United Kingdom local elections, 1989

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4 May 1989 (England & Wales)
17 May 1989 (Northern Ireland)

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All 39 non-metropolitan counties, 1 sui generis authority,
all 26 Northern Irish districts and all 8 Welsh counties

	Majority party	Minority party	Third party

Leader	Margaret Thatcher	Neil Kinnock	Paddy Ashdown
Party	Conservative	Labour	Social and Liberal Democrats
Leader since	11 February 1975	2 October 1983	16 July 1988
Percentage	36%	42%	19%
Councillors +/-	92	35	175

Colours denote the winning party, as shown in the main table of results.

Local elections were held in the United Kingdom in 1989. The Labour Party had the highest projected national vote share, but the Conservative Party, in power at Westminster, gained the most seats.

The national projected share of the vote was Labour 42%, Conservative 36%, Liberal Democrats 19%. The Conservatives gained 92 seats, Labour gained 35 seats and the Liberal Democrats lost 175 seats. It was Labour's largest share of the vote in any election in a decade, as the party's popularity continued to improve as a result of the ongoing modernisation process under Neil Kinnock, and that the Conservative government's popularity was starting to fall following the announcement of the poll tax.

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