1986 Barnet London Borough Council election

1986 Barnet London Borough Council election
All 60 seats to Barnet London Borough Council; 31 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	42.0%
	Map of the results of the 1986 Barnet London Borough council election. Conservatives in blue, Labour in red, Alliance in yellow
Council control before election; Conservative;	Council control after election ; Conservative;

The 1986 Barnet Council election took place on 8 May 1986 to elect members of Barnet London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Conservative party stayed in overall control of the council.^[1]

Background

Election result

Overall turnout in the election was 42.0%.

Barnet Local Election Result 1986^[2]
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Votes %
Conservative	39	0	9	-9	43.4
Labour	18	6	0	+6	30.5
Alliance	3	3	0	+3	22.6

Ward results

Arkley

Arkley (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Ian Balcombe	2,090
	Conservative	Wilfred Lipman	2,071
	Conservative	Leah Hertz	1,949
	Alliance	David Keech	1,836
	Labour	Anita Campbell	1,655
	Labour	Keith Livingston	1,638
	Labour	Pauline Green	1,631
	Alliance	Robert Eccles	1,622
	Alliance	David Raff	1,445
	Ratepayers and Residents	Erich Herrmann	710
	Greens	Stephen Syme	265
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Brunswick Park

Brunswick Park (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Donald Goodman	2,355
	Conservative	John Rawles	2,226
	Conservative	Irene Palmer	2,223
	Labour	Jeffrey Leifer	957
	Labour	Bridget Wilkinson	893
	Alliance	Leslie Kealey	876
	Labour	Peter Wilkinson	865
	Alliance	Peter Watkins	833
	Alliance	John Woods	812
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Burnt Oak

Burnt Oak (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Peter Ellis	2,043
	Labour	Alan Williams	1,963
	Labour	Gerald Shamash	1,849
	Ind Lab	James Brophy	1,082
	Conservative	Peter Edwards	774
	Conservative	Oliver Stone	705
	Conservative	Julian Czarny	649
	Ind Lab	John Heritage	516
	Ind Lab	Richards Hankins	476
	Alliance	Albert Dean	356
	Alliance	Hilda Munden	354
	Alliance	Ian Albert	347
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Childs Hill

Childs Hill (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Alliance	Monroe Palmer	1,740
	Alliance	Brian Stone	1,517
	Alliance	Jack Cohen	1,491
	Conservative	Daniel Cohen	1,431
	Conservative	Leonard Isaac	1,350
	Conservative	Michele Moulin	1,347
	Labour	Christopher Brennan	1,125
	Labour	Peter Grimes	1,143
	Labour	Jacqueline Stuffling-Holland	1,042
Turnout
	Alliance gain from Conservative		Swing
	Alliance gain from Conservative		Swing
	Alliance gain from Conservative		Swing

Colindale

Colindale (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Thomas McKendry	1,773
	Labour	Ellis Hillman	1,736
	Labour	Jenny Manson	1,679
	Conservative	Maxton Brooker	1,138
	Conservative	William Nicholson	1,055
	Conservative	Sylvia Da Costa	1,022
	Alliance	Ruth Cohen	940
	Alliance	Elisabeth Bristow	830
	Alliance	Vivien Topping	724
	Ind Lab	Eyo Nkune	371
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

East Barnet

East Barnet (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	John Perry	2,023
	Conservative	Olwen Evans	1,981
	Conservative	Mary Perry	1,933
	Alliance	Colin Shaw	1,172
	Labour	Carmel Bedford	1,151
	Alliance	George Gomez	1,133
	Alliance	Elizabeth Nesbitt	1,102
	Labour	Michael Larcey	1,064
	Labour	Usha Chopra	994
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

East Finchley

East Finchley (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Laurence Spigel	3,063
	Labour	John Davies	3,019
	Labour	Frances Crook	2,963
	Conservative	Michael Buck	1,618
	Conservative	Kathryn Evans	1,531
	Conservative	Mohammed Khamisa	1,473
	Alliance	Michael Cole	683
	Alliance	Bernard Cragg	671
	Alliance	Jonathan Summers	621
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Edgware

