Elections for the City of Edinburgh District Council took place on 1 May 1980, alongside elections to the councils of Scotland's various other districts. The Conservatives, who had previously controlled a majority on the council, were reduced to being just shy of a majority. The Conservatives continued to rule the council however, with Liberal support.
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The election saw 4 new wards being added to Edinburgh; Fort, Shandon, Haymarket, and Tollcross. All, minus Tollcross, (which was won by the Conservatives) were won by Labour.[1]
Turnout was 160,330.[1]
Aggregate results
editParty | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
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Conservative | 31 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 50.0 | 40.2 | 64,152 | 4.6 | |
Labour | 25 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 40.3 | 36.6 | 58,411 | 10.0 | |
Liberal | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3.2 | 11.4 | 18,230 | 3.5 | |
SNP | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3.2 | 9.4 | 14,960 | 9.9 | |
Independent | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.6 | 1.4 | 2,157 | 0.4 | |
Independent Labour | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 1,118 | 0.6 | |
Scottish Ecology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 576 | New | |
Communist | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.04 | 65 | 0.1 |
Ward Results
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Independent | J. Milne | 1,431 | 65.8 | |
Labour | W. Nelson | 745 | 34.2 | |
Majority | 686 | 31.6 | ||
Turnout | 2,176 | |||
Independent hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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SNP | D. Williams | 1,088 | 45.1 | |
Conservative | G. Brown | 668 | 27.7 | |
Labour | G. Grieve | 657 | 27.2 | |
Majority | 420 | 17.4 | ||
Turnout | 2,413 | |||
SNP hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | R. Powell | 1,513 | 51.8 | |
SNP | Mary Stein | 723 | 24.7 | |
Labour | D. Lindsay | 687 | 23.5 | |
Majority | 723 | 27.1 | ||
Turnout | 2,923 | |||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Elizabeth Roberson | 1,573 | 47.0 | |
Liberal | J. McCreesh | 716 | 21.4 | |
SNP | Shona Cole | 582 | 17.4 | |
Labour | D. Anderson | 473 | 14.1 | |
Majority | 857 | 25.6 | ||
Turnout | 3,344 | |||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | K. Alexander | 887 | |||
Labour | S. Gilmore | 727 | |||
Liberal | A. Hajducki | 290 | |||
SNP | J. Mitchell | 188 | |||
Scottish Ecology | S. Whitaker | 127 | |||
Majority | 160 | ||||
Turnout | |||||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Labour | R. Kerle | 1,105 | ||
Independent | G. Forbes | 613 | ||
Conservative | B. Monteith | 300 | ||
SNP | C. Cunningham | 207 | ||
Communist | Carol Downes | 19 | ||
Majority | 492 | |||
Turnout | ||||
Labour hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Conservative | J. D. Maclennan | 2,693 | 88.5 | |
Labour | E. Fallon | 350 | 11.5 | |
Majority | 2,343 | 77.0 | ||
Turnout | 3,043 | |||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Conservative | B. Meek | 2,343 | 69.5 | |
Liberal | M. Dougall | 776 | 23.0 | |
Labour | I. Christie | 252 | 7.5 | |
Majority | 1,567 | 46.5 | ||
Turnout | 3,371 | |||
Conservative hold |