High Peak Borough Council election, 1979

Elections to High Peak Borough Council in Derbyshire, England were held on 7 May 1979. All of the council was up for election and control of the council changed from Conservative control to no overall control.^[1]

Boundary changes since the 1976 local elections reduced the number of seats by 2.

After the election, the composition of the council was:

Conservative 22
Labour 12
Liberal 2
Independent 8

Election result

High Peak Local Election Result 1979^[2]
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Conservative	22	0	5	-5	50
	Labour	12	4	0	+4	27.3
	Liberal	2	0	0	0	4.5
	Independent	8	0	1	-1	18.2

Ward results

All Saints
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Stephen Charles Cocks	1561
	Independent	George Chatterton	1480
	Labour	Christopher Sydney Turner	1313
	(unknown)	Kenneth Trevor Powell	1147
	(unknown)	Irene Beatrice Greenhalgh	1145
	Liberal	Robert Michael Love	1012
Turnout
	Labour win (new seat)
	Independent win (new seat)
	Labour win (new seat)

Barmoor
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Harold Henry Cartledge	622	73.35
	Labour	Peter Keith Jones	226	26.65
Majority			396	46.70
Turnout			848
	Conservative win (new seat)

Barms
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Independent	Alfred Henry Hitchings	1467
	Labour	Barbara Mary Langham	1108
	Conservative	Albert Peter Inglefield	801
	(unknown)	Cecil George Wallace	720
Turnout
	Independent win (new seat)
	Labour win (new seat)

Blackbrook
	Candidate	Votes
Conservative	Betty Patricia Colley	unopposed
Liberal	George Harry White	unopposed
Conservative win (new seat)
Liberal win (new seat)

Buxton Central
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Dennis Raymond Walter	unopposed
	Conservative win (new seat)

Chapel East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Albert Phillips	622	55.59
	(unknown)	Cheryl Mary Dawson	337	30.11
	Independent	Desmond Francis Bryan	160	14.30
Majority			285	25.47
Turnout			1119
	Independent win (new seat)

Chapel West
	Candidate	Votes
Conservative	Muriel Bertha Bradbury	unopposed
Conservative	Kenneth Victor Bradwell	unopposed
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

College
	Candidate	Votes
Conservative	Joyce Mary Craufurd-Stuart	unopposed
Conservative	Elizabeth Jane Inglefield	unopposed
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Corbar
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Margaret Beatrice Millican	1219
	Conservative	Alan Keith Allman	1034
	(unknown)	Robert Garside	590
Turnout
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

Cote Heath
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Terence Garrie Gill	910
	Labour	Noel Ratcliffe	824
	(unknown)	Dennis Roy Surrey	654
	(unknown)	Heather Michelle Robinson	491
	(unknown)	Iris Tamsons	397
Turnout
	Labour win (new seat)
	Labour win (new seat)

Gamesley
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	John Francis	1420
	Labour	Richard John Cooke	1346
	(unknown)	Harry Lemon	498
	(unknown)	Lynn Watson	460
	(unknown)	Robert Ainsworth Heald	37
Turnout
	Labour win (new seat)
	Labour win (new seat)

Hayfield
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Fred Barnes	854	57.16
	Conservative	Herbert David Mellor	407	27.24
	Labour	David John Wilcox	233	15.60
Majority			447	29.92
Turnout			1494
	Independent win (new seat)

Ladybower
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	George Albert Bingham	775	82.53
	Labour	James Stanley Byford	164	17.47
Majority			611	65.07
Turnout			939
	Conservative win (new seat)

Limestone Peak
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Independent	Evelyn May Tomlinson	unopposed
	Independent win (new seat)

New Mills North
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Dorothy May Brennand	1574
	Conservative	Dorothy Mary Livesley	1571
	Conservative	John Edward Mone	1545
	(unknown)	Graham Martin Doughty	1525
	Liberal	Stephen John Herbert Dearden	1152
Turnout
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

New Mills South
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	John Keith McMurray	1226
	Liberal	Harry Norman Burfoot	1155
	Labour	Lawrence Gordon Allen	858
	(unknown)	Frank Morris Bullough	758
	(unknown)	Dorothy Edna Fryman	424
Turnout
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Liberal win (new seat)

Peveril
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Independent	Charles David Lewis	unopposed
	Independent win (new seat)

St. Andrew's
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Michael Jackson	1125
	Conservative	Ronald Ferguson	1077
	(unknown)	Josephine Elizabeth Hopkin	1065
	Labour	John Alfred Pagett	1048
	(unknown)	Juleen Barbara Clarke	83
Turnout
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

St. Charles'
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	David Holtom	1218
	Labour	Francis Walter Stubbs	1115
	Conservative	Cynthia Violet Mitchell	787
	Conservative	Denys Toole	777
	(unknown)	Terence O’Toole	119
Turnout
	Labour win (new seat)
	Labour win (new seat)

St. James'
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	George Wharmby	1513
	Conservative	Kenneth Guy Dickenson	1422
	Conservative	Alfred Edwin Jenner Leney	1407
	(unknown)	Reginald Mann	1353
	(unknown)	Ceilia Ashton	1323
	(unknown)	David Carr	1308
Turnout
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

St John's
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Brenda Tetlow	934	82.00
	(unknown)	Joan Wilcox	205	18.00
Majority			729	64.00
Turnout			1139
	Conservative win (new seat)

Simmondley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	William Roderick Heath	674	43.07
	(unknown)	Michael William Slattery	470	30.03
	Independent	Joyce Ashley	421	26.90
Majority			204	13.04
Turnout			1565
	Conservative win (new seat)

Stone Bench
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	William Barton Morley	1577
	Labour	James Henry Poulton	1398
	(unknown)	Alexander Taylor-Clague	553
Turnout
	Labour win (new seat)
	Labour win (new seat)

Tintwistle
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Ralph Bennett	480	51.67
	(unknown)	Clifford Pennington	449	48.33
Majority			31	3.33
Turnout			929
	Labour win (new seat)

Whaley Bridge
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Independent	John Arthur Thomas Pritchard	2193
	Independent	Fredrick Bonsall Woodward	1854
	Conservative	Harold Hastings Littlewood	1601
	(unknown)	Martin Struan Burch	1203
	Labour	George Kenneth Brown	1147
	(unknown)	Bernard George Everett	887
Turnout
	Independent win (new seat)
	Independent win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

References

↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/vote2007/councils/html/17uh.stm
↑ Source: Rallings and Thrasher, Local Elections in Britain: A Statistical Digest, 2003

Council elections in Derbyshire

Derbyshire County Council	1889 1892 1895 1898 1901 1904 1907 1910 1913 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1934 1937 1946 1949 1952 1955 1958 1961 1964 1967 1970 1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 2009 2013 2017

Amber Valley Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016

Bolsover District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015

Chesterfield Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015

Derby City Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016

Derbyshire Dales District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015

Erewash Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015

High Peak Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015

North East Derbyshire District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015

South Derbyshire District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015

See also: Wards Boundary changes

(1978 ←) United Kingdom local elections, 1979 (→ 1980)

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