1964 Richmond upon Thames London Borough Council election 1964 Richmond upon Thames London Borough Council election The 1964 Richmond upon Thames Council election took place on 7 May 1964 to elect members of Richmond upon Thames London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Conservative party gained control of the council. These elections were the first to the newly formed borough. Previously elections had taken place in the Municipal Borough of Barnes, Municipal Borough of Richmond and Municipal Borough of Twickenham. These boroughs were joined to form the new London Borough of Richmond upon Thames by the London Government Act 1963.
London Borough of Newham the former boundary between the two. North Woolwich also became part of the borough (previously being in the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich, south of the river Thames in the County of London) along with a small area west of the River Roding which had previously been part of the Municipal Borough of Barking. "Newham" was devised for the borough as an entirely new name. The area of the modern borough was at one time occupied by a territory called 'Ham'. The first known written use of the term, as 'Hamme', is in an Anglo-Saxon charter of 958, and again in