Misplaced Pages

1978 Havering London Borough Council election

← 1974 4 May 1978 (1978-05-04) 1982 →
All 63 seats to the Havering London Borough Council 32 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   CON RES LAB Party Conservative Residents Labour Seats won 38 13 12 Seat change 18 4 8

The 1978 Havering Council election took place on 4 May 1978 to elect members of Havering London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Conservative Party gained overall control of the council for the second time.

Electoral arrangements

The election was originally scheduled for 1977, but was delayed for one year to bring London borough council elections into a four-year election cycle. New ward boundaries were used for the first time. Prior to the 1978 election the council had 64 members (55 councillors and 9 aldermen). From the 1978 election, 63 councillors were elected from 25 wards. Each ward returned two or three councillors.

Ten of the wards were entirely new, including Airfield ward covering the new Airfield estate in Hornchurch. The remaining wards shared the names of previously used wards but with new boundaries. Councillors were elected for a four-year term with the next election scheduled for 1982.

Polling took place on 4 May 1978, except in Gooshays ward where the election was delayed until 25 May 1978, due to the death of a candidate.

Results

With 38 seats, the Conservative Party won overall control of the council for the second time. Labour Party wins were concentrated in the wards covering the Harold Hill estate (Heaton, Hilldene and Gooshays) with the addition of the new Airfield ward in Hornchurch. Residents and ratepayers candidates were successful in the two seats covering Cranham (Cranham East and Cranham West) as well as Rainham and wards covering southern Hornchurch (Hacton and South Hornchurch).

Ward results

Airfield

Ardleigh Green

Brooklands

Chase Cross

Collier Row

Cranham East

Cranham West

Elm Park

Emerson Park

Gidea Park

Gooshays

Hacton

Harold Wood

Heath Park

Heaton

Hilldene

Hylands

Mawney

Oldchurch

Rainham

Rise Park

St Andrew's

St Edward's

South Hornchurch

Upminster

By-elections

The following by-elections took place between the 1978 and 1982 elections:

• 1978 St Andrew's (Havering) by-election
• 1980 Gooshays by-election
• 1980 Heaton (Havering) by-election
• 1980 Rise Park by-election
• 1981 Upminster by-election (Ratepayers gain from Conservative)

Notes

1. Includes all candidates elected as (Independent) Residents or Ratepayers
2. Terms were extended by the London Councillors Order 1976.

References

1. ^ "London Borough Council Elections 4 May 1978" (PDF). London Datastore. Greater London Council. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
2. "1978 London Borough of Havering local election results". Havering Council. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
3. Rallings, Colin; Thrasher, Michael. "London Borough of Havering Election Results 1964-2010" (PDF). The Elections Centre. Retrieved 1 October 2024.

v t e (1977 ←) 1978 United Kingdom local elections (→ 1979)
London boroughs	Barking Barnet Bexley Brent Bromley Camden Croydon Ealing Enfield Greenwich Hackney Hammersmith Haringey Harrow Havering Hillingdon Hounslow Islington Kensington and Chelsea Kingston upon Thames Lambeth Lewisham Merton Newham Redbridge Richmond upon Thames Southwark Sutton Tower Hamlets Waltham Forest Wandsworth Westminster
Metropolitan boroughs	Barnsley Birmingham Bradford Bolton Bury Calderdale Coventry Doncaster Dudley Gateshead Kirklees Knowsley Leeds Liverpool Manchester Newcastle North Tyneside Oldham Rochdale Rotherham Salford Sandwell Sefton Sheffield Solihull South Tyneside St Helens Stockport Sunderland Tameside Trafford Wakefield Walsall Wigan Wirral Wolverhampton
District councils (England)	Basingstoke and Deane Bath Brentwood Broxbourne Burnley Cambridge Cannock Chase Chorley Colchester Congleton Eastbourne Eastleigh Ellesmere Port and Neston Elmbridge Fareham Halton Harlow Hart Hartlepool Havant Hertsmere Huntingdon Milton Keynes Mole Valley Pendle Peterborough Preston Rochford Rossendale Runnymede Shrewsbury and Atcham South Bedfordshire South Cambridgeshire Southend-on-Sea Tamworth Tandridge Thamesdown Three Rivers Tunbridge Wells Watford Welwyn Hatfield West Lancashire Winchester Woking
Regional councils (Scotland)	Borders Central Dumfries and Galloway Fife Grampian Highland Lothian Orkney Shetland Strathclyde Tayside Western Isles

• Council elections in the London Borough of Havering
• 1978 London Borough council elections