Edgware (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	David Hammond	2,126
	Conservative	Malcolm Lester	2,073
	Conservative	Archibald Smith	2,044
	Labour	Geoffrey Paull	765
	Labour	Keith Hurcombe	762
	Labour	Robert Vaughan	742
	Alliance	Barbara Farbey	646
	Alliance	Jonathan Mulberg	635
	Alliance	Dennis Schulster	630
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Finchley

Finchley (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Leslie Sussman	2,284
	Conservative	Miles Golding	2,224
	Conservative	Barbara Langstone	2,203
	Labour	Kenneth Little	1,195
	Labour	Brian Watkins	1,170
	Labour	Jeffrey McCracken-Hewson	1,162
	Alliance	Anne Cragg	701
	Alliance	Malcolm Davis	687
	Alliance	Willi Kenton	650
	Greens	Roy Bowden	187
	Greens	Ian Vickers	151
	Greens	Christopher Tasker	140
	Humanist	Judith Earley	43
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Friern Barnet

Friern Barnet (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	John Tiplady	2,318
	Conservative	Brian Salinger	2,309
	Conservative	Christopher Platford	2,272
	Labour	Hilary Delyon	1,208
	Labour	Mary Nutkins	1,202
	Labour	Roger Matthews	1,193
	Alliance	Nicholas Harvey	1,129
	Alliance	Andrew Wade	1,090
	Alliance	David Litherland	1,053
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Garden Suburb

Garden Suburb (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Clement Halfon	2,348
	Conservative	Malcolm Davis	2,320
	Conservative	Roy Schutz	2,388
	Alliance	Viola Haire	1,493
	Alliance	Peter Lusher	1,470
	Alliance	Joan Beales	1,438
	Labour	Rita Brent	623
	Labour	Andrew Redpath	606
	Labour	Adam Gaines	558
	Greens	Janet Strangeways	287
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Golders Green

Golders Green (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Melvin Cohen	1,797
	Conservative	Leslie Foster	1,727
	Conservative	Joseph Hunter	1,611
	Labour	Montague Miller	1,194
	Labour	John Pearson	1,121
	Labour	Edward Pointon	1,104
	Alliance	Linda Craig	757
	Alliance	Mira Levy	737
	Alliance	Louis Lawrence	688
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Hadley

Hadley (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Herbert Hoyle	2,735
	Conservative	Carol Cender	2,709
	Conservative	Beverley Lane	2,676
	Alliance	Rosemary Watkins	1,737
	Alliance	Stuart Brown	1,705
	Alliance	Geoffrey Fallows	1,697
	Labour	John Bacon	1,028
	Labour	Michael Campbell	1,021
	Labour	John Holloway	976
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Hale

Hale (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Leslie Pym	2,119
	Conservative	Dorothy Benson	2,084
	Conservative	Jack Clarfelt	1,998
	Alliance	Diana Pattison	1,192
	Alliance	John Kay	1,154
	Alliance	Quintin Iwi	1,100
	Labour	Elaine Runswick	803
	Labour	David Suiter	742
	Labour	Jeanie Tait	740
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Hendon

Hendon (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Norman Hirshfield	1,932
	Conservative	Peter Grosz	1,804
	Conservative	Frederick Poole	1,749
	Labour	Barbara Condon	1,172
	Labour	Martin Earl	1,151
	Alliance	Douglas Baron	1,140
	Alliance	Alan Magnus	1,127
	Labour	Bryan Reith	1,065
	Alliance	David Warner	1,024
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Mill Hill

Mill Hill (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	John Hart	2,389
	Conservative	Denis Dippel	2,377
	Conservative	Anthony Antoniou	2,248
	Alliance	Terry Rollinson	1,058
	Alliance	Alan Wilkinson	1,040
	Labour	Adrienne Van Loen	934
	Alliance	Philip Tobin	922
	Labour	Ian Parker	905
	Labour	Malcolm Perez	839
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

St Paul's

St Paul’s (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Michael Freeman	2,053
	Labour	Narendrakumar Dave	1,985
	Labour	Catherine Lyons	1,914
	Conservative	Gordon Bettis	1,828
	Conservative	Edna James	1,626
	Conservative	Mary Phillips	1,611
	Ind Con	John Fitzgibbon	722
	Alliance	Stephen Landau	712
	Alliance	Robert Stone	687
	Alliance	Leonard Watkins	675
	Greens	Anne Fealdman	230
	Greens	Maureen Colmans	210
	Greens	John Colmans	203
	Ind Con	Thomas Quinn	167
	Ind Con	Maria Pavlides	146
Turnout
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Totteridge

