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The sixth and final election to the GLC (and third using revised boundaries) was held on 7 May 1981. The electorate was 51,873 and one Conservative Party councillor was elected. The turnout was 39.2%. The councillor was elected for a four-year term, extended by an extra year by the Local Government
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The fourth election to the GLC (and first using revised boundaries) was held on 12 April 1973. The electorate was 68,305 and one Conservative Party councillor was elected. The turnout was 33.7%. The councillor was elected for a three-year term. This was extended for an extra year in 1976 when the
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The fifth election to the GLC (and second using revised boundaries) was held on 5 May 1977. The electorate was 56,849 and one Conservative Party councillor was elected. The turnout was 34.9%. The councillor was elected for a four-year term.
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It was planned to use the same boundaries as the Westminster Parliament constituencies for election of councillors to the Greater London Council (GLC), as had been the practice for elections to the predecessor
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The area was in a long-term period of population decline that was yet to reverse. The electorate reduced from 63,306 in 1973 to 51,873 in 1984. It covered an area of 632 hectares (6.32 km).
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electoral division. This was used for the Greater London Council elections in 1964, 1967 and 1970.
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The Kensington constituency was used for the Greater London Council elections in
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was an electoral division for the purposes of elections to the
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and the new electoral division matched the boundaries of the
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Politics of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
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Greater London Council
Kensington and Chelsea
Kensington
Kensington and Chelsea
Greater London Council
London County Council
Kensington and Chelsea
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1977
1981
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1977 Greater London Council election
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Labour
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National Front
Communist
GLC Abolitionist Campaign
English National
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