Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council election, 1973

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10 May 1973

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All 60 seats to Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council
31 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Party	Labour	Independent	Democratic Labour
Seats won	57	1	1
Seat change

Majority party before election

Labour

Majority party after election

Labour

The first elections to the newly created Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council were held on 10 May 1973, with the entirety of the 60 seat council - three seats for each of the 20 wards - up for vote. The Local Government Act 1972 stipulated that the elected members were to shadow and eventually take over from the predecessor corporation on 1 April 1974. The order in which the councillors were elected dictated their term serving, with third-place candidates serving two years and up for re-election in 1975, second-placed three years expiring in 1976 and 1st-placed five years until 1978.

The election resulted in Labour gaining control of the council.

This resulted in the following composition of the council:

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