The regional Local election

Local election

Local elections vary widely across jurisdictions. In electoral systems that roughly follow the Westminster model, a terminology has evolved with roles such as Mayor or Warden to describe the executive of a city, town or region, although the actual means of elections vary...

s were held in Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 on Thursday 8 May 1986, as part of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973

Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973

The Local Government Act 1973 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, that reformed local government in Scotland, on May 16, 1975....

, The previous elections had been held in 1982. The elections took place a year before Conservative government 3rd election victory for Margaret Thatcher and elections also took place in England and Wales.

National results

Summary of the 1986 Scottish regional council election results
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|43.9
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|223
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|18.2
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|36
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|16.9
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|65
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|15.1
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|40
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|4.8
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|79
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!colspan=2|Total!! !! 45.2!! ?? !!524 !!
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Party performance

labour continued with its gain, who increase its councillor in most of the areas contested. Conservative suffered heavy losses, which lost control of Lothian council to labour, Lost Control of Grampian and Tayside to NOC and Lost all conservative Councillors in Dumfries and Galloway. The SNP vote failed to recover from its collapsed since 1980.

Results by council area

Council	Labour	Conservative	Liberal & SDP	SNP	Other/IND	Total number of seats	Turnout	Control
Borders Scottish Borders The Scottish Borders is one of 32 local government council areas of Scotland. It is bordered by Dumfries and Galloway in the west, South Lanarkshire and West Lothian in the north west, City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, Midlothian to the north; and the non-metropolitan counties of Northumberland... ‡	0	6 (-2)	2 (-1)	2 (+1)	14 (+1)	23	37% hold
Central Central Region, Scotland Central Region was a local government region of Scotland from 1975 to 1996. It is now divided into the council areas of Falkirk, Stirling, and Clackmannanshire, which had previously been districts within Central... ‡	23 (+1)	4	1	5	1 (-1)	34	47% hold
Dumfries and Galloway Dumfries and Galloway Dumfries and Galloway is one of 32 unitary council areas of Scotland. It was one of the nine administrative 'regions' of mainland Scotland created in 1975 by the Local Government etc. Act 1973... ‡	7 (+3)	0 (-4)	4 (+2)	5 (+2)	19 (-3)	35	40% hold
Fife Fife Fife is a council area and former county of Scotland. It is situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire... ‡	30 (+3)	4 (-5)	8 (+3)	2 (+1)	2 (-1)	46	46% hold
Grampian Grampian Grampian was a local government region of Scotland from 1975 to 1996. It is now divided into the unitary council areas of:*Moray*Aberdeenshire*City of AberdeenThe region had five districts:*Aberdeen*Banff and Buchan... ‡	18 (+2)	15 (-11)	12 (+7)	9 (+5)	3	57	35% gain from Conservatives
Highland Highland (council area) Highland is a council area in the Scottish Highlands and is the largest local government area in both Scotland and the United Kingdom as a whole. It shares borders with the council areas of Moray, Aberdeenshire, Perth and Kinross, and Argyll and Bute. Their councils, and those of Angus and... ‡	6 (+1)	2 (+1)	2 (-1)	2 (+1)	40 (-2)	52	41% Hold
Lothian Lothian Lothian forms a traditional region of Scotland, lying between the southern shore of the Firth of Forth and the Lammermuir Hills.... ‡	30 (+7)	13 (-8)	3	2 (+1)	1	49	49% Labour gain from NOC
Orkney‡	0	-	-	-	24	24	??% Hold
Shetland Shetland Islands Shetland is a subarctic archipelago of Scotland that lies north and east of mainland Great Britain. The islands lie some to the northeast of Orkney and southeast of the Faroe Islands and form part of the division between the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the North Sea to the east. The total... ‡	4 (+1)	-	-	-	21 (-1)	25	??% Hold
Strathclyde Strathclyde right|thumb|the former Strathclyde regionStrathclyde was one of nine former local government regions of Scotland created by the Local Government Act 1973 and abolished in 1996 by the Local Government etc Act 1994... ‡	88 (+8)	6 (-8)	5 (+1)	1 (-1)	3	103	45% Hold
Tayside Tayside Tayside Region was a local government region of Scotland from 15 May 1975 to 31 March 1996. It was created by the 1973 Act following recommendations made by the 1969 Wheatley Report which attempted to replace the mishmash of counties, cities, burghs and districts, with a uniform two-tier system... ‡	20 (+8)	14 (-13)	1 (+1)	9 (+4)	2	46	47% Gain from Conservative
Na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles) Outer Hebrides The Outer Hebrides also known as the Western Isles and the Long Island, is an island chain off the west coast of Scotland. The islands are geographically contiguous with Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, one of the 32 unitary council areas of Scotland... ‡	0	-	-	-	30	30	??% Hold

Information come for maps held on http://www.alba.org.uk/maps/localmaps.html

See also

• Elections in Scotland
  Elections in Scotland
  Scotland has elections to several bodies: the Scottish Parliament, the United Kingdom Parliament, the European Parliament, local councils and community councils.-Scottish Parliament:...