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16 out of 43 seats to Welwyn Hatfield District Council 23 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | ~36,191, 54.7% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Council composition following the election. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 1978 Welwyn Hatfield District Council election took place on 4 May 1978 to elect members of Welwyn Hatfield District Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections. A third of the total seats were up for election, one for each ward plus an additional seat in the wards for Hatfield East and Peartree. While the Labour party made notable gains in the popular vote at the cost of the Conservative and Liberal parties, they only took one seat from the Conservatives. This meant the Conservatives kept their majority control of the council, albeit only just.
Summary
Election result
| 1978 Welwyn Hatfield District Council election | ||||||||||
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| Party | This election | Full council | This election | |||||||
| Seats | Net | Seats % | Other | Total | Total % | Votes | Votes % | +/− | ||
| Conservative | 7 |  1
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43.8 | 16 | 23 | 53.5 | 20,462 | 50.2 | –5.0 | |
| Labour | 9 |  1
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56.3 | 11 | 20 | 46.5 | 19,128 | 46.9 | +8.3 | |
| Liberal | 0 | 
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0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1,164 | 2.9 | –3.2 | |
References
- "Results 1973 to 2012" (PDF). Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher. The Elections Centre, Plymouth University. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
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