# 1982 Bromley London Borough Council election

The 1982 Bromley Council election took place on 6 May 1982 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 | test | Votes | % |
| SDP | Christopher Richard Gaster* | 1,365 | 40.9 |
| SDP | Paul H Brown* | 1,341 | |
| Labour | Ian M Haig | 1,063 | 31.9 |
| Labour | Dominic P Herlihy | | |
| Conservative | Roland Lees | 907 | 27.2 |
| Conservative | Albert George Miles | | |
Clock House (2) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | David J Harding* | 1,831 | 44.6 | |
| | Conservative | Terence Stanley* | 1,719 | | |
| | SDP | Olga L Roberts | 1,424 | 34.7 | +18.4 |
| | Liberal | Stephen J Marshall | | | |
| | Labour | Bryan Edwin Freake | 1,461 | 20.7 | −14.6 |
| | Labour | David N P Radlett | | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 9.9 | +1.2 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 50.3 | |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | | |
Copers Cope (2) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | John L Pritchard* | | 57.8 | −16.8 |
| | Conservative | Charles George Priest* | | | |
| | SDP | Laurence J Cox | | 21.3 | +10.1 |
| | Liberal | William Alan Macdonald MacCormick | | | |
| | Ind. Conservative | Christopher John Elgar | | 12.7 | n/a |
| | Labour | Ann M Silverman | | 8.2 | −6.0 |
| | Labour | Eric H Turner | | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 36.5 | −23.9 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 45.1 | +5.4 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | | |
Eden Park (2) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Francis J D Cooke* | | 58.5 | −7.4 |
| | Conservative | Peter F Dixon* | | | |
| | Liberal | Christine Oakenfull | | 32.4 | +15.2 |
| | Liberal | Derek G Brent | | | |
| | Labour | Wendy C Palace | | 9.0 | −7.9 |
| | Labour | Brian Stapleton | | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 26.1 | −22.7 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 50.1 | +4.3 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | | |
Kelsey Park (2) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Michael John B Tickner* | | 74.1 | −4.0 |
| | Conservative | Maurice J Mason* | | | |
| | Liberal | Paul David Nash | | 20.3 | +6.4 |
| | SDP | Andrew F Clyro | | | |
| | Labour | Philip Cooke | | 5.6 | −2.4 |
| | Labour | Finola M Dignan | | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 53.8 | −4.4 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 50.9 | +5.5 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | | |
Lawrie Park & Kent House (2) :
| Party | Candidate | % | ±% |
| Conservative | Richard D. Foister* | 51.3 | −5.6 |
| Conservative | John Arthur M. Lewis* | | |
| SDP | Bryan C Friend | 25.1 | +18.4 |
| SDP | Geoffrey P Farrington | | |
| Labour | Laurence R Pocock | 23.7 | −12.6 |
| Labour | Derek K Robbins | | |
Penge (2) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Liberal | Heather Isabel Donovan | 940 | 36.0 | +30.2 |
| | Labour | Arthur J Mansfield* | 911 | 34.9 | −16.6 |
| | Liberal | Jonathan R Coninx | 906 | | |
| | Labour | Barbara Pedley* | 902 | | |
| | Conservative | Robert G Straker | 761 | 29.1 | −4.2 |
| | Conservative | Rita Horowitz | 725 | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 1.1 | 19.2 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 38.9 | |
| | Liberal gain from Labour | Liberal gain from Labour | Swing | +9.6 | |
Shortlands (2) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Bernard E G Davies* | 2,818 | 75.0 | −7.2 |
| | Conservative | Brian R Reading* | | | |
| | SDP | Graham R F Till | 733 | 19.5 | +10.9 |
| | Liberal | Melanie L Worman | | | |
| | Labour | Pauline M Jones | 204 | 5.4 | −3.8 |
| | Labour | Jonathan A M Patterson | | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 55.5 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 51.7 | |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | | |

