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The 1978 Croydon Council election took place on 4 May 1978 to elect members of Croydon London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Conservative Party stayed in overall control of the council. [1]
The town of Croydon's first local authority was a body of improvement commissioners established in 1829. [4] They were superseded in 1849 by an elected local board. [5] [6] The town was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1883, after which it was governed by a body formally called the "Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Croydon", generally known as the corporation, town council ...
Croydon was an electoral division for the purposes of elections to the Greater London Council. The constituency elected four councillors for a three-year term in 1964, 1967 and 1970. The constituency elected four councillors for a three-year term in 1964, 1967 and 1970.
A map showing the wards of Croydon from 2002 to 2018 Elections for the Croydon London Borough Council are held every four years to elect 70 councillors. The last ward boundary changes came into force at the 2018 local elections.
The ward covered central Croydon. For elections to the Greater London Council , the ward was part of the Croydon electoral division from 1965 and then the Croydon Central division from 1973. Vivian Bendall , who was a councillor for the ward throughout its existence, became MP for Ilford North in 1978 .
The earliest detailed map of Croydon, drawn by the 18-year-old Jean-Baptiste Say in 1785. [13] The early settlement of Old Town, including the parish church (marked B) lies to the west; while the triangular medieval marketplace, probably associated with Archbishop Kilwardby's market charter of 1276, is clearly visible further east, although by this date it has been infilled with buildings.
Together with 12 aldermen and a mayor, these formed the town council. [2] In 1905 a new North ward was formed, and the council was enlarged to 14 aldermen and 42 councillors. [ 5 ] By 1918 a new ward of Bensham Manor had been created and on further enlargement in 1925 Addington ward was formed, with the numbers of aldermen and councillors being ...
The constituency that preceded Croydon Central, Croydon South (1918–1950) and (1955–1974) had the modern borough area's two periods of brief Labour Party parliamentary representation — David Rees-Williams held the forerunner from the 1945 Labour landslide until unfavourable boundary changes in 1950.