1898 Liverpool City Council election

1898 Liverpool City Council election

←  1897 November 1, 1898 (1898-11-01) 1899  →
28 seats were up for election: one seat for each of the 28 wards 57 (incl. Aldermen) seats needed for a majority

Elections to Liverpool City Council were held on Thursday 1 November 1898. One third of the council seats were up for election, the term of office of each councillor being three years.

Sixteen of the twenty-eight wards were uncontested.

After the election, the composition of the council was:

Party		Councillors	±	Aldermen	Total
	Conservative	56	-1	18	74
	Liberal	18	+1	8	26
	Irish Nationalists	8	0	2	10
	Liberal Unionist	1	0	1	2

Election result

Liverpool local election result 1898

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Conservative	17	1	2	-1	61%	52%	11,656
	Liberal	7	2	1	+1	25%	31%	6,842
	Irish Nationalist	3	0	0	0	11%
	Liberal Unionist	1	0	0	0		4%	1,123
	Independent Liberal	0	0				5.3%	1,185
	Independent	0					3.1%	683
	Labour	0	0	0	0	0%	2.8%	626
	Independent Irish Nationalist	0				0%	0.31%	70

Because of the large number of uncontested wards, these statistics should be taken in that context.

Ward results

* - Retiring Councillor seeking re-election

Comparisons are made with the 1895 election results, as the retiring councillors were elected in that year.

Abercromby

No. 21 Abercromby

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Maxwell Hyslop Maxwell *	570	93%
	Independent	John O'Brien	46	7%
Majority			524
Registered electors			3,002
Turnout			616	21%
Rejected ballots			2
	Conservative hold		Swing

Breckfield

No. 6 Breckfield

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Edwin Berry	1,310	55%
	Liberal	Jonathan Hargrove	1,075	45%
Majority			235
Registered electors			4,046
Turnout			2,385	59%
	Conservative hold		Swing

Brunswick

No. 25 Brunswick

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Charles Henry Beloe *	1,079	56%
	Conservative	John Thomas	838	44%
Majority			241
Registered electors			3,053
Turnout			1,917	63%
	Liberal hold		Swing

Castle Street

No. 18 Castle Street

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Thomas Binley Neale	unopposed
Registered electors
	Conservative gain from Liberal Unionist		Swing

Dingle

No. 26 Dingle

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Edward James Chevalier	1,608	58%
	Independent Liberal	Thomas Byrne	1,185	42%
Majority			423
Registered electors			5,367
Turnout			2,793	52%
	Conservative hold		Swing

Edge Hill

No. 12 Edge Hill

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Wilson Walker	1,441	63%
	Liberal	John William Fairbrother	861	37%
Majority			580
Registered electors			4,938
Turnout			2,302	47%
	Conservative hold		Swing

Everton

No. 9 Everton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	William Oulton *	1,123	84%
	Labour	Robert Clement Faulkener	208	16%
Majority			915
Registered electors			4,745
Turnout			1,331	28%
	Liberal Unionist hold		Swing

Exchange

No. 16 Exchange

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Robert Durning Holt *	unopposed
Registered electors
	Liberal hold		Swing

Fairfield

No. 4 Fairfield

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Joseph Hunter	unopposed
Registered electors
	Conservative hold		Swing

Granby

No. 22 Granby

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Robert Henry Bullen	1,439	59%
	Conservative	Herbert Campbell *	992	41%
Majority			447
Registered electors			3,992
Turnout			2,431	61%
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing

Great George

No. 20 Great George

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Edward Paull	unopposed
Registered electors
	Liberal hold		Swing

Kensington

No. 11 Kensington

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Dr. Thomas Clarke *	unopposed
Registered electors
	Conservative hold		Swing

Kirkdale

No. 2 Kirkdale

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Joseph Hoult *	1,832	65%
	Liberal	John Lyon Langford	987	35%
Majority			845
Registered electors			6,228
Turnout			2,819
	Conservative hold		Swing

