1980 Liverpool City Council election

Elections to Liverpool City Council were held on 6 May 1980.

Following boundary changes, the entire council was up for election (3 Councillors for each ward). The candidates with the highest number of votes in each ward were elected until 1984, the candidates with the second highest number of votes were elected until 1983 and the candidates with the third highest number of votes were elected until 1982.

After the election, the composition of the council was:

Party Seats;
Labour 40
Liberal 38
Conservative 21

Election result

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Liverpool Local Election Result 1980
Party Seats Gains Losses Net gain/loss Seats % Votes % Votes +/−
  Labour 40 38% 36% 51,649
  Liberal 38 40% 33% 47,536
  Conservative 21 21% 29% 42,512
  Communist 0 0% 1.0% 1,473
  Ind. Conservative 0 0% 0.6% 821
  Independent Liberal 0 0% 0.2% 308

Ward results

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* - Councillor seeking re-election

(PARTY) - Party of former Councillor

Abercromby

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Abercromby 3 seats
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Chris Davies 2,040 56%
Liberal Alan Troy 1,696 46%
Liberal David Vasmer 1,692 46%
Labour Owen Joseph Doyle * 1,308 36%
Labour Edward Shields * 1,301 36%
Labour Violet McCoy * 1,292 36%
Communist Roger o'Hara 311 8%
Conservative Ian McFall 132 3%
Conservative Eric Wardle Mossford 116 3%
Conservative Ernest Peat 107 3%
Majority 732
Registered electors 10,455
Turnout 3,791 36%

Aigburth

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Aigburth 3 seats
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Catherine Hancox 2,271 45%
Liberal Trevor Jones 2,266 45%
Liberal Peter Millea 2,054 41%
Conservative Olga Yvonne Hughes 2,011 40%
Conservative Paul Davies Gill (PARTY) 1,950 39%
Conservative John James Swainbank (PARTY) 1,926 38%
Labour Frank Winstanley Longworth 841 17%
Labour Francis Stanley Roderick 771 15%
Labour Francis Joseph Wiles 742 15%
Majority 260
Registered electors 13,245
Turnout 5,062 38%

Allerton

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Allerton 3 seats
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Sheila Elizabeth Crane 3,169 61%
Conservative James Stanislaw Ross * 2,266 61%
Conservative William Herbert Fearnside * 3,135 60%
Labour Hilton Robert Brown 1,092 21%
Labour Michael O'Neill 1,079 21%
Labour John Henry Stamper 1,006 19%
Liberal Thomas Henry Harte 932 18%
Liberal Neville Gordon Chinn 930 18%
Liberal Yetta Jacobs 831 16%
Majority 2,077
Registered electors 12,660
Turnout 5,193 41%

Anfield

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Anfield 3 seats
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Myra Fitsimmons 1,660 36%
Liberal Paul Vincent Downes 1,587 34%
Liberal Catherine Kaufmann 1,570 34%
Liberal Helen Powell 1,559 34%
Conservative Thomas Philip Pink 1,500 32%
Conservative James Hugh Brash 1,465 32%
Labour David Cowley 1,373 30%
Labour Thomas McManus 1,302 28%
Labour Andrew Williams 1,286 28%
Majority 73
Registered electors 12,809
Turnout 4,620 36%

Arundel

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Arundel 3 seats
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Charles Hutchinson * 1,678 37%
Labour Julie Lyon-Taylor * 1,580 35%
Labour Patrick Grannell 1,536 34%
Liberal John Hemmingway 1,508 33%
Liberal Roger Johnston 1,506 33%
Labour Ian George Williams 1,463 32%
Conservative Ronald Spencer Fairclough * 1,250 27%
Conservative Donald Malcolm Green 1,166 25%
Conservative Helen Margaret Rigby 1,049 23%
Communist Rosita Marc 143 3%
Majority 170
Registered electors 12,446
Turnout 4,579 37%

