1983 Bracknell District Council election

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1983 Bracknell District Council election

The election took place on 5 May 1983 to elect all 40 councillors in 19 wards of Bracknell Forest Borough Council. A majority required 21 seats.

Result
- Conservative Party (leader: David Tubbs, seat: Great Hollands South): won all 40 seats (a complete wipeout of the opposition) with 51.3% of the vote (14,494).
- Alliance: 24.4% (6,909) but won 0 seats.
- Labour: 22.9% (6,466) and 0 seats. Labour leader Denis Tunnicliffe ran in Hanworth and lost.
- Independents: 1.4% (407) and 0 seats.

Conservatives kept control of the council.

Context
The period saw a split in Labour at both national and local levels, with several councillors moving to the SDP–Liberal Alliance. Of Labour’s 1979 councillors, six stood for the Alliance in 1983, three did not stand again, and only Denis Tunnicliffe remained as Labour leader (his wife stood for the Alliance in Great Hollands South).