Election Name: | 1991 Stevenage Borough Council election[1] [2] |
Country: | England |
Type: | Parliamentary |
Ongoing: | no |
Party Colour: | yes |
Previous Election: | 1990 Stevenage Borough Council election |
Previous Year: | 1990 |
Next Election: | 1992 Stevenage Borough Council election |
Next Year: | 1992 |
Seats For Election: | 13 of the 39 seats to Stevenage Borough Council |
Majority Seats: | 20 |
Election Date: | 2 May 1991 |
Party1: | Labour Party (UK) |
Seats Before1: | 32 |
Seats1: | 9 |
Seat Change1: | 3 |
Seats After1: | 35 |
Popular Vote1: | 11,718 |
Percentage1: | 51.7% |
Party2: | Liberal Party (UK, 1989) |
Seats Before2: | 0 |
Seats2: | 2 |
Seat Change2: | 2 |
Seats After2: | 2 |
Popular Vote2: | 1,008 |
Percentage2: | 4.4% |
Party4: | Conservative Party (UK) |
Seats Before4: | 1 |
Seats4: | 1 |
Seats After4: | 1 |
Popular Vote4: | 6,478 |
Percentage4: | 28.6% |
Party5: | Liberal Democrats (UK) |
Seats Before5: | 6 |
Seats5: | 1 |
Seat Change5: | 5 |
Seats After5: | 1 |
Popular Vote5: | 3,319 |
Percentage5: | 14.6% |
Map Size: | 300px |
Council control | |
Posttitle: | Council control after election |
Before Election: | Labour |
After Election: | Labour |
The 1991 Stevenage Borough Council election took place on 2 May 1991. This was on the same day as other local elections. One third of the council was up for election; the seats which were last contested in 1987. The Labour Party retained control of the council, which it had held continuously since its creation in 1973.
|-bgcolor=#F6F6F6| colspan=2 style="text-align: right; margin-right: 1em" | Total| style="text-align: right;" | 13| colspan=5 || style="text-align: right;" | 22,656| style="text-align: right;" | |-|colspan="11" style="color:inherit;background:"||-| style="color:inherit;background:"|| colspan="10"| Labour holdAll comparisons in seats and vote share are to the corresponding 1987 election.