Scottish regional elections, 1994

5 May 1994 (1994-05-05)

	First party	Second party


Leader	John Smith	Alex Salmond
Party	Labour	SNP
Leader since	18 July 1992	22 September 1990
Seats won	220	73
Seat change	3	31
Percentage	41.8	26.8
Swing	2.2%	5%

	Third party	Fourth party

Leader	Jim Wallace	John Major
Party	Liberal Democrats	Conservative
Leader since	18 April 1992	28 November 1990
Seats won	60	31
Seat change	20	21
Percentage	12.2	13.7
Swing	4%	5.5%

Colours denote the winning party with outright control

Regional elections were held in Scotland on 5 May 1994, as part of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973. These were the last elections before 29 new mainland unitary authorities, established by the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994, came into effect.

National results

Summary of the 5 May 1994 Scottish council election results^[1]^[2]


Parties		votes	%	Seats
	Labour	704,604	41.8	220
	SNP	458,951	26.8	73
	Conservative	234,840	13.7	31
	Liberal Democrats	208,349	12.2	60
	Independent	80,092	4.2	65
	Independent Labour	4,064		1
	Communist	1,839		1
	Independent Liberal Democrat	885		1
	Liberal	0		1
	Scottish Militant Labour	11,476	0.7	0
	People Pension Power	313		0
	Monster Raving Loony	185		0
	Natural Law	124		0
	Independent Conservative	97		0
	Social Democratic	82		0
	James Connolly Society	76		0
	Doctor Slug Party	43		0
	Scottish Republican Socialist	38		0
	Scottish Christian Democratic	32		0
Total		1,706,090	45.1	453

Turnout 45.1%
Change since last election -0.8%
The Liberal candidate was returned unopposed

Results by council area

Council		National control (based on 1992 results)		Turnout
Borders	Independent		No overall control	42
Central	Labour		Labour	49.7
Dumfries and Galloway	Independent		No overall control	47.9
Fife	Labour		Labour	45.7
Grampian	No overall control		No overall control	41.6
Highland	Independent		Independent	45.3
Lothian	Labour		Labour	47.8
Orkney	Independent		Independent
Shetland	Independent		Independent
Strathclyde	Labour		Labour	44.4
Tayside	No overall control	Independent	No overall control	45.5
Na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles)	Independent	Independent	Independent

References

↑ Denver, David; Bochel, Hugh (Winter 2000), "The Forgotten Elections: The Scottish Council Elections of 1999", Scottish Affairs (PDF), 30
↑ p.49

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See also: Elections in the Kingdom of Scotland (Pre-1707) Great Britain (1707–1800) United Kingdom Politics of Scotland

(1993 ←) United Kingdom local elections, 1994 (→ 1995)

London boroughs	Barking and Dagenham Barnet Bexley Brent Bromley Camden Croydon Ealing Enfield Greenwich Hackney Hammersmith and Fulham Haringey Harrow Havering Hillingdon Hounslow Islington Kensington and Chelsea Kingston upon Thames Lambeth Lewisham Merton Newham Redbridge Richmond upon Thames Southwark Sutton Tower Hamlets Waltham Forest Wandsworth Westminster

Metropolitan boroughs	Barnsley Birmingham Bradford Bolton Bury Calderdale Coventry Doncaster Dudley Gateshead Kirklees Knowsley Leeds Liverpool Manchester Newcastle North Tyneside Oldham Rochdale Rotherham Salford Sandwell Sefton Sheffield Solihull South Tyneside St Helens Stockport Sunderland Tameside Trafford Wakefield Walsall Wigan Wirral Wolverhampton

District councils (England)	Adur Amber Valley Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke and Deane Bassetlaw Bath Bedford Blackburn Brentwood Brighton Bristol Broadland Broxbourne Burnley Cambridge Cannock Chase Carlisle Cheltenham Cherwell Chester Chorley Colchester Congleton Craven Crawley Crewe and Nantwich Daventry Derby Eastbourne Eastleigh Ellesmere Port and Neston Elmbridge Epping Forest Exeter Fareham Gillingham Gloucester Gosport Great Grimsby Great Yarmouth Halton Harlow Harrogate Hart Hartlepool Hastings Havant Hereford Hertsmere Huntingdonshire Hyndburn Ipswich Kingston upon Hull Leominster Lincoln Macclesfield Maidstone Milton Keynes Mole Valley Newcastle-under-Lyme North Hertfordshire Norwich Nuneaton and Bedworth Oxford Pendle Penwith Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Purbeck Reading Redditch Reigate and Banstead Rochford Rossendale Rugby Runnymede Rushmoor Scunthorpe Shrewsbury and Atcham Slough South Bedfordshire South Cambridgeshire South Herefordshire South Lakeland Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-on-Avon Stroud Swale Tamworth Tandridge Thamesdown Three Rivers Thurrock Tunbridge Wells Watford Waveney Welwyn Hatfield West Lancashire West Lindsey West Oxfordshire Weymouth and Portland Winchester Woking Wokingham Worcester Worthing Wyre Forest York

Regional councils (Scotland)	Borders Central Dumfries and Galloway Fife Grampian Highland Lothian Orkney Shetland Strathclyde Tayside Western Isles

Referendum	Strathclyde water referendum, 1994

See also: European Parliament election

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