The Municipal Borough of Llanelly was an urban district in Carmarthenshire between 1894 and 1913 when it received full borough status.
The first election was held in December 1894. [1]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ernest Trubshaw | 982 | ||||
J. Hammond | 808 | ||||
John Griffiths | 807 | ||||
Tom Hughes | 764 | ||||
J. Mayberry | 592 | ||||
D.W. Rees | 554 | ||||
H.J. Howell | 513 | ||||
J. Samuel | 402 | ||||
W.J. Wilson | 332 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
F.C. Thompson | 769 | ||||
John Hopkins | 643 | ||||
J.D. Guest | 643 | ||||
W.W. Brodie | 631 | ||||
J.A. Jones | 612 | ||||
Ellis Evans | 503 | ||||
Joseph Williams | 475 | ||||
W. Hughes | 333 | ||||
W. Davies | 273 | ||||
J. Harries | 259 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
William Howell | 412 | ||||
J.S. Tregoning | 347 | ||||
Owen Charles | 333 | ||||
David Thomas | 330 | ||||
Evan Jones | 316 | ||||
John Thomas | 281 | ||||
W. Stone | 278 | ||||
John Bourne | 272 | ||||
H.J. Howell | 238 | ||||
David Paton | 233 | ||||
David Francis | 205 |
At the second election in March 1896, only one ward was contested. [2] One of the sitting members was defeated. [3]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
J. Mayberry* | Unopposed | ||||
D.W. Rees* | Unopposed |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ellis Evans* | Unopposed | ||||
David James | Unopposed |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
John Thomas* | 428 | ||||
Joseph Williams | 345 | ||||
Evan Jones* | 316 |
The third election was held in April 1897 and three of the retiring members lost their seats. [4] In Ward 3 it was suggested that denominational factors played a part as the two successful candidates were Baptists while he defeated candidates were Congregationalists. [5]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tom Hughes* | 753 | ||||
John Griffiths* | 673 | ||||
G.F. Blake | 265 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Arthur H. Davies | 730 | ||||
W. Knoyle | 390 | ||||
W.W. Brodie* | 331 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Josiah Davies | 374 | ||||
W. Coombs | 238 | ||||
Owen Charles* | 237 | ||||
David Thomas* | 186 |
At the fourth election in April 1898, only one ward was contested as had happened two years previously. [6] In Ward 3, David Thomas narrowly failed to regain the seat he lost the previous year. [7]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
James Hammond* | Unopposed | ||||
Ernest Trubshaw* | Unopposed |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Herbert Francis | Unopposed | ||||
John Hopkins* | Unopposed |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Daniel Williams | 371 | ||||
John S. Tregoning jnr.* | 350 | ||||
David Thomas | 346 |
At the fifth election in March 1899, only one Ward 2, where the two sitting members stood down, was contested. [8] The result in Ward 2 was decisive. [9]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
J. Mayberry* | Unopposed | ||||
J. Allen Williams* | Unopposed |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Frank Vivian | 897 | ||||
William Wilkins | 625 | ||||
David Harries | 335 | ||||
D. Rees Edmunds | 261 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
John Thomas* | Unopposed | ||||
Joseph Williams* | Unopposed |
The sixth election was held in April 1900 with two of the three seats being contested. [10] The local Trades and Labour Council ran a candidate, successfully, in Ward 2, although the candidacy was strongly opposed by the Llanelly Mercury, whose editor W.B. Jones had himself been mentioned as a possible labour candidate. [11]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tom Hughes* | Unopposed | ||||
John Griffiths* | Unopposed |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | D.J. Davies | 731 | |||
Jeremiah Williams | 678 | ||||
W. Knoyle* | 361 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Josiah Davies* | 277 | ||||
Evan Jones | 254 | ||||
David Thomas | 208 | ||||
W. Coombs* | 205 |
At the seventh election in March 1901, two wards were contested, and in Ward 2, the editor of the Llanelly Mercury, whose candidacy had been canvassed the previous year, captured one of the seats. [12]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
D. Rees Edmunds | Unopposed | ||||
Ernest Trubshaw* | Unopposed |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
W.B. Jones | 705 | ||||
Daniel Williams* | 630 | ||||
John Hopkins* | 559 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
John S. Tregoning jnr.* | 449 | ||||
David Thomas | 432 | ||||
Collwyn Morgan | 256 |
The eighth election, held in 1902, was the first occasion upon which all wards were uncontested. [13] W. Bramwell Jones was elected to the seat vacated by the death of John Allen Williams, editor of the Llanelly Guardian.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Joseph Mayberry* | Unopposed | ||||
William Wilkins* | Unopposed |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
W. Bramwell Jones | Unopposed | ||||
Frank G. Vivian* | Unopposed |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
John Thomas* | Unopposed | ||||
Joseph Williams* | Unopposed |
The ninth election, held in April 1903 saw a contest in one of the three wards. [14] Two retiring members, namely John Griffiths (Ward 1) and Jeremiah Williams (Ward 2), both died shortly before the election. [15] In Ward 3, the two official Liberal candidates prevailed. [16]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tom Hughes* | Unopposed | ||||
E.T. Jones | Unopposed |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | D. James Davies | Unopposed | |||
Ellis Evans | Unopposed |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | S.H. Bevan | 492 | |||
Liberal | William Eynon | 463 | |||
Labour | Evan Jones* | 334 | |||
Conservative | Nathan Griffiths | 149 |
At the tenth election in 1904, there were contests in Wards 1 and 2. Ernest Trubshaw, a member since the beginning, did not seek re-election while D.R. Edmunds switched from Ward 1 to Ward 2, where the editor of the Mercury, W.B. Jons, lost his seat. [17] In Ward 3, John S. Tregoning jnr., a member of the council since its formation was one of two candidates returned unopposed. [18]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Richard Guest | 642 | ||||
