1982 Richmond upon Thames London Borough Council election

The 1982 Richmond upon Thames Council election took place on 6 May 1982 to elect members of Richmond upon Thames London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and went into no overall control.[1][2]

Results

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Party Votes Seats
SDP-Liberal Alliance 31,829 (44.91%)
  7.25 26 (50.0%)
26 / 52
  8
Conservative Party 30,338 (42.81%)
  3.18 26 (50.0%)
26 / 52
  8
Labour Party 6,765 (9.55%)
  6.60 0 (0.0%)
0 / 52
  0
Independent 1,104 (1.56%)
N/A 0 (0.0%)
0 / 52
N/A
Ecology Party 738 (1.04%)
N/A 0 (0.0%)
0 / 52
N/A
National Front 61 (0.09%)
  0.11 0 (0.0%)
0 / 52
  0
Communist Party 34 (0.05%)
N/A 0 (0.0%)
0 / 52
N/A
26 26
SDP-Liberal Alliance Conservative

By ward

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Members of the old council*

Barnes (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative June R M Robinson* 2177 50.5 −2.9
Conservative John A Popham* 2017
Conservative Peter J Martin 1979
Liberal John T P Roberts 1725 40.0 +3.2
SDP Clifford D Tippett 1611
SDP Henry T Reed 1582
Labour Christopher M Hull 413 9.6 −0.2
Labour Reginald Williams 411
Labour Peter P Cheevers 379
Turnout 61.9 −2.3
Central Twickenham (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Walter J Kelly 1543 52.5 +0.9
Conservative Mary Rae 1467
Liberal Cyril J Barnes 973 33.1 +6.8
SDP Christopher S Browne 949
Labour John C Gallop 338 11.5 −10.6
Labour Peta L Lunberg 281
Ecology Helen M D Thompson 49 1.7 n/a
Communist Christopher G Payne 34 1.2 n/a
Turnout 55.4 −1.2
East Sheen (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Sidney Grose* 1588 55.5 −4.4
Conservative Brian Semmens 1578
Liberal Roderick J Pearson 1139 39.8 +5.1
SDP Allan F Lazarus 1062
Labour Phillip Lamb 136 4.8 −0.6
Labour Iain J McIntosh 131
Turnout 63.0 +4.1
East Twickenham (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal John P M Rowlands* 1922 49.8 +3.3
Liberal David C Cornwell 1860
Liberal Sydney J Nunn* 1809
Conservative Michael J W Higgins 1396 36.2 −4.8
Conservative Clive Thomson 1356
Conservative Audrey M Cotton 1347
Labour Feola E Choat 397 10.3 −2.2
Labour John Bowling 374
Labour Angela Hickey 358
Ecology John M Rhys 141 3.7 n/a
Turnout 56.4 −2.8
Ham & Petersham (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal David Reeve Williams* 2275 62.6 +18.1
Liberal Raymond M Hart 2260
Liberal Maureen A Allen* 2216
Conservative Paul J Johnston 1064 29.3 −1.9
Conservative Denis Muldoon 1014
Conservative Michael C Normington 1011
Labour John K Glynn 298 8.2 −16.1
Labour Jenifer M Wyatt 253
Labour Albert E Heitzmann 238
Turnout 61.1 −0.7
Hampton (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative George Kenton* 2059 51.1 −4.9
Conservative James L Hargreaves* 1993
Conservative Graham B H Norris 1878
Liberal Maureen Joan Mary Woodriff 1713 42.5 +11.2
Liberal John M G Ison 1677
SDP John Vincent Cable 1496
Labour Geoffrey A Francis 261 6.5 −6.3
Labour Percy S Gourgey 242
Labour Paul Bialkowski 216
Turnout 59.9 +2.4
Hampton Hill (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Holly A M Champion* 1997 50.2 +3.0
Conservative Peter G Lockyer 1903
Conservative Philip J Circus 1841
Liberal Michael G Butlin 1359 34.2 +7.8
Liberal Mary Patricia Tordoff 1304
SDP Gwynfil M Connor 1290
Labour George E F Samuels 620 15.6 −10.8
Labour Stephen J Cox 563
Labour Brian P Boreham 524
Turnout 57.8 +0.2
Hampton Nursery (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Bertha J Heath* 939 46.8 −2.4
Liberal Rodney P Hopkins 839 41.8 +10.1
Conservative Joan Keogan 838
Liberal Michael I Chandler 815
Labour Anthony D J McEvoy 227 11.3 −7.8
Labour Peter M Jones 222
Turnout 62.1 +4.4
Hampton Wick (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative David J Marlow* 2015 54.3 −8.7
Conservative Hugh R Colthorpe 1990
Conservative Anthony Francis Arbour* 1984
Liberal Philip L Cook 1181 31.8 +14.2
SDP Walter Freeman 1172
Liberal John W Parton 1082
Labour Timothy R Hanlon 374 10.1 −9.3
Labour Pamela J Risner 361
Labour Derek J A Tutchell 360
Ecology John Stone 142 3.8 n/a
Turnout 52.7 +6.3
Heathfield (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Anne Woodward* 2109 48.6 +2.3
