Elections to Tower Hamlets London Borough Council were held in May 1986. The whole council was up for election. Turnout was 35.0%.
Election result
[edit]Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Alliance | 26 | 42.7 | |||||||
Labour | 24 | 44.1 | |||||||
Conservative | 0 | 7.2 |
Results
[edit]Blackwall
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Christine Shawcroft | 834 | |||
SDP | Jonathan Mathews | 788 | |||
Labour | Sunahwar Ali | 661 | |||
SDP | Russell Neale | 657 | |||
Conservative | Robert Hughes | 129 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 4,139 | 42.3 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
SDP gain from Labour | Swing |
Bow
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Patricia Catchpole | 1,198 | |||
Liberal | Ronald Lebar | 1,165 | |||
Liberal | Anthony Wilcock | 1,071 | |||
Labour | Edward Caunter | 795 | |||
Labour | Wendy Allman | 777 | |||
Labour | Thomas Redmond | 737 | |||
Conservative | Bernard Jenkin | 172 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 6,278 | 34.6 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Bromley
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Arthur Downes | 1,458 | |||
Labour | Anne Delargy | 1,450 | |||
Labour | Neil McAree | 1,403 | |||
Liberal | Beryl Day | 1,292 | |||
Liberal | Peter Hughes | 1,139 | |||
Liberal | Zofia Hart | 1,112 | |||
Conservative | Ralph Harrison | 166 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 7,383 | 41.1 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour gain from Liberal | Swing |
East India
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Terence Connolly | 906 | |||
Labour | Patrick Little | 800 | |||
Liberal | Maurice Caplan | 541 | |||
Liberal | Anthony Peter | 464 | |||
Independent Labour | David Canning | 318 | |||
Conservative | Peter Sayer | 95 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 4,925 | 36.2 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Grove
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Eric Flounders | 1,049 | |||
Liberal | Janet Ludlow | 1,011 | |||
Labour | John Griffin | 701 | |||
Labour | Julia Mainwaring | 685 | |||
Conservative | Barbara Perrott | 104 | |||
Conservative | Linda Ransom | 81 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 4,079 | 47.5 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Holy Trinity
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Stephen Charters | 1,526 | |||
Liberal | Belinda Knowles | 1,445 | |||
Liberal | John Nudds | 1,351 | |||
Labour | Michael Chalkley | 1,225 | |||
Labour | Geoffrey Cade | 1,167 | |||
Labour | Salim Ullah | 1,025 | |||
BNP | David Ettridge | 212 | |||
Conservative | Anthony Norton | 138 | |||
Conservative | Anne-Marie Pedlingham | 105 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 6,836 | 44.7 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Lansbury
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Barry Blandford | 1,119 | |||
Liberal | Gwyneth Deakins | 1,108 | |||
Liberal | Pauline Fletcher | 1,093 | |||
Labour | Stephen Bowen | 956 | |||
Labour | Paul Collins | 883 | |||
Labour | Mary Hawkins | 871 | |||
Independent Labour | Reginald Beer | 407 | |||
Independent Labour | Paul Beasley | 385 | |||
Independent Labour | George Desmond | 376 | |||
Conservative | Christopher Kingsley-Smith | 77 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 6,853 | 38.7 | |||
Liberal gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Liberal gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Liberal gain from Labour | Swing |
Limehouse
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | David Lewis | 1,223 | |||
Liberal | Stewart Rayment | 1,153 | |||
Liberal | Carolyn Manser | 1,147 | |||
Labour | Dennis Twomey | 1,142 | |||
Labour | Michael Tyrrell | 1,105 | |||
Labour | Oona Hickson | 1,055 | |||
Conservative | David Hughes | 147 | |||
Conservative | Geoffrey Lenox-Smith | 137 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 7,064 | 38.2 | |||
Liberal gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Liberal gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Liberal gain from Labour | Swing |
Millwall
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Alan Porter | 1,119 | |||
Labour | Maria Shanahan | 1,114 | |||
Labour | Timothy Staten | 1,013 | |||
SDP | John Moore | 822 | |||
SDP | Brian Kettell | 738 | |||
Island Independent | Peter Wade | 702 | |||
Island Independent | George Pye | 701 | |||
Island Independent | William Kilgour | 687 | |||
SDP | Arthur Praag | 664 | |||
Conservative | Peter Holland | 204 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 8,480 | 33.8 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Park
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Terence Cowley | 1,154 | |||
Liberal | Brian Williams | 1,153 | |||
