1988 Reading Borough Council election

1988 Reading Borough Council election
5 May 1988 (1988-05-05)
15 seats of 45 on council
23 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Lab
Con
SLD
Leader Mike Orton Geoff Canning Jim Day
Party Labour Conservative Liberal Democrats
Seats before 24 16 5
Seats after 25 15 5
Seat change 1 1
Popular vote 16,154 16,342 5,706
Percentage 39.9% 40.4% 14.1%
Swing 8.9% 0.6% 12.5%

The 1988 Reading Borough Council election was held on 5 May 1988, at the same time as other local elections across England and Scotland. One third of Reading Borough Council's 45 seats were up for election.

The election saw Labour increase its majority on the council by one seat.

It was the first election following the merger of the SDP-Liberal Alliance to become the "Social and Liberal Democrats" as they were called at this election, before changing the name to Liberal Democrats the following year. Some SDP members opposed to the merger formed a new Social Democratic Party, which fielded several candidates in Reading in 1988.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.