Basford No. 5	Conservative	R. Dickson	2,278
	Basford No. 6	Conservative	J. Sheldon	3,424
	Basford No. 6	Conservative	G. Ayton	3,283
	Beeston & Stapleford (Bramcote)	Conservative	C. Cooper	2,343
	Beeston & Stapleford (Chilwell)	Conservative	E. Hudson	2,408
	Beeston & Stapleford North	Conservative	R. Cox	1,784
	Beeston & Stapleford South	Labour	R. Orton	2,273
	Beeston & Stapleford (Stapleford)	Labour	J. Plowan	2,421
	Beeston & Stapleford (Toton and Attenborough)	Conservative	G. Bottomley	1,914
	Bingham No. 1	Conservative	G. Wade	2,629
	Bingham No. 2	Conservative	M. Appleby	1,926
	Bingham No. 3	Labour	V. Lloyd	1,687
	Bingham No. 4	Conservative	S. Pattison	2,979
	Bridgford North	Conservative	F. Worwood	1,542
	Bridgford South	Conservative	P. Wright	2,522
	Bridgford West	Conservative	F. Whitson	2,826
	Carlton No. 1	Conservative	A. Roth	4,095
	Carlton No. 1	Conservative	W. Edwards	4,033
	Carlton No. 2	Conservative	H. Stanley	3,706
	Carlton No. 2	Conservative	D. Shirt	3,705
	Collingham	Conservative	E. Yates	1,504
	East Retford Rural No. 1	Conservative	C. Hempsall	1,805
	East Retford Rural No. 2	Conservative	F. Rudder	2,644
	Eastwood	Labour	H. Walker	1,412
	Hucknall East	Labour	B. Simms	2,362
	Hucknall North	Labour	P. Watson	2,757
	Kirkby-in-Ashfield East	Labour	S. Booler	Unopposed
	Kirkby-in-Ashfield West	Labour	E. Ashley	Unopposed
	Mansfield No. 1 (East)	Labour	F. Warsop	1,220
	Mansfield No. 2 (South East)	Labour	G. Foster	1,725
	Mansfield No. 3 (South)	Conservative	W. Brown	2,200
	Mansfield No. 4	Labour	W. Morris	3,702
	Mansfield No. 4	Labour	M. Gallagher	3,632
	Mansfield Woodhouse	Labour	D. Haynes	Unopposed
	Mansfield Woodhouse	Labour	B. Whitelaw	Unopposed
	Newark No. 1 (South)	Labour	F. Moore	1,631
	Newark No. 2	Labour	J. Woods	1,708
	Nottingham No. 1 (Bridge & Trent)	Labour	G. Daft	3,793
		Labour	J. Fernell	3,690
		Labour	C. Worthington	3,552
	Nottingham No. 2 (Lenton)	Labour	M. Yuil	2,327
	Nottingham No. 2 (Lenton)	Conservative	B. Borrett	2,320
	Nottingham No. 3 (Manvers & St. Anns)	Labour	F. Higgins	2,239
	Nottingham No. 3 (Manvers & St. Anns)	Labour	J. Carroll	2,202
	Nottingham No. 4 (Market)	Labour	J. Cattermole	1,147
	Nottingham No. 5 (Byron & St. Alban)	Labour	I. Matthews	5,891
		Labour	J. Scoffings	5,011
		Labour	R. Wilson	4,991
	Nottingham No. 6 (Forest & Mapperley)	Conservative	H. Fraser	4,579
		Conservative	E. Chambers	4,463
		Conservative	E. Baker	4,113
	Nottingham No. 7 (Portland & Radford)	Labour	J. Burton	4,505
		Labour	L. Maynard	4,491
		Labour	T. Strickson	4,221
	Nottingham No. 8 (Abbey & University)	Conservative	G. Cragg	6,152
		Conservative	M. Whittaker	6,105
		Conservative	M. Spungin	6,081
	Nottingham No. 9 (Clifton)	Labour	G. Dobson	3,264
	Nottingham No. 9 (Clifton)	Labour	S. Gibbons	2,807
	Nottingham No. 10 (Robin Hood & Broxtowe)	Labour	E. Foster	4,451
		Labour	W. Case	4,135
		Labour	T. Harby	3,991
	Nottingham No. 11 (Woolaton)	Labour	B. Littlewood	3,505
	Nottingham No. 11 (Woolaton)	Labour	M. Cowan	2,864
	Retford North	Labour	E. Davidson	1,413
	Retford South	Labour	C. Grove	1,500
	Southwell No. 1	Conservative	B. Haigh	3,669
	Southwell No. 2	Conservative	P. Boddy	2,367
	Southwell No. 3 (Ollerton)	Labour	M. Delacy	2,526
	Southwell No. 4	Labour	E. Farr	3,062
	Southwell No. 5	Labour	M. Beardsley	Unopposed
	Sutton-in-Ashfield East	Labour	A. Bennett	Unopposed
	Sutton-in-Ashfield North	Labour	J. Anthony	1,114
	Sutton-in-Ashfield South	Labour	E. Lincoln	1,521
	Sutton-in-Ashfield West	Labour	M. Lee	1,249
	Warsop	Labour	W. Cairns	Unopposed
	Worksop No. 1 (East)	Labour	R. Rabbitt	2,843
	Worksop No. 2 (North)	Labour	A. Burton	Unopposed
	Worksop No. 3	Labour	P. Miller	1,638
	Worksop Rural No. 1 (Blyth)	Labour	J. Connolly	1,354
	Worksop Rural No. 2	Labour	C. Stringer	Unopposed

References

↑ "Election Results". Nottinghamshire County Council. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
1 2 "Nottinghamshire County Council Election Results 1973-2009" (PDF). Elections Centre. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
↑ Local Government Act 1972. 1972 c.70. The Stationery Office Ltd. 1997. ISBN 0-10-547072-4.
↑ F A Youngs Jr., Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol II: Northern England, London, 1991
↑ The English Non-metropolitan Districts (Definition) Order 1972 (SI 1972/2039)
↑ "The Nottinghamshire (City of Nottingham) (Structural Change) Order 1996". legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 17 September 2016.

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See also: Wards Boundary changes

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