Labour | Belle Harris | 781 | |||
Labour | Sean Gardiner | 766 | |||
Conservative | David Ranson | 86 | |||
Conservative | John Livingstone | 73 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 4,854 | 44.1 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Redcoat
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Christopher Birt | 1,184 | |||
Liberal | Ludlow Smith | 1,158 | |||
Labour | Stephen Joseph | 920 | |||
Labour | Walter Leary | 907 | |||
Conservative | Paul Ingham | 159 | |||
Conservative | Peter Ainsworth | 126 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 5,269 | 45.5 | |||
Liberal gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Liberal gain from Labour | Swing |
St Dunstan's
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Susan Carlyle | 1,227 | |||
Labour | Terence Sullivan | 1,191 | |||
Labour | Jahangir Alam | 1,142 | |||
Liberal | Julian Brett-Freeman | 1,058 | |||
Liberal | Lesley Morpurgo | 924 | |||
Liberal | Philip Truscott | 911 | |||
National Front | Roger Evans | 256 | |||
Conservative | Maureen Bashford | 241 | |||
Conservative | Kevin Collins | 214 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 6,742 | 40.7 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
St James'
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Barrie Duffey | 833 | |||
Labour | Albert Jacob | 800 | |||
Labour | Eileen Short | 782 | |||
Liberal | Mark Hook | 757 | |||
Conservative | Hugh Hunter | 134 | |||
Conservative | Hugh Smith | 127 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 5,222 | 35.5 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
Labour gain from Liberal | Swing |
St Katharine's
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John Rowe | 1,651 | |||
Labour | Ashek Ali | 1,562 | |||
Labour | Mohammed Ahmed | 1,513 | |||
SDP | Konor Ali | 714 | |||
SDP | George Clark | 695 | |||
SDP | Moshahid Hussain | 640 | |||
Conservative | Adrian George | 461 | |||
Conservative | Andrew Smith | 410 | |||
Conservative | Sheila Folan | 371 | |||
Independent | Stephen Smith | 84 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 8,668 | 34.9 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
St Mary's
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Robert Ashkettle | 948 | |||
Labour | Barnett Saunders | 861 | |||
SDP | Abdul Barik | 316 | |||
SDP | Paul Mathurin | 253 | |||
Conservative | Mohammad Ali | 218 | |||
Conservative | Robert Ingram | 147 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 4,848 | 31.1 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
St Peter's
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Brenda Collins | 1,324 | |||
Liberal | Patrick Streeter | 1,316 | |||
Liberal | Andrew Goodchild | 1,291 | |||
Labour | Maureen Caldon | 904 | |||
Labour | Rosemary Maher | 871 | |||
Labour | Joseph Ramanoop | 838 | |||
Conservative | Amanda Drury | 171 | |||
Conservative | Nicholas Greenfield | 143 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 7,525 | 33.9 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Shadwell
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Albert Lilley | 1,121 | |||
Labour | Charles Mudd | 1,101 | |||
Labour | John Riley | 1,057 | |||
SDP | David Webb | 881 | |||
SDP | John Minch | 868 | |||
SDP | Geoffrey White | 810 | |||
Conservative | Ronald Mitchell | 198 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 6,265 | 35.7 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Spitalfields
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Abbas Uddin | 1,246 | |||
Labour | Ghulam Mortuza | 1,019 | |||
Labour | Philip Maxwell | 988 | |||
Independent | Muhammed Huque | 837 | |||
SDP | Akikur Rahman | 590 | |||
SDP | William Kelly | 444 | |||
Independent Labour | Syed Islam | 402 | |||
SDP | Muhammed Mustafa | 387 | |||
Conservative | Jane Emmerson | 215 | |||
Independent | Betty Wright | 199 | |||
Conservative | Andrew Chapman | 189 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 5,648 | 45.2 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour gain from Independent | Swing |
Weavers
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Jeremy Shaw | 1,645 | |||
Liberal | Jeanette Welsh | 1,530 | |||
Liberal | Kofi Appiah | 1,496 | |||
Labour | Susan Hurley | 1,336 | |||
Labour | Mohammed Ludi | 1,227 | |||
Labour | John Onslow | 1,201 | |||
Conservative | Lillian Ingram | 184 | |||
Conservative | Linda O'Connell | 146 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 7,505 | 42.5 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing |
References
[edit]- ^ Rallings, Colin; Thrasher, Michael (1993). Local Elections in Britain: A Statistical Digest. Plymouth: Local Government Chronicle Elections Centre.
- ^ London Borough Council Elections, 8 May 1986. London: Research and Intelligence Unit, London Residuary Body. 1990.