1950 Liverpool City Council election

1950 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 Thursday 11 May 1950.

After the election, the composition of the council was:

Party		Councillors	±	Aldermen	Total
	Conservative	78	+1	28	106
	Labour	34	-1	7	40
	Protestant	5	0	1	6
	Liberal	0	0	2	2

Election result

Liverpool Local Election Result 1950

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Conservative
	Labour
	Liberal
	Protestant
	Communist

Ward results

* - Councillor seeking re-election

^(PARTY) - Party of former Councillor

Comparisons are made with the 1947 election results.

Abercromby

Abercromby

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Cheshire (PARTY)	2,747	51%
	Labour	William Smyth	2,482	46%
	Communist	Colin Cameron	179	3%
Majority			265
Registered electors			13,210
Turnout			5,408	41%
	Conservative hold		Swing

Aigburth

Aigburth

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Meredith Alcock	5,881	81%	−2%
	Liberal	William Edward Oates	697	10%
	Labour	Thomas George White	668	9%	−8%
Majority			5,184
Registered electors			15,667
Turnout			7,246	46%	−12%
	Conservative hold		Swing

Allerton

Allerton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John McMillan (PARTY)	unopposed
Registered electors			9,477
	Conservative hold		Swing

Anfield

Anfield

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William John Harrop (PARTY)	4,899	69%	+5%
	Labour	Walter Richard Maylor	2,252	31%	−5%
Majority			2,647
Registered electors			16,612
Turnout			7,151	43%	−10%
	Conservative hold		Swing

Breckfield

Breckfield

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George William Prout *	3,329	64%	+4%
	Labour	Terence Roberts	1,907	36%	−4%
Majority			1,422
Registered electors			12,890
Turnout			5,236	41%	−10%
	Conservative hold		Swing

Brunswick

Brunswick

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	James Henry Flyn (PARTY)	2,421	82%	+7%
	Independent	Walter McGrath	520	18%
Majority			1,901
Registered electors			7,470
Turnout			2,941	39%	+15%
	Labour hold		Swing

Castle Street

Castle Street

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Thomas Winlack Harley (PARTY)	559	98%
	Labour	Harry Livermore	9	2%
Majority			550
Registered electors			860
Turnout			568	66%
	Conservative hold		Swing

Childwall

Childwall

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jack Creswell (PARTY)	5,004	84%	+2%
	Labour	William Dean Jones	952	16%	−2%
Majority			4,052
Registered electors			13,286
Turnout			5,956	45%	−10%
	Conservative hold		Swing

Croxteth

Croxteth

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Norman Arthur Williams (PARTY)	6,178	50%	−1%
	Labour	James Cullen	6,051	49%	+2%
	Communist	John Thomas Whewell	166	-1%
Majority			127
Registered electors			33,509
Turnout			12,395	37%	−2%
	Conservative hold		Swing

Dingle

Dingle

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Basil Cashin	4,232	50%	+4%
	Conservative	Stanley Airey (PARTY)	4,176	50%	−4%
Majority			56
Registered electors			17,793
Turnout			8,408	47%	−1%
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Edge Hill

Edge Hill

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Horan (PARTY)	2,712	57%	+3%
	Conservative	Hugh Maule Jones	1,937	41%	−5%
	Communist	Thomas McCann	85	2%
Majority			775
Registered electors			13,489
Turnout			4,734	35%	−4%
	Labour hold		Swing

Everton

Everton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Nickson (PARTY)	2,941	64%	+6%
	Conservative	William Thomas	1,570	34%	−8%
	Communist	John William Clarke	97	2%
Majority			1,371
Registered electors			13,021
Turnout			4,608	35%	−4%
	Labour hold		Swing

Exchange

Exchange

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	John Gerard Granby	666	85%	+6%
	Labour	Alexander Kay	121	15%	−6%
Majority			545
Registered electors			1,575
Turnout			787	50%	−5%
	Independent hold		Swing	+6%