Conservative Ramon Gillum 2062
Conservative Thomas H Wright 2024
Liberal Wilfred P Letch 1802 41.5 +9.6
Liberal Francis Mayes 1706
SDP John A Friel 1626
Labour Patricia M Hunt 428 9.9 −11.9
Labour Graham R Nixon 401
Labour Mansel J Lalis 390
Turnout 57.4 −1.0
Kew (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Jennifer Louise Tonge 2377 43.6 +1.2
Liberal David G Blomfield 2305
SDP Alexander S Lourie 1779
Conservative Richard G J Ottaway 1687 30.9 −15.6
Conservative Richard M Cantor 1546
Conservative John N Upton 1465
Independent Crispin Shaddock 761 13.9 n/a
Labour Alison R Leftwich 415 7.6 −3.6
Labour Kenneth E Rudge 400
Labour Stephen D Spencer 364
Ecology Toni E Macarthur 218 4.0 n/a
Turnout 63.3 −0.8
Mortlake (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Deirdre Bourke Martineau* 2135 62.1 +8.1
Liberal Edward Timothy Razzall* 2080
Liberal Derek V Wainwright* 2067
Conservative George M Haywards 948 27.6 +3.2
Conservative Monica O Port 908
Conservative James R Neale 897
Labour Jean M Hill 355 10.3 −11.3
Labour Andrew E Love 322
Labour Alexander T Braid 302
Turnout 55.1 −5.3
Palewell (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Sally Rachel Hamwee* 1935 47.4 +1.3
Conservative Keith I Morell* 1856 45.4 +0.7
Liberal Anthony L Manners* 1833
Conservative John L Saunders 1785
Conservative Patricia A Steel 1776
Liberal Marcia M L Donaldson 1706
Labour Christopher C Floyd 295 7.6 −1.7
Labour Margaret H Jones 279
Labour Peter J Mapleston 256
Turnout 64.7 +0.6
Richmond Hill (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Rachel M Dickson* 1831 52.6 +5.0
Liberal Anthony I Simmonds* 1733
Liberal Christine G Grist 1718
Conservative John Ormiston 1460 41.9 −1.9
Conservative Christopher N P Lewis 1412
Conservative Courteney G Harris 1359
Labour John B Whitty 190 5.5 −3.2
Labour Joseph M Bailey 294
Labour Arnold R Barfield 187
Turnout 58.5 +3.3
Richmond Town (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Alison M Cornish* 1583 53.2 +0.7
Liberal Timothy B Lewis* 1454
Conservative Pramila Le Hunte 1036 34.8 −3.0
Conservative Ian F Watts 1002
Labour Timothy J Summers 303 10.2 +0.4
Labour Sydney F Sutters 265
Ecology David Monks 54 1.8 n/a
Turnout 66.2 +1.3
South Twickenham (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Geoffrey Robert Pope 1864 42.0 +2.8
Conservative Norah J Ford Millar* 1795 40.4 −7.2
Conservative Gordon G Bates 1794
Conservative Stuart N Leamy 1757
Liberal Dion Anthony Scherer 1670
SDP Terence R Wells 1563
Labour Duncan M Macpherson 438 9.9 −3.3
Labour Brian S Gee 409
Labour Christopher W Mays 400
Independent Raymond Hollebone 343 7.7 n/a
Turnout 58.0 +7.8
Teddington (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Martin D Elengorn 2024 43.8 +19.5
SDP Alexander G Cox 1932
Liberal Eugene R O'Connor 1923
Conservative Peter J Temlett* 1906 41.3 −11.3
Conservative Anthony D M Allen 1755
Conservative Raymond E Waddington-Jones 1754
Labour Hamish A Glass 553 12.0 −11.1
Labour Kathleen M Waters 469
Labour Robert H Saunders 465
Ecology Mary T G Walwyn 134 2.9 n/a
Turnout 62.2 +7.7
West Twickenham (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal John Waller* 1425 51.5 +4.2
Liberal Arthur P N Herbert 1208
Conservative Thomas H Miller 901 32.6 +2.9
Conservative Nicholas J S Wood-Dow 840
Labour Rashid Kareh 439 15.9 −7.1
Labour Kevin A Gilligan 412
Turnout 57.1 −3.7
Whitton (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Kenneth J Riley 1862 47.3 −4.2
Conservative Susan Warhurst* 1842
Conservative Harry Hall 1780
Liberal Keith MacKinney 1727 43.9 +14.9
Liberal Robert J A Smith 1582
SDP Vivienne H Clifford-Winters 1340
Labour Howard Davies 285 7.2 −8.7
Labour Pauline A Wilkins 283
Labour Sally Paggetti 256
National Front Terence Denville-Faulkner 61 1.6 −2.0
National Front Reginald Harrison 52
National Front James Sawyer 46
Turnout 59.3 +3.7

References

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  1. ^ "London Borough Council Elections 6 May 1982" (PDF). London Datastore. Greater London Council. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  2. ^ "Richmond-upon-Thames Borough Council Elections" (PDF). Richmond-upon-Thames Borough Council. Richmond-upon-Thames Borough Council. Retrieved 20 January 2016.