Breckfield

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Breckfield 3 seats
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal David Michael Bruce Croft * 2,367 57%
Liberal Frank McNevin * 2,318 56%
Liberal William Roberts 2,173 52%
Labour John Connolly * 1,307 31%
Labour Philip Howard Rowe 1,187 29%
Labour Miriam Ann Jones 1,166 28%
Conservative James Butterfield 484 12%
Conservative Brian John Hawkins 376 9%
Conservative Teresa Hawkins 342 8%
Majority 1,060
Registered electors 11,928
Turnout 4,158 35%

Broadgreen

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Broadgreen 3 seats
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Rosemary Cooper * 2,066 42%
Liberal James Joyce 1,847 37%
Liberal Geoffrey Smith 1,766 36%
Conservative Frederick Christopher Burgess 1,474 30%
Labour David James Minahan 1,448 29%
Labour Barbara Lucile Walsh 1,427 29%
Labour John Vincent Walsh 1,427
Conservative Charles James Lister 1,416 29%
Conservative Richard Donald Oughton 1,395 28%
Majority 592
Registered electors 13,688
Turnout 4,941 36%

Childwall

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Childwall 3 seats
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative William Alan Newton Fearnside * 2,938 50%
Conservative Mervin Kingston * 2,896 50%
Conservative Stanley Airey * 2,881 49%
Liberal Teddy Gold 2,069 35%
Liberal Edward Richard Goldsmith 1,964 34%
Liberal William Alan Barton 1,927 33%
Labour William Edward Bolland 830 14%
Labour Joyce Elizabeth Edwards 807 14%
Labour Leslie Evans 773 13%
Majority 869
Registered electors 13,663
Turnout 5,837 43%

Church

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Church 3 seats
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Robert Fryer Symington * 3,266 44%
Liberal Cyril Eric Carr * 3,231 44%
Conservative Sally Atherton 3,148 43%
Conservative Stanley Pickering 3,044 41%
Liberal Edward Martin Brash 2,859 39%
Liberal Leonard Tyrer * 2,832 38%
Labour Robert Julian Clarke 886 12%
Labour Robert Joseph Quick 878 12%
Labour David Philip Power 857 12%
Majority 35
Registered electors 15,000
Turnout 7,383 49%

Clubmoor

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Clubmoor 3 seats
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Michael John Storey * 2,745 54%
Liberal Angela Warburton * 2,517 50%
Liberal John Bowen 2,388 47%
Labour William Paul Lafferty 1,750 34%
Labour Henry Rimmer 1,738 34%
Labour Alexander Gamble 1,712 34%
Conservative David Conway 587 12%
Conservative Stanley Hicklin 583 11%
Conservative Gertrude Edna McNeill 560 11%
Majority 995
Registered electors 13,768
Turnout 5,082 37%

County

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County 3 seats
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Paul Clark * 1,961 40%
Liberal Neil Cardwell * 1,929 39%
Labour Pauline Ann Dunlop * 1,734 35%
Labour Paul Raymond Kelly 1,719 35%
Liberal Edith Flanders 1,684 34%
Labour Walter Frederick Roe 1,614 33%
Conservative Henry Brown 1,223 25%
Conservative William Thomas 1,043 21%
Conservative Charles Peter Loller 1,032 21%
Majority 227
Registered electors 13,531
Turnout 4,918 36%

Croxteth

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Croxteth 3 seats
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Geoffrey Elsmore Brandwoodc * 2,656 53%
Conservative Frederick Robert Butler * 2,626 52%
Conservative Ernest Henry Fitzpatrick * 2,607 52%
Labour Francis Burke 1,289 26%
Labour John Mooney 1,109 22%
Liberal Ivan Clews 1,089 22%
Labour Alfred Clifford Swannell 1,064 21%
Liberal Thomas Richard Jones 1,035 21%
Liberal Eileen Margaret Clews 1,018 20%
Majority 1,367
Registered electors 13,040
Turnout 5,034 39%

Dingle

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Dingle 3 seats
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Richard Charles Kemp 1,929 44%
Liberal Lisa Jones 1,881 43%
Liberal Charles Collins 1,734 39%
Labour Mabel Evans * 1,684 38%
Labour Roy Stoddart * 1,606 36%
Labour Sydney Wynne Jones * 1,490 34%
Conservative David Walter Patmore 689 16%
Conservative Julie Margaret Shaw 675 15%
Conservative John Astley Watson 650 15%
Communist James Greig 110 2.5%
Majority 245
Registered electors 11,800
Turnout 4,412 37%

