Elections to City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council were held on were held on Thursday, 1 May 1980, with boundary changes prompting the entirety of the council to be elected.
The boundary changes subtracted a ward from the existing 31 - decreasing the councillor total by three to 90 - with just under half the ward names surviving the changes:
Abolished:
Central, East, North & West
Silsden, Addingham, Kildwick & Steeton with Eastburn
Ben Rhydding, Ilkley North, South & West
Keighley Central, East & South
Central, North & East
Created:
The election resulted in the Labour gaining control of the council directly from the Conservatives.[1] [2]
This result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the council after the elections:
| valign=top colspan="2" style="width: 230px" | Party | valign=top style="width: 30px" | Previous council | valign=top style="width: 30px" | New council |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | 38 | 50 | |||
| Conservatives | 51 | 37 | |||
| Liberals | 4 | 3 | |||
| Total | 93 | 90 | |||
| Working majority | |||||