Merton London Borough Council election, 1994

5 May 1994

All 57 council seats on
Merton London Borough Council

Turnout

49.5% (

4.2%)^[1]^[2]

	First party	Second party	Third party

Party	Labour	Conservative	Liberal Democrat
Last election	29 seats, 42.2%	22 seats, 41.3%	0 seats, 6.5%
Seats won	40^[3]	10	3
Seat change	11	12	3
Popular vote	82,294	51,153	20,540
Percentage	50.3%	31.3%	12.5%
Swing	8.1%	10.0%	6.0%

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Party	Merton Park Residents	Longthornton and Tamworth Residents
Last election	3 seats, 3.1%	3 seats, 2.1%
Seats won	3	1
Seat change		2
Popular vote	5,860	4,308
Percentage	3.6%	2.6%
Swing	0.5%	0.5%

Council leader before election

Tony Colman
Labour

Council leader after election

Tony Colman
Labour

Elections for the London Borough of Merton were held on 5 May 1994 to elect members of Merton London Borough Council in London, England. This was on the same day as other local elections in England.^[4]

The whole council was up for election. As a result of changes in authority boundaries between Merton, Lambeth and Wandsworth, there were some minor ward boundary changes.^[5]

Results

The Labour Party maintained its majority control of the council, increasing its majority from one seat to eleven seats.^[6]

This was the first election in which the Liberal Democrats gained seats in Merton, winning all three seats on the ward of West Barnes from the Conservatives.^[7] The Liberal Democrats had not stood in the ward in the last election,^[2] and their predecessors, the SDP-Liberal Alliance, came last in the ward in the 1986 election, behind the Conservatives and Labour.^[8]

This was also the last election which was contested by the Longthornton and Tamworth Residents Association, which lost two seats to Labour and whose only elected councillor no longer sat for the party by the time of the 1998 election.^[6]

Merton Local Election Result 1994^[9]
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
Labour	40	11	0	11	70.2%	50.3%	82,294	8.1%
Conservative	10	0	12	12	17.5%	31.3%	51,153	10.0%
Liberal Democrat	3	3	0	3	5.3%	12.5%	20,540	6.0%
Merton Park Residents	3	0	0	0	5.3%	3.6%	5,860	0.5%
Longthornton and Tamworth Residents	1	0	2	2	1.8%	2.6%	4,308	0.5%
Green	0	0	0	0	0	2.6%	4,177	0.2%
Independent	0	0	0	0	0	0.6	914	n/a
West Barnes Independent Residents	0	0	0	0	0	0.2	286	1.3%
Monster Raving Loony	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	63	n/a

References

↑ "London Borough of Merton Election Results - May 1998" (PDF). Merton Council. May 1998. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
1 2 Minors, Michael; Grenham, Dennis. London Borough Council Elections 3rd May 1990 (PDF). London Datastore. London Research Centre. ISBN 1852611154. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
↑ "Merton Council Elections 2002" (PDF). Merton Electoral Services. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
↑ "London Borough Council Elections 5 May 1994 including Results from the European Elections" (PDF). London Datastore. London Research Centre. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
↑ "The Lambeth, Merton and Wandsworth (London Borough Boundaries) Order 1993". www.legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 9 June 2018.
1 2 "London Borough of Merton Election Results - May 1998" (PDF). Merton Council. May 1998. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
↑ "Merton Council Elections Results Summary 1964-2012" (PDF). Merton Council. Retrieved 9 June 2018.
↑ London Borough Council Elections 8 May 1986 (PDF). London Residuary Body - Research and Intelligence Unit. 1986. p. 56.
↑ Minors, Michael; Grenham, Denis (May 1998). "London Borough Council Elections 5 May 1994" (PDF). Retrieved 18 June 2018.

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