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Colours denote the winning party with outright control |
Local elections were held in Scotland on 5 May 1988, to elect members to all 53 district councils under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, which had established the two-tier system of regions and districts.
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Transcription
National results
Parties | Votes | Votes % | Wards | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | 42.6 | 553 | ||
SNP | 21.3 | 113 | ||
Conservative | 19.4 | 162 | ||
SSLD | 8.4 | 84 | ||
Independent | 6.4 | 231 | ||
Other | ||||
Total | n/a | ~1158 |
Results by region
Borders
District | 1984 result | 1988 result | Turnout | Details | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Berwickshire | Conservative | Conservative | Details | |||
Ettrick and Lauderdale | Independent | Independent | Details | |||
Roxburghshire | Independent | Independent | Details | |||
Tweeddale | Independent | Independent | Details |
Central
District | 1984 result | 1988 result | Turnout | Details | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Clackmannan | Labour | Labour | Details | |||
Falkirk | Labour | Labour | Details | |||
Stirling | Labour | No overall control | Details |
Dumfries and Galloway
District | 1984 result | 1988 result | Turnout | Details | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Annandale and Eskdale | Independent | SSLD | Details | |||
Wigtown | Independent | Independent | Details | |||
Nithsdale | Independent | Labour | Details | |||
Stewartry | Independent | Independent | Details |
Fife
District | 1984 result | 1998 result | Turnout | Details | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dunfermline | Labour | Labour | Details | |||
Kirkcaldy | Labour | Labour | Details | |||
North-East Fife | Alliance | SSLD | Details |
Grampian
District | 1984 result | 1988 result | Turnout | Details | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Banff and Buchan | Independent | Independent | Details | |||
City of Aberdeen | Labour | No overall control | Details | |||
Gordon | Independent | No overall control | Details | |||
Kincardine and Deeside | Independent | Independent | Details | |||
Moray | Independent | Independent | Details |
Highland
Lothian
District | 1984 result | 1988 result | Turnout | Details | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
City of Edinburgh | Labour | Labour | Details | |||
East Lothian | Labour | Labour | Details | |||
Midlothian | Labour | Labour | Details | |||
West Lothian | Labour | Labour | Details |
Strathclyde
District | 1984 result | 1988 result | Turnout | Details | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Argyll and Bute | Independent | Independent | Details | |||
Bearsden and Milngavie | Conservative | Conservative | Details | |||
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth | Labour | No overall control | Details | |||
Clydebank | Labour | Labour | Details | |||
Cunninghame | Labour | Labour | Details | |||
Cumnock and Doon Valley | Labour | Labour | Details | |||
Dumbarton | Labour | No overall control | Details | |||
East Kilbride | Labour | Labour | Details | |||
Eastwood | Conservative | Conservative | Details | |||
City of Glasgow | Labour | Labour | Details | |||
Hamilton | Labour | Labour | Details | |||
Inverclyde | Labour | Labour | Details | |||
Kilmarnock and Loudoun | Labour | Labour | Details | |||
Kyle and Carrick | Conservative | Labour | Details | |||
Clydesdale | Labour | Labour | Details | |||
Motherwell | Labour | Labour | Details | |||
Monklands | Labour | Labour | Details | |||
Strathkelvin | Labour | Labour | Details |
Tayside
District | 1984 result | 1988 result | Turnout | Details | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Angus | SNP | SNP | Details | |||
City of Dundee | Labour | Labour | Details | |||
Perth and Kinross | Conservative | No overall control | Details |
References
- ^ McConnell, Alan (2004), Scottish Local Government, Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 978-0-7486-2005-0
boroughs
- Barnsley
- Birmingham
- Bradford
- Bolton
- Bury
- Calderdale
- Coventry
- Doncaster
- Dudley
- Gateshead
- Kirklees
- Knowsley
- Leeds
- Liverpool
- Manchester
- Newcastle
- North Tyneside
- Oldham
- Rochdale
- Rotherham
- Salford
- Sandwell
- Sefton
- Sheffield
- Solihull
- South Tyneside
- St Helens
- Stockport
- Sunderland
- Tameside
- Trafford
- Wakefield
- Walsall
- Wigan
- Wirral
- Wolverhampton
(England)
- Adur
- Amber Valley
- Barrow-in-Furness
- Basildon
- Basingstoke and Deane
- Bassetlaw
- Bath
- Blackburn
- Brentwood
- Brighton
- Bristol
- Broadland
- Broxbourne
- Burnley
- Cambridge
- Cannock Chase
- Carlisle
- Cheltenham
- Cherwell
- Chester
- Chorley
- Colchester
- Congleton
- Craven
- Crawley
- Crewe and Nantwich
- Daventry
- Derby
- Eastbourne
- Eastleigh
- Ellesmere Port and Neston
- Elmbridge
- Epping Forest
- Exeter
- Fareham
- Gillingham
- Gloucester
- Gosport
- Great Grimsby
- Great Yarmouth
- Halton
- Harlow
- Harrogate
- Hart
- Hartlepool
- Hastings
- Havant
- Hereford
- Hertsmere
- Huntingdonshire
- Hyndburn
- Ipswich
- Kingston upon Hull
- Leominster
- Lincoln
- Macclesfield
- Maidstone
- Milton Keynes
- Mole Valley
- Newcastle-under-Lyme
- North Bedfordshire
- North Hertfordshire
- Norwich
- Nuneaton and Bedworth
- Oadby and Wigston
- Oxford
- Pendle
- Penwith
- Peterborough
- Portsmouth
- Preston
- Purbeck
- Reading
- Redditch
- Reigate and Banstead
- Rochford
- Rossendale
- Rugby
- Runnymede
- Rushmoor
- Scunthorpe
- Shrewsbury and Atcham
- Slough
- South Bedfordshire
- South Cambridgeshire
- South Herefordshire
- South Lakeland
- Southampton
- Southend-on-Sea
- St Albans
- Stevenage
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Stroud
- Swale
- Tamworth
- Tandridge
- Thamesdown
- Three Rivers
- Thurrock
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Torbay
- Tunbridge Wells
- Watford
- Waveney
- Welwyn Hatfield
- West Lancashire
- West Lindsey
- West Oxfordshire
- Weymouth and Portland
- Winchester
- Woking
- Wokingham
- Worcester
- Worthing
- Wyre Forest
- York
(Scotland)
- Aberdeen
- Angus
- Annandale and Eskdale
- Argyll and Bute
- Badenoch and Strathspey
- Banff and Buchan
- Bearsden and Milngavie
- Berwickshire
- Caithness
- Clackmannan
- Clydebank
- Clydesdale
- Cumbernauld and Kilsyth
- Cumnock and Doon Valley
- Cunninghame
- Dumbarton
- Dundee
- Dunfermline
- East Kilbride
- East Lothian
- Eastwood
- Edinburgh
- Ettrick and Lauderdale
- Falkirk
- Glasgow
- Gordon
- Hamilton
- Inverclyde
- Inverness
- Kilmarnock and Loudoun
- Kincardine and Deeside
- Kirkcaldy
- Kyle and Carrick
- Lochaber
- Midlothian
- Monklands
- Moray
- Motherwell
- Nairn
- Nithsdale
- North East Fife
- Perth and Kinross
- Renfrew
- Ross and Cromarty
- Roxburgh
- Skye and Lochalsh
- Stewartry
- Stirling
- Strathkelvin
- Sutherland
- Tweeddale
- West Lothian
- Wigtown