1990 Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council election

1990 UK local government election March 2020 March 2020 thumb|500px|right|Map of the results of the 1990 Wigan council election. Elections to the Wigan council were held on Thursday, 3 May 1990, with one third of the seats up for election with an additional vacancy in Bryn. Previous to the election there had also been a by-election in Abram, which the Labour Party successfully defended. Despite a wider array of parties - mainly a product from the fractious SLD merger - contesting the election, in several ways it beat 1986's lows in participation. A record of six seats went uncontested as one quarter of the council's wards held no elections, with the Conservatives contesting one half of the wards (an all-time low) and the SLD one quarter (the lowest since 1979). The Greens repeated their last year's total of four candidates, but with only two in the same wards as previous. Elsewhere, Independent John Vickers fought his first of many elections in Hindley Green and the respective Social Democrat and Liberal sides opposed to Alliance merging into the SLD fielded a sole candidate each - the latter of which having previously came within a straw of winning Langtree for the SLD. The night seen numerous surprising gains, with Labour gaining another seat in the SLD bastion of Langtree, and for the first time, in the Conservative's bastion of Swinley, whilst the SLD managed its own breakthrough in the Labour territory of Hope Carr. With dwindling hopes of ever regaining Orrell, Swinley had become the Conservative's bulwark in recent years, and the Labour gain here raised the prospects of Conservative representation being removed altogether from the council. The loss of Hope Carr denied Labour a clean-sweep, but they managed an all-time high of winning all-but-one of the wards, and bettering their last year's record in voter share. Overall turnout in those wards contesting rose to a local elections high (with the 1979 election omitted for coinciding with the general election) of 39.4%. http://www.wigan.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/3692F771-E969-41EE-B068-1F9F20DFE0B7/0/WiganResults1973to2007.pdf Wigan Council results from 1973 to 2008 wigan.gov.uk 2012-01-30 https://web.archive.org/web/20111120022015/http://www.wigan.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/3692F771-E969-41EE-B068-1F9F20DFE0B7/0/WiganResults1973to2007.pdf 2011-11-20 dead Election result Wigan local election result 1990 Labour Party (UK) 24 2 1 +1 96.0 69.2 48,633 +0.6% Social and Liberal Democrats 1 1 1 0 4.0 11.2 7,852 -1.4% Conservative Party (UK) 0 0 1 -1 0.0 13.2 9,288 -3.9% Green Party (UK) 0 0 0 0 0.0 3.3 2,320 +1.8% Liberal Party (UK, 1989) 0 0 0 0 0.0 1.6 1,153 +1.6% Independent (politician) 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.9 663 +0.9% Social Democratic Party (UK, 1990) 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.5 391 +0.5% This result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the Council after the elections: PartyPrevious councilNew council Labour 63 64 Social and Liberal Democrats 5 5 Conservatives 3 2 Independent Labour 1 1 Green 0 0 Liberal 0 0 Independent 0 0 Social Democrat 0 0 Total 72 72 Working majority #FFBF00 54 darkgray #FFBF00 56 darkgray Ward results Abram Labour Party (UK) J. Tiernan Unopposed N/A N/A Labour Party (UK) N/A Ashton-Golborne Labour Party (UK) S. Lea 2,844 79.0 +0.8 Conservative Party (UK) I. Cunliffe 756 21.0 -0.8 2,088 58.0 +1.7 3,600 36.7 +8.7 Labour Party (UK) +0.8 Aspull-Standish Labour Party (UK) J. Hilton 2,681 53.3 +5.4 Social and