County council elections LABOUR GAINS CLASS POLARISATION

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Ppp St. Pancras station Speakers: elections in 1977. If that comparison was made. the swing was around 12 per cent in London and 15 per cent in the other Metropolitan areas By lam on BBC 1. Boh Mackenvie Wel. the barrel for a 'disap point ment for labour line: 'if the swing in loncon were repeated in a general election. L.ahour would only just get a majorily All this corered up the reality that nationally hubour won nearvic seats from the Tories on the metropolitan County But the most decisive the key industrial areas, hit by unemployment:

Manchester 106 seats were contested. labour won 78 and in the process gained staggering From the Tories West Midlands 104 seals 74. is il Labour gaining the Tories Merseyside 97 seals contested. Labour won 56 as against 27 for the Tories and 14 for the Liberals. -inis is an arca of sirong Liberal Labour gained 31 seats from the Tories.