Nottinghamshire County Council election, 1977

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All 89 seats to Nottinghamshire County Council
45 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party

Party	Conservative	Labour
Seats before	35	54
Seats won	66	20
Seat change	31	34
Popular vote	182,154	108,027
Percentage	56.12%	33.28%

	Third party	Fourth party

Party	RA	Liberal
Seats before	0	0
Seats won	2	1
Seat change	2	1
Popular vote	14,058	11,916
Percentage	4.33%	3.67%

Council control before election

Labour

Council control after election

Conservative

Labour

Conservative

The 1977 Nottinghamshire County Council election was held on Thursday, 5 May 1977. The election resulted in a landslide victory for the Conservative Party, which won 66 of the 89 seats on the county council. The Labour Party won just 20 seats, compared to 54 at the previous election.

Each electoral division returned either one, two or three county councillors. The candidate elected to the council in each electoral division is shown in the table below. "Unopposed" indicates that the councillor was elected unopposed.

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