Nottinghamshire County Council election, 1977

5 May 1977

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

	First party	Second party

Party	Conservative	Labour
Seats before	35	54
Seats won	66	20
Seat change	31	34
Popular vote	182,154	108,027
Percentage	56.12%	33.28%

	Third party	Fourth party

Party	RA	Liberal
Seats before	0	0
Seats won	2	1
Seat change	2	1
Popular vote	14,058	11,916
Percentage	4.33%	3.67%

Council control before election

Labour

Council control after election

Conservative

The 1977 Nottinghamshire County Council election was held on Thursday, 5 May 1977. The election resulted in a landslide victory for the Conservative Party, which won 66 of the 89 seats on the county council. The Labour Party won just 20 seats, compared to 54 at the previous election.^[1]^[2]

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	Conservative	J. Clarke	3,340
	Arnold South	Conservative	M. Sermon	4,377
	Arnold West	Conservative	R. Griffin	2,535
	Balderton	Conservative	N. Davy	2,832
	Basford No. 1 (Newthorpe)	Conservative	C. Minkley	4,026
	Basford No. 2	Conservative	H. Tildsley	1,955
	Basford No. 3	Conservative	D. Langham	3,106
	Basford No. 4	Conservative	J. Gardiner	2,016
	Basford No. 5	Conservative	R. Dickson	2,927
	Basford No. 6	Conservative	H. Bird	4,897
	Basford No. 6	Conservative	L. Kelly	4,725
	Beeston & Stapleford (Bramcote)	Conservative	C. Cooper	3,316
	Beeston & Stapleford (Chilwell)	Conservative	E. Hudson	2,989
	Beeston & Stapleford North	Conservative	R. Cox	2,494
	Beeston & Stapleford South	Conservative	N. Hughes	2,328
	Beeston & Stapleford (Stapleford)	Conservative	J. Streeter	2,194
	Beeston & Stapleford (Toton and Attenborough)	Conservative	G. Bottomley	3,013
	Bingham No. 1	Conservative	G. Wade	3,315
	Bingham No. 2	Conservative	F. Hobson	2,977
	Bingham No. 3	Conservative	D. Jeffreys	2,612
	Bingham No. 4	Conservative	S. Pattison	3,632
	Bridgford North	Conservative	F. Woodward	1,839
	Bridgford South	Conservative	P. Wright	2,928
	Bridgford West	Conservative	B. Fairs	3,547
	Carlton No. 1	Conservative	B. Noble	5,371
	Carlton No. 1	Conservative	W. Edwards	5,324
	Carlton No. 2	Conservative	H. Stanley	5,109
	Carlton No. 2	Conservative	D. Shirt	4,955
	Collingham	Conservative	E. Yates	1,872
	East Retford Rural No. 1	Conservative	C. Hempsall	2,409
	East Retford Rural No. 2	Conservative	F. Rudder	3,639
	Eastwood	Labour	D. Pettitt	1,482
	Hucknall East	Residents' association	E. Morley	2,391
	Hucknall North	Residents' association	J. Parker	3,456
	Kirkby-in-Ashfield East	Labour	S. Booler	1,786
	Kirkby-in-Ashfield West	Conservative	J. Radford	2,401
	Mansfield No. 1 (East)	Labour	F. Warsop	1,059
	Mansfield No. 2 (South East)	Conservative	P. Caley	1,950
	Mansfield No. 3 (South)	Conservative	W. Brown	3,565
	Mansfield No. 4	Labour	W. Morris	3,321
	Mansfield No. 4	Labour	M. Gallagher	3,215
	Mansfield Woodhouse	Labour	B. Whitelaw	3,149
	Mansfield Woodhouse	Labour	D. Haynes	3,147
	Newark No. 1 (South)	Conservative	S. Stuart	1,992
	Newark No. 2	Conservative	V. Dobson	2,876
	Nottingham No. 1 (Bridge & Trent)	Conservative	E. Collin	3,232
		Conservative	R. Tuck	3,229
		Conservative	P. Lowery	3,227
	Nottingham No. 2 (Lenton)	Conservative	B. Borrett	2,906
	Nottingham No. 2 (Lenton)	Conservative	A. Pollard	2,820
	Nottingham No. 3 (Manvers & St. Anns)	Conservative	K. Stevens	2,464
	Nottingham No. 3 (Manvers & St. Anns)	Conservative	K. Thompson	2,262
	Nottingham No. 4 (Market)	Conservative	W. Williams	738
	Nottingham No. 5 (Byron & St. Alban)	Conservative	H. Bonser	5,482
		Conservative	R. Stevenson	5,456
		Labour	F. Riddell	5,384
	Nottingham No. 6 (Forest & Mapperley)	Conservative	J. Jenkin-Jones	6,534
		Conservative	E. Chambers	6,442
		Conservative	E. Baker	6,380
	Nottingham No. 7 (Portland & Radford)	Conservative	D. Watson	4,083
		Conservative	E. Hand	3,997
		Conservative	H. Whitehead	3,962
	Nottingham No. 8 (Abbey & University)	Conservative	G. Cragg	8,801
		Conservative	M. Spungin	8,779
		Conservative	M. Whittaker	8,743
	Nottingham No. 9 (Clifton)	Labour	G. Dobson	2,711
	Nottingham No. 9 (Clifton)	Conservative	H. Moss	2,680
	Nottingham No. 10 (Robin Hood & Broxtowe)	Conservative	D. Bailey	4,106
		Labour	W. Case	4,099
		Labour	E. Foster	4,018
	Nottingham No. 11 (Woolaton)	Conservative	H. Smith	3,129
	Nottingham No. 11 (Woolaton)	Conservative	A. Berkeley	2,961
	Retford North	Conservative	A. Wright	1,879
	Retford South	Conservative	A. Clark	1,934
	Southwell No. 1	Conservative	B. Haigh	4,623
	Southwell No. 2	Conservative	A. Stewart	3,076
	Southwell No. 3 (Ollerton)	Labour	S. Smedley	2,065
	Southwell No. 4	Conservative	E. McCarthy	2,569
	Southwell No. 5	Labour	M. Gray	Unopposed
	Sutton-in-Ashfield East	Labour	A. Bennett	1,505
	Sutton-in-Ashfield North	Conservative	S. Wakeland	1,402
	Sutton-in-Ashfield South	Labour	W. Shaw	1,892
	Sutton-in-Ashfield West	Labour	M. Lee	1,486
	Warsop	Liberal	D. Chambers	1,809
	Worksop No. 1 (East)	Labour	W. Bloomer	2,789
	Worksop No. 2 (North)	Labour	A. Burton	1,849
	Worksop No. 3	Conservative	C. Naish	2,146
	Worksop Rural No. 1 (Blyth)	Labour	L. Hince	2,026
	Worksop Rural No. 2	Labour	L. Smith	1,514

References

↑ "Election Results". Nottinghamshire County Council. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
1 2 "Nottinghamshire County Council Election Results 1973-2009" (PDF). Elections Centre. Retrieved 19 September 2016.

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