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1979 Castle Point District Council election

1979 English local government election

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 26, 2025
Entity authorityQ136463696 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1979 Castle Point District Council election took place on 3 May 1979 to elect members of Castle Point District Council in Essex, England. This was on the same day as the 1979 general election and other local elections.

Editorial summary

“1979 Castle Point District Council election” enters the record as 1979 English local government election. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Castle, Point and District can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Castle, Point and District.
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“1979 Castle Point District Council election” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Castle, Point and District provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 26, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q136463696. 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 Castle Point District 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.