1968 London local elections

1968 London local elections
9 May 1968
All 1,863 on all 32 London boroughs
Turnout35.8%
  First party Second party
 
Leader Edward Heath Harold Wilson
Party Conservative Labour
Leader since 27 July 1965 14 February 1963
Councils 28 3
Councils +/– 19 17
Councillors 1,438 350
Councillors +/– 770 668
Results by Borough in 1968.
(Red indicates Labour, blue indicates the Conservatives and black indicates No Overall Control)

Local government elections were held in the thirty-two London boroughs on Thursday 9 May 1968. Polling stations were open between 8am and 9pm.

All seats were up for election. The result was a landslide for the Conservative Party, who won twenty-eight of the boroughs, while Labour lost control of seventeen of the twenty boroughs it had held going into the elections (including Bexley, where it did not win a single seat). Only ten Liberal councillors were elected in London.

The result followed the Conservative gain of the Greater London Council in the elections the previous year.

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