1998 Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council election

1998 UK local government election July 2026 April 2015 The 1998 Oldham Council election took place on 7 May 1998 to elect members of Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council in Greater Manchester, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Labour Party stayed in overall control of the council. Local Elections results The Times 46 1998-05-09 After the election, the composition of the council was: Labour 36 Liberal Democrat 23 Independent 1 Policy and politics: Local Elections: Analysis: Council poll results The Guardian 16 1998-05-09 Campaign Before the election Labour ran the council with 35 councillors as compared to 24 for the Liberal Democrats. Peter Hetherington Local elections: Labour faces its 'real enemy' The collapse of Conservatism in south Lancashire is distressing its old adversary The Guardian 8 1998-05-05 The election was mainly fought between these 2 parties with the Liberal Democrats campaigning on local issues under a slogan of "open, local, clean and green". They said that Labour were arrogant and complacent, while Labour attacked the Liberal Democrats for being irresponsible on public spending and opportunistic. Election result Overall turnout in the election was 31%. http://www.oldham.gov.uk/local_govt/councillors/results.htm Oldham MBC Local Election Results 6th May 1999 2010-04-09 https://web.archive.org/web/20000615034125/http://www.oldham.gov.uk/local_govt/councillors/results.htm 15 June 2000 Oldham Metropolitan Borough dead dmy-all Oldham local election result 1998 Labour Party (UK) 12 +1 60.0 Liberal Democrats (UK) 8 -1 40.0 References Category:1998 English local elections 1998 Category:1990s in Greater Manchester