1990 Camden London Borough Council election

The 1990 Camden Council election took place on 3 May 1990 to elect members of Camden London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election. Labour comfortably stayed in overall control of the council, despite the Conservatives gaining three seats at their expense in Swiss Cottage. The Green Party came third in vote share with 13% of the vote, but won no seats.

1990 Camden Council election

3 May 1990
All 59 seats to Camden Borough Council 30 seats needed for a majority
Leader Tony Dykes Peter Skolar Flick Rea Party Labour Conservative Liberal Democrats Leader since 1986 1986 1988 Leader's seat Caversham Brunswick (lost) Fortune Green Last election 44 seats, 50.0% 13 seats, 26.9% 2 seats, 19.8% Seats won 42 15 2 Seat change 2 2 Popular vote 27,542 16,184 5,144 Percentage 44.9% 26.4% 8.4% Swing 5.1% 0.5% 11.4%
Map of the results of the 1990 election to Camden London Borough Council. Labour in red, Conservatives in blue, Liberal Democrats in yellow.
Leader before election Tony Dykes Labour Leader Julie Fitzgerald Labour

Results

Camden local election results 1990[1]

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Labour	42	1	3	−2	71.2	44.9	27,542	-5.1
	Conservative	15	3	1	+2	25.4	26.4	16,184	-0.5
	Green	0	0	0	0	0.0	13.3	8,183	+11.9
	Liberal Democrats	2	0	0	0	3.4	8.4	5,144	-11.4
	Others	0	0	0	0	0.0	7.0	4,304	+5.4

