1991 Leeds City Council election

The 1991 Leeds City Council elections were held on Thursday, 2 May 1991, with one third of the council and a vacancy in Horsforth to be elected.

The upsurge in Labour support recorded the previous year mostly unwound, allowing the Conservatives and the renamed Liberal Democrats a more successful election - although the latter also looked to be recovering from their disastrous merger, fielding a more convincing slate and gaining a moderate rise in their vote. The surprise Conservative losses of 1990 election were all defended this time round - although only narrowly in the case of Weetwood, with Halton and Pudsey North being much safer and Aireborough actually a gain from the Lib Dems. Labour managed a gain a seat apiece from the main opposition parties, with a comfortable win in Burmantofts from the Lib Dems and snatching the last Conservative seat in Morley North to further extend their record majority.

Meanwhile, the Greens stood in over a third of the wards - their strongest slate in over a decade, and the Liberals won third place in each of the handful of wards they stood in. Notably absent were the enduring CPGB and David Owen's Social Democrats, both parties having chosen to dissolve themselves by the time of election.^[1]

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	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
Labour	22	2	0	+2	64.7	46.1	102,103	-10.0
Conservative	8	1	1	0	23.5	30.2	66,860	+3.5
Liberal Democrats	4	0	2	-2	11.8	20.2	44,631	+5.8
Green	0	0	0	0	0.0	1.9	4,219	+0.5
Liberal	0	0	0	0	0.0	1.5	3,265	+0.5
Independent	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.1	208	-0.1

Party		Previous council	New council
	Labour	66	68
	Conservative	21	21
	Liberal Democrat	11	9
	Independent	1	1
Total		99	99
Working majority		33	37

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	M. Atkinson	3,539	37.2	−0.8
	Labour	Gerry Harper	3,073	32.3	−13.0
	Liberal Democrats	Janet Brown	2,681	28.2	+11.4
	Green	A. Ross	222	2.3	+2.3
Majority			466	4.9	−2.5
Turnout			9,515
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing	+6.1

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	P. Paley	3,384	57.1	−10.0
	Conservative	W. Hanbury	1,024	17.3	+1.9
	Liberal	A. Gonzalez	625	10.5	+10.5
	Liberal Democrats	Andrew Davies	581	9.8	−7.8
	Green	M. Stroud	315	5.3	+5.3
Majority			2,360	39.8	−9.6
Turnout			5,929
	Labour hold		Swing	-5.9

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	M. Monks	4,594	55.2	−7.5
	Conservative	John Procter	2,476	29.7	+3.3
	Liberal Democrats	D. Lindley	879	10.6	+4.3
	Green	D. Fullerton	374	4.5	−0.1
Majority			2,118	25.4	−10.9
Turnout			8,323
	Labour hold		Swing	-5.4

1991 Leeds City Council election

Election result

Ward results

References

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Bramley^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	A. Miller	3,628	61.2	−4.7
	Liberal	Michael Meadowcroft	1,299	21.9	−2.9
	Conservative	T. Cooper	765	12.9	+3.6
	Liberal Democrats	M. Ewens	238	4.0	+4.0
Majority			2,329	39.3	−1.8
Turnout			5,930
	Labour hold		Swing	-0.9

Burmantofts^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ron Blower	3,103	57.3	−6.4
	Liberal Democrats	T. Ineson	2,005	37.0	+6.7
	Conservative	C. Wilson	305	5.6	−0.3
Majority			1,098	20.3	−13.1
Turnout			5,413
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing	-6.5

Chapel Allerton^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Norma Hutchinson	3,732	62.3	−10.4
	Conservative	F. Yarnold	1,239	20.7	+2.2
	Liberal Democrats	J. Levy	672	11.2	+2.4
	Green	R. Mills	350	5.8	+5.8
Majority			2,493	41.6	−12.6
Turnout			5,993
	Labour hold		Swing	-6.3

City & Holbeck^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Erskine	3,413	69.4	−9.7
	Liberal Democrats	R. Mayne	734	14.9	+3.5
	Conservative	D. Boynton	532	10.8	+1.4
	Green	D. Blakemore	240	4.9	+4.9
Majority			2,679	54.5	−13.2
Turnout			4,919
	Labour hold		Swing	-6.6