1986 Sutton London Borough Council election

Sutton Council Election, 1986
8 May 1986
All 56 seats, in 25 wards in the London Borough of Sutton
29 seats needed for a majority
Turnout51.1%
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader Graham Tope David Trafford Unknown
Party Alliance Conservative Labour
Leader since 1980 N/A
Leader's seat Sutton Central Worcester Park South (defeated) N/A
Seats won 28 21 7
Percentage 41.9% 39.8% 16.7%
Leader of the Council before election

David Trafford
Conservative

Elected Leader

Graham Tope
Liberal

The 1986 Sutton Council election took place on 8 May 1986 to elect members of Sutton London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the council went into no overall control.[1]

Election result

Sutton Council election result 1986
Party Seats Gains Losses Net gain/loss Seats % Votes % Votes +/−
  Alliance 28 50.0 41.9
  Conservative 21 37.5 39.8
  Labour 7 12.5 16.7
  Other 0 0.0 1.7

Ward results

Beddington North (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Joan A. Dutton 1,194 46.7 +3.6
Liberal Sylvia K. Doubell 1,138
Conservative Francis McNamara* 989 38.7 −9.3
Conservative Roy F. Whitehair** 878
Labour John R. Bray 372 14.6
Labour Raymond G. Moore 349
Majority 8.0 12.9
Turnout 53.0 1.4
Registered electors 4,946
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing
Beddington South (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
SDP Colleen Saunders 1,406 41.2 +7.2
SDP Kenneth R. Bishop 1,325
SDP Frances Wurm 1,248
Labour Philip J. Bassett 1,057 31.0 +5.7
Labour Ms Doris A. Richards 973
Labour Ms Violet J. Scotter 959
Conservative Henry R. C. Sawyers* 946 27.8 −12.9
Conservative John R. Belcher 943
Conservative Peter A. A. Roffe 932
Majority 10.2 16.8
Turnout 48.8 2.2
Registered electors 7,245
SDP gain from Conservative Swing
SDP gain from Conservative Swing
SDP gain from Conservative Swing
Belmont (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Lesley Barber 1,402 61.1 −4.8
Conservative Joyce K M Bowley* 1,395
Liberal Barry Reed 693 30.2 +2.8
SDP Glyn Saunders 683
Labour B Brennan 201 8.8
Labour Ms J Lawler 193
Majority 30.9 −7.6
Turnout 44.5 5.0
Registered electors 5,429
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Carshalton Beeches (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Edward J Crowley* 2,108 57.9
Conservative Keith J Martin* 2,044
Conservative Mavis Peart* 2,037
SDP Richard Exact 906 24.9 −1.7
Liberal John Phillimore 882
SDP Gary Miles 854
Labour John M. Bloom 353 9.7
Labour Richard H. Taylor 341
Labour Robert C. Scarlett 314
Green Walter S. L. Holt 274 7.5
Majority 33.0
Turnout 50.9 4.6
Registered electors 7,082
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Carshalton Central (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
SDP John A. Jukes 1,165
Conservative Peter N. Baggott* 1,123
Liberal Robert R. Landeryou 1,119
Conservative John Stapley 967
Labour Patrick O'Keeffe 344
Labour Michael J. Radburn 277
Green William E. Fuller 132
Majority
Turnout 55.5 5.0
Registered electors 4,986
SDP gain from Conservative Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Carshalton North (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Thomas Edward Dutton 1,450
Liberal Michael A. Cooper* 1,356
Conservative Denis Kerslake 991
Conservative Margaret Paull 899
Labour Anthony R. Powell 405
Labour Kathleen M. Smith 401
Majority
Turnout 55.1 0.0
Registered electors 5,475
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing
Cheam South (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Lynette G. Ranson 1,678
Conservative Edward G. Trevor* 1,659
Liberal Frank W. Sharp 449
SDP Agatha P. Myers 416
Labour Roy Baker 95
Labour Peter J. Henshall 88
Majority
Turnout 49.0 5.4
Registered electors 4,718
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Cheam West (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Kenneth I. Cole* 1,316
Conservative Deborah M. A. Mangnall* 1,279
Liberal Judith A. Franklin 935
Liberal Simon D. Wales 881
Labour Patricia M. Brown 165
Labour Catherine E. Pestano 154
Majority
Turnout 55.6 4.5
Registered electors 4,495
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Clockhouse (1)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Malcolm P. Garner 421
SDP Robert J. Irving 393
Labour Douglas J. Banks 139
Majority
Turnout 57.1 1.2
Registered electors 1,669
Conservative hold Swing
North Cheam (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Anthony Brett Young 1,603
SDP Valerie R. Price 1,526
Conservative Clifford C. G. Carter* 993
Conservative John J. Sharvill* 990
Labour Margaret Sinclair 176
Labour Kevin J. Willsher 156
Majority
Turnout 58.2 0.7
Registered electors 4,933
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing
SDP gain from Conservative Swing
Rosehill (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Stephen J. Penneck 1,494
SDP Paul K. Burstow 1,425
Conservative Anne M. Rawlinson 778
Conservative Lorna Rayne 698
Labour Josephine M. Harvey 317
Labour Jeffrey F. Hunt 306
Majority
Turnout 56.4 3.4
Registered electors 4,711
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing
SDP gain from Conservative Swing
St Helier North (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Patrick B. Kane* 1,638
Labour Albert G. A. Dyson* 1,630
Labour Donald B. Hopkins 1,552
Conservative Gwendolen M. Bates 520
Conservative Hilda M. Harding 507
Conservative Joyce G. Shanks 495
SDP Stanley A. G. Theed 455
Liberal William E. Ward 452
SDP Aidan P. Tierney 427
Majority
Turnout 40.4 3.8
Registered electors 6,924
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
