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The second Dumfries and Galloway regional council election was held on 2 May 1978, a year after the second district council elections.
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All 35 seats to Dumfries and Galloway Regional Council 18 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | 43.3% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Turnout was down. Only 15 of the 35 wards in the region were contested.[1][2]
Results
edit| Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
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| Independent | 27 |  6
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77.1 | 67.4 | 13,087 | 14.3
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| Conservative | 5 | 5 | 0 |  5
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14.3 | 15.7 | 3,050 | New | |
| Labour | 2 | 
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5.7 | 12.3 | 2,382 | 1.1
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| SNP | 1 | 1
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2.9 | 3.7 | 711 | 2.5
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| Independent Labour | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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0.0 | 0.9 | 183 | New | |
Source:[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "1978 Regional Elections in Scotland" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 March 2016.
- ^ "THE REGIONAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS OF MAY 1978". Archived from the original on 1 September 2021.