1946 Liverpool City Council election

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1946 Liverpool City Council election
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Map of Liverpool showing wards won (first placed party) [1]

Elections to Liverpool City Council were held on 1 November 1946.

Contents

After the election, the composition of the council was:

PartyCouncillors  ±  AldermenTotal
Conservative  ?? ?? ?? ??
Labour  ?? ?? ?? ??
Protestant  ?? ?? ?? ??
Liberal  ?? ?? ?? ??

Election result

Liverpool Local Election Result 1946
PartySeatsGainsLossesNet gain/lossSeats %Votes %Votes+/−
  Conservative 2251%106,206
  Labour 1445%96,623
  Protestant 22.3%4,890
  Independent 10.83%1,729
  Liberal 10.91%1,911
  Communist 00000%0.64%1,342

Ward results

* - Councillor seeking re-election

(PARTY) - Party of former Councillor

Due to the disruptions caused by the Second World War, no comparisons are made.

Abercromby

Abercromby
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Reginald Bevins2,43552%
Labour Richard Clitherow2,27948%
Majority156
Registered electors 13,858
Turnout 4,71434%

Aigburth

Aigburth
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Vere Egerton Cotton5,77882%
Labour Eric Barnes1,24918%
Majority4,529
Registered electors 16,530
Turnout 7,02743%

Allerton

Allerton
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John McMillan3,21164%
Labour Charles Chesworth1,32527%
Liberal William Henry Ledsom4599%
Majority1,886
Registered electors 10,076
Turnout 4,99550%

Anfield

Anfield
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative William John Harrop4,67260%
Labour John Christopher Caroll3,15140%
Majority1,521
Registered electors 17,660
Turnout 7,82344%

Breckfield

Breckfield
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative George William Prout3,30859%
Labour Peter Joseph Haines2,30641%
Majority1,002
Registered electors 13,166
Turnout 5,61443%

Brunswick

Brunswick
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Joseph Whitehead2,37781%
Conservative William Henry Bevan41114%
Communist Albert Southern1314.5%
Majority1,966
Registered electors 7,593
Turnout 2,91938%

Castle Street

Castle Street
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Herbert Neville Bewleyunopposed
Registered electors 892

Childwall

Childwall
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Jack Creswell4,86076%
Labour Thomas McConnell1,53524%
Majority3,325
Registered electors 13,294
Turnout 6,39543%

Croxteth

Croxteth
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Alfred Hargreaves5,51454%
Conservative John G. Morgan4,23841%
Communist John Coward4784.7%
Majority1,276
Registered electors 30,938
Turnout 10,23033%

Dingle

Dingle
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour William Basil Cashin4,03551%
Conservative Edward Thomas White3,87749%
Majority158
Registered electors 18,244
Turnout 7,91243%

Edge Hill

Edge Hill
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Arthur Leadbetter2,97356%
Conservative Bertram Saul Morgan2,12540%
Communist Sidney Foster1723.2%
Independent Charles Henry Parry230.43%
Majority848
Registered electors 18,244
Turnout 5,29329%

Everton

Everton
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour David Nickson3,16566%
Conservative Joseph George Hatton1,62034%
Majority1,545
Registered electors 13,629
Turnout 4,78535%

Exchange

Exchange
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent John Gerard Granby64873%
Labour Alfred Strange22826%
Independent Frederick Bowman91%
Majority420
Registered electors 1,589
Turnout 88556%

Fairfield

Fairfield
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Robert Meadows3,91257%
Labour Dorothy C. Keeling2,97343%
Majority939
Registered electors 15,828
Turnout 6,88543%

Fazakerley

Fazakerley
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Arthur J. Brownlow4,40453%
Conservative George Moore3,92947%
Majority475
Registered electors 20,478
Turnout 8,33341%

Garston

Garston
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Alex Hardman3,58457%
Conservative Victor C. Sutton2,35538%
Independent Arthur J.Holland3015%
Majority1,229
Registered electors 16,027
Turnout 6,24039%

Granby

Granby
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Walter Clarke2,45750%
Labour William Tipping2,43550%
Majority22
Registered electors 13,302
Turnout 4,89237%

Great George

Great George - 2 seats
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative William George Ingham82756%
Conservative John Gwilyn Hughes80555%
Labour Alexander Kay64444%
Labour John Hamilton 63243%
Majority183
Registered electors 3,953
Turnout 1,47137%

Kensington

Kensington
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Frederick H. Bailey3,11752%
Labour Walter Gibbs2,83848%
Majority279
Registered electors 14,505
Turnout 5,95541%

Kirkdale

Kirkdale
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Isaac Richmond3,98656%
Conservative Joseph Trevor Booth3,18244%
Majority804
Registered electors 19,580
Turnout 7,16837%

Little Woolton

No election.

