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1979 Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council election

1979 local election in England, UK

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 6, 2025
Entity authorityQ39056553 ↗
Source-derived summary

Elections to Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council were held simultaneously with the general election on 3 May 1979. Following boundary changes that increased the number of wards by two to 22, with an additional 6 seats to 66 respectively), the entirety of the council was up for election. Labour retained control of the council.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1979 Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council election” is 1979 local election in England, UK. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Barnsley, Metropolitan and Borough, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Barnsley, Metropolitan and Borough is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “1979 local election in England, UK” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 6, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q39056553. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1979.

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This entry incorporates text from “1979 Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council election” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.