1983 Ipswich Borough Council election

1983 Ipswich Borough Council election

← 1982 5 May 1983 1984 →
16 seats 25 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party   Party Labour Conservative
Council control before election Labour Council control after election Labour

The 1983 Ipswich Borough Council election using the system of electing by thirds was completed as this was the third election to the Ipswich Borough Council under the arrangement, whereby a third of the councillors were to stand for election, each time. These new arrangements had been determined by the Local Government Boundary Commission as laid out in their Report 280.^[1]

It took place as part of the 1983 United Kingdom local elections.^[2]

There were 16 wards each returning one councillor.^[3] The Labour Party retained control of the council.^[2]

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(1982 ←) 1983 United Kingdom local elections (→ 1984)

Metropolitan
boroughs

• Barnsley
• Birmingham
• Bradford
• Bolton
• Bury
• Calderdale
• Coventry
• Doncaster
• Dudley
• Gateshead
• Kirklees
• Knowsley
• Leeds
• Liverpool
• Manchester
• Newcastle
• North Tyneside
• Oldham
• Rochdale
• Rotherham
• Salford
• Sandwell
• Sefton
• Sheffield
• Solihull
• South Tyneside
• St Helens
• Stockport
• Sunderland
• Tameside
• Trafford
• Wakefield
• Walsall
• Wigan
• Wirral
• Wolverhampton

District councils
(England)