Dovecot

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Dovecot 3 seats
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Edward Burke * 2,469 67%
Labour Wilfred Patrick Johnson * 2,432 66%
Labour William Henry Westbury * 2,394 65%
Conservative John Leslie Walsh 940 26%
Conservative Harold Glover 921 25%
Conservative William John Turner 805 22%
Liberal Daphne Cookson Turner 271 7%
Liberal William John Cooper 254 7%
Liberal Elizabeth Valerie Higgins 183 5%
Majority 1,529
Registered electors 11,893
Turnout 3,680 31%

Everton

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Everton 3 seats
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour James Parry * 1,530 68%
Labour Dominic Brady (PARTY) 1,347 60%
Labour James Edward Walker * 1,306 58%
Liberal Kevin Andrew Sewill 451 20%
Liberal Peter O'Neill 437 19%
Liberal William Barrow 415 18%
Conservative David John Lewis 195 9%
Conservative Gerard Widdows 116 5%
Communist Robert Cartwright 83 3.7%
Majority 1,079
Registered electors 10,870
Turnout 2,259 21%

Fazakerley

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Fazakerley 3 seats
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour David John Lloyd * 2,026 50%
Labour John Philip Prince 1,812 45%
Labour Robert Charles Gregory 1,804 45%
Conservative Tina Myrtle Gould 1,260 31%
Conservative Albert Brown * 1,170 29%
Conservative Edwin Marshall Clein 1,087 27%
Liberal Harold Glyn Rogers * 741 18%
Liberal John George Morgan 719 18%
Liberal Alan Moulton 709 18%
Majority 766
Registered electors 11,893
Turnout 4,027 34%

Gillmoss

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Gillmoss 3 seats
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Edward Deakin Roderick * 2,181 76%
Labour Peter John Murphy * 2,112 73%
Labour William Ralph Snell *' 1,978 69%
Conservative Alfred Gore 456 16%
Conservative Pauline Dougherty 434 15%
Conservative William Edward Brown 413 14%
Liberal June Jones 245 9%
Liberal Marguerite Dagny Bridge 231 8%
Liberal Audrey May Loughney 199 7%
Majority 1,725
Registered electors 12,029
Turnout 2,882 24%

Granby

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Granby 3 seats
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Alexander Doswell * 1,910 52%
Labour John Dunstan Hamilton * 1,805 49%
Labour David Raymond Leach (PARTY) 1,649 45%
Liberal Arthur Eric Damsell 1,162 32%
Liberal Adrian Michael Bell 969 26%
Liberal Jeffrey Lamb 921 25%
Conservative Arthur Palin 478 13%
Conservative William Thomas 442 12%
Conservative Edward John Donald Williams 441 12%
Communist Jack Kay 10 3.4%
Majority 748
Registered electors 11,964
Turnout 3,674 31%

Grassendale

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Grassendale 3 seats
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative John Harold Lea 3,464 55%
Conservative Thomas Lyrian Hobday 3,443 54%
Conservative Ernest Francis Pine 3,312 52%
Liberal Gerard Patrick Scott 1,268 20%
Liberal Iris Hilda Rothwell 1,203 19%
Liberal Barbara Kemp 1,149 18%
Independent Conservative Kenneth Bruce Jacques 821 13%
Labour Alfred Vincent Rule 791 12%
Labour Elizabeth Frances Kingdom 737 12%
Labour Keith John Connolly 700 11%
Majority 2,196
Registered electors 12,305
Turnout 6,344 52%

Kensington

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Kensington 3 seats
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Francis Joseph Doran * 2,806 71%
Liberal Graham Hulme (PARTY) 2,637 67%
Liberal Joyce Grace Stephenson (PARTY) 2,567 65%
Labour Leonard Ashworth 737 19%
Labour Vincent Peter Hyams 724 18%
Labour Glynn George Pratt 707 18%
Conservative Mary Davis 408 10%
Conservative David Evans 401 10%
Conservative Robert James Wilson 360 9%
Majority 2,069
Registered electors 12,254
Turnout 3,951 32%