Low Hill

No. 10 Low Hill

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Jones *	1,029	71%
	Labour	Clement William George	418	29%
Majority			611
Registered electors			4,213
Turnout			1,447	34%
Rejected ballots			14
	Conservative hold		Swing

Netherfield

No. 8 Netherfield

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Robert Fletcher *	unopposed
Registered electors
	Conservative hold		Swing

North Scotland

No. 13 North Scotland

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Nationalist	James Bolger *	unopposed
Registered electors
	Irish Nationalist hold		Swing

North Walton

No. 27 North Walton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Kelly *	unopposed
Registered electors
	Conservative hold		Swing

Prince's Park

No. 23 Prince's Park

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Edward Willink *	unopposed
Registered electors
	Conservative hold		Swing

Sandhills

No. 1 Sandhills

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Thomas Salter	1,023	53%
	Conservative	Barnett Lipson	870	45%
	Independent Irish Nationalist	Michael Thomas Bolger	20	1%
Majority			153
Registered electors			3,308
Turnout			1,913	58%
	Liberal hold		Swing

St. Anne's

No. 17 St. Anne's

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Crean *	378	88%
	Independent Irish Nationalist	Thomas Hart	50	12%
Majority			328
Registered electors			3,461
Turnout			428	12%
	Liberal hold		Swing

St. Domingo

No. 7 St. Domingo

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Anthony Shelmerdine	unopposed
Registered electors
	Conservative hold		Swing

St. Peter's

No. 19 St. Peter's

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Henry Miles	unopposed
Registered electors
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing

Sefton Park

No. 24 Sefton Park

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Francis Henderson *	unopposed
Registered electors
	Conservative hold		Swing

South Scotland

No. 14 South Scotland

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Nationalist	George Jeremy Lynskey	unopposed
Registered electors
	Irish Nationalist hold		Swing

South Walton

No. 3 South Walton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Houlding *	1,166	63%
	Independent	Alexander McLaren	683	37%
Majority			483
Registered electors			3,846
Turnout			1,849	48%
	Conservative hold		Swing

Vauxhall

No. 15 Vauxhall

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Nationalist	John Gregory Taggart *	unopposed
Registered electors
	Irish Nationalist hold		Swing

Wavertree

No. 5 Wavertree

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Isaac Turner *	unopposed
Registered electors
	Conservative hold		Swing

West Derby

No. 28 West Derby

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Lister *	unopposed
Registered electors
	Conservative hold		Swing

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Aldermanic Elections

At the meeting of the Council on 9 November 1898, the terms of office of fourteen alderman expired. ^[13] The following fourteen were elected as Aldermen by the Council (Aldermen and Councillors) on 9 November 1898 for a term of six years.

* - re-elected aldermen.

Party		Alderman
	Conservative	William Bartlett *
	Liberal	William Benjamin Bowring JP *
	Irish Nationalist	Dr. Andrew Commins MP *
	Conservative	Charles Herbert Giles *
	Liberal Unionist	Henry Hugh Hornby JP *
	Conservative	Thomas Menlove JP *
	Liberal	Jeremiah Miles JP *
	Liberal	Edward Paull JP
	Irish Nationalist	Edward Purcell
	Liberal	James Ruddin JP *
	Conservative	Archibald Tutton Salvidge the younger JP
	Liberal	Frederick Smith *
	Conservative	Ephraim Walker JP *
	Conservative	William Humphry Williams *

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By-elections

Aldermanic By Election, 9 November 1898

Following the death of Alderman Arthur Bower Forwood Bart. MP, former councillor Herbert Campbell JP (Conservative, North Toxteth elected 1886, ^[18] 1889 ^[19] and 1892 ^[20] ) was elected as an alderman by the council on 9 November 1898 ^{[17] [21]} . ^[22]

No. 20, Great George, 25 November 1898

Caused by the election of Councillor Edward Paul (Liberal, Great George, elected 1 November 1898) ^[3] as an alderman by the Council on 9 November 1898. ^[17]

