Lambeth local elections
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Political control
| Election | Overall control |
| 1964 Lambeth Council election, 1964 Elections to Lambeth London Borough Council were held in May 1964. The whole council was up for election. Turnout was 25.7%. This election had aldermen as well as councillors. Labour got 9 aldermen and the Conservatives got 1... |
Labour |
| 1968 | Conservative |
| 1971 | Labour |
| 1974 | Labour |
| 1978 | Labour |
| 1982 | No overall control |
| 1986 | Labour |
| 1990 | Labour |
| 1994 | No overall control |
| 1998 | Labour |
| 2002 | No overall control |
| 2006 | Labour |
| 2010 Lambeth Council election, 2010 -Summary of results:-References:... |
Labour |
By-election results
Lambeth's recent political history
In 1979 the administration of Edward "Red Ted" Knight organised the borough’s first public demonstration against the Thatcher government.In 1985, the left-wing Labour administration of Ted Knight was subjected to 'rate-capping' with its budget restricted by the Government. Knight and most of the Labour councillors protested by refusing to set any budget
Rate-capping rebellion
The rate-capping rebellion was a campaign within English local councils in 1985 which aimed to force the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher to withdraw powers to restrict the spending of councils. The affected councils were almost all run by left-wing Labour Party leaderships...
. This protest resulted in 32 councillors being ordered to repay to the council the interest the council had lost as a result of budgeting delays, and also being disqualified from office.
1991 saw Joan Twelves’s regime both failed to collect the poll tax and openly opposed the war in the Persian Gulf
Persian Gulf
The Persian Gulf, in Southwest Asia, is an extension of the Indian Ocean located between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula.The Persian Gulf was the focus of the 1980–1988 Iran-Iraq War, in which each side attacked the other's oil tankers...
. Joan Twelves, and 12 other councillors were subsequently suspended from the labour party’s local group by regional officials for advocating non- payment of the poll tax and other radical ideas in 1992 .
Joan's equily militant deputy leader in this era was John Harrison.