1978 Lothian Regional Council election

The second election to Lothian Regional Council was held on 2 May 1978 and saw Labour gaining a majority of the council's 49 seats amidst a Labour surge across Scotland. Stephen Maxwell, the SNP's vice-chairman, was a prominent victim of the Labour gains, losing his seat of Slateford/Hailes.^[1]

Aggregate results

Lothian Regional election, 1978^[2]^[3]^[4]
	Seats	Seats %	Votes %	Votes
Labour	26	53.06	40.3	100,455
Conservative	18	36.73	33.2	82,841
SNP	3	6.12	20.3	50,692
Liberal	1	2.04	4.3	10,601
Independent	1	2.04	1.5	3,709
Communist	0	0.00	0.4	940

Ward results

20th, Slateford/Hailes^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	J. P. Mulvey	2,272	39.23
	SNP	S. Maxwell	2,134	36.84
	Conservative	D. Pountain	1,386	23.93
Majority			138	2.39
Turnout			5,792
	Labour gain from SNP

References

^ p.1
^ ^a ^b p.9
^ https://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1842/9136/1983_6_Towards%20a%20four%20party%20system.pdf;jsessionid=27E104652661E4C136096D50BE13D81B?sequence=1 p.75
^ p.65-66

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