William David | 520 | ||||
D.R. Williams | 372 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
D.R. Edmunds* | 680 | ||||
John John | 608 | ||||
W.B. Jones* | 596 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Herbert D. Rees | Unopposed | ||||
John S. Tregoning jnr.* | Unopposed |
The eleventh election was held in 1905, with the members in two wards being returned unopposed. [19] In Ward 1, Joseph Maybery, a member of the Council since it was established, stood down at the last moment and the seat was won by a Trades and Labour Council candidate. [20]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
William Wilkins* | 660 | ||||
Labour | John Simlett | 518 | |||
Aaron Stone | 341 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
W. Bramwell Jones* | Unopposed | ||||
Frank G. Vivian* | Unopposed |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
John Thomas* | Unopposed | ||||
Joseph Williams* | Unopposed |
The twelfth election, held in April 1906 saw contests in all three wards. [21]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
E.T. Jones* | 812 | ||||
Joseph Roberts | 494 | ||||
G. Mercer | 434 | ||||
W.T. Davies | 374 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
William Thomas | 836 | ||||
Labour | D. James Davies | 753 | |||
T. Harries | 415 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
S.H. Bevan* | 447 | ||||
Nathan Griffiths | 390 | ||||
William Eynon* | 383 |
The thirteenth elections saw contest in all wards and J.S. Tregoning, a member of the Council since its formation, lost his seat. [22]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | William David* | 749 | |||
Labour | William Roberts | 719 | |||
Liberal | Richard Guest* | 562 | |||
Conservative | G. Mercer | 527 | |||
Independent | Philip Williams | 417 | |||
Labour | James Evans | 64 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | D.R. Edmunds* | 738 | |||
Liberal | D.R. Jones | 704 | |||
Liberal | David Phillips | 596 | |||
Labour | J. Rossiter | 329 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Herbert D. Rees* | 686 | |||
Labour | Evan Evans | 399 | |||
Conservative | John S. Tregoning jnr.* | 359 |
The fourteenth election saw contests in two wards. [23]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Richard Guest* | Unopposed | ||||
Labour | John Simlett | Unopposed |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Frank G. Vivian* | 945 | |||
Liberal | W. Bramwell Jones* | 909 | |||
Labour | Edward Sherlock | 484 | |||
Independent | Philip Williams | 342 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | J. Walter Thomas | 467 | |||
Liberal | Joseph Williams* | Unopposed | |||
Independent | J.L. Jones | 352 | |||
Labour | W. Scott | 184 |
The fifteenth election, held in April 1909 saw contests in Wards 2 and 3. [24] Two sitting members lost their seats. [25]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
E.T. Jones* | Unopposed | ||||
Joseph Roberts* | Unopposed |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Thomas Jones | 979 | ||||
Labour | D. James Davies* | 745 | |||
T. Harries* | 699 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nathan Griffiths* | 474 | ||||
John Smith | 468 | ||||
John L. Jones | 328 | ||||
S.H. Bevan* | 308 |
All three wards were contested, and a bitter fight in Ward One where it was claimed that William David had been subject to unfair criticisms.. [26]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | William Vivian | 841 | |||
Labour | W.H. Samuel | 747 | |||
Labour | William Roberts | 558 | |||
Liberal | William David* | 393 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | D.R. Jones* | 1,007 | |||
Liberal | E. Willis Jones | 870 | |||
Labour | G.H. Stacey | 767 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Herbert D. Rees* | 612 | |||
Liberal | Charles Randall | 537 | |||
Labour | Evan Evans* | 366 | |||
Conservative | J. Vaughan Evans | 114 |
All three wards were contested. John Simlett held his seat for Labour in Ward one but the other Labour candidates were unsuccessful. The main surprise was the defeat of J. Walter Thomas in Ward Three. [27]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John Simlett | Unopposed | |||
Independent | Roland P. Thomas | 812 | |||
Independent | Arthur Evans | 416 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | W. Bramwell Jones* | 887 | |||
Liberal | Frank G. Vivian* | 868 | |||
Labour | G.H. Stacey | 574 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | David Richards | 468 | |||
Independent | J.L. Jones | 358 | |||
Liberal | J. Walter Thomas* | 329 | |||
Labour | G. James | 156 |
All three wards were contested and a heavy poll was expeted owing to workmen being on strike. [28] Five of the six members seeking re-election were successful. [29]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Joseph Roberts* | 849 | |||
E.T. Jones* | 783 | ||||
W.T. Davies | 758 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Thomas Jones* | 1,189 | ||||
Labour | D.J. Jones* | 787 | |||
Sam Jones | 651 | ||||
J. Vaughan Evans | 277 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nathan Griffiths* | 483 | ||||
J. Walter Thomas | 479 | ||||
John Waters | 430 | ||||
John Smith* | 210 |
In the final election before the incorporation of Llanelli as a municipal borough, there were contested elections in Ward One, where there were three vcancies following the death of E.T. Jones, and in Ward Two. In Ward Three, Labour gained a seat unopposed after sitting member Charles Randall stood down [30]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | W.H. Samuel* | 1,004 | |||
Independent | W.T. Davies | 814 | |||
Independent | Gwilym R. Price | 810 | |||
Independent | W. Vivian* | 603 | |||
Independent | J.P. Hughes | 547 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | E. Willis Jones* | 920 | |||
Liberal | D.R. Jones* | 844 | |||
Labour | Sam Jones | 706 | |||
Independent | T. Hay Samuel | 88 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Herbert D. Rees* | Unopposed | |||
Labour | Morgan Morgan | Unopposed |
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