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The Leeds City Council elections were held on Thursday, 2 May 1996, with a third of the council up for election. The Conservatives suffered another routing, although with a less impressive Labour vote and a slight recovery in their own vote, were able to hold on to three seats. Labour furthered their stranglehold on the council with an additional eight gains, with all but Burmantofts (Liberal Democrat) and Pudsey South (Independent) from the Tories. As a result of the gains, those two wards - along with the Tory losses of Aireborough, Halton, Morley North and Weetwood wards - were now represented entirely by Labour (a first for most). The other two Labour gains were snatching the remaining Tory seats in the former Tory-Liberal battlegrounds of Horsforth and Otley & Wharfedale. The Lib Dems offset their loss to Labour in Burmantofts with a gain from the Tories in the newly three-way marginal North. The results, however, were a disappointment to the Lib Dems - evidenced by their poor performances in Horsforth and Otley & Wharfedale, and a vote sunk to their 1992 level. Another parallel to the 1992 election was the slump in overall turnout to a record low. Peter Kersting's decision to forgo defending his seat for Pudsey South seen the absence of Independents from the council for the first time since 1983. The Greens advanced further into a respectable second place in Wortley, in contrast to the stagnant fortunes of the Liberals and the weakened support for the sole Militant Labour candidate. ==Election result== |- style="background-color:#F9F9F9" ! style="background-color: " | | Militant Labour | align="right" | 0 | align="right" | 0 | align="right" | 0 | align="right" | 0 | align="right" | 0.0 | align="right" | 0.1 | align="right" | 232 | align="right" | -0.1% |- This result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the council after the elections: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Leeds City Council election, 1996」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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