1973 Greater London Council election

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox election The fourth election to the Greater London Council (GLC) was held on 12 April 1973. Labour won a large majority of 58 seats to 32 for the Conservatives; the Liberals also won their first two seats on the council.

Electoral arrangements

As there had been a boundary commission report with new Parliamentary constituencies which coincided with the border of Greater London, the electoral system was changed (as had always been intended) so that the GLC was elected from single member electoral divisions which were identical with the Parliamentary constituencies.

Councillors were elected for a three-year term. This was extended for an extra year in 1976 when the electoral cycle was switched to four-yearly.<ref name="Order 1976">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Results

General election of councillors

The Labour Party won a majority of seats at the election.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

With an electorate of 5,313,470, there was a turnout of 36.8%.<ref name="Boothroyd GLC">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Among those who were first elected to the GLC in 1973 were Ken Livingstone (Labour, Lambeth, Norwood), later to lead it, Andrew McIntosh (Labour, Haringey, Tottenham) who was his brief moderate rival for the Labour leadership, and Serge Lourie (Labour, Havering, Hornchurch), who became a founder member of the SDP and leader of Richmond upon Thames London Borough Council in 2001.

Party Votes Seats
Number % +/- Stood Seats % +/-
Template:Party name with colour 928,034 47.4 Template:Increase7.5 92 58 63.0 Template:Increase23
Template:Party name with colour 743,123 38.0 Template:Decrease12.6 92 32 34.8 Template:Decrease33
Template:Party name with colour 244,703 12.5 Template:Increase7.1 60 2 2.2 Template:Increase2
Template:Party name with colour 11,954 0.6 Template:Decrease1.2 28 0 0.0 Template:Nochange
Template:Party name with colour 9,536 0.5 New 6 0 0.0 Template:Nochange
Residents' or Ratepayers' 5,516 0.3 New 3 0 0.0 Template:Nochange
Template:Party name with colour 4,211 0.2 Template:Decrease0.1 15 0 0.0 Template:Nochange
Template:Party name with colour 3,063 0.2 Template:Decrease0.4 6 0 0.0 Template:Nochange
Template:Party name with colour 2,924 0.1 New 1 0 0.0 Template:Nochange
Template:Party name with colour 2,393 0.1 New 2 0 0.0 Template:Nochange
Template:Party name with colour 1,612 0.1 Template:Nochange 11 0 0.0 Template:Nochange
Template:Party name with colour 227 0.0 New 1 0 0.0 Template:Nochange

Aldermanic election

In addition to the 92 elected councillors, there were fifteen aldermen elected by the council. Eight aldermen elected in 1970 continued to serve until 1976 and the eight elected in 1967 retired before the 1973 election. Seven aldermen were elected by the council on 4 May 1973 to serve until 1979.

Aldermen elected in 1973, to retire in 1979:Template:Efn

Party Alderman
Template:Party name with colour Richard Collins
Template:Party name with colour Maureen Harwood
Template:Party name with colour Walter Kenneth Mansfield
Template:Party name with colour Stanley Wilfred Mayne
Template:Party name with colour Luke Patrick O'Connor
Template:Party name with colour Oliver StutchburyTemplate:Efn
Template:Party name with colour John Golden Warren

The aldermen divided 9 Labour and 6 Conservative, so that Labour had 67 members to 38 for the Conservatives following the aldermanic election. It would be the final election of aldermen to the council, with those elected in 1970 and 1973 having their terms altered to all end in 1977.<ref name="Order 1976"/>

Constituency results

Members of the old council*

Barking

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Barnet

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Bexley

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Brent

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Bromley

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Camden

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  • Fierz - Anti-Redevelopment
  • Goulstone - Great Joint Happiness Homes for All

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Croydon

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Ealing

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Enfield

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Greenwich

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Hackney

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Hammersmith

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Haringey

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Harrow

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Havering

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Hillingdon

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Hounslow

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Islington

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Kensington and Chelsea

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Kingston upon Thames

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Lambeth

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  • Jackson - Anti-Motorway, Support Community Involvement in Planning
  • Solomon - Lambeth Residents for Democratic Local Government

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Lewisham

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Merton

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Newham

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Redbridge

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Richmond upon Thames

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Southwark

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Sutton

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Tower Hamlets

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Waltham Forest

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Wandsworth

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Westminster and the City of London

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By-elections 1973–1977

Template:Further The first by-election of the term was caused by the court voiding the election in Croydon North East (see Morgan v Simpson). The former Conservative member Billie Morgan regained the seat she had narrowly lost in Croydon North East on 5 September 1974. Labour retained seats in Greenwich on 24 October 1974 and Dagenham on 30 January 1975 caused by the deaths of sitting councillors. The Conservatives kept their seat in Finchley on 15 May 1975 caused by the resignation of Roland Freeman and St Marylebone on 8 April 1976 caused by the resignation of former GLC leader Desmond Plummer.

There was one aldermanic by-election caused by the resignation of Oliver Piers Stutchbury (Labour) in 1976. Alfred Frederick Joseph Chorley (Labour) was elected by the council on 21 September 1976, to serve until 1977.Template:Efn

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