1986 Bromley London Borough Council election

The 1986 Bromley Council election took place on 8 May 1986 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 Paul H Brown* 1,591 45.8 +4.9
SDP Christopher Richard Gaster* 1,580
Labour Michael J D'Arcy 1,282 36.9 +5.0
Labour Wendy C Palace
Conservative Nicholas M Grove 603 17.3 −9.9
Conservative Benjamin W C Waterhouse 579
Majority 8.9 −0.5
Turnout 44.7
Social Democratic hold Swing -0.0
Clock House (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative David J Harding* 1,644 40.6 −4.0
Conservative Roderick A Reed 1,507
SDP Anne Wendy Chaplin 1,369 33.8 −0.9
Liberal Stephen R Walls 1,318
Labour Mark C Mason 1,038 25.6 +4.9
Labour Andrew S Berry 1,033
Majority 6.8 −3.1
Turnout 50.6 +0.3
Conservative hold Swing -1.5
Copers Cope (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Christopher John Elgar* 66.3 +8.5
Conservative Charles George Priest*
Liberal Julie D King 20.6 −0.7
SDP Peter Townsend
Labour Malcolm R Newbury 13.1 +4.9
Labour Eric H Turner
Majority 45.7 +9.2
Turnout 41.7 −3.4
Conservative hold Swing +4.6
Eden Park (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Francis J D Cooke* 56.0 −2.5
Conservative Albert George Miles
SDP Richard Evans 28.9 −3.5
Liberal Bernice Nieto
Labour Maureen T Laurence 15.1 +6.1
Labour Ciaran J Tyndall
Majority 27.1 +1.0
Turnout 44.9 −5.2
Conservative hold Swing +0.5
Kelsey Park (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Maurice J Mason* 70.9 −3.2
Conservative Michael John B Tickner*
SDP John P S Hordern 20.8 +0.5
Liberal George L Whitehorn
Labour Janice M Cooke 8.3 +2.7
Labour Bryan Edwin Freake
Majority 50.1 −3.7
Turnout 46.7 −4.2
Conservative hold Swing -1.8
Lawrie Park & Kent House (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Richard D. Foister* 46.6 −4.7
Conservative John Arthur M. Lewis*
Labour Michael J Curran 32.9 +9.2
Labour Derek K Robbins
Liberal Paul David Nash 20.5 −4.6
SDP Richard Holbech Boultbee
Majority 13.7 −13.9
Turnout 46.9
Conservative hold Swing -6.9
Penge (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Arthur J Mansfield* 1,369 43.4 +8.5
Labour Laurence R Pocock 1,199
Liberal Heather Isabel Donovan* 963 30.5 −5.5
Liberal Jonathan R Coninx 908
Conservative Penelope J Hunter 824 26.1 −3.0
Conservative Geoffrey J Winnard 802
Majority 12.9 14.0
Turnout 43.1 +4.2
Labour gain from Liberal Swing +7.0
Shortlands (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative John Charnley 66.9 −8.1
Conservative Brian R Reading*
SDP Stuart Philip Bayliss 23.9 +4.4
Liberal John S Oakenfull
Labour Pauline M Jones 9.2 +3.8
Labour Philip Cooke
Majority 43.0 −12.5
Turnout 46.5 −5.2
Conservative hold Swing -6.2

