1979 Hyndburn Borough Council election

Following the merger of several Urban District Councils (Rishton, Gt Harwood, Accrington, Church, Oswaldtwsitle) and the Parish of Altham there followed ward boundary changes to equalise the seats. 1979 was the first election on the new boundaries with an all out election.[1]

Results

Hyndburn Local Election Result 1979
	Seats	Gains	Seats %	Votes %	Votes
Labour	19	19	40.4%	46.6%	51,823
Conservative	28	28	55.0%	49.1%	54,578
Liberal				2.4%	2,724
National Front				0.5%	593
Independent				1.0%	1,067
Communist				0.1%	87
Spoilt				0.4%	392
Totals	47			63.5%	111,264

Ward	1979 3rd	1979 2nd	1979 1st
Next Up	1980	1981	1982
Altham Parish	Con	-	-
Barnfield	Con	Lab	Lab
Baxenden	Con	Con	Con
Central	Lab	Lab	Lab
Church	Lab	Lab	Lab
Clayton	Con	Con	Con
Huncoat	Con	Lab	Con
Immanuel	Lab	Con	Con
Milnshaw	Con	Con	Con
Netherton	Lab	Lab	Lab
Overton	Con	Con	Con
Peel	Lab	Lab	Con
Rishton Eachill	Con	-	Con
Rishton Norden	Con	Lab	-
Spring Hill	Lab	Lab	Lab
St Andrews	Con	Con	Con
St Oswalds	Con	Con	Con
Council (Lab)	5	8	6
Council (Con)	12	7	9

By ward

Altham Parish- electorate 1,073
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	F. Lowe	Uncontested
	Conservative hold		Swing

Barnfield- electorate 3,013
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Ann Elizabeth Sudders
	Labour	Dave Walter Keeley
	Conservative	unknown
	National Front
	...	spoilt votes	16	...
Majority
Turnout				61.1%
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Baxenden- electorate 3,463
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	B Maudsley
	Conservative	Eddie Craig
	Conservative	unknown
	Liberal
	...	spoilt votes	22	...
Majority
Turnout				70.5%
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Central- electorate 4,144
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	M Whitham
	Labour	Ken Curtis
	Labour	unknown
	Conservative
	National Front
	...	spoilt votes	41	...
Majority
Turnout				55.9%
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Church- electorate 4,857
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Jack Grime
	Labour	Len Dickenson
	Labour	unknown
	Conservative
	National Front
	...	spoilt votes	22	...
Majority
Turnout				65.0%
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Clayton-le-Moors - electorate 4,135
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	JS Arkwright
	Conservative	Jennie Jackson
	Conservative	unknown
	Labour
	...	spoilt votes	21	...
Majority
Turnout				68.7%
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Huncoat - electorate 2,772
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Nigel Bramley Haworth
	Labour	Doris Grant
	Conservative	?
	Labour	?
	...	spoilt votes	16	...
Majority
Turnout				59.8%
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Immanuel - electorate 3,351
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	M Barrett
	Conservative	Monica Margaret Browning
	Labour	unknown
	Conservative
	...	spoilt votes	41	...
Majority
Turnout				66.0%
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Milnshaw - electorate 4,152
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Raymond Duckworth
	Conservative	Herbert Taylor
	Conservative	Unknown
	Labour
	...	spoilt votes	33	...
Majority
Turnout				61.6%
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Netherton - electorate 3,709
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	George Slynn
	Labour	Michael Hindley
	Labour	unknown
	Conservative
	...	spoilt votes	19	...
Majority
Turnout				72.5
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Overton - electorate 4,519
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Jessie Marie Hall
	Conservative	William Birch Sumner
	Conservative	unknown
	Labour
	...	spoilt votes	34	...
Majority
Turnout				70.2
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Peel - electorate 3,996
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Bernard Dawson
	Labour	John Culshaw
	Conservative	Alice Owens
	Labour
	...	spoilt votes	47	...
Majority
Turnout				62.3%
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Rishton Eachill - electorate 2,090
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Donald John McNeil
	Conservative	unknown
	Labour
	Liberal
	...	spoilt votes	14	...
Majority
Turnout				49.8%
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Rishton Norden- electorate 2,574
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Alan Critchlow
	Conservative	unknown
	Labour
	Conservative
	...	spoilt votes	17	...
Majority
Turnout				49.8%
	Labour hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Spring Hill - electorate 4,131
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Christopher Dillon
	Labour	D McGrath
	Labour	Unknown
	Conservative
	Liberal
	Communist
	Independent
	...	spoilt votes	24	...
Majority
Turnout				56.9%
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

St. Andrew's - electorate 3,239
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	J K Hargreaves
	Conservative	Clifford Walsh'
	Conservative	unknown
	Labour
	...	spoilt votes	9	...
Majority
Turnout				65.5%
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

St Oswald's - electorate 4,085
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Edward (Ted) Francis Hill
	Conservative	Thomas Wilfred Renshaw
	Conservative	unknown
	Labour
	...	spoilt votes	16	...
Majority
Turnout				68.7%
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

References

"Hyndburn Council election records". Hyndburn Council election records. May 1979.

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