| Election Name: | 1992 North Hertfordshire District Council election |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Previous Election: | 1991 North Hertfordshire District Council election |
| Previous Year: | 1991 |
| Next Election: | 1994 North Hertfordshire District Council election |
| Next Year: | 1994 |
| Seats For Election: | 17 of 50 seats on North Hertfordshire District Council |
| Majority Seats: | 26 |
| Image1: | Con |
| Leader1: | Bob Flatman |
| Party1: | Conservative Party (UK) |
| Seats Before1: | 26 |
| Seats After1: | 26 |
| Party2: | Labour Party (UK) |
| Seats Before2: | 18 |
| Seats After2: | 17 |
| Seat Change2: | 1 |
| Image3: | LD |
| Party3: | Liberal Democrats (UK) |
| Seats Before3: | 2 |
| Seats After3: | 3 |
| Seat Change3: | 1 |
| Image4: | RA |
| Party4: | Ratepayers Association |
| Seats Before4: | 3 |
| Seats After4: | 3 |
| Image5: | Ind |
| Party5: | Independent politician |
| Seats Before5: | 1 |
| Seats After5: | 1 |
| Leader | |
| Before Election: | Bob Flatman |
| Before Party: | Conservative |
| Posttitle: | Leader after election |
| After Election: | Geoff Woods |
| After Party: | Conservative Party (UK) |
The 1992 North Hertfordshire District Council election was held on 7 May 1992, at the same time as other local elections across England and Scotland. There were 17 out of 50 seats on North Hertfordshire District Council up for election, being the usual third of the council.[1] [2] [3]
The Conservatives retained their narrow majority on the council; they lost one seat to the Liberal Democrats but gained one seat from Labour. Following the election, at the annual council meeting on 19 May 1992, the Conservative leader of the council, Bob Flatman, was appointed to the more ceremonial role of vice-chairman. He had been leader since the council's creation in 1974. Geoff Woods was appointed as the new leader of the council and Conservative group leader in his place.[4]
The overall results were as follows:
The results for each ward were as follows. An asterisk(*) indicates a sitting councillor standing for re-election. A double dagger (‡) indicates a sitting councillor contesting a different ward.[5]
The poll in Letchworth South East ward was delayed until 11 June following the death of one of the original candidates, former SDP and Labour councillor Tony Quinn, who was to have stood for Labour.[6] [7]
On 12 June 1992 Labour councillor Don Kitchiner, who represented Letchworth Grange, announced his defection to the Conservatives.[7]
Some time between the 1992 and 1994 elections it would appear that there was a by-election in Hitchin Walsworth ward which saw Ratepayer councillor Jack Swain being replaced by Labour councillor Philip Kirk, whilst the seat in that ward held by Dennis Ward in 1992 had also gone to Labour by the time of the 1994 election, although whether by a defection or a by-election has yet to be established.