Chislehurst

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Bickley (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative David Malcolm Dear 50.5 −26.4
Conservative Margaret Doreen Moir
Conservative Simon J C Randall* 2,894
Liberal Ervin G Muller* 2,512 43.1 +17.3
SDP Gillian L Collins
Liberal Maureen T Brodie
Labour Herbert J Gentry
Labour Gwendoline I Mansfield 6.4 −0.9
Labour Howard E Kniveton
Majority 54.1 +12.9
Turnout 50.9 +5.4
Conservative hold Swing +6.4
Chislehurst (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Joan Bryant* 60.4 −11.7
Conservative Charles Christopher Seward Reeves*
Conservative Joan Kathleen Wykes
Labour Charles Phillips 21.2 +11.3
Labour Ronald D Deadman
Labour Peter G Warner
SDP Muriel A Letman 18.4 +0.3
SDP Robert Turgoose
Liberal Robert R V Woollett
Majority 39.1 −14.9
Turnout 45.5 −4.3
Conservative hold Swing
Mottingham (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Alistair Huistean Macdonald* 45.7 +3.2
Labour Patricia A Waitman
Conservative Michael John Hennessey 26.2 −4.0
SDP Peter H Anderson 26.0 +1.9
Liberal Brian Harry Taylor
Conservative Julian Patrick Greville Grainger
Majority 21.5 +6.0
Turnout 48.9 +4.8
Labour hold Swing +3.0
Plaistow & Sundridge (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Richard B Jackson* 52.5 −7.0
Conservative Dorothy Joan Laird*
Conservative Arthur J Wilkinson*
Liberal Michael F Deves 28.6 +2.2
SDP William A Scally
Liberal Lennard Douglas Woods
Labour Madeline A Borland 18.9 +4.8
Labour Rex V Barnes
Labour Nicholas Anthony Wright
Majority 33.1 −9.2
Turnout 45.5 −1.2
Conservative hold Swing -4.6
St Paul's Cray (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Walter Kenneth Mansfield* 40.1 +10.3
Labour Selwyn H Ward*
Labour Ira G Walters J
Conservative Gladys P Hobbs* 28.6 −7.4
Conservative Bernard J Cobley
Conservative Albert E Stayte
Liberal George H Watson 20.9 −3.0
SDP Stephen J Wilson
SDP Terence E Simpson
Majority 21.8 −8.1
Turnout 40.6 +2.6
Labour gain from Conservative Swing

Orpington

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Chelsfield & Goddington (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Reginald G Adams* 2,827 45.6 −10.1
Liberal Jonathan Harold Fryer 2,775 44.7 +6.3
Conservative Joseph T Heath* 2,752
Conservative Bruce G Panes 2,714
Liberal Kathleen A Jolly 2,576
Liberal Sidney C O Langford 2,561
Labour Ronald G D'Olley 9.7 +3.7
Labour Trevor E Phillips
Labour David N Humphreys
Majority 0.8 −16.5
Turnout 51.9 −3.0
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing +8.2
Crofton (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Paul Martin Bonter* 51.5 −9.5
Conservative Peter Sturdy*
Liberal Phillip F Dearle 36.9 +3.4
Liberal Harry Anthony Silvester
Labour Geoffrey H Ball 11.6 +6.1
Labour Graham E Kom
Majority 14.6 −18.9
Turnout 48.6 −6.8
Conservative hold Swing -9.4
Farnborough (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Eric Norman Goodman* 63.7 −13.2
Conservative Jennifer Mary Hillier*
Liberal Terence Frank Clark 27.3 +3.9
Liberal Paul D Solloway
Labour Alfred C Morgan 8.9 +4.1
Labour Kei'h Warren
Majority 36.4 −12.0
Turnout 47.9 −2.6
Conservative hold Swing -6.0
Orpington Central (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Christopher Stewart Maines 1,617 43.3 +4.2
Liberal Michael John Norris 1,535
Conservative Anthony M Owen 1,242 33.3 −16.7
Conservative Robert G Straker 1,123
Labour Gillian A Collins 21.5 +8.7
Labour Keith A Galley
Independent Elridge Griffiths 1.8
Majority 10.0 18.9
Turnout 49.7 +0.1
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing +9.4
Petts Wood & Knoll (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Joan Hatcher* 58.0 −10.6
Conservative Michael J Edwards*
Conservative Brian V Atkinson*
Liberal Aubrey James Curry 32.8 +13.5
SDP Beatrice W Hedley
Liberal John A Martin
Labour Rosalie Huzzard 9.2 +5.1
Labour Lynn Ann Sellwood
Labour Susan Ann Polydorou
Majority 25.2 +9.4
Turnout 51.4 −2.2
Conservative hold Swing +4.6
St Mary Cray (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour John Richard Holbrook 1,896 37.6 +4.3
Labour Ronald William Huzzard 1,878
Labour Mark J Smith 1,774
Liberal Richard J Gardner 1,617 32.1 +4.5
Conservative Norman F Mingay* 1,527 30.3 −8.7
Liberal Martin Alan Curry 1,475
Conservative Harry R Stranger* 1,463
Liberal Duncan Keith Borrowman 1,453
Conservative Martin R Reef 1,413
Majority 5.5
Turnout 44.5 +2.4
Labour gain from Conservative Swing

