1968 London local elections

1968 London local elections

← 1964 9 May 1968 1971 →
All 1,863 on all 32 London boroughs
Turnout	35.8%
First party Second party   Leader Edward Heath Harold Wilson Party Conservative Labour Leader since 27 July 1965 14 February 1963 Councils 28 3 Councils +/– 19 17 Councillors 1,438 350 Councillors +/– 770 668
Results by Borough in 1968. (Red indicates Labour, blue indicates the Conservatives and black indicates No Overall Control)

Local government elections were held in the thirty-two London boroughs on Thursday 9 May 1968. Polling stations were open between 8am and 9pm.

All seats were up for election. The result was a landslide for the Conservative Party,^[1] who won twenty-eight of the boroughs, while Labour lost control of seventeen of the twenty boroughs it had held going into the elections (including Bexley, where it did not win a single seat). Only ten Liberal councillors were elected in London.^[2]

The result followed the Conservative gain of the Greater London Council in the elections the previous year.