Low Hill

Low Hill
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Nuttall Maxwell Entwistle2,50251%
Labour William Dean-Jones2,36449%
Majority138
Registered electors 12,372
Turnout 4,86639%

Much Woolton

Much Woolton
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Vivian Forsyth Crosthwaite1,88663%
Labour Griffith Daniel Ellis1,12837%
Majority758
Registered electors 5,387
Turnout 3,01456%

Netherfield

Netherfield
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative and Protestant Harry Victor Shaw2,16157%
Labour George Carmichael1,63443%
Majority527
Registered electors 10,300
Turnout 3,79537%

North Scotland

North Scotland
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Joseph O'Neill2,14083%
Communist Leo Joseph McGree42417%
Majority1,716
Registered electors 7,187
Turnout 2,56436%

Old Swan

Old Swan
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Leslie Thomas Rogers6,83456%
Labour Clifford Selly5,29044%
Majority1,553
Registered electors 28,456
Turnout 12,13343%

Prince's Park

Prince's Park
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative William Browne2,62752%
Labour Mrs. Ethel May Wormald2,41648%
Majority211
Registered electors 12,421
Turnout 5,04341%

Sandhills

Sandhills
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Thomas Henry Dunford2,07674%
Conservative John Edward Molloy71526%
Majority1,361
Registered electors 7,904
Turnout 2,79135%

St. Anne's

St. Anne's
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Mrs. Sarah Anne McArd1,13859%
Independent John Larkin78041%
Majority358
Registered electors 6,420
Turnout 1,91830%

St. Domingo

St. Domingo
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Protestant James Wareing2,72958%
Labour Walter Louis Cleaver2,00642%
Majority723
Registered electors 13,428
Turnout 4,73535%

St. Peter's

St. Peter's
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Mrs Evaline Ida Bligh37069%
Labour Peter James O'Hare16631%
Majority204
Registered electors 1,260
Turnout 53643%

Sefton Park East

Sefton Park East
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative George Webster Armour3,60072%
Labour Robert Craig Smart1,40928%
Majority2,191
Registered electors 14,664
Turnout 5,00934%

Sefton Park West

Sefton Park West
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative George Walter Pickles3,73368%
Labour Thomas Scott1,73232%
Majority2,001
Registered electors 11,104
Turnout 5,46549%

South Scotland

South Scotland
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Frederick Ernest Granbyunopposed
Registered electors 6,375

Vauxhall

Vauxhall
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Patrick J. O'Brien65672%
Conservative Ernest Watkinson25828%
Communist
Majority398
Registered electors 2,637
Turnout 91435%

Walton

Walton
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Reginald Richard Bailey5,49054%
Labour Charles McDonald4,68946%
Majority801
Registered electors 23,677
Turnout 10,17943%

Warbreck

Warbreck
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Arthur Whitaker Lowe4,53562%
Labour John Metcalf2,79538%
Majority1,740
Registered electors 20,101
Turnout 7,33036%

Wavertree

Wavertree
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Village6,26757%
Labour John F. Hughes3,72034%
Liberal Francis F.C. Moulton1,08210%
Majority2,547
Registered electors 23,442
Turnout 11,06947%

Wavertree West

Wavertree West
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Thomas Wallace2,96653%
Conservative Maurice Voss2,54545%
Communist Thomas McCann1372%
Majority421
Registered electors 11,779
Turnout 5,64848%

West Derby

West Derby
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Charles William Wingrove8,08663%
Labour Edward William Harby4,66537%
Majority3,421
Registered electors 32,400
Turnout 12,75139%

[2] [3]

By-elections

Aigburth 28 November 1946

On 9 November 1946 the aldermanic vacancy caused by the death of Alderman William Denton (???), Vere Egerton Cotton C.B.E. (Conservative, elected to the Aigburth ward on 1 November 1946) was elected as an Alderman.

Aigburth
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative William Latham Batesonunopposed
Registered electors 16,530

Castle Street 4 February 1947

Alderman John Case died on 1 December 1946. [4]

On 8 January 1947 the Council elected Councillor Herbert Neville Bewley (Conservative ) as an Alderman. [5]

Castle Street
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Thomas Winlock Harley411
Liberal Herbert Griffith Edwards47
Labour Clifford Selly15
Majority364
Registered electors 892
Turnout

[6]

Garston 2 April 1947

Alderman Sir Sydney Jones died on 16 February 1947. [7]

The Councillor for Garston ward Councillor Joseph Williams (Conservative, last elected 1st November 1938) was elected by the Council as an Alderman on 5 March 1947 to fill the vacant post left by the death of Alderman Sir Sydney Jones (Liberal). [8]

Garston
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Henry Clarke 3,588 52.2%
Labour William Henry Sefton 3,27947.7%
Majority309
Registered electors 16,027
Turnout 6,86742.8%
Conservative hold Swing

[9]

North Scotland 29 May 1947

Caused by the resignation of Councillor Thomas Fay (Labour, elected 1st November 1945 ).

North Scotland
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Herbert Francis Granby 2,167
Richard Haddow Forrest507
Majority1,660
Registered electors 7,187
Turnout 2,67437.2
Labour hold Swing

[10]

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References

  1. ↑ Jeffery, David (18 October 2020). "Merseyside Local Election Results Project". Dr David Jeffery. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  2. ↑ Liverpool Daily Post 2 November 1946
  3. ↑ Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1946-1947
  4. ↑ Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1946-1947 pg 110
  5. ↑ Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1946-1947 pg 182
  6. ↑ Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1946-1947 pg 272
  7. ↑ Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1946-1947 pg 334
  8. ↑ Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1946-1947 pg 272
  9. ↑ Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1946-1947 pg 412
  10. ↑ Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1946-1947 pg 552
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