United Kingdom local elections, 1988

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5 May 1988

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All 36 metropolitan boroughs, 117 out of 296 English districts and all 53 Scottish districts

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Margaret Thatcher	Neil Kinnock	David Steel & Robert Maclennan
Party	Conservative	Labour	Social & Liberal Democrats
Leader since	11 February 1975	2 October 1983	7 July 1987 (Steel) 6 August 1987 (Maclennan)
Percentage	39%	38%	18%
Councillors +/-	9	76	122

Local elections were held in the United Kingdom in 1988. The Conservative government held its ground and remained ahead in the projected popular vote.

The national projected share of the vote was Conservative 39%, Labour 38%, Social and Liberal Democrats 18%. The Conservatives gained 9 seats, Labour gained 76 seats and the SLD lost 122 seats.

These were the first national elections contested by the SLD, which had just been formed as a merger of the SDP and Liberals after several years of the alliance.

All 36 metropolitan borough councils had one third of their seats up for election.

In 117 districts one third of the council was up for election.

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