# 1976 High Peak Borough Council election

Elections to High Peak Borough Council in Derbyshire, England were held in 1976. All of the council was up for election and the control of the council changed from no overall control to Conservative control.
After the election, the composition of the council was:
* Conservative 27
* Labour 8
* Liberal 2
* Independent 9

## Election result

High Peak Local Election Result 1976 :
| Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % |
| Conservative | 27 | 4 | 0 | +4 | 58.7 | 45.3 |
| Labour | 8 | 0 | 3 | -3 | 17.4 | 27.3 |
| Liberal | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4.4 | 6.7 |
| Independent | 9 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 19.6 | 20.7 |
| Green | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Communist | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |

## Ward results

All Saints :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Independent | George Chatterton | 980 | |
| | Conservative | Edwin Harold Mountain | 689 | |
| | Conservative | Irene Beatrice Greenhalgh | 593 | |
| | Conservative | George Wharmby | 578 | |
| | Independent | Peter Matthews | 572 | |
| | Labour | Stephen Charles Cocks | 430 | |
| | Labour | Kenneth Esplin Bracewell | 410 | |
| | Labour | Ms L Whitson | 380 | |
| | Independent | P Durkin | 355 | |
| | Green | Geoffrey Thomas Machan | 186 | |
| | Liberal | Ms G Mitchell | 166 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 50.3 |
| | Independent hold | Independent hold | Swing | |
| | Conservative gain from Independent | Conservative gain from Independent | Swing | |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | |
Barmoor :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Independent | Oswald Milner | 325 | 53.8 |
| | Conservative | W Hutchinson | 279 | 46.2 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 58.7 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 46 | |
| | Independent hold | Independent hold | Swing | |
Barms :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Labour | Alfred Henry Hitchings | 828 | |
| | Conservative | R Milburn | 615 | |
| | Labour | C Ward | 543 | |
| | Conservative | Ms E Bradbury | 514 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 55.2 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | |
| | Conservative gain from Labour | Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | |
Blackbrook :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| Conservative | Betty Patricia Colley | unopposed |
| Liberal | George Harry White | unopposed |
| Conservative gain from Independent | Conservative gain from Independent | Swing |
| Liberal hold | Liberal hold | Swing |
Buxton Central :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | Dennis Raymond Walter | 521 | 68.1 |
| | Labour | G Ellis | 244 | 31.9 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 55.9 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 277 | 36.2 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | |
Chapel East :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Independent | Albert Phillips | 475 | 63.5 |
| | Conservative | D Eva | 219 | 29.3 |
| | Labour | K Jones | 54 | 7.2 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 256 | 34.2 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 56.7 |
| | Independent hold | Independent hold | Swing | |
Chapel West :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | Muriel Bertha Bradbury | 829 | |
| | Conservative | Kenneth Victor Bradwell | 666 | |
| | Labour | Melvyn Wright | 430 | |
| | Independent | H Ellison | 428 | |
| | Labour | T Bennett | 323 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 52.3 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | |
College :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | Joyce Mary Craufurd-Stuart | 838 | |
| | Conservative | Elizabeth Jane Allen | 689 | |
| | Green | Ms J Allen | 457 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 45.0 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | |
Corbar :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | Margaret Beatrice Millican | 818 | |
| | Conservative | Alan Keith Allman | 707 | |
| | Labour | B Rosier | 253 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 43.6 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | |
Cote Heath :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Independent | Terence Garrie Gill | 903 | |
| | Labour | B Halliday | 550 | |
| | Conservative | Iris Tamsons | 502 | |
| | Conservative | Joyce Allwright | 422 | |
| | Labour | J Wilson | 422 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 51.8 |
| | Independent gain from Labour | Independent gain from Labour | Swing | |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | |
Hayfield :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Independent | Fred Barnes | 402 | 42.2 |
| | Conservative | G Cooper | 401 | 42.1 |
| | Labour | I Bennett | 150 | 15.7 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 1 | 0.1 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 53.6 |
| | Independent gain from Conservative | Independent gain from Conservative | Swing | |
Ladybower :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | Sam Wanamaker | 499 | 70.6 |
| | Labour | James Stanley Byford | 208 | 29.4 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 291 | 41.2 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 61.2 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | |
Limestone Peak :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | Evelyn May Tomlinson | 420 | 64.7 |
