1982 Sutton London Borough Council election

The 1982 Sutton Council election took place on 6 May 1982 to elect members of Sutton 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

Election result

1982 Sutton London Borough Council election
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes
Conservative	46	0	1	1	83.9	50.7	32,221
Alliance	3	1	0	1	5.3	34.7	21,836
Labour	7	0	0		12.5	14.1	8,572
Ecology	0	0	0		0.0	0.3	262
National Front	0	0	0		0.0	0.0	62

Ward results

Beddington North (2)
	Candidate	Votes	%
Conservative	Francis McNamara	1,211
Conservative	Ronald Bishop	1,193
Liberal	Philip Griffin	1,087	43.1
Liberal	Duncan R Ponikwer	1,023
Labour	Jeremy Baker	223
Labour	Derek Clee	218

Beddington South (3)
	Candidate	Votes	%
Conservative	Henry Sawyers*	1,223
Conservative	Arnold Cummins	1,189
Conservative	Gwendoline Pook	1,164
SDP	Kenneth Bishop	1,023	34.0
SDP	Elizabeth Saunders	1,022
SDP	John Jukes	1,007
Labour	Stanley Spalding	762
Labour	John Clay	755
Labour	Doris Richards	696

Belmont (2)
	Candidate	Votes	%
Conservative	Keith Dodwell
Conservative	Joyce K M Bowley	1,617
Liberal	Robert P Gleeson	688	27.4
SDP	Owen Saunders
Labour	Jacqueline Lawler
Labour	Eric Marshall
Ecology	Robert Hambrook

Carshalton Beeches (3)
	Candidate	Votes	%
Conservative	Edward Crowley
Conservative	Keith Martin*
Conservative	Mavis Peart*	2,356
Liberal	Peter Doran	980	26.6
SDP	Katherine Collins
SDP	Robert Pearson
Labour
Labour
Labour

Carshalton Central (2)
	Candidate	Votes
Conservative	Peter Baggott*
Conservative	Reginald Venters	1,274
Liberal	Albert Harris	736
SDP	William Higgins
Labour
Labour

Carshalton North (2)
	Candidate	Votes
Conservative	Trevor Russel
Conservative	Florence Ghent*	1,328
SDP	Simon Holding	1,054
Liberal	John Phillimore
Labour
Labour

Cheam South (2)
	Candidate	Votes
Conservative	Kenneth Rose*
Conservative	Edward Trevor	2,000
SDP	Ray Rowden	300
Liberal	Donald Strong
Labour
Labour
Ecology

Cheam West (2)
	Candidate	Votes
Conservative	Kenneth Cole
Conservative	Deborah Mangnall	1,431
Liberal	Elizabeth Sharp	1,094
Liberal	Stuart Walker*
Labour
Labour

Clockhouse (1)
	Candidate	Votes
Conservative	Dick Barnard*	461
SDP	Ian Martin	382
Labour

North Cheam (2)
	Candidate	Votes	%
Conservative	John Sharvill*
Conservative	Clifford Carter*	1,302
Liberal	Ms Lesley F O'Connell	1,288	45.7
SDP	Terence A Woods
Labour
Labour

Rosehill (2)
	Candidate	Votes	%
Conservative	Anne Richmond
Conservative	Thomas Watts	1,096
Liberal	Joy Taylor	978	41.2
Liberal	Patrick Gallivan
Labour
Labour
Ecology

St Helier North (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Patrick Kane*
	Labour	Albert Dyson*
	Labour	Moreen Wright*
	Conservative
	Conservative
	Conservative
	SDP
	Liberal
	SDP
	National Front
	National Front

St Helier South (2)
	Candidate	Votes
Labour	Philip Bassett*
Labour	John Evers
Liberal	Warwick Neill	350
SDP	Douglas Herbison
Conservative
Conservative

Sutton Central (2)
	Candidate	Votes	%
Liberal	Graham Norman Tope*	1,469	60.2
Liberal	Rev. John Aubrey Mullin*	1,336
Conservative		724
Conservative		724
Labour
Labour

Sutton Common (2)
	Candidate	Votes	%
Conservative	Lesley Barber*
Conservative	Pauline Kavanagh	1,175
Liberal	Stephen Penneck	1,152	46.4
Liberal	Susan Traverso
Labour
Labour

Sutton East (3)
	Candidate	Votes	%
Conservative	Jessica Dodwell
Conservative	Stephen Langley
Conservative	Anne Richards	1,136
Liberal	Neil Frater	1,005	35.0
Liberal	Michael A Cooper	981
SDP	Aidan Tierney
Labour
Labour
Labour

Sutton South (3)
	Candidate	Votes	%
Conservative	Peter Geiringer*
Conservative	Richard Barber
Conservative	Paul Mangnall	2,312
SDP	Peter Masson	951	25.7
SDP	Joyce Marsh
Liberal	Cicely Willis
Labour
Labour
Labour

Sutton West (2)
	Candidate	Votes
Conservative	Michael J W Cooper	1,267
Liberal	Christopher Caswill	1,236
Conservative	Lynette Ranson	1,169
Liberal	Sarah Hickman	1,148
Labour
Labour
Ecology

Wallington North (3)
	Candidate	Votes	%
Conservative	Martin Brinkman
Conservative	Douglas Commaille*
Conservative	Jack Izard*	1,700
Liberal	Thomas Edward Dutton	1,274	33.4
Liberal	Joseph Farrelly
SDP	John West
Labour
Labour
Labour

Wallington South (3)
	Candidate	Votes	%
Conservative	Robert Johnson*
Conservative	Frederick Townsend*
Conservative	Edward Pascoe	1,962
Liberal	William Ward	910	27.8
SDP	Audrey Heymann
SDP	John Smoker
Labour
Labour
Labour

Wandle Valley (2)
	Candidate	Votes	%
Labour	Michael Woolley*
Labour	Malcolm Smith*	752
SDP	Philip Ratcliffe	622	33.1
Liberal	David Wiles
Conservative
Conservative

Woodcote (1)
	Candidate	Votes	%
Conservative	Graham Witham	1,062	77.6
Liberal	Stephen Manger	249	18.2
Labour

Worcester Park North (3)
	Candidate	Votes	%
Conservative	Peter Woolley*
Conservative	Janet Woolley
Conservative	Ann Tims	1,747
SDP	Eva Gregory	1,296	38.5
Liberal	Joan Crowhurst
Liberal	John Pitcher
Labour
Labour
Labour

Worcester Park South (2)
	Candidate	Votes	%
Conservative	Richard Anthony Kerslake*
Conservative	David Trafford*	1,382
Liberal	Ruth Mary Shaw	1,225	43.3
SDP	Brenda Billingham
Labour
Labour

Wrythe Green (2)
	Candidate	Votes	%
Conservative	Gwendolin Bates*
Conservative	Roy Whitehair	1,096
SDP	Janet Garwood	996	35.5
Liberal	Cathryn Wiles
Labour
Labour

References

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

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Background

Election result

Ward results

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