1992 Reading Borough Council election

1992 Reading Borough Council election
7 May 1992 (1992-05-07)
15 seats of 45 on council
23 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Lab
Con
LD
Leader Mike Orton Pauline Palmer Jim Day
Party Labour Conservative Liberal Democrats
Seats before 29 10 4
Seats after 29 11 4
Seat change 1
Popular vote 13,532 14,919 5,605
Percentage 37.1% 40.9% 15.4%
Swing 2.9% 2.6% 0.5%
  Fourth party
 
Ind
Party Independent
Seats before 2
Seats after 1
Seat change 1
Popular vote 1,168
Percentage 3.2%
Swing N/A

The 1992 Reading Borough Council election was held on 7 May 1992, at the same time as other local elections across England and Scotland, and a month after the general election. One third of Reading Borough Council's 45 seats were up for election.

The only seat which changed parties was in Thames Ward, where the official Conservative candidate won the seat back from the independent "Thames Conservative" candidate, Pam Fuad, who had been elected in 1988 as a Conservative but had broken away from the group with her husband, councillor Hamza Fuad, to form the Thames Conservatives in 1990.

Turnout was reported to be 36%.

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