| | Independent | Ernest Thomas Walley | 229 | 35.3 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 191 | 29.4 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 50.0 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | |
New Mills North :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | L Townsend | 1016 | |
| | Conservative | Dorothy Mary Livesley | 916 | |
| | Conservative | Betty Colley | 834 | |
| | Labour | W Ferguson | 711 | |
| | Liberal | C Weaver | 648 | |
| | Labour | J Demierre | 454 | |
| | Labour | Ms D Fryman | 396 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 50.6 |
| | Conservative gain from Labour | Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | |
| | Conservative gain from Independent | Conservative gain from Independent | Swing | |
| | Conservative gain from Labour | Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | |
New Mills South :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Liberal | D Brown | 749 | |
| | Conservative | John Keith McMurray | 718 | |
| | Independent | Frank Morris Bullough | 707 | |
| | Labour | J Axon | 554 | |
| | Labour | Ms M Williams | 425 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 50.2 |
| | Liberal gain from Conservative | Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | |
| | Independent gain from Labour | Independent gain from Labour | Swing | |
Peveril :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | Charles David Lewis | 788 | 83.5 |
| | Labour | Ms Moira Monteith | 156 | 16.5 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 632 | 66.9 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 63.8 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | |
St. Andrew's / St. Charles' (Hadfield) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Labour | David Holtom | 1946 | |
| | Labour | R Cooke | 1847 | |
| | Conservative | Michael Jackson | 1845 | |
| | Labour | Francis Walter Stubbs | 1835 | |
| | Conservative | D Dunn | 1795 | |
| | Conservative | D Wilson | 1780 | |
| | Conservative | Denys Toole | 1774 | |
| | Conservative | A Stevenson | 1731 | |
| | Conservative | M Ross | 1717 | |
| | Labour | K Powell | 1691 | |
| | Labour | S Lomas | 1671 | |
| | Communist | Robert Ainsworth Heald | 306 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 47.7 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | |
| | Labour gain from Conservative | Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | |
| | Labour gain from Conservative | Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | |
St. James' :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | Alfred Edwin Jenner Leney | 1547 | |
| | Conservative | Ronald Partridge | 1502 | |
| | Conservative | Kenneth Guy Dickenson | 1441 | |
| | Conservative | Ms A Mellor | 1296 | |
| | Labour | Reginald Mann | 659 | |
| | Liberal | Deryck Johnson | 654 | |
| | Labour | Ms C Ashton | 629 | |
| | Labour | D Carr | 616 | |
| | Labour | A Pomfret | 535 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 48.3 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | |
| | Conservative gain from Liberal | Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | |
St John's (Charlesworth) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | Brenda Tetlow | 800 | 89.0 |
| | Labour | P Keelan | 99 | 11.0 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 701 | 78.0 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 70.1 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | |
Stone Bench :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Labour | William Barton Morley | 850 | |
| | Labour | James Henry Poulton | 717 | |
| | Conservative | G McIlvenny | 621 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 42.6 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | |
Tintwistle :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | Clifford Pennington | 445 | 61.1 |
| | Labour | David Wilcox | 283 | 38.9 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 162 | 22.3 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 67.1 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | |
Whaley Bridge (Fernilee) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Independent | Fredrick Bonsall Woodward | 506 | 80.1 |
| | Labour | J Conway | 126 | 19.9 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 380 | 60.1 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 60.6 |
| | Independent hold | Independent hold | Swing | |
Whaley Bridge (Furness Vale) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Independent | Harold Hastings Littlewood | 414 | 70.4 |
| | Labour | Ms V Mason | 174 | 29.6 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 240 | 40.8 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 66.5 |
| | Independent hold | Independent hold | Swing | |
Whaley Bridge (Taxal) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | Roger Gilbert Hartley | 287 | 52.7 |
| | Independent | F Hartley | 137 | 25.1 |
| | Labour | B Ludden | 121 | 22.2 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 150 | 27.5 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 63.0 |
| | Conservative gain from Independent | Conservative gain from Independent | Swing | |
Whaley Bridge (Yeardsley) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Independent | John Arthur Thomas Pritchard | 391 | 41.6 |
| | Conservative | G Ralston | 325 | 34.5 |
| | Labour | Ms C Jones | 225 | 23.9 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 66 | 7.0 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 70.1 |
| | Independent gain from Conservative | Independent gain from Conservative | Swing | |