The party that has the highest seats during the 1981 Cornwall County Council election (held on  May 7, 1981) was the Independent party, and it was two times bigger than the seats won by the Conservative party that got the second-highest number of votes in that election.
Elections to Cornwall County Council were held on 7 May 1981. Independent 43 Conservative 16 Alliance 12 Labour 6 Ecology 1 Voice of the People 1 Mebyon Kernow 0 Residents 0 
