Margate Salmestone was a ward of Margate Municipal District prior to 1973. When the Municipal District was included in the Thanet Borough in 1974, Salmestone ward elected three councillors to the new Borough, but following the boundary changes of 1979 this was reduced to two councillors.

Margate Salmestone ward

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	D Knott	1,085	%
	Labour	J Lane	1,031	7.7%
	Conservative	W Beerling	1,028	%
	Labour	Mrs M Knott	1,023	7.7%
	Conservative	A Stokes	959	%
	Conservative	K Waddington	902	%
Majority			62,8,5
Turnout			2,123	49.3%	4,302

Margate Salmestone ward

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	W Leadbetter (Ratepayers)	788	%
	Independent	M Layton (Ratepayers)	771	%
	Conservative	Frederick Twyman	718	%
	Independent	J Gibson (Ratepayers)	675	42.3%
	Conservative	R Ward	686	%
	Conservative	J Turner	656	%
	Labour	Mrs M Lowe	334	%
	Labour	P Stark	322	%
	Labour	Charles Young	376	%
Majority			102,85,32
Turnout			2,124	50.8%	4,181

Margate Salmestone ward

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	W Leadbetter (Ratepayers)	932	%
	Independent	P Coleman	935	%
	Labour	R Ward	881	%
	Conservative	Frederick Twyman	848	%
	Conservative	J Chart	774	%
	Labour	Charles Young	732	%
	Liberal	S Pankhurst	153	%
	Liberal	A Taylor	139	%
Majority			54,51
Turnout			2,817	69.8%	4,034

Margate Salmestone ward

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Frederick Twyman	630	%
	Labour	Charles Young	620	%
	Conservative	T Purser	547	%
	Labour	Kenneth Fry	518	%
	Liberal	John Sherwell	468	%
	Liberal	Norma Sherwell	441	%
Majority			83,73
Turnout			1,718	44.4%	3,867

Margate Salmestone ward

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Frederick Twyman	747	%
	Conservative	Gordon Mynard	613	%
	Labour	Charles Young	526	%
	Labour	Kenneth Fry	435	%
	Liberal	John Sherwell	351	%
	Liberal	Norma Sherwell	314	%
Majority			221,87
Turnout			1,624	41.6%	3,904

3,736 38.5% 1,438

Margate Salmestone ward

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Charles Young	656	%
	Labour	Ruzena Derrane	554	%
	Independent	Frederick Twyman	500	%
	Conservative	Cyril Cook	334	%
	Conservative	Gordon Mynard	311	%
	Green	Roalph Reed	118	%
Majority			156,54
Turnout			1,428	38.5%	3,726

Margate Salmestone ward

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ruzena Derrane	798	%
	Labour	Charles Young	787	%
	Independent	Frederick Twyman	377	%
	Independent	A Brown	234	%
	Conservative	M Brooman	180	%
	Liberal	A Cordell	91	%
	Independent	K Pettitt (NLP)	32	%
Majority			421,410
Turnout			1,370	38.1%	3,596

3,657 23.3% 852

Margate Salmestone ward

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Charles Young	533	%
	Labour	Ruzena Derrane	504	%
	Conservative	Alan Patridge	282	%
Majority			251,222
Turnout			852	23.3%	3,657

Margate Salmestone ward

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Charles Young	411	%
	Conservative	Bowen Fuller	407	%
	Labour	Ruzena Derrane	396	%
	Conservative	Lisa Wright	364	%
Majority			15,11
Turnout			858	22.9%	3,743

Margate Salmestone ward

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Harry Scobie	562	%
	Labour	Ela Lodge-Pritchard	562	%
	Conservative	James Maskell	455	%
	Conservative	Bill Pankhurst	422	%
Majority			107,107 [dubious – discuss]
Turnout			1,079	28.6%	3,772