1982 Bromley London Borough Council election

The 1982 Bromley Council election took place on 6 May 1982 to elect members of Bromley London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Conservative party stayed in overall control of the council.[1]

Background

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Election result

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Ward results

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Beckenham

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Anerley (2)
Party test Votes % ±%
SDP Christopher Richard Gaster* 1,365 40.9
SDP Paul H Brown* 1,341
Labour Ian M Haig 1,063 31.9
Labour Dominic P Herlihy
Conservative Roland Lees 907 27.2
Conservative Albert George Miles
Clock House (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative David J Harding* 1,831 44.6
Conservative Terence Stanley* 1,719
SDP Olga L Roberts 1,424 34.7 +18.4
Liberal Stephen J Marshall
Labour Bryan Edwin Freake 1,461 20.7 −14.6
Labour David N P Radlett
Majority 9.9 +1.2
Turnout 50.3
Conservative hold Swing
Copers Cope (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative John L Pritchard* 57.8 −16.8
Conservative Charles George Priest*
SDP Laurence J Cox 21.3 +10.1
Liberal William Alan Macdonald MacCormick
Ind. Conservative Christopher John Elgar 12.7 n/a
Labour Ann M Silverman 8.2 −6.0
Labour Eric H Turner
Majority 36.5 −23.9
Turnout 45.1 +5.4
Conservative hold Swing
Eden Park (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Francis J D Cooke* 58.5 −7.4
Conservative Peter F Dixon*
Liberal Christine Oakenfull 32.4 +15.2
Liberal Derek G Brent
Labour Wendy C Palace 9.0 −7.9
Labour Brian Stapleton
Majority 26.1 −22.7
Turnout 50.1 +4.3
Conservative hold Swing
Kelsey Park (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Michael John B Tickner* 74.1 −4.0
Conservative Maurice J Mason*
Liberal Paul David Nash 20.3 +6.4
SDP Andrew F Clyro
Labour Philip Cooke 5.6 −2.4
Labour Finola M Dignan
Majority 53.8 −4.4
Turnout 50.9 +5.5
Conservative hold Swing
Lawrie Park & Kent House (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Richard D. Foister* 51.3 −5.6
Conservative John Arthur M. Lewis*
SDP Bryan C Friend 25.1 +18.4
SDP Geoffrey P Farrington
Labour Laurence R Pocock 23.7 −12.6
Labour Derek K Robbins
Penge (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Heather Isabel Donovan 940 36.0 +30.2
Labour Arthur J Mansfield* 911 34.9 −16.6
Liberal Jonathan R Coninx 906
Labour Barbara Pedley* 902
Conservative Robert G Straker 761 29.1 −4.2
Conservative Rita Horowitz 725
Majority 1.1 19.2
Turnout 38.9
Liberal gain from Labour Swing +9.6
Shortlands (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Bernard E G Davies* 2,818 75.0 −7.2
Conservative Brian R Reading*
SDP Graham R F Till 733 19.5 +10.9
Liberal Melanie L Worman
Labour Pauline M Jones 204 5.4 −3.8
Labour Jonathan A M Patterson
Majority 55.5
Turnout 51.7
Conservative hold Swing

Chislehurst

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Bickley (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Maurice Bentley Kenward* 76.9 −10.0
Conservative Margaret Doreen Moir
Conservative Simon J C Randall*
SDP Colin T Hawksworth 25.8 +15.2
Liberal Ervin G Muller
Liberal Stephen G Trimmer
Labour Gwendoline I Mansfield 7.3 −5.2
Labour Paul W Francis
Labour Harry J Belsey
Majority 41.2 −23.2
Turnout 50.9 +5.4
Conservative hold Swing -11.6
Chislehurst (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Joan Bryant* 72.1 −3.4
Conservative Edward A J Rayner
Conservative Charles Christopher Seward Reeves*
SDP Muriel A Letman 18.1 +9.0
Liberal John P Hassall
Liberal Stephen R Walls
Labour Edgar C H Smith 9.9 −5.5
Labour Martyn G Jenkins
Labour Ralph E Hunte
Majority 54.0 −6.2
Turnout 49.8 −0.8
Conservative hold Swing
Mottingham (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Alistair Huistean Macdonald* 45.7 −18.3
Labour Elizabeth A Vincent
Conservative Amanda J Hunt 30.2 +1.9
Conservative Martin Tweed
Liberal Brian Harry Taylor 24.1 +20.1
SDP Peter H Anderson
Majority 15.5 −20.2
Turnout 44.1 −6.5
Labour hold Swing -10.1
Plaistow & Sundridge (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Richard B Jackson* 59.5 −0.3
Conservative Dorothy Joan Laird*
Conservative Arthur J Wilkinson*
Liberal Michael F Deves 26.4 +17.1
SDP Ian G Anderson
Liberal David C Pike
Labour Geoffrey C Whitlow 14.1 −16.8
Labour Peter R Haswell
Labour Nicholas Anthony Wright
Majority 33.1 +4.1
Turnout 45.5 +1.4
Conservative hold Swing +2.0
St Paul's Cray (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Walter K Mansfield* 40.1 −21.7
Conservative Gladys P Hobbs 1,547 36.0 +4.1
Labour Selwyn H Ward 1,528
Labour Ronald William Huzzard 1,518
Conservative Dennis E Kershaw 1,508
Conservative Albert E Stayte 1,493
SDP Sylvia Conway 23.9 +17.6
SDP John M Barber
Liberal Peter Alan Janikoun
Majority 29.9 −25.8
Turnout 38.0 −1.0
Conservative gain from Labour Swing +12.9

