United Kingdom Local Elections, 1973 - Glad, Clement of Ohrid, John of Rila, Chernorizets Hrabar, Saint Naum, Salan, Constantine of Preslav (Paperback)

Chapters: Glad, Clement of Ohrid, John of Rila, Chernorizets Hrabar, Saint Naum, Salan, Constantine of Preslav, Enravota, John Exarch, Marmais, Mihail of Bulgaria, Alogobotur, Theodore Sigritsa, Zvinitsa. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 29. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The first elections to the new local authorities established by the Local Government Act 1972 in England and Wales and the new Northern Ireland district councils created by the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 took place in 1973. Elections to the existing Greater London Council also took place. The elections took place on three dates: Elections took place for all the seats on the councils. In the case of the new councils, they became shadow authorities, taking over from the existing local authorities on 1 April 1974. The elections for the new councils had been brought forward from an originally planned date in November 1973, to allow the councils more time to act as shadow authorities - the final dates were set in May 1972. The elections held on 12 April saw a very good performance by the Labour Party, which regained control of the Greater London Council and took control of all six of the new metropolitan county councils. In the rest of England, they won seven county councils, including two of the new "estuary" counties: Cleveland and Humberside. The party also won Gwent and the three Glamorgan county councils in Wales. The poor Conservative vote in London and the metropolitan counties was somewhat compensated by winning thirteen of the non-metropolitan counties. Failure to gain Essex or Hertfordshire were disappointments to the party, but taking control of Gloucestershire was a success. The party also failed to gain its only realistic Welsh prospect, South Glamorgan. There were no great successes f...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=6958963