Ward results

Adelaide (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Julian Tobin	1,153	16.2%
	Conservative	Robert Graham	1,151	16.1%
	Conservative	Ian Pasley-Tyler	1,088	15.2%
	Labour	Brian Bell	987	13.8%
	Labour	David Bookless	885	12.4%
	Labour	Rose Head	876	12.3%
	Green	Janine Sachs	269	3.8%
	Liberal Democrats	Vera Miles	222	3.1%
	Liberal Democrats	Frances Tully	215	3.0%
	Liberal Democrats	Frances Tattersfield	206	2.9%
	Camden Charter	Vicki Weissman	86	1.2%
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Belsize (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Judith Barnes	1,159
	Conservative	Cathleen Mainds	1,124
	Conservative	Huntly Spence	1,109
	Labour	Judith Pattison	971
	Labour	Michael Rice	952
	Labour	Deborah Sacks	928
	Green	Conchita Vasey	393
	Liberal Democrats	Anne Box	329
	Liberal Democrats	Pauline Marriott	324
	Liberal Democrats	Ardon Lyon	310
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Bloomsbury (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Peter Brayshaw	1,356
	Labour	John Toomey	1,210
	Labour	Sadashivrao Deshmukh	1,177
	Conservative	Mark Haley	751
	Conservative	Andrew Lownie	736
	Conservative	Robert Ricketts	719
	Green	Joanna Dickens	574
	Liberal Democrats	Mary Gillie	269
	Liberal Democrats	Patricia Smith	243
	Camden Charter	Brian Lake	163
	Camden Charter	Sital Maan	141
	Camden Charter	Robert Norman	133
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Brunswick (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ernest James	851
	Labour	Paul Stinchcombe	789
	Conservative	Peter Skolar	690
	Conservative	Kenneth Avery	681
	Green	Patricia Hooker	298
	Liberal Democrats	Roy Seger	206
Turnout
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Camden (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sheila Field	1,046
	Labour	Barbara Hughes	951
	Liberal Democrats	Marc Leggett	634
	Liberal Democrats	Gavin Collins	621
	Green	Toby Fiennes	379
	Conservative	John Davidson	327
	Conservative	Lester May	283
	Camden Charter	June Swan	144
	Camden Charter	Hazel Saunders	114
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Castlehaven (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jane Roberts	1,073
	Labour	Jasper Williams	1,002
	Conservative	Doris Davis	235
	Conservative	Shirley Soskin	211
	Liberal Democrats	Keith Roberts	133
	Liberal Democrats	Jennifer Horne-Roberts	126
	Green	Marc Lewis	207
	Camden Charter	Trevor Long	130
	Camden Charter	Cyra Croft	127
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Caversham (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Anthony Dykes	1,167
	Labour	Bernard Kissen	1,101
	Conservative	Sylvia Currie	427
	Conservative	Anthony Kemp	414
	Green	Joseph Young	346
	Camden Charter	Margaret Clarke	242
	Camden Charter	George Jamieson	203
	Liberal Democrats	Soren Agerholm	162
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Chalk Farm (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Julie Fitzgerald	988
	Labour	Harriet Garland	954
	Conservative	Anthony Blackburn	558
	Conservative	Michael Farrer	520
	Green	Francis Atkinson	353
	Liberal Democrats	Joan Nimmo-Smith	195
	Camden Charter	Brian Haines	170
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Fitzjohns (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ronald King	758
	Conservative	Andrew Marshall	713
	Labour	Deborah Townsend	429
	Labour	Gareth Smyth	356
	Green	Anthony Mills	189
	Liberal Democrats	Olive Paynton	156
	Liberal Democrats	Henry Usher	131
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Fortune Green (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Flick Rea	899
	Liberal Democrats	Jane Schopflin	642
	Labour	Alan Rippington	597
	Labour	Sambhu Banik	579
	Conservative	Antoine Clarke	484
	Conservative	Julia Densem	447
	Green	Francis Butler	194
Turnout
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Frognal (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Pamela Beveridge	1,109
	Conservative	Giles Marshall	1,058
	Labour	Dianne Hayter	343
	Labour	Regan Scott	302
	Liberal Democrats	Barbara How	226
	Green	Sebastian Secker Walker	224
	Liberal Democrats	Nigel Barnes	209
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Gospel Oak (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Winifred Parsons	1,345
	Labour	John Mills	1,269
	Conservative	Giselle Harrison	467
	Conservative	Maura Lyons	448
	Green	Lynda Dagley	358
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Grafton (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Roy Shaw	1,198
	Labour	Terence Comerford	1,023
	Green	Valerie Armstrong	386
	Camden Charter	Kevin Flanagan	357
	Conservative	Anthony Cheverton	294
	Conservative	Philip Seely	270
	Communist	Andrew Murray	58
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Hampstead Town (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Maureen Braun	643
	Conservative	Rita Pomfret	620
	Liberal Democrats	David Brierley	619
	Liberal Democrats	John Dickie	549
	Labour	John Saynor	432
	Labour	Anna Wernher	397
	Green	John Penney	219
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Highgate (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Margaret Cosin	1,785
	Labour	Richard Arthur	1,780
	Labour	John Wakeham	1,598
	Conservative	Cynthia Silk	1,084
	Conservative	John Steinberg	1,010
	Conservative	Michael Stilwell	992
	Green	Peter Forrest	502
	Green	Jenny Jones	460
	Liberal Democrats	Stephen Molesworth	329
	Liberal Democrats	Mark Withers	268
	Liberal Democrats	Gertrude Sington	265
	Camden Charter	Mary Hodgson-Bennett	239
	Camden Charter	Olive Gatenby	226
	Camden Charter	Jennifer Page	223
	Tenants' Representative	Laurence Williams	77
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Holborn (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Julian Fulbrook	1,119
	Labour	Brian Woodrow
	Conservative	Richard Bull	463
	Conservative	Bernard Sharpe	404
	Community Representative	Patricia Gros	386
	Community Representative	Bruno Imerini	383
	Green	Robert Hopkins	244
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Kilburn (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Graham Good	1,730
	Labour	Charlie Hedges	1,602
	Labour	Ramendranath Bhattacharyya	1,509
	Green	Gwendoline Evans	489
	Conservative	Marian Harrison	482
	Conservative	Jonathan Shapland	455
	Conservative	David Soskin	433
	Liberal Democrats	Jeremy Allen	325
	Liberal Democrats	Heather Thompson	297
	Liberal Democrats	Clive Agran	240
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

