1988 Adur District Council election

1988 Adur District Council election
One third of seats (13 of 39) to Adur District Council; 20 seats needed for a majority
	Map showing the results of the 1988 Adur council elections.
Majority party before election; Social and Liberal Democrats;	Majority party after election ; Social and Liberal Democrats;

Elections to the Adur District Council were held on 5 May 1988, with one third of the council up for election however no elections were held for the single-member ward St Mary's. Overall turnout dropped to 42.5%.^[1]

The election resulted in the new merger Social and Liberal Democrats retaining control of the council.^[2]^[3]

Election result

Adur District Council Election Result 1988^[2]
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
SLD	7	1	1	53.8	39.1	7,650	-5.0
Conservative	5	1	1	38.5	47.3	9,244	+0.7
Residents	1	0	0	7.7	4.1	810	+4.1
Labour	0	0	0	0.0	9.5	1,848	+0.2

This resulted in the following composition of the council:^[2]

Party		Previous council	New council
	Social and Liberal Democrats	22	22
	Conservative	15	15
	Independent Residents	2	2
Total		39	39
Working majority		5	5

Ward results

+/- figures represent changes from the last time these wards were contested.

Buckingham (3933)^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Pelling C.	1,137	69.7	+3.8
	SLD	Miller A.	369	22.6	−11.5
	Labour	Gibbs J. Ms.	126	7.7	+7.7
Majority			768	47.1	+15.3
Turnout			1,632	41.5	−8.3
	Conservative hold		Swing	+7.6

Churchill (3711)^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SLD	Ferris M.	810	54.4	+6.7
	Conservative	Wood J.	678	45.6	+1.1
Majority			132	8.9	+5.7
Turnout			1,488	40.1	−9.5
	SLD hold		Swing	+2.8

Cokeham (3525)^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SLD	Smith J.	579	42.9	−3.6
	Conservative	Catchpole W.	515	38.1	−2.2
	Labour	Mear B.	256	19.0	+5.8
Majority			64	4.7	−1.4
Turnout			1,350	38.3	−4.3
	SLD hold		Swing	-0.7

Eastbrook (3614)^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Parkin N.	748	48.5	+1.2
	SLD	Taylor S.	455	29.5	−8.4
	Labour	Barnes S.	340	22.0	+7.2
Majority			293	19.0	+9.5
Turnout			1,543	42.7	−13.8
	Conservative hold		Swing	+4.8

Hillside (3631)^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Leeves C.	852	51.2	−6.6
	SLD	Whitmore L.	811	48.8	+24.0
Majority			41	2.5	−30.5
Turnout			1,663	45.8	−1.0
	Conservative hold		Swing	-15.3

Manor (3407)^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SLD	Cooper M.*	724	46.3	−9.0
	Conservative	Boyce G.	716	45.8	+1.1
	Labour	Lower J. Ms.	124	7.9	+7.9
Majority			8	0.5	−10.1
Turnout			1,564	45.9	−3.4
	SLD hold		Swing	-5.0

Marine (2677)^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Residents	Shepard P.*	810	57.5	N/A
	Conservative	Patten E.	520	36.9	N/A
	Labour	Sweet G. Ms.	78	5.5	N/A
Majority			290	20.6	N/A
Turnout			1,408	52.6	N/A
	Residents hold		Swing	N/A

Mash Barn (3008)^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SLD	Robinson J. Ms.	554	51.9	−31.0
	Conservative	Kemp C.	399	37.4	+37.4
	Labour	Atkins B.	115	10.8	−6.4
Majority			155	14.5	−51.3
Turnout			1,068	35.5	+3.5
	SLD hold		Swing	-34.2

Peverel (3211)^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SLD	Driscoll P. Ms.*	473	42.0	−6.7
	Conservative	Harris F.	462	41.0	+0.0
	Labour	Atkins H. Ms.	192	17.0	+6.7
Majority			11	1.0	−6.6
Turnout			1,127	35.1	−10.3
	SLD hold		Swing	-3.3

Southlands (3366)^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SLD	Bucknall G.	715	50.8	−0.5
	Conservative	Muirhead J. Ms.	471	33.5	+0.6
	Labour	Sweet N.	221	15.7	−0.1
Majority			244	17.3	−1.2
Turnout			1,407	41.8	−10.2
	SLD gain from Conservative		Swing	-0.5

Southwick Green (3897)^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SLD	King M.*	1,031	57.8	−0.1
	Conservative	Macpherson M.	754	42.2	+0.1
Majority			277	15.6	−0.2
Turnout			1,785	45.8	−5.5
	SLD hold		Swing	-0.1

St. Nicolas (3723)^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Finch B.*	1,005	62.9	−1.2
	SLD	Pressley N.	377	23.6	−2.1
	Labour	O'Hare J.	215	13.5	+3.2
Majority			628	39.3	+0.9
Turnout			1,597	42.9	−6.6
	Conservative hold		Swing	+0.4

Widewater (4257)^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Phillips D.	987	51.4	+1.3
	SLD	Hammond D.*	752	39.2	−1.5
	Labour	Satchell A. Ms.	181	9.4	+0.1
Majority			235	12.2	+2.8
Turnout			1,920	45.1	−3.3
	Conservative gain from SLD		Swing	+1.4

References

^ Local elections in Britain: a statistical digest, edited by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher. 2nd Edition 2003
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p "Elections Centre: Adur 1973-2012" (PDF). electionscentre.co.uk/plymouth.ac.uk. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 March 2018. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
^ "Vote 2012: Adur". bbc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 6 November 2018. Retrieved 18 March 2018.

[1] Local elections in Britain: a statistical digest, edited by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher. 2nd Edition 2003

[results-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p "Elections Centre: Adur 1973-2012" (PDF). electionscentre.co.uk/plymouth.ac.uk. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 March 2018. Retrieved 25 July 2017.

[3] "Vote 2012: Adur". bbc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 6 November 2018. Retrieved 18 March 2018.

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1988 Adur District Council election

Election result

Ward results

References

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