Melrose

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Melrose 3 seats
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour William Lafferty * 1,855 65%
Labour William Francis Burke (PARTY) 1,692 59%
Labour Michael George Dalling (PARTY) 1,399 49%
Liberal Annetta McDonnell 491 17%
Liberal Steven Loughney 481 17%
Liberal Ronald Joseph Taylor 444 16%
Conservative Julie Ann Carpenter 416 15%
Conservative Daniel Gerard Dougherty 407 14%
Conservative Frank Oldham 355 12%
People's James Joseph Hasting 96 3.4%
People's Maureen Owens 95 3.3%
People's Helen Barlow 90 3.1%
Majority 1,364
Registered electors 11,308
Turnout 2,858 25%

Netherley

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Netherley
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Margaret Rose Delaney * 2,003 69%
Labour Derek Anthony Hatton * 1,979 * 68%
Labour Heather Bryers * 1,894 65%
Conservative James Connor 522 18%
Conservative James Anthony Dougherty 486 17%
Conservative William David Henry 458 16%
Liberal Audrey Elsie Ralph 239 8%
Liberal Mary Stubbs 213 7%
Liberal Owen Henry Williams 212 7%
Communist Brian O'Keefe 148 5.1%
Majority 1,481
Registered electors 9,365
Turnout 2,912 31%

Old Swan

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Old Swan 3 seats
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Peter Joseph Lloyd * 1,743 36%
Liberal Josephine Smith 1,725 36%
Liberal Francis Richard Haywood 1,603 33%
Liberal Peter Mahon * 1,586 33%
Labour Jane Ann Hollinshead 1,514 31%
Labour Michael Joseph Smith 1,405 29%
Conservative William Henry Connolly 1,053 22%
Conservative Donald Ellis 1,022 21%
Conservative Alan Graham Wilson 931 19%
Independent Liberal Keith McCullough 308 6.4%
Independent Liberal William John McCullough 293 6.1%
Communist Harry Mohin 127 2.6%
Majority 18
Registered electors 12,292
Turnout 4,829 39%

Picton

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Picton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Pamela Bradley * 3,471 67%
Liberal John Bradley (PARTY) 3,461 67%
Liberal Herbert Edward Herrity * 3,202 62%
Labour Graham John Barrett 1,164 22%
Labour Ernest Albert Taylor 1,131 22%
Labour John Swarbrooke 1,034 20%
Conservative Iain Sutherland Picton 405 7.8%
Conservative Felicity Anne Hopkin 403 7.8%
Conservative Hugh Robert Johnston 394 7.6%
Communist John Gilbert Volleamere 151 2.9%
Majority 2,307
Registered electors 11,719
Turnout 5,191 44%

Pirrie

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Pirrie 3 seats
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Hugh Dalton * 2,884 62%
Labour Michael Black * 2,587 56%
Labour Peter Owens * 2,374 51%
Conservative Muriel May Brown 1,067 23%
Conservative Christine Perkins 887 19%
Conservative Joan Mary Wright 848 18%
Liberal Thomas Owen 665 14%
Liberal Charles Mayes 508 11%
Liberal Marion Josephine Cardwell 482 10%
Majority 1,817
Registered electors 12,054
Turnout 4,616 38%

St. Mary's

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St. Mary's
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Edward Loyden 2,351 56%
Labour Stanley Ronald Maddox * 2,089 50%
Labour Robert Charles Evans 2,039 49%
Conservative Elizabeth Foster 1,319 32%
Conservative Derek Raymond Hawes 1,280 31%
Conservative Robert Albert Parkes 1,249 30%
Liberal Philip James Message 301 7.2%
Liberal Georgina May Owen 291 7.0%
Liberal James Martin Loughney 277 6.6%
Communist John Malcolm McQueen 199 4.8%
Majority 1,032
Registered electors 12,745
Turnout 4,170 33%