St Helier South (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Charles J. Mansell 1,066
Labour John A. S. Weir 1,020
SDP John S. G. Bass 379
SDP Vinod Sharma 328
Conservative Timothy E. Crowley 222
Conservative Jeffrey E. Gregory 205
Majority
Turnout 41.3 1.6
Registered electors 4,187
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Sutton Central (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Graham Norman Tope* 1,591
Liberal Rev. John Aubrey Mullin* 1,521
Conservative Glyn H. George 508
Conservative Gary Eales 504
Labour Peter J. Storey 264
Labour Peter C. Randall 257
Majority
Turnout 47.6 4.8
Registered electors 5,149
Liberal hold Swing
Liberal hold Swing
Sutton Common (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Elizabeth Sharp 1,458
Liberal Lesley O'Connell 1,437
Conservative Pauline Kavanagh* 936
Conservative Alan Deards 918
Labour Allan T. Wilson 187
Labour Pamela L. Selous-Hedges 183
Majority
Turnout 55.8 0.1
Registered electors 4,752
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing
Sutton East (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Neil Frater 1,399
Liberal John F. Brennan 1,395
SDP Terence A. Woods 1,326
Conservative David Hogg 846
Conservative John W. Perkins 804
Conservative Heather Shaw 802
Labour Anthony R. Thorpe 585
Labour Jeremy L. Cullen 577
Labour Trevor E. Webb 534
Independent Lawrence Brooks 57
Majority
Turnout 52.8 0.5
Registered electors 5,774
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing
SDP gain from Conservative Swing
Sutton South (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Peter H. Geiringer* 1,769
Conservative Paul T. Mangnall* 1,756
Conservative Richard T. Barber* 1,753
SDP Carol Campbell 926
SDP Dora C. Flew 905
Liberal Cicely J. Willis 868
Labour Geoffrey Brennan 449
Labour Gary M. Brennan 433
Labour Patrick J. J. Cunnane 413
Green Richard F. Allen 136
Majority
Turnout 43.1 6.4
Registered electors 7,785
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Sutton West (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Christopher Caswill 1,549
Liberal Lynette Gleeson 1,442
Conservative Simon McIlwaine 902
Conservative Linda Verner 886
Labour Christopher E. Jones 149
Labour Ronald S. Williams 143
Majority
Turnout 59.1 1.9
Registered electors 4,473
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing
Liberal hold Swing
Wallington North (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Jack Izard* 1,693
Conservative Joan Quattrucci 1,636
Conservative Michael Pike 1,626
Liberal Joseph Farrelly 1,254
SDP Kishore Gumaste 1,182
Liberal Robert Landeryou 1,179
Labour John Willmot 460
Labour Susan F. Gammon 458
Labour Peter J. Turner 442
Green Jacqueline M. W. Dow 149
Green Nick McDonagh-Greaves 118
Green Walter S. L. Holt 113
Majority
Turnout 50.4 4.2
Registered electors 7,136
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Wallington South (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Frederick Townsend* 1,147
Conservative Lynda Burrows 1,101
Conservative David Waterman 1,093
SDP Richard Sammons 1,049
Liberal Alison Rogers 963
SDP John Drage 959
Conservative Democratic Robert F. Johnson 787
Conservative Democratic Carole J. Dalby 634
Conservative Democratic Stuart D. Earley 579
Labour David N. Murray 502
Labour Michael J. McLoughlin 486
Labour Clive S. Poge 463
Green Helene G. McDonagh-Greaves 122
Majority
Turnout 46.7 1.2
Registered electors 7,472
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Wandle Valley (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Michael R. Woolley*
Labour Malcolm C. Smith* 883
SDP June S. Crow 638
SDP John F. Barlow 631
Conservative Alan S. May 351
Conservative Alison J. Pike 317
Majority
Turnout 52.0 0.9
Registered electors 3,871
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Woodcote (1)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Graham Witham* 957
Liberal Graham Sharp 248
Labour Ann K. Poge 82
Green Peter F. Ticher 39
Majority
Turnout 49.8 4.1
Registered electors 2,667
Conservative hold Swing
Worcester Park North (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Ruth Mary Shaw 1,835
Liberal Keith J. S. Pitkin 1,810
SDP Gareth W. Campbell 1,788
Conservative Peter A. C. Woolley* 1,376
Conservative Janet S. Woolley* 1,372
Conservative Ann Tims* 1,349
Labour Susanne J. Mitchell 317
Labour John F. Graham 304
Labour Lina Graham 280
Majority
Turnout 54.9 2.3
Registered electors 6,782
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing
SDP gain from Conservative Swing
Worcester Park South (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Roger D. Roberts 1,489
SDP Michael J. Shaw 1,422
Conservative Richard Anthony Kerslake* 1,163
Conservative David J. H. Trafford* 1,070
Labour Patrick R. Imrie 144
Labour Alan P. Matusevics 130
Majority
Turnout 62.5 0.5
Registered electors 4,632
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing
SDP gain from Conservative Swing
Wrythe Green (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
SDP Teresa M. Munro 1,446
Liberal Duncan R. Ponikwer 1,385
Conservative John Howard 739
Conservative Bruce Newman 732
Labour Richard T. Mackie 595
Labour Frank L. Syratt 530
Majority
Turnout 53.3 2.0
Registered electors 5,474
SDP gain from Conservative Swing
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing

References

  1. ^ "London Borough Council Elections 8 May 1986" (PDF). London Datastore. London Residuary Body. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 December 2014. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
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