United Kingdom local elections, 1992

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7 May 1992

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All 36 metropolitan boroughs, 114 out of 296 English districts
and all 53 Scottish districts

	Majority party	Minority party	Third party

Leader	Neil Kinnock	John Major	Paddy Ashdown
Party	Labour	Conservative	Liberal Democrat
Leader since	2 October 1983	28 November 1990	16 July 1988
Percentage	30%	46%	20%
Councillors	9,102	8,288	3,728
Councillors +/-	402	303	56

Local elections were held in the United Kingdom in 1992, one month after the general election which returned the governing Conservative Party for a fourth consecutive term in office. The Conservatives won back some ground that they had lost the previous year.

The governing Conservative Party gained 303 seats, bringing their number of councillors to 8,288. Their share of the vote was projected to be 46%, their highest for many years.

The main opposition Labour Party lost 402 seats and were left with 9,102 councillors. Their projected share of the vote was 30%, their lowest since 1982. Neil Kinnock was still party leader at this stage, although he had already declared his intention to resign from the position as soon as a new leader was elected; his successor was John Smith, who won the leadership contest against Bryan Gould on 18 July 1992.

The Liberal Democrats gained 56 seats and had 3,728 councillors after the elections.

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

In 1 district the whole council was up for election.

In 1 district there were new ward boundaries, following a further electoral boundary review by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England.

‡ New ward boundaries

In 113 districts one third of the council was up for election.

These were the last elections to the district councils before they were abolished by the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994.

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