1984 City of Glasgow District Council election

1984 City of Glasgow
District Council election
← 1980 3 May 1984 1988 →
All 66 seats to City of Glasgow District Council; 34 seats needed for a majority
	Map showing results in Glasgow District Council wards.
Council Leader before election; ; Labour	Elected Council Leader ; ; Labour

Elections for the City of Glasgow District Council took place on 3 May 1984 alongside elections to the councils of the other districts in Scotland. The result was victory for the Labour party, who won 59 of the 66 wards.

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	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
Labour	59	1	0	1	89.4	60.1	141,066	5.4
Conservative	5	0	6	6	7.6	17.9	41,946	4.0
Alliance	2	0	1	1	3.0	11.6	27,312	5.8
SNP	0	0	0		0.0	9.7	22,641	6.2
Independent	0	0	0		0.0	0.0	116	0.2
Other parties	0	0	0		0.0	0.5	1,170

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	B Campbell (incumbent)	2,607	68.0
	Alliance	Isabella Nelson	528	13.8
	Conservative	D McCallum	431	11.2
	SNP	D Hamilton	266	6.9
Majority			2079	54.2
Turnout			3832

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Alliance	Gretel Ross (incumbent)	2,544	48.8
	Labour	K Ferguson	1,711	22.5
	Conservative	Jean Miller	778	14.9
	SNP	Williamina Proven	177	3.4
Majority			833	26.3
Turnout			5210

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Alliance	Robert Brown (incumbent)	2,618	45.0
	Labour	Margaret Robinson	2,564	44.0
	Conservative	Anne McCallum	457	7.8
	SNP	W Ramsay	190	3.2
Majority			54	1.0
Turnout			5829

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	R McKenzie (incumbent)	2,471	45.2
	Conservative	J Hawkins	1,449	26.5
	Alliance	J McIntosh	1,202	22.0
	SNP	J Smith	341	6.2
Majority			1022	18.7
Turnout			5463

Results

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	J Cornfield	2,689	75.0
	Conservative	Mary M Russell	355	10.0
	SNP	J Higgins	268	7.5
	Communist	G Massie	155	4.3
	Independent	G Clark	116	3.2
Majority			2334	65.0
Turnout			3583