# 1986 Bromley London Borough Council election

The 1986 Bromley Council election took place on 8 May 1986 to elect members of Bromley London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Conservative Party stayed in overall control of the council.

## Ward results
### Beckenham

Anerley (2) :
| Party | Party | test | Votes | % | ±% |
| | SDP | Paul H Brown* | 1,591 | 45.8 | +4.9 |
| | SDP | Christopher Richard Gaster* | 1,580 | | |
| | Labour | Michael J D'Arcy | 1,282 | 36.9 | +5.0 |
| | Labour | Wendy C Palace | | | |
| | Conservative | Nicholas M Grove | 603 | 17.3 | −9.9 |
| | Conservative | Benjamin W C Waterhouse | 579 | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 8.9 | −0.5 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 44.7 | |
| | SDP hold | SDP hold | Swing | -0.0 | |
Clock House (2) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | David J Harding* | 1,644 | 40.6 | −4.0 |
| | Conservative | Roderick A Reed | 1,507 | | |
| | SDP | Anne Wendy Chaplin | 1,369 | 33.8 | −0.9 |
| | Liberal | Stephen R Walls | 1,318 | | |
| | Labour | Mark C Mason | 1,038 | 25.6 | +4.9 |
| | Labour | Andrew S Berry | 1,033 | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 6.8 | −3.1 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 50.6 | +0.3 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | -1.5 | |
Copers Cope (2) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Christopher John Elgar* | | 66.3 | +8.5 |
| | Conservative | Charles George Priest* | | | |
| | Liberal | Julie D King | | 20.6 | −0.7 |
| | SDP | Peter Townsend | | | |
| | Labour | Malcolm R Newbury | | 13.1 | +4.9 |
| | Labour | Eric H Turner | | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 45.7 | +9.2 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 41.7 | −3.4 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | +4.6 | |
Eden Park (2) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Francis J D Cooke* | | 56.0 | −2.5 |
| | Conservative | Albert George Miles | | | |
| | SDP | Richard Evans | | 28.9 | −3.5 |
| | Liberal | Bernice Nieto | | | |
| | Labour | Maureen T Laurence | | 15.1 | +6.1 |
| | Labour | Ciaran J Tyndall | | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 27.1 | +1.0 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 44.9 | −5.2 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | +0.5 | |
Kelsey Park (2) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Maurice J Mason* | | 70.9 | −3.2 |
| | Conservative | Michael John B Tickner* | | | |
| | SDP | John P S Hordern | | 20.8 | +0.5 |
| | Liberal | George L Whitehorn | | | |
| | Labour | Janice M Cooke | | 8.3 | +2.7 |
| | Labour | Bryan Edwin Freake | | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 50.1 | −3.7 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 46.7 | −4.2 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | -1.8 | |
Lawrie Park & Kent House (2) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Richard D. Foister* | | 46.6 | −4.7 |
| | Conservative | John Arthur M. Lewis* | | | |
| | Labour | Michael J Curran | | 32.9 | +9.2 |
| | Labour | Derek K Robbins | | | |
| | Liberal | Paul David Nash | | 20.5 | −4.6 |
| | SDP | Richard Holbech Boultbee | | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 13.7 | −13.9 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 46.9 | |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | -6.9 | |
Penge (2) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Labour | Arthur J Mansfield* | 1,369 | 43.4 | +8.5 |
| | Labour | Laurence R Pocock | 1,199 | | |
| | Liberal | Heather Isabel Donovan* | 963 | 30.5 | −5.5 |
| | Liberal | Jonathan R Coninx | 908 | | |
| | Conservative | Penelope J Hunter | 824 | 26.1 | −3.0 |
| | Conservative | Geoffrey J Winnard | 802 | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 12.9 | 14.0 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 43.1 | +4.2 |
| | Labour gain from Liberal | Labour gain from Liberal | Swing | +7.0 | |
Shortlands (2) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | John Charnley | | 66.9 | −8.1 |
| | Conservative | Brian R Reading* | | | |
| | SDP | Stuart Philip Bayliss | | 23.9 | +4.4 |
| | Liberal | John S Oakenfull | | | |
| | Labour | Pauline M Jones | | 9.2 | +3.8 |
| | Labour | Philip Cooke | | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 43.0 | −12.5 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 46.5 | −5.2 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | -6.2 | |

