1980 Hamilton District Council election

1980 Hamilton District Council election
All 20 seats to Hamilton District Council; 11 seats needed for a majority
Registered	78,670
Turnout	50.2%
Council Leader before election; ; No overall control	Council Leader after election ; ; Labour

Elections to Hamilton District Council were held on 1 May 1980, on the same day as the other Scottish local government elections. This was the third election to the district council following the local government reforms in the 1970s.

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The election was the last to use the original 20 wards created by the Formation Electoral Arrangements in 1974. Each ward elected one councillor using first-past-the-post voting.^[1] Following the Initial Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements in October 1981, several wards were changed or abolished.^[2]

Labour regained overall control of the council after winning 17 seats – an increase of seven from the previous election – and taking more than half of the popular vote. The Liberals leapfrogged the Scottish National Party (SNP) into second as they maintained their total of two councillors and the Conservatives won the remaining seat to maintain their number on the council. The SNP lost all six of their seats as their vote share fell by 25 percentage points.

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Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Labour	17	7	0	7	85.0	56.5	15,648	14.4
	Liberal	2	0	0		10.0	10.3	2,849	4.1
	Conservative	1	0	0		5.0	22.0	6,093	9.4
	SNP	0	0	6	6	0.0	8.3	2,290	24.8
	Independent Labour	0	0	1	1	0.0	2.3	658	0.8
	Independent Nationalist	0	0	0		0.0	0.6	178	New
Total		20						27,716

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	R. Newberry	1,206	81.7	34.2
	Independent Nationalist	M. Sneddon	178	12.1	New
	Conservative	D. Ogg	91	6.2	New
Majority			1,028	69.6	N/A
Turnout			1,475	46.3	4.1
Registered electors			3,139
	Labour gain from SNP		Swing	34.2

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	S. Dallas	1,473	85.1	52.7
	Independent Labour	A. Reid	248	14.3	23.7
Majority			1,225	70.8	N/A
Turnout			1,721	52.3	0.3
Registered electors			3,308
	Labour gain from Independent Labour		Swing	52.7

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	B. McKinnon	800	49.5	22.8
	Conservative	A. Aitchison	429	26.5	1.2
	SNP	A. McCubbin	387	23.9	18.0
Majority			371	23.0	N/A
Turnout			1,616	50.4	3.4
Registered electors			3,206
	Labour gain from SNP		Swing	20.4

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	T. Murphy	771	63.9	25.7
	Conservative	M. Stepek	432	35.8	7.4
Majority			339	28.1	23.2
Turnout			1,203	50.5	4.4
Registered electors			2,392
	Labour hold		Swing	25.7

1980 Hamilton District Council election

Results

Ward results

Hillhouse

Udston

Wellhall North

Central

Burnbank

Bent

Fairhill

Wellhall South

Low Waters

Cadzow

Dalserf

Machan

Avonholm

Strutherhill

Stonehouse

Bothwell and Uddingston North

Bothwell and Uddingston South

High Blantyre

Blantyre

Stonefield

References

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Burnbank
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	I. McKillop	1,416	69.5	8.1
	Independent Labour	A. Hosie	410	20.1	New
	Conservative	J. Urquhart	208	10.2	New
Majority			1,006	49.4	23.1
Turnout			2,034	51.8	4.6
Registered electors			3,936
	Labour hold		Swing	8.1

Fairhill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	N. Cochrane	1,941	84.4	29.8
	Conservative	D. Murray	356	15.5	New
Majority			1,585	68.9	56.5
Turnout			2,297	44.9	6.0
Registered electors			5,125
	Labour hold		Swing	29.8

Wellhall South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	D. Puetherer	1,250	80.6	42.7
	Conservative	G. Young	290	18.7	0.2
Majority			960	61.9	60.5
Turnout			1,540	42.7	8.5
Registered electors			3,634
	Labour hold		Swing	42.7

Low Waters
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	D. Williamson	1,681	63.1	2.5
	Labour	P. Grenfell	976	36.6	17.7
Majority			705	26.5	13.6
Turnout			2,657	55.3	0.9
Registered electors			4,823
	Conservative hold		Swing	2.5