• Adur
• Allerdale
• Alnwick
• Amber Valley
• Arun
• Ashfield
• Ashford
• Aylesbury Vale
• Babergh
• Barrow-in-Furness
• Basildon
• Basingstoke and Deane
• Bassetlaw
• Bath
• Berwick-upon-Tweed
• Blaby
• Blackburn
• Blackpool
• Blyth Valley
• Bolsover
• Boothferry
• Boston
• Bournemouth
• Bracknell
• Braintree
• Breckland
• Brentwood
• Bridgnorth
• Brighton
• Bristol
• Broadland
• Bromsgrove
• Broxbourne
• Broxtowe
• Burnley
• Cambridge
• Cannock Chase
• Canterbury
• Caradon
• Carlisle
• Carrick
• Castle Morpeth
• Castle Point
• Charnwood
• Chelmsford
• Cheltenham
• Cherwell
• Chester
• Chesterfield
• Chester-le-Street
• Chichester
• Chiltern
• Chorley
• Christchurch
• Cleethorpes
• Colchester
• Congleton
• Copeland
• Corby
• Cotswold
• Craven
• Crawley
• Crewe and Nantwich
• Dacorum
• Darlington
• Dartford
• Daventry
• Derby
• Derwentside
• Dover
• Durham
• Easington
• East Cambridgeshire
• East Devon
• East Hampshire
• East Hertfordshire
• East Lindsey
• East Northamptonshire
• East Staffordshire
• East Yorkshire
• East Yorkshire Borough of Beverley
• Eastbourne
• Eastleigh
• Eden
• Ellesmere Port and Neston
• Elmbridge
• Epping Forest
• Epsom and Ewell
• Erewash
• Exeter
• Fareham
• Fenland
• Forest Heath
• Forest of Dean
• Fylde
• Gedling
• Gillingham
• Glanford
• Gloucester
• Gosport
• Gravesham
• Great Grimsby
• Great Yarmouth
• Guildford
• Halton
• Hambleton
• Harborough
• Harlow
• Harrogate
• Hart
• Hartlepool
• Hastings
• Havant
• Hereford
• Hertsmere
• High Peak
• Hinckley and Bosworth
• Holderness
• Horsham
• Hove
• Huntingdon
• Hyndburn
• Ipswich
• Kennet
• Kerrier
• Kettering
• King's Lynn and West Norfolk
• Kingston upon Hull
• Kingswood
• Lancaster
• Langbaurgh
• Leicester
• Leominster
• Lewes
• Lichfield
• Lincoln
• Luton
• Macclesfield
• Maidstone
• Maldon
• Malvern Hills
• Mansfield
• Medina
• Melton
• Mendip
• Mid Bedfordshire
• Mid Devon
• Mid Suffolk
• Mid Sussex
• Middlesbrough
• Milton Keynes
• Mole Valley
• New Forest
• Newark
• Newbury
• Newcastle-under-Lyme
• North Bedfordshire
• North Cornwall
• North Devon
• North Dorset
• North East Derbyshire
• North Hertfordshire
• North Kesteven
• North Norfolk
• North Shropshire
• North Warwickshire
• North West Leicestershire
• North Wiltshire
• Northampton
• Northavon
• Norwich
• Nottingham
• Nuneaton and Bedworth
• Oadby and Wigston
• Oswestry
• Oxford
• Pendle
• Penwith
• Peterborough
• Plymouth
• Poole
• Portsmouth
• Preston
• Purbeck
• Reading
• Redditch
• Reigate and Banstead
• Restormel
• Ribble Valley
• Richmondshire
• Rochester-upon-Medway
• Rochford
• Rossendale
• Rother
• Rugby
• Runnymede
• Rushcliffe
• Rushmoor
• Rutland
• Ryedale
• Salisbury
• Scarborough
• Scunthorpe
• Sedgefield
• Sedgemoor
• Selby
• Sevenoaks
• Shepway
• Shrewsbury and Atcham
• Slough
• South Bedfordshire
• South Bucks
• South Cambridgeshire
• South Derbyshire
• South Hams
• South Herefordshire
• South Holland
• South Kesteven
• South Lakeland
• South Norfolk
• South Northamptonshire
• South Oxfordshire
• South Ribble
• South Shropshire
• South Staffordshire
• South Wight
• Southampton
• Southend-on-Sea
• Spelthorne
• St Albans
• St Edmundsbury
• Stafford
• Staffordshire Moorlands
• Stevenage
• Stockton-on-Tees
• Stoke-on-Trent
• Stratford-on-Avon
• Stroud
• Suffolk Coastal
• Surrey Heath
• Swale
• Tamworth
• Tandridge
• Taunton Deane
• Teesdale
• Teignbridge
• Tendring
• Test Valley
• Tewkesbury
• Thamesdown
• Thanet
• The Wrekin
• Three Rivers
• Thurrock
• Tonbridge and Malling
• Torbay
• Torridge
• Tunbridge Wells
• Tynedale
• Uttlesford
• Vale of White Horse
• Vale Royal
• Wansbeck
• Wansdyke
• Warrington
• Warwick
• Watford
• Waveney
• Waverley
• Wealden
• Wear Valley
• Wellingborough
• Welwyn Hatfield
• West Derbyshire
• West Devon
• West Dorset
• West Lancashire
• West Lindsey
• West Oxfordshire
• West Somerset
• West Wiltshire
• Weymouth and Portland
• Wimborne
• Winchester
• Windsor and Maidenhead
• Woking
• Wokingham
• Woodspring
• Worcester
• Worthing
• Wychavon
• Wycombe
• Wyre
• Wyre Forest
• Yeovil
• York

District councils
(Wales)

• Aberconwy
• Afan
• Alyn and Deeside
• Anglesey - Ynys Môn
• Arfon
• Blaenau Gwent
• Brecknock
• Cardiff
• Carmarthen
• Ceredigion
• Colwyn
• Cynon Valley
• Delyn
• Dinefwr
• Dwyfor
• Glyndŵr
• Islwyn
• Llanelli
• Lliw Valley
• Meirionnydd
• Merthyr Tydfil
• Monmouth
• Montgomery
• Neath
• Newport
• Ogwr
• Preseli
• Radnor
• Rhondda
• Rhuddlan
• Rhymney Valley
• South Pembrokeshire
• Swansea
• Taff-Ely
• Torfaen
• Vale of Glamorgan
• Wrexham Maelor

• See also: UK General election