### Chislehurst

Bickley (3) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | David Malcolm Dear | | 50.5 | −26.4 |
| | Conservative | Margaret Doreen Moir | | | |
| | Conservative | Simon J C Randall* | 2,894 | | |
| | Liberal | Ervin G Muller* | 2,512 | 43.1 | +17.3 |
| | SDP | Gillian L Collins | | | |
| | Liberal | Maureen T Brodie | | | |
| | Labour | Herbert J Gentry | | | |
| | Labour | Gwendoline I Mansfield | | 6.4 | −0.9 |
| | Labour | Howard E Kniveton | | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 54.1 | +12.9 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 50.9 | +5.4 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | +6.4 | |
Chislehurst (3) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Joan Bryant* | | 60.4 | −11.7 |
| | Conservative | Charles Christopher Seward Reeves* | | | |
| | Conservative | Joan Kathleen Wykes | | | |
| | Labour | Charles Phillips | | 21.2 | +11.3 |
| | Labour | Ronald D Deadman | | | |
| | Labour | Peter G Warner | | | |
| | SDP | Muriel A Letman | | 18.4 | +0.3 |
| | SDP | Robert Turgoose | | | |
| | Liberal | Robert R V Woollett | | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 39.1 | −14.9 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 45.5 | −4.3 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | | |
Mottingham (2) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Labour | Alistair Huistean Macdonald* | | 45.7 | +3.2 |
| | Labour | Patricia A Waitman | | | |
| | Conservative | Michael John Hennessey | | 26.2 | −4.0 |
| | SDP | Peter H Anderson | | 26.0 | +1.9 |
| | Liberal | Brian Harry Taylor | | | |
| | Conservative | Julian Patrick Greville Grainger | | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 21.5 | +6.0 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 48.9 | +4.8 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | +3.0 | |
Plaistow & Sundridge (3) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Richard B Jackson* | | 52.5 | −7.0 |
| | Conservative | Dorothy Joan Laird* | | | |
| | Conservative | Arthur J Wilkinson* | | | |
| | Liberal | Michael F Deves | | 28.6 | +2.2 |
| | SDP | William A Scally | | | |
| | Liberal | Lennard Douglas Woods | | | |
| | Labour | Madeline A Borland | | 18.9 | +4.8 |
| | Labour | Rex V Barnes | | | |
| | Labour | Nicholas Anthony Wright | | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 33.1 | −9.2 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 45.5 | −1.2 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | -4.6 | |
St Paul's Cray (3) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Labour | Walter Kenneth Mansfield* | | 40.1 | +10.3 |
| | Labour | Selwyn H Ward* | | | |
| | Labour | Ira G Walters | | | |
| | Conservative | Gladys P Hobbs* | | 28.6 | −7.4 |
| | Conservative | Bernard J Cobley | | | |
| | Conservative | Albert E Stayte | | | |
| | Liberal | George H Watson | | 20.9 | −3.0 |
| | SDP | Stephen J Wilson | | | |
| | SDP | Terence E Simpson | | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 21.8 | −8.1 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 40.6 | +2.6 |
| | Labour gain from Conservative | Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | | |

### Orpington

Chelsfield & Goddington (3) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Reginald G Adams* | 2,827 | 45.6 | −10.1 |
| | Liberal | Jonathan Harold Fryer | 2,775 | 44.7 | +6.3 |
| | Conservative | Joseph T Heath* | 2,752 | | |
| | Conservative | Bruce G Panes | 2,714 | | |
| | Liberal | Kathleen A Jolly | 2,576 | | |
| | Liberal | Sidney C O Langford | 2,561 | | |
| | Labour | Ronald G D'Olley | | 9.7 | +3.7 |
| | Labour | Trevor E Phillips | | | |
| | Labour | David N Humphreys | | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 0.8 | −16.5 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 51.9 | −3.0 |
| | Liberal gain from Conservative | Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | +8.2 | |
Crofton (2) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Paul Martin Bonter* | | 51.5 | −9.5 |
| | Conservative | Peter Sturdy* | | | |
| | Liberal | Phillip F Dearle | | 36.9 | +3.4 |
| | Liberal | Harry Anthony Silvester | | | |
| | Labour | Geoffrey H Ball | | 11.6 | +6.1 |
| | Labour | Graham E Kom | | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 14.6 | −18.9 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 48.6 | −6.8 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | -9.4 | |
Farnborough (2) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Eric Norman Goodman* | | 63.7 | −13.2 |
| | Conservative | Jennifer Mary Hillier* | | | |
| | Liberal | Terence Frank Clark | | 27.3 | +3.9 |
| | Liberal | Paul D Solloway | | | |
| | Labour | Alfred C Morgan | | 8.9 | +4.1 |
| | Labour | Kei'h Warren | | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 36.4 | −12.0 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 47.9 | −2.6 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | -6.0 | |
Orpington Central (2) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Liberal | Christopher Stewart Maines | 1,617 | 43.3 | +4.2 |
| | Liberal | Michael John Norris | 1,535 | | |
| | Conservative | Anthony M Owen | 1,242 | 33.3 | −16.7 |
| | Conservative | Robert G Straker | 1,123 | | |
| | Labour | Gillian A Collins | | 21.5 | +8.7 |
| | Labour | Keith A Galley | | | |
| | Independent | Elridge Griffiths | | 1.8 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 10.0 | 18.9 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 49.7 | +0.1 |
| | Liberal gain from Conservative | Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | +9.4 | |
Petts Wood & Knoll (3) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Joan Hatcher* | | 58.0 | −10.6 |
| | Conservative | Michael J Edwards* | | | |
| | Conservative | Brian V Atkinson* | | | |
| | Liberal | Aubrey James Curry | | 32.8 | +13.5 |
| | SDP | Beatrice W Hedley | | | |
| | Liberal | John A Martin | | | |
| | Labour | Rosalie Huzzard | | 9.2 | +5.1 |
| | Labour | Lynn Ann Sellwood | | | |
| | Labour | Susan Ann Polydorou | | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 25.2 | +9.4 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 51.4 | −2.2 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | +4.6 | |
St Mary Cray (3) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Labour | John Richard Holbrook | 1,896 | 37.6 | +4.3 |
| | Labour | Ronald William Huzzard | 1,878 | | |
| | Labour | Mark J Smith | 1,774 | | |
| | Liberal | Richard J Gardner | 1,617 | 32.1 | +4.5 |
| | Conservative | Norman F Mingay* | 1,527 | 30.3 | −8.7 |
| | Liberal | Martin Alan Curry | 1,475 | | |
| | Conservative | Harry R Stranger* | 1,463 | | |
| | Liberal | Duncan Keith Borrowman | 1,453 | | |
| | Conservative | Martin R Reef | 1,413 | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 5.5 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 44.5 | +2.4 |
| | Labour gain from Conservative | Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | | |

