1978 Camden London Borough Council election

1978 Camden Council election
← 1974 4 May 1978 1982 →

All 59 seats to Camden Borough Council
30 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party
  Blank Blank
Leader Roy Shaw Alan Greengross
Party Labour Conservative
Leader since 1975 1974
Leader's seat Grafton Frognal
Last election 48 seats 12 seats
Seats won 33 26
Seat change Decrease15 Increase14
Popular vote 28,482 26,895
Percentage 47.8% 45.2%

Map of the results of the 1978 election to Camden London Borough Council. Labour in red, Conservatives in blue.

Council Control before election


Labour

Council Control


Labour

The 1978 Camden Council election took place on 4 May 1978 to elect members of Camden London Borough Council in London, the United Kingdom. The whole council was up for election, using new ward boundaries, with one less councillor than had been elected at the 1974 election.

Labour were re-elected with an outright majority, but the Conservatives made gains across the borough, after losing heavily in the 1971 and 1974 elections. The Conservatives gained from Labour three seats in the southern Holborn and St Pancras South parliamentary constituency and eleven in the north (three in the Highgate ward and eight across the Hampstead parliamentary constituency).