1984 Liverpool City Council election

1984 Liverpool City Council election
3 May 1984 (1984-05-03)
34 of 99 seats
to Liverpool City Council
  First party Second party
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Leader Derek Hatton
Party Labour Liberal
Leader's seat
Last election 51 30
Seats before 51 30
Seats after 58 28
Seat change 7 2
Popular vote 90,219 67,234
Percentage 46% 35%
  Third party Fourth party
 
Party Conservative Communist
Leader's seat
Last election 18 0
Seats before 18 0
Seats after 17 0
Seat change 1 0
Popular vote 37,055 250
Percentage 19% 0.1%

Elections to Liverpool City Council were held on 3 May 1984. One third of the council was up for election and the Labour Party retained overall control of the council.

This election was during the time the far left trotskyist entryist group within the Labour Party called the Militant Tendency had significant influence on the council, they had 16 out of the 58 councillors on the council.

Under militants' influence the council built thousands of council houses, created thousands of jobs. They fought the conservative government then led by Margaret Thatcher and mobilised workers, working class people and community campaigners against the government and won a victory achieving funding for the council.

After the election, the composition of the council was:

PartySeats  ±  
Labour58+7
Liberal28-2
Conservative17-1
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