### Ravensbourne

Biggin Hill (2) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | David Robert Haslam* | 1,881 | | |
| | Conservative | Arthur Ronald Edgington | 1,837 | | |
| | Liberal | Robert F Hatch | 1,468 | | |
| | SDP | Joan E Welfare | 1,340 | | |
| | Labour | Stuart N Copping | 361 | | |
| | Labour | Joyce E Galley | 333 | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 47.1 | −5.0 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | | |
Bromley Common & Keston (3) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Liberal | Robert H Smith* | 2,475 | 42.6 | + |
| | Conservative | Raymond L Ainsby* | 2,442 | 42.0 | −11.2 |
| | Conservative | John Hawes | 2,361 | | |
| | Liberal | Paul Jeremy Hudson Booth | 2,351 | | |
| | SDP | Catherine Mary Boston | 2,298 | | |
| | Conservative | Andrew D Clift | 2,264 | | |
| | Labour | David R Blackman | | 15.4 | −6.3 |
| | Labour | Geoffrey D Williams | | | |
| | Labour | Pamela C Remon | | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 28.1 | 28.7 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 45.9 | +4.4 |
| | Liberal gain from Conservative | Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | +14.3 | |
Darwin (1) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Peter John Bloomfield* | | 69.7 | +2.1 |
| | Liberal | Derek J Goldsmith | | 22.1 | −3.7 |
| | Labour | Martin E Synan | | 8.2 | +1.5 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 47.6 | +5.8 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 50.3 | −6.3 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | +2.95 | |
Hayes (3) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Ernest Dennis Barkway* | | 53.0 | −11.9 |
| | Conservative | Philip Geoffrey Jones* | | | |
| | Conservative | Nigel G Kelsh | | | |
| | Liberal | William Ivor Shipley | | 36.3 | +8.3 |
| | SDP | Richard J McKeogh | | | |
| | SDP | Graham Frederick Keith Radford | | | |
| | Labour | Peter W Rance | | 10.8 | +3.7 |
| | Labour | Marcus R Shellard | | | |
| | Labour | Peter R Adamczyk-Haswell | | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 16.7 | −20.2 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 46.5 | +2.2 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | -10.1 | |
Martins Hill & Town (2) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | William F D Walker* | | 48.6 | −4.9 |
| | Conservative | Anthony Millar Wilkinson* | | | |
| | Liberal | Jennifer M Hawke | | 35.9 | +1.5 |
| | SDP | Roger Wakefield | | | |
| | Labour | Alton S Kelly | | 15.6 | +3.5 |
| | Labour | Gordon Thomas Yates | | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 12.7 | −6.3 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 38.6 | −4.8 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | -3.1 | |
West Wickham North (2) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Montague I Blasey* | | 56.9 | −10.9 |
| | Conservative | Brian Charles Humphrys | | | |
| | SDP | Richard J Cox | | 35.0 | +10.7 |
| | Liberal | Peter N F Ward | | | |
| | Labour | Frank P Atkinson | | 8.1 | +0.2 |
| | Labour | Leslie G Druce | | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 21.9 | −21.6 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 47.6 | −0.7 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | -10.8 | |
West Wickham South (2) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Kenneth V Crask* | | 56.9 | −10.5 |
| | Conservative | John Frederick Ivan Gray | | | |
| | SDP | Richard Henry Redden | | 35.0 | +7.0 |
| | Liberal | Irene B Jenkins | | | |
| | Labour | Richard Richards | | 8.1 | +2.3 |
| | Labour | Gordon D Wright | | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 21.9 | −24.7 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 47.3 | −1.0 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | -12.3 | |