### Chislehurst

Bickley (3) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Maurice Bentley Kenward* | | 76.9 | −10.0 |
| | Conservative | Margaret Doreen Moir | | | |
| | Conservative | Simon J C Randall* | | | |
| | SDP | Colin T Hawksworth | | 25.8 | +15.2 |
| | Liberal | Ervin G Muller | | | |
| | Liberal | Stephen G Trimmer | | | |
| | Labour | Gwendoline I Mansfield | | 7.3 | −5.2 |
| | Labour | Paul W Francis | | | |
| | Labour | Harry J Belsey | | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 41.2 | −23.2 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 50.9 | +5.4 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | -11.6 | |
Chislehurst (3) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Joan Bryant* | | 72.1 | −3.4 |
| | Conservative | Edward A J Rayner | | | |
| | Conservative | Charles Christopher Seward Reeves* | | | |
| | SDP | Muriel A Letman | | 18.1 | +9.0 |
| | Liberal | John P Hassall | | | |
| | Liberal | Stephen R Walls | | | |
| | Labour | Edgar C H Smith | | 9.9 | −5.5 |
| | Labour | Martyn G Jenkins | | | |
| | Labour | Ralph E Hunte | | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 54.0 | −6.2 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 49.8 | −0.8 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | | |
Mottingham (2) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Labour | Alistair Huistean Macdonald* | | 45.7 | −18.3 |
| | Labour | Elizabeth A Vincent | | | |
| | Conservative | Amanda J Hunt | | 30.2 | +1.9 |
| | Conservative | Martin Tweed | | | |
| | Liberal | Brian Harry Taylor | | 24.1 | +20.1 |
| | SDP | Peter H Anderson | | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 15.5 | −20.2 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 44.1 | −6.5 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | -10.1 | |
Plaistow & Sundridge (3) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Richard B Jackson* | | 59.5 | −0.3 |
| | Conservative | Dorothy Joan Laird* | | | |
| | Conservative | Arthur J Wilkinson* | | | |
| | Liberal | Michael F Deves | | 26.4 | +17.1 |
| | SDP | Ian G Anderson | | | |
| | Liberal | David C Pike | | | |
| | Labour | Geoffrey C Whitlow | | 14.1 | −16.8 |
| | Labour | Peter R Haswell | | | |
| | Labour | Nicholas Anthony Wright | | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 33.1 | +4.1 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 45.5 | +1.4 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | +2.0 | |
St Paul's Cray (3) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Labour | Walter K Mansfield* | | 40.1 | −21.7 |
| | Conservative | Gladys P Hobbs | 1,547 | 36.0 | +4.1 |
| | Labour | Selwyn H Ward | 1,528 | | |
| | Labour | Ronald William Huzzard | 1,518 | | |
| | Conservative | Dennis E Kershaw | 1,508 | | |
| | Conservative | Albert E Stayte | 1,493 | | |
| | SDP | Sylvia Conway | | 23.9 | +17.6 |
| | SDP | John M Barber | | | |
| | Liberal | Peter Alan Janikoun | | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 29.9 | −25.8 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 38.0 | −1.0 |
| | Conservative gain from Labour | Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +12.9 | |

### Orpington

Chelsfield & Goddington (3) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Michael A Lowe | | 55.7 | −11.7 |
| | Conservative | Reginald G Adams* | | | |
| | Conservative | Joseph T Heath* | | | |
| | Liberal | Patrick McNally | | 38.4 | +17.5 |
| | Liberal | John C A Sachs | | | |
| | Liberal | Sidney C O Langford | | | |
| | Labour | Linda T Tyler | | 6.0 | −5.7 |
| | Labour | Ronald G D'Olley | | | |
| | Labour | Leonard David Hall | | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 17.3 | −29.1 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 54.9 | +4.3 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | -14.5 | |
Crofton (2) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Paul Martin Bonter | | 61.0 | −6.2 |
| | Conservative | Peter Sturdy | | | |
| | SDP | Peter J B Paul | | 33.5 | +10.6 |
| | Liberal | Harry Anthony Silvester | | | |
| | Labour | John Fowler | | 5.5 | −4.4 |
| | Labour | Magali P Williamson | | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 33.5 | −16.8 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 55.4 | +2.2 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | -8.4 | |
Farnborough (2) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Eric Norman Goodman* | | 76.9 | −5.1 |
| | Conservative | Jennifer Mary Hillier* | | | |
| | Liberal | Terence Frank Clark | | 23.4 | +11.5 |
| | Liberal | Roy T Hawkins | | | |
| | Labour | Geoffrey J Ball | | 4.8 | −6.4 |
| | Labour | Catherine M Hossack | | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 48.4 | −16.6 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 50.5 | −0.2 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | -8.4 | |
Orpington Central (2) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Michael A Minter* | | 50.0 | |
| | Conservative | David Malcolm Dear | | | |
| | Liberal | Christopher Stewart Maines | | 39.1 | +16.9 |
| | SDP | Michael Sullivan | | | |
| | Labour | Simon D Gale | | 12.8 | −15.0 |
| | Labour | Nigel Williamson | | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 8.9 | −13.2 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 49.6 | +4.0 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | -6.6 | |
Petts Wood & Knoll (3) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Joan Hatcher* | | 68.6 | −22.4 |
| | Conservative | Michael J Edwards | | | |
| | Conservative | Brian V Atkinson* | | | |
| | Ind. Conservative | Peter Charles Woods | | 30.4 | n/a |
| | SDP | Beatrice W Hedley | | 19.3 | −1.9 |
| | Liberal | Graham Leslie Arthur | | | |
| | Liberal | Irene R Hinchcliffe | | | |
| | Labour | Jeffrey R Bartley | | 4.1 | −6.1 |
| | Labour | Marcus R Shellard | | | |
| | Labour | Peter John Tozer | | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 15.8 | −31.6 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 53.6 | −0.2 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | -15.8 | |
St Mary Cray (3) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Harry R Stranger | | 39.0 | −3.4 |
| | Conservative | Norman F Mingay | | | |
| | Conservative | Bruce G Panes | 1,831 | | |
| | Labour | Doris Partridge* | 1,673 | 33.3 | − |
| | Labour | Keith R Morton* | | | |
| | Labour | Martin E Synan | | | |
| | Liberal | James C Loveday | | 27.6 | +19.1 |
| | Liberal | John W Hand | | | |
| | SDP | David C Churney | | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 6.7 | 12.4 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 44.5 | +2.4 |
| | Conservative gain from Labour | Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +6.2 | |