Ravensbourne

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Biggin Hill (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative David Robert Haslam* 1,881
Conservative Arthur Ronald Edgington 1,837
Liberal Robert F Hatch 1,468
SDP Joan E Welfare 1,340
Labour Stuart N Copping 361
Labour Joyce E Galley 333
Majority
Turnout 47.1 −5.0
Conservative hold Swing
Bromley Common & Keston (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Robert H Smith* 2,475 42.6 +
Conservative Raymond L Ainsby* 2,442 42.0 −11.2
Conservative John Hawes 2,361
Liberal Paul Jeremy Hudson Booth 2,351
SDP Catherine Mary Boston 2,298
Conservative Andrew D Clift 2,264
Labour David R Blackman 15.4 −6.3
Labour Geoffrey D Williams
Labour Pamela C Remon
Majority 28.1 28.7
Turnout 45.9 +4.4
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing +14.3
Darwin (1)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Peter John Bloomfield* 69.7 +2.1
Liberal Derek J Goldsmith 22.1 −3.7
Labour Martin E Synan 8.2 +1.5
Majority 47.6 +5.8
Turnout 50.3 −6.3
Conservative hold Swing +2.95
Hayes (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Ernest Dennis Barkway* 53.0 −11.9
Conservative Philip Geoffrey Jones*
Conservative Nigel G Kelsh
Liberal William Ivor Shipley 36.3 +8.3
SDP Richard J McKeogh
SDP Graham Frederick Keith Radford
Labour Peter W Rance 10.8 +3.7
Labour Marcus R Shellard
Labour Peter R Adamczyk-Haswell
Majority 16.7 −20.2
Turnout 46.5 +2.2
Conservative hold Swing -10.1
Martins Hill & Town (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative William F D Walker* 48.6 −4.9
Conservative Anthony Millar Wilkinson*
Liberal Jennifer M Hawke 35.9 +1.5
SDP Roger Wakefield
Labour Alton S Kelly 15.6 +3.5
Labour Gordon Thomas Yates
Majority 12.7 −6.3
Turnout 38.6 −4.8
Conservative hold Swing -3.1
West Wickham North (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Montague I Blasey* 56.9 −10.9
Conservative Brian Charles Humphrys
SDP Richard J Cox 35.0 +10.7
Liberal Peter N F Ward
Labour Frank P Atkinson 8.1 +0.2
Labour Leslie G Druce
Majority 21.9 −21.6
Turnout 47.6 −0.7
Conservative hold Swing -10.8
West Wickham South (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Kenneth V Crask* 56.9 −10.5
Conservative John Frederick Ivan Gray
SDP Richard Henry Redden 300.8 +7.0
Liberal Irene B Jenkins
Labour Richard Richards 8.1 +2.3
Labour Gordon D Wright
Majority 21.9 −24.7
Turnout 47.3 −1.0
Conservative hold Swing -12.3

References

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  1. ^ "London Borough Council Elections 8 May 1986" (PDF). London Datastore. London Residuary Body. Retrieved 29 March 2015.