Totteridge (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Victor Usher	2,526
	Conservative	Victor Lyon	2,501
	Conservative	Cecile Levinson	2,479
	Alliance	Richard Bevan	991
	Alliance	Edith Gardner	968
	Alliance	Alan Brown	938
	Labour	Joel Hirsch	877
	Labour	Pete Sutton	850
	Labour	Yanna Manolas	843
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

West Hendon

West Hendon (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Timothy Sims	1,965
	Labour	Doreen Neall	1,964
	Labour	Agnes Slocombe	1,835
	Conservative	Anthony Finn	1,677
	Conservative	Jayendra Patel	1,622
	Conservative	Carole Ovenden	1,539
	Alliance	Harry Levy	639
	Alliance	Daniel Finkelstein	617
	Alliance	George Allen	562
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Woodhouse

Woodhouse (3 seats)
	Candidate	Votes
Labour	Michael Harris	2,170
Labour	Dennis Reed	2,056
Labour	Rudolf Vis	1,973
Conservative	Gillian Bull	1,939
Conservative	Graham Halliday	1,877
Conservative	Philip Williams	1,851
Alliance	Gerard Fitzgerald	1,110
Alliance	Dagmar Saxl	1,062
Alliance	Albert Wright	984
Labour gain from Conservative		Swing
Labour gain from Conservative		Swing
Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

By-elections between 1986 and 1990

Hadley

Hadley by-election, 20 November 1986^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Gillian M. Bull	2,006
	Alliance	Rosemary M. Watkins	1,224
	Labour	Keith E. Livingstone	662
	Ind. Conservative	John P. Fitzgibbon	97
Turnout				30.07
	Conservative hold		Swing

The by-election was called following the resignation of Cllr. Beverley G. Lane.

Garden Suburb

Garden Suburb by-election, 27 November 1986^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Coral Sebag-Montefiore	1,415
	Alliance	Peter D. Falk	1,243
	Labour	Rita Brent	327
Turnout				27.97
	Conservative hold		Swing

The by-election was called following the resignation of Cllr. Clement Halfon.

Arkley

Arkley by-election, 10 November 1988^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Arthur A. Beck	1,462
	Labour	Kevin W. Smith	1,075
	Liberal Democrats	Michael A. Cleal	833
	Independent	Philip W. Groves	214
	Green	Simon A. Clarke	166
Turnout				29.66
	Conservative hold		Swing

The by-election was called following the death of Cllr. Leah Hertz.

Garden Suburb

Garden Suburb by-election, 10 November 1988^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Veronica C. Soskin	1,503
	Liberal Democrats	Michael S. Pickering	1,258
	Labour	Penelope Grant	306
Turnout				28.94
	Conservative hold		Swing

The by-election was called following the resignation of Cllr. Coral Sebag-Montefiore.

Arkley

Arkley by-election, 9 March 1989^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Philip H. Williams	1,468
	Labour	Keith E. Livingstone	1,094
	Lib Dem Focus Team	Michael A. CIeal	809
	Independent	Philip W. Groves	207
Turnout				29.12
	Conservative hold		Swing

The by-election was called following the death of Cllr. Wilfred Lipman.

References

^ "London Borough Council Elections 8 May 1986" (PDF). London Residuary Body - Research and Intelligence Unit. August 1986.
^ Minors, Michael; Grenham, Dennis. "London Borough Council Elections 7 May 1998 including the Greater London Authority Referendum results" (PDF). Demographic and Statistical Studies. London Research Centre. Retrieved 22 February 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "London Borough Council Elections 3rd May 1990" (PDF). London Datastore. London Research Centre. Retrieved 8 March 2015.

[1] "London Borough Council Elections 8 May 1986" (PDF). London Residuary Body - Research and Intelligence Unit. August 1986.

[2] Minors, Michael; Grenham, Dennis. "London Borough Council Elections 7 May 1998 including the Greater London Authority Referendum results" (PDF). Demographic and Statistical Studies. London Research Centre. Retrieved 22 February 2015.

[London_1990_election-3] "London Borough Council Elections 3rd May 1990" (PDF). London Datastore. London Research Centre. Retrieved 8 March 2015.

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