No. 20 Great George

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		John Henderson	925	63%
		George Henry Ball	537	37%
Majority			388
Registered electors
Turnout			1,462
			Swing

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No. 13, North Scotland, 29 November 1898

Caused by the election of Councillor Edward Purcell (Irish Nationalist, North Scotland, elected 1 November 1896) ^[25] as an alderman by the council (councillors and aldermen) on 9 November 1898. ^[17]

No. 20 North Scotland

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Nationalist	Alexander Murray Bligh	unopposed
Registered electors
	Irish Nationalist hold		Swing

^[24]

No. 14, South Scotland, 29 November 1898

Caused by the death of Councillor Owen O'Hara (Irish Nationalist, South Scotland, elected 1 November 1896) ^[26] on 11 November 1898. ^[27]

No. 14 South Scotland

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Nationalist	Austin Harford	756	49%
		Terence Edward Brady	472	24%
		George Turner	470	24%
		Patrick Redmond	231	12%
Majority			284
Registered electors
Turnout			1,929
	Irish Nationalist hold		Swing

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No. 20, Great George, 10 February 1899

Caused by the death of Councillor Thomas Donnelly (Liberal, Great George, elected 1 November 1897) ^[30] on 18 January 1899. ^[31]

No. 20 Great George

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Thomas Dowdall	unopposed
Registered electors
	Liberal hold		Swing

^[32]

No.1, Sandhills, 17 March 1899

Caused by the resignation of Councillor William Nelson (Liberal, Sandhills, elected 1 November 1897) ^[33] which was reported to the Council on 1 March 1899. ^[34]

No. 1 Sandhills

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Nationalist	Bernard Conlon	unopposed
Registered electors
	Irish Nationalist hold		Swing

^[35]

No. 14, South Scotland, 28 April 1899

The election of George Jeremy Lynskey (Irish Nationalist, South Scotland, elected unopposed 1 November 1898) ^[3] was declared void by the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice 15 April 1899 ^[36] . ^[37]

No. 14 South Scotland

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Francis Joseph Harford	993	53%
		George Jeremy Lynskey	893	47%
Majority			100
Registered electors
Turnout			1,886
			Swing

^[37]

No. 15, Vauxhall, 19 May 1899

Caused by the death of Councillor Thomas Flynn (Irish Nationalist, Vauxhall, elected 1 November 1897) ^[38] on 3 May 1899. ^[39]

No. 15 Vauxhall

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Nationalist	Thomas Burke	680	69%
		Patrick Jeremiah Kelly	304	31%
Majority			376
Registered electors
Turnout			984
	Irish Nationalist hold		Swing

^[40]

No. 14, South Scotland,

Caused by the death of Councillor Robert Thompson (Irish Nationalist, South Scotland, elected 1 November 1896) ^[41] on 21 July 1899. ^[42]

No. 14 South Scotland

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Registered electors
			Swing

No. 26, Dingle, 10 October 1899

Caused by the resignation of Alderman Joseph Bond Morgan (Conservative, elected by the council as an alderman on 9 November 1895) ^{[43] [44]}

Councillor Thomas Evans (Conservative, Dingle, elected 1 November 1897) ^[30] was elected by the Council (Councillors and Aldermen) as an Alderman on 6 September 1899 ^[44] . ^[45]

No. 26 Dingle

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Alfred Stephen Collard	unopposed
Registered electors
	Conservative hold		Swing

No. 19, St. Peter's, October 1899

The resignation of Alderman Jeremiah Miles (Liberal, elected 9 November 1898) was reported to the Council on 4 October 1899. ^[46] Councillor William Henry Watts (Liberal St. Peter's, elected 1 November 1897) was elected as an alderman by the council on 4 October 1899.

No. 19 St. Peter's

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Henry Miles *
Majority
Registered electors
Turnout
	Liberal hold		Swing

See also

• Liverpool City Council
• Liverpool Town Council elections 1835 - 1879
• Liverpool City Council elections 1880–present
• Mayors and Lord Mayors of Liverpool 1207 to present
• History of local government in England

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