Smithdown

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Smithdown
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Anne Clitherow 2,130 56%
Liberal Joseph Sydney Clitherow 2,046 54%
Liberal Ernest Richard Stephenson 1,949 51%
Labour Peter Thomas Devaney 1,391 37%
Labour Paul Herbert Gray 1,240 33%
Labour Joseph Stanton 1,239 33%
Conservative John Atherton 285 7.5%
Conservative James McDermott 234 6.1%
Conservative Rolland Louis Zollner 129 3.4%
Majority 739
Registered electors 11,095
Turnout 3,806 34%

Speke

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Speke
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour George Joseph Maudsley * 2,005 75%
Labour Kenneth McKenzie Stewart * 1,877 70%
Labour John McLean * 1,833 69%
Conservative Thomas Morrison 524 20%
Conservative Ann Nugent 409 15%
Conservative Edward Gordon Shaw 407 15%
Liberal Susan Jean Downes 134 5.0%
Liberal Eileen Dunlop 130 4.9%
Liberal Veronica Margaret Best 122 4.6%
Majority 1,871
Registered electors 10,168
Turnout 2,663 26%

Tuebrook

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Tuebrook
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Robert Gore 2,467 47%
Liberal John Thomas Jones 2,147 41%
Liberal Richard Pine 2,210 42%
Labour John Eric Roberts * 1,414 27%
Conservative John Irving * 1,362 26%
Labour Terence McDonald 1,311 25%
Labour Kathleen Margaret Mary Coombes 1,186 23%
Conservative William Scott 1,083 21%
Conservative Eric Lloyd 1,077 21%
Majority 1,053
Registered electors 12,449
Turnout 5,243 42%

Valley

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Valley
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Henry Smith 1,923 54%
Labour Anthony John Byrne 1,882 53%
Labour Terence Harrison 1,863 53%
Conservative Stephen Fitzsimmons 999 28%
Conservative Susan Elizabeth Byrom 988 28%
Conservative Stephen Richard Marsden 931 26%
Liberal Henry Ronald Jones 625 18%
Liberal Marie Fox 622 18%
Liberal Edward Jameson 620 17%
Majority 924
Registered electors 10,501
Turnout 3,547 34%

Vauxhall

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Vauxhall
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Paul Orr * 1,726 76%
Labour Anthony Dunford * 1,668 73%
Labour Joseph Morgan * 1,657 73%
Liberal Thomas Vincent Browne 385 17%
Liberal Stephen Richard Radford 352 15%
Liberal Grahame Young 301 13%
Conservative Charles Edward Jennings 88 3.4%
Conservative Thomas Stockdale 80 3.5%
Conservative Charles Edwin Thorne 77 3.4%
Communist William Albertina 77 3.4%
Majority 1,341
Registered electors 9,306
Turnout 2,276 24%

Warbreck

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Warbreck
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Ronald Gould 1,849 38%
Conservative Reginald Bernard Flude * 1,811 37%
Conservative Ian Brown 1,681 35%
Liberal Joseph Lang * 1,525 31%
Labour Paul John Summerfeld * 1,486 31%
Liberal Elsie Joan Lang 1,447 30%
Liberal Richard John Roberts 1,393 29%
Labour Peter Francis McAllister 1,386 29%
Labour Joseph Aidan Devaney 1,345 28%
Majority 324
Registered electors 13,086
Turnout 4,860 37%

Woolton

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Woolton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Ruth Dean * 3,883 72%
Conservative Anthony McVeigh 3,798 71%
Conservative Christopher Geoffrey Hallows 3,770 70%
Labour Philip Richard Martin 1,010 19%
Labour Owen McDonough 998 19%
Labour David Alan Bradbury 923 17%
Liberal Philip Martin Freeman 469 9%
Liberal Richard Powell 438 8%
Liberal Ann Ryan 423 8%
Majority 2,873
Registered electors 12,808
Turnout 5,362 42%

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References

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  1. ^ Proceedings of the Council 1980 - 1981 Vol 1 May - Sept
  2. ^ "Liverpool City Council Election Results 1973 – 2012" (PDF). Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher, The Elections Centre, Plymouth University. Retrieved 1 December 2015.