King's Cross (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Gloria Lazenby	1,079
	Labour	John White	969
	Conservative	George Glossop	438
	Conservative	John Wilson	405
	Green	John Simpson	263
	Liberal Democrats	Casper Wrede	158
	Camden Charter	Cathal McGirr	141
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Priory (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jacqueline Peacock	1,260
	Labour	Phil Turner	1,133
	Conservative	Rose Irwin	591
	Conservative	Timothy Evans	587
	Green	Stephen Games	330
	Liberal Democrats	Margaret Knight	254
	Liberal Democrats	Joseph McEnery	172
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Regent's Park (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	James Turner	1,594
	Labour	William Budd	1,566
	Labour	David Horan	1,545
	Conservative	Pamela Anwar	912
	Conservative	Noel Moncaster	897
	Conservative	Paul Morland	879
	Green	Lauren Soertsz	317
	Liberal Democrats	Dudley Miles	245
	Liberal Democrats	Margaret Jackson-Roberts	237
	Liberal Democrats	Robert Vernon-Jackson	215
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

St John's (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Simon McDonald	1,213
	Labour	Caroline Mills	1,159
	Green	Leon Pein	377
	Conservative	John Hall	298
	Conservative	Roland Walker	224
	Camden Charter	Jan Kelleher	179
	Liberal Democrats	Lindsay Northover	136
	Liberal Democrats	Robert Nimmo-Smith	102
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

St Pancras (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mary Helsdon	865
	Labour	Graham Shurety	745
	Camden Charter	Terence Hargrave	255
	Conservative	Mark Hapgood	238
	Camden Charter	Margarett McDermott	205
	Conservative	Esther Mundlak	204
	Green	Margaret Nuttgens	147
	Liberal Democrats	Stephen White	105
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Somers Town (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alfred Saunders	1,140
	Labour	Robert Austin	1,103
	Camden Charter	John Daley	417
	Conservative	David Harris	337
	Conservative	Sharon Keizner	269
	Green	Paul Wolf-Light	188
	Green	Josephine Navarro Slater	187
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

South End (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Myra Polya	929
	Labour	Nirmal Roy	905
	Conservative	Mark Bennett	632
	Conservative	Jeremy Duke-Cohan	591
	Green	Elizabeth de Pauley	277
	Green	Heather Formaini	251
	Liberal Democrats	Anthony Steele	168
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Buonacorsi-How	165
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Swiss Cottage (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Vaughan Emsley	1,159
	Conservative	Anne Morris	1,153
	Conservative	Peter Horne	1,120
	Labour	Barbara Beck	1,108
	Labour	Terence Flanagan	1,069
	Labour	Sandra Plummer	1,018
	Green	Caroline Counihan	449
	Green	Nicholas Catephores	381
	Liberal Democrats	Margaret Fuelling	273
	Liberal Democrats	Diana Self	250
	Liberal Democrats	Gillian Wagner	234
	Camden Charter	Alan Rogers	176
Turnout
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

West End (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Julia Devote	937
	Labour	Kevin McDonnell	931
	Conservative	Neil Bourhill	495
	Conservative	Richard Bevan	482
	Liberal Democrats	Keith Moffitt	243
	Green	Catherine Gregory	211
	Liberal Democrats	Erich Wagner	191
	Camden Charter	Graham Bacon	91
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

References

1. http://www.electionscentre.co.uk/?page_id=3755

• Minors, Michael; Grenham, Dennis (1990). London Borough Council Elections 3 May 1990 (PDF). London: London Research Centre. ISBN 1-85261-115-4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 May 2012. Retrieved 24 May 2013.