### Ravensbourne

Biggin Hill (2) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | David W Hanscomb* | | 59.7 | −4.0 |
| | Conservative | David Robert Haslam* | | | |
| | Liberal | Malcolm Bruce Westbrook | | 32.3 | +13.9 |
| | Liberal | Geoffrey Colin Gostt | | | |
| | Labour | Alison N Sheldrake | | 8.0 | −9.9 |
| | Labour | Mairede C Thomas | | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 27.4 | −17.8 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 52.1 | +3.5 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | -8.9 | |
Bromley Common & Keston (3) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Colin R English | | 53.2 | −2.1 |
| | Conservative | Raymond L Ainsby* | | | |
| | Conservative | Russell Lawrence Mellor* | | | |
| | Liberal | Robert H Smith | | 25.1 | +18.7 |
| | Liberal | Martin Alan Curry | | | |
| | SDP | Catherine Mary Boston | | | |
| | Labour | Naomi V Carter | | 21.7 | −12.8 |
| | Labour | Mark Cole | | | |
| | Labour | Rodger A Macpherson | | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 28.1 | +7.2 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 41.5 | −0.9 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | +3.6 | |
Darwin (1) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Peter John Bloomfield | | 67.6 | −6.3 |
| | Liberal | Derek J Goldsmith | | 25.8 | +10.7 |
| | Labour | John R Willman | | 6.7 | −4.3 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 41.8 | −17.0 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 56.6 | +3.0 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | -8.5 | |
Hayes (3) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Ernest Dennis Barkway* | | 64.9 | −9.7 |
| | Conservative | Philip Geoffrey Jones* | | | |
| | Conservative | James F David* | | | |
| | Liberal | William Ivor Shipley | | 28.0 | +16.3 |
| | Liberal | Ronald Coverson | | | |
| | SDP | Anne Wendy Chaplin | | | |
| | Labour | Julian R Smith | | 7.1 | −6.6 |
| | Labour | Stephen J Robert | | | |
| | Labour | Charles J Wallace | | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 36.9 | −24.0 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 44.3 | +3.5 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | -12.0 | |
Martins Hill & Town (2) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | William F D Walker* | | 53.5 | −11.0 |
| | Conservative | Anthony Millar Wilkinson* | | | |
| | Liberal | Jennifer M Hawke | | 34.4 | +24.2 |
| | SDP | David B Hunt | | | |
| | Labour | Susan L Dudding | | 12.1 | −13.1 |
| | Labour | Alan M Pickering | | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 19.0 | −20.3 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 43.4 | +6.3 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | -10.1 | |
West Wickham North (2) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Montague I Blasey* | | 67.8 | −9.8 |
| | Conservative | Percy C Read* | | | |
| | Liberal | John Raymond Maydwell | | 24.3 | +14.8 |
| | SDP | Phyllis S Vickers | | | |
| | Labour | Desmond P Atkinson | | 7.9 | −5.0 |
| | Labour | Hugh P Atkinson | | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 43.5 | −21.2 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 48.3 | +3.1 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | -10.6 | |
West Wickham South (2) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Kenneth V Crask* | | 70.4 | −4.6 |
| | Conservative | Leslie G Whitman* | | | |
| | SDP | Richard Henry Redden | | 23.8 | +15.6 |
| | Liberal | Gordon J Stephens | | | |
| | Labour | Richard Richards | | 5.8 | −11.0 |
| | Labour | Gordon D Wright | | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 46.6 | −11.5 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 48.3 | +1.9 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | -5.7 | |