Liberal Democrats D. Brown 1,518 30.2 -5.6 Conservative Party (UK) J. Carrington 831 16.5 +0.2 1,163 23.1 +11.0 5,030 46.1 +2.6 Labour Party (UK) +5.5 Atherton Labour Party (UK) L. Sumner 2,594 80.3 -1.5 Green Party (UK) S. Bickerton 636 19.7 +19.7 1,958 60.6 -3.0 3,230 35.3 -0.6 Labour Party (UK) -10.6 Bedford-Astley Labour Party (UK) F. Walker 2,380 70.4 +7.9 Green Party (UK) I. Graham 998 29.5 +19.6 1,382 40.9 +5.9 3,378 33.9 +2.4 Labour Party (UK) -5.8 Beech Hill Labour Party (UK) T. Bishop 2,095 51.1 +6.3 Social and Liberal Democrats V. Milton 2,001 48.8 +1.1 94 2.3 -0.6 4,096 46.5 +5.6 Labour Party (UK) +2.6 Bryn Labour Party (UK) A. Melling 2,783 80.7 -1.2 Labour Party (UK) M. Millington 2,411 Conservative Party (UK) B. Smith 663 19.2 +1.2 2,120 61.5 -2.4 3,446 34.8 +3.6 Labour Party (UK) Labour Party (UK) -1.2 Hindley Labour Party (UK) G. Green 2,656 74.7 -12.5 Social and Liberal Democrats C. Barton 558 15.7 +15.7 Green Party (UK) A. Wood 342 9.6 -3.2 2,098 59.0 -15.3 3,556 36.9 +8.4 Labour Party (UK) -14.1 Hindley Green Labour Party (UK) W. Simmons 2,741 72.2 -8.3 Independent (politician) J. Vickers 663 17.5 +17.5 Social Democratic Party (UK, 1990) V. Norris 391 10.3 +10.3 2,078 54.7 -6.4 3,795 32.6 +8.5 Labour Party (UK) -12.9 Hindsford Labour Party (UK) A. Wright Unopposed N/A N/A Labour Party (UK) N/A Hope Carr Social and Liberal Democrats E. Herdman 1,956 51.1 +51.1 Labour Party (UK) P. Culshaw 1,870 48.9 -14.1 86 2.2 -23.7 3,826 37.8 +4.6 Social and Liberal Democrats Labour Party (UK) +32.6 Ince Labour Party (UK) T. Davies Unopposed N/A N/A Labour Party (UK) N/A Langtree Labour Party (UK) J. O'Neill 2,606 49.4 +7.6 Liberal Party (UK, 1989) K. White 1,153 21.8 +21.8 Social and Liberal Democrats A. Robinson 899 17.0 -24.8 Conservative Party (UK) J. Wolstenholme 618 11.7 -4.6 1,453 27.5 +27.5 5,276 47.0 +4.9 Labour Party (UK) Social and Liberal Democrats -7.1 Leigh Central Labour Party (UK) P. Smith Unopposed N/A N/A Labour Party (UK) N/A Leigh East Labour Party (UK) T. Harper Unopposed N/A N/A Labour Party (UK) N/A Lightshaw Labour Party (UK) T. Sherratt 3,538 75.9 +2.6 Conservative Party (UK) S. Hide 1,122 24.1 +5.6 2,416 51.8 -3.0 4,660 43.8 +7.0 Labour Party (UK) -1.5 Newtown Labour Party (UK) K. Pye 3,254 89.6 +3.1 Conservative Party (UK) J. Whitehead 378 10.4 -3.1 2,876 79.2 +6.2 3,632 39.2 +9.3 Labour Party (UK) +3.1 Norley Labour Party (UK) N. Turner 3,102 93.2 +4.6 Conservative Party (UK) G. Peach 227 6.8 +0.5 2,875 86.3 +4.2 3,329 43.0 +9.5 Labour Party (UK) +2.0 Orrell Labour Party (UK) G. Seaward 2,719 68.0 +8.2 Conservative Party (UK) C. Michaels 1,276 31.9 -8.2 1,443 36.1 +16.3 3,995 39.0 +2.0 Labour Party (UK) +8.2 Swinley Labour Party (UK) S. Turner 2,282 52.1 +13.2 Conservative Party (UK) C. Giles 2,095 47.8 -0.4 187 4.3 -5.1 4,377 49.1 +2.4 Labour Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) +6.8 Tyldesley East Labour Party (UK) B. Wilson Unopposed N/A N/A Labour Party (UK) N/A Whelley Labour Party (UK) W. Pendleton 2,686 78.9 -2.5 Conservative Party (UK) F. Sidebotham 373 10.9 -0.6 Green Party (UK) J. Ford 344 10.1 +10.1 2,313 68.0 -1.9 3,403 38.1 +7.7 Labour Party (UK) -0.9 Winstanley Labour Party (UK) W. Evans 2,799 63.3 +9.2 Social and Liberal Democrats P. Mayston 920 20.8 -25.1 Conservative Party (UK) J. Horswell 701 15.8 +15.8 1,879 42.5 +34.3 4,420 37.5 +5.4 Labour Party (UK) +17.1 Worsley Mesnes Labour Party (UK) H. Milligan 3,003 92.4 +6.5 Conservative Party (UK) J. Grimshaw 248 7.6 -6.5 2,755 84.7 +13.1 3,251 33.1 +7.8 Labour Party (UK) +6.5 References expanded Category:1990 English local elections 1990 Category:1990s in Greater Manchester