Scottish local elections, 1992

Scottish local elections, 1992

1992

First party Second party   Leader Neil Kinnock John Major Party Labour Conservative Leader since 2 October 1983 28 November 1990 Seats won 468 204 Seat change 85 42 Percentage 34.0 23.2   Third party Fourth party   Leader Alex Salmond Jim Wallace Party SNP Liberal Democrats Leader since 22 September 1990 18 April 1992 Seats won 150 94 Seat change 37 10 Percentage 24.3 9.5

Colours denote the winning party with outright control

Local elections were held in Scotland in May 1992, to elect members to all 53 district councils. It was the last local election held under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, which had established the two-tier system of regions and districts. Regional and district councils were abolished in 1996, and replaced with 29 new mainland unitary authorities under the terms of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994.

National results

Summary of the 1992 Scottish district council election results^[1]

Parties		Votes	Votes %	Wards
	Labour	504,076	34.0	468
	SNP	360,014	24.3	150
	Conservative	343,358	23.2	204
	Liberal Democrats	140,697	9.5	94
	Independent	107,586	7.4	228
	Other	26,057	1.9	14
Total		1,481,788	n/a	1158

Results by council area

Borders

Council	1988 result		National control	1992 result		Turnout	Details
Berwickshire		Conservative			Conservative
Ettrick and Lauderdale		Independent			Independent
Roxburghshire		Independent			Independent
Tweeddale		Independent			Independent

Central

Council	1988 result		National control	1992 result		Turnout	Details
Clackmannanshire		Labour			Labour
Falkirk		Labour			No overall control
Stirling		Labour			No overall control

Dumfries and Galloway

Council	1988 result		National control	1992 result		Turnout	Details
Annandale and Eskdale		Liberal Democrat			Liberal Democrat
Merrick		Independent			Independent
Nithsdale		Labour			No overall control
Stewartry of Kirkcudbright		Independent			Independent}

Fife

Council	1988 result		National control	1992 result		Turnout	Details
Dunfermline		Labour			Labour
Kirkcaldy		Labour			Labour
North-East Fife		Liberal Democrat			Liberal Democrat

Grampian

Council	1988 result		National control	1992 result		Turnout	Details
Banff and Buchan		Independent			Independent
City of Aberdeen		No overall control			Labour
Gordon		No overall control			Independent
Kincardine and Deeside		Independent			No overall control
Moray		Independent			No overall control

Highland

Council	1988 result		National control	1992 result		Turnout	Details
Badenoch and Strathspey		Independent			Independent
Caithness		Independent			Independent
Inverness		Independent			No overall control
Lochaber		Independent			No overall control
Nairn		Independent			Independent
Ross and Cromarty		Independent			Independent
Skye and Lochalsh		Independent			Independent
Sutherland		Independent			Independent

Lothian

Council	1988 result		National control	1992 result		Turnout	Details
City of Edinburgh		Labour			No overall control
East Lothian		Labour			Labour
Midlothian		Labour			Labour
West Lothian		Labour			No overall control

Strathclyde

Council	1988 result		National control	1992 result		Turnout	Details
Argyll		Independent			Independent
Bearsden and Milngavie		Conservative			No overall control
Cumbernauld		No overall control			Labour
Clydebank		Labour			Labour
Cunninghame		Labour			Labour
Cumnock and Doon Valley		Labour			Labour
Dumbarton		No overall control			No overall control
East Kilbride		Labour			Labour
Eastwood		Conservative			Conservative
City of Glasgow		Labour			Labour
Hamilton		Labour			Labour
Inverclyde		Labour			Labour
Kilmarnock and Loudoun		Labour			No overall control
Kyle and Carrick		Labour			Conservative
Lanark		Labour			No overall control
Motherwell		Labour			Labour
Monklands		Labour			Labour
Strathkelvin		Labour			Labour

Tayside

Council	Labour	Conservative	SNP	Liberal & SDP	Independent	Others	Control
Angus	0	7 (+1)	11 (-2)	1	2 (+1)	0		SNP hold
City of Dundee								Labour hold
Perth and Kinross								Conservative gain from NOC

References

1. Denver, David; Bochel, Hugh (Winter 2000), "The Forgotten Elections: The Scottish Council Elections of 1999", Scottish Affairs (PDF), 30McConnell, Alan (2004), Scottish Local Government, Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 978-0-7486-2005-0