1974 City of Dundee District Council election

City of Dundee District Council election April 2025 April 2025 1974 City of Dundee District Council election Scotland City of Dundee Coat of Arms.png parliamentary no 1973 Dundee City Council election 1973 1974 5 8 y 1977 City of Dundee District Council election 1977 All 44 seats to City of Dundee District Council 23 Labour Party (UK) 22 Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party 18 Independent (politician) 2 The 44 single-member wards Council Leader Council Leader after election CityOfDundeeDistrictCouncil1974Composition.svg Elections to City of Dundee District Council were held on 7 May 1974, on the same day as the other Scottish local government elections. This was the first election to the district council following the implementation of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973. The election used the 44 wards created by the Formation Electoral Arrangements in 1974. Each ward elected one councillor using first-past-the-post voting.https://webarchive.nrscotland.gov.uk/20190111180051/http://www.lgbc-scotland.gov.uk/reports/ea_formation_1974.asp Formation Electoral Arrangements Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland 5 April 2025 Labour took control of the council after winning a majority. The party took 22 of the 44 seats and almost half of the popular vote. The Conservatives were the second largest party after winning 18 seats. Background Dundee was made a burgh in the late 12th century and officially became Scotland's first city in 1889.Milne Scott 26 January 2024 Dundee celebrates 135 years as Scotland's oldest city — and here's why https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/dundee/815091/dundee-is-scotlands-oldest-city/ 6 April 2025 The Courier 6 August 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240806083059/https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/dundee/815091/dundee-is-scotlands-oldest-city/ live Following the local government reforms in 1890, Dundee one of the four Counties of Cities and was administratively separate from the county it was historically within – Angus.Guide to local government in parishes, counties and burghs 1892 Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh xxiii–xxx https://archive.org/details/b21905678/page/n29/mode/2up 4 April 2025 Following the recommendations in the Wheatly Report, the old system of counties and burghs – which had resulted in a mishmash of local government areas in which some small burghs had larger populations but far fewer responsibilities than some large burghs and even countieshttps://boundaries.scot/sites/default/files/Local_government_Scotland_before_1975.pdf Information Paper Local government in Scotland: before 1975 Boundaries Scotland 5 April 2025 – was to be replaced by a new system of regional and district councils. The Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 implemented most of the recommendations in the Wheatly Report. The City of Dundee District Council – placed within the Tayside region – took in a much larger area than its predecessor as the burgh of Monifieth and an area from Angus and Perthshire was incorporated within the city.Turnock David 1970 The Wheatley Report: Local Government in Scotland Area 2 2 10–12 Blackwell Publishing on behalf of The Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers 20000437 Following the death of a candidate, the poll in Craigiebank was postponed and the seat was vacant following the election. Results 1974 City of Dundee District Council election result Labour Party (UK) 22 51.2 47.4 29,555 Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party 18 40.9 42.2 26,320 Independent (politician) 2 4.5 3.3 2,076 Independent Labour 1 2.3 3.0 1,860 Scottish Liberal Party 0 0.0 2.2 1,359 Communist Party of Great Britain 0 0.0 1.1 677 Scottish National Party 0 0.0 0.5 291 Christian Democratic Socialist 0 0.0 0.3 161 Independent Socialist 0 0.0 0.2 106 Casual vacancy 1 0.0 0.0 Source:https://www.electionscentre.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Scottish-Regional-and-District-Elections-1974.pdf The Scottish Local Government Elections 1974: Results and Statistics Edinburgh Scottish Academic Press J. M. Botchel D. T. Denver 1975 5 April 2025 Aftermath The City of Dundee was the only district in the newly created Tayside region that was won by Labour after the party took 22 of the 43 seats up for election. The Conservatives took 18 seats and three Independent candidates – including an Independent Labour candidate – were elected. The regional council, which held its first election on the same day, was left in no overall control. Across Scotland, Labour won the most votes, the most seats and the most councils of any party. References 1974 Category:1974 Scottish local elections Category:1970s in Dundee Category:Tayside