Editing Greater London Council (section)

===Elections to the GLC===
The first election was held on 9 April 1964, a year before the creation of the council. Subsequent elections were held every three years for a three-year term in 1967, 1970 and 1973. The first three elections were for 100 councillors from 32 multi-member constituencies. This was revised to 92 councillors from single-member constituencies from the 1973 election. The electoral cycle was switched to four-yearly in 1976 and those elected in 1973 had their term extended by another year.<ref name="Order 1976">{{cite web |title=The London Councillors Order 1976 |url=https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1976/213/pdfs/uksi_19760213_en.pdf |website=legislation.gov.uk |access-date=25 July 2023 |date=17 February 1976}}</ref> Elections were held for a four-year term in 1977 and 1981. In 1984 the elections that were due to happen in 1985 were cancelled and those elected in 1981 had their term extended by another year.<ref>{{cite web |title=Local Government (Interim Provisions) Act 1984 |url=https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/53/enacted |website=legislation.gov.uk |access-date=25 July 2023 |date=31 July 1984 |quote=No ordinary elections of councillors of the Greater London Council or for a metropolitan county shall be held after the coming into force of this Part of this Act; and any such councillor— (a)whose term of office would, apart from this section, expire on 7th May 1985; or (b)who is elected to fill a vacancy occurring after that date,shall, unless he resigns his office or it otherwise becomes vacant, continue to hold office until 1st April 1986}}</ref> The results were as follows:<ref name=demon/>
{| class="wikitable" style="clear:both"
|
| colspan="2" |'''Overall control'''
| '''[[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]'''
| '''[[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]'''
| '''[[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]]'''
|-
| [[1981 Greater London Council election|1981]]
| style="background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}; width: 7px" |
| Labour
| 41
| 50
| 1
|-
| [[1977 Greater London Council election|1977]]
| style="background:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}|
| Conservative
| 64
| 28
| –
|-
| [[1973 Greater London Council election|1973]]
| style="background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}|
| Labour
| 32
| 58
| 2
|-
| [[1970 Greater London Council election|1970]]
| style="background:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}|
| Conservative
| 65
| 35
| –
|-
| [[1967 Greater London Council election|1967]]
| style="background:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}|
| Conservative
| 82
| 18
| –
|-
| [[1964 Greater London Council election|1964]]
| style="background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}|
| Labour
| 36
| 64
| –
|-
|}