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1978 Dumfries and Galloway Regional Council election

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Turnout	43.3%
Majority party Minority party Third party   Party Independent Conservative Labour Seats before 33 0 2 Seats won 26 5 2 Seat change -7 +5 0 Popular vote 13,087 3,050 2,382 Percentage 67.4% 15.7% 12.3%   Fourth party   Party SNP Seats before 0 Seats won 1 Seat change +1 Popular vote 711 Percentage 3.7%

The second Dumfries and Galloway regional council election was held on 2 May 1978, a year after the second district council elections.

This was the first time the Conservatives and the Scottish National Party (SNP) had contested a regional council election in Dumfries and Galloway. Thatcher's Conservatives overtook Callaghan's Labour to become the opposition to the still dominant independents.

Turnout was down, and so were the number of wards contested. Only 15 of the 35 wards in the region were contested, over half. 57.4% of the electorate of Dumfries and Galloway couldn't vote for this reason. ^{[1] [2]}

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