Orpington

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Chelsfield & Goddington (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Michael A Lowe 55.7 −11.7
Conservative Reginald G Adams*
Conservative Joseph T Heath*
Liberal Patrick McNally 38.4 +17.5
Liberal John C A Sachs
Liberal Sidney C O Langford
Labour Linda T Tyler 6.0 −5.7
Labour Ronald G D'Olley
Labour Leonard David Hall
Majority 17.3 −29.1
Turnout 54.9 +4.3
Conservative hold Swing -14.5
Crofton (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Paul Martin Bonter 61.0 −6.2
Conservative Peter Sturdy
SDP Peter J B Paul 33.5 +10.6
Liberal Harry Anthony Silvester
Labour John Fowler 5.5 −4.4
Labour Magali P Williamson
Majority 33.5 −16.8
Turnout 55.4 +2.2
Conservative hold Swing -8.4
Farnborough (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Eric Norman Goodman* 76.9 −5.1
Conservative Jennifer Mary Hillier*
Liberal Terence Frank Clark 23.4 +11.5
Liberal Roy T Hawkins
Labour Geoffrey J Ball 4.8 −6.4
Labour Catherine M Hossack
Majority 48.4 −16.6
Turnout 50.5 −0.2
Conservative hold Swing -8.4
Orpington Central (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Michael A Minter* 50.0
Conservative David Malcolm Dear
Liberal Christopher Stewart Maines 39.1 +16.9
SDP Michael Sullivan
Labour Simon D Gale 12.8 −15.0
Labour Nigel Williamson
Majority 8.9 −13.2
Turnout 49.6 +4.0
Conservative hold Swing -6.6
Petts Wood & Knoll (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Joan Hatcher* 68.6 −22.4
Conservative Michael J Edwards
Conservative Brian V Atkinson*
Ind. Conservative Peter Charles Woods 30.4 n/a
SDP Beatrice W Hedley 19.3 −1.9
Liberal Graham Leslie Arthur
Liberal Irene R Hinchcliffe
Labour Jeffrey R Bartley 4.1 −6.1
Labour Marcus R Shellard
Labour Peter John Tozer
Majority 15.8 −31.6
Turnout 53.6 −0.2
Conservative hold Swing -15.8
St Mary Cray (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Harry R Stranger 39.0 −3.4
Conservative Norman F Mingay
Conservative Bruce G Panes 1,831
Labour Doris Partridge* 1,673 33.3
Labour Keith R Morton*
Labour Martin E Synan
Liberal James C Loveday 27.6 +19.1
Liberal John W Hand
SDP David C Churney
Majority 6.7 12.4
Turnout 44.5 +2.4
Conservative gain from Labour Swing +6.2

Ravensbourne

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Biggin Hill (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative David W Hanscomb* 59.7 −4.0
Conservative David Robert Haslam*
Liberal Malcolm Bruce Westbrook 32.3 +13.9
Liberal Geoffrey Colin Gostt
Labour Alison N Sheldrake 8.0 −9.9
Labour Mairede C Thomas
Majority 27.4 −17.8
Turnout 52.1 +3.5
Conservative hold Swing -8.9
Bromley Common & Keston (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Colin R English 53.2 −2.1
Conservative Raymond L Ainsby*
Conservative Russell Lawrence Mellor*
Liberal Robert H Smith 25.1 +18.7
Liberal Martin Alan Curry
SDP Catherine Mary Boston
Labour Naomi V Carter 21.7 −12.8
Labour Mark Cole
Labour Rodger A Macpherson
Majority 28.1 +7.2
Turnout 41.5 −0.9
Conservative hold Swing +3.6
Darwin (1)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Peter John Bloomfield 67.6 −6.3
Liberal Derek J Goldsmith 25.8 +10.7
Labour John R Willman 6.7 −4.3
Majority 41.8 −17.0
Turnout 56.6 +3.0
Conservative hold Swing -8.5
Hayes (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Ernest Dennis Barkway* 64.9 −9.7
Conservative Philip Geoffrey Jones*
Conservative James F David*
Liberal William Ivor Shipley 28.0 +16.3
Liberal Ronald Coverson
SDP Anne Wendy Chaplin
Labour Julian R Smith 7.1 −6.6
Labour Stephen J Robert
Labour Charles J Wallace
Majority 36.9 −24.0
Turnout 44.3 +3.5
Conservative hold Swing -12.0
Martins Hill & Town (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative William F D Walker* 53.5 −11.0
Conservative Anthony Millar Wilkinson*
Liberal Jennifer M Hawke 34.4 +24.2
SDP David B Hunt
Labour Susan L Dudding 12.1 −13.1
Labour Alan M Pickering
Majority 19.0 −20.3
Turnout 43.4 +6.3
Conservative hold Swing -10.1
West Wickham North (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Montague I Blasey* 67.8 −9.8
Conservative Percy C Read*
Liberal John Raymond Maydwell 24.3 +14.8
SDP Phyllis S Vickers
Labour Desmond P Atkinson 7.9 −5.0
Labour Hugh P Atkinson
Majority 43.5 −21.2
Turnout 48.3 +3.1
Conservative hold Swing -10.6
West Wickham South (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Kenneth V Crask* 70.4 −4.6
Conservative Leslie G Whitman*
SDP Richard Henry Redden 23.8 +15.6
Liberal Gordon J Stephens
Labour Richard Richards 5.8 −11.0
Labour Gordon D Wright
Majority 46.6 −11.5
Turnout 48.3 +1.9
Conservative hold Swing -5.7

References

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  1. ^ "London Borough Council Elections 6 May 1982" (PDF). London Datastore. Greater London Council. Retrieved 29 March 2015.