Fairfield

Fairfield

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Robert Meadows (PARTY)	4,491	65%	−1%
	Labour	Edward William Harby	2,406	35%	+1%
Majority			2,085
Registered electors			15,572
Turnout			6,897	44%	−7%
	Conservative hold		Swing

Fazakerley

Fazakerley

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Joseph Morgan	5,100	52%	+6%
	Conservative	Robert Charles Andrews (PARTY)	4,793	48%	−6%
Majority			307
Registered electors			19,933
Turnout			9,893	50%	−1%
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	6%

Garston

Garston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alexander Hardman	3,580	49%	+3%
	Conservative	William Leslie McClelland (PARTY)	3,566	49%	−5%
	Communist	Isaac Brickwood Pick	93	1%
Majority			14
Registered electors			18,575
Turnout			7,239	39%	−18%
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Granby

Granby

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Walter Clarke (PARTY)	2,576	52%	−3%
	Labour	Mrs Elizabeth Trainor	2,385	48%	+3%
Majority			191
Registered electors			12,475
Turnout			4,961	40%	−3%
	Conservative hold		Swing

Great George

Great George

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour		783	51%	+6%
	Conservative		760	49%	−6%
Majority			23
Registered electors
Turnout			1,543
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Kensington

Kensington

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Stephen Minion (PARTY)	3,199	54%	−2%
	Labour	John Hamilton	2,402	41%	−3%
	Liberal	Edward Kelly	295	5%
Majority			797
Registered electors			14,109
Turnout			5,896	42%	−8%
	Conservative hold		Swing	-2%

Kirkdale

Kirkdale

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Howell James (PARTY)	4,134	53%	+1%
	Conservative	Edward Shaw	3,670	47%	−1%
Majority			464
Registered electors			19,840
Turnout			7,804	39%
	Labour hold		Swing	+1%

Little Woolton

Little Woolton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Eric Cuthbert Arden (PARTY)	1,173	62%	−22%
	Labour	Roy Stoddart	704	38%	+24%
Majority			469
Registered electors			3,018
Turnout			1,877	62%	−6%
	Conservative hold		Swing

Low Hill

Low Hill

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Mathew Taylor	2,685	52%	+7%
	Conservative	John Keenan	2,478	48%	−7%
Majority			207
Registered electors			11,944
Turnout			5,163	43%	−6%
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	7%

Much Woolton

Much Woolton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Vivian Forsyth Crosthwaite	2,054	80%	+6%
	Labour	William H. Sefton	509	20%	−6%
Majority			1,545
Registered electors			5,790
Turnout			2,563	43%	−15%
	Conservative hold		Swing

Netherfield

Netherfield

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative & Protestant	Harry Victor Shaw	2,030	62%	−1%
	Labour	Thomas Robinson	1,216	37%
	Communist	Sidney Foster	52	2%
Majority			814
Registered electors			10,012
Turnout			3,298	33%	−4%
	Conservative and Protestant hold		Swing

North Scotland

North Scotland

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Joseph O'Neil	1,585	98%	+23%
	Communist	John William Coward	30	2%	−5%
Majority			1,585
Registered electors			7,154
Turnout			1,615	23%	−10%
	Labour hold		Swing	+23%

Old Swan

Old Swan

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Leslie Thomas Rogers	7,609	65%	−1%
	Labour	Walter Duffy	3,994	34%	0%
	Communist	Miss Winifred May George	164	1%
Majority			3,615
Registered electors			27,201
Turnout			11,767	43%	−6%
	Conservative hold		Swing

Prince's Park

Prince's Park

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Browne (PARTY)	2,616	54%	−1%
	Labour	Mrs Ethel May Wormald	2,156	44%	−1%
	Communist	Mrs Evelyn Cohen	111	2%
Majority			460
Registered electors			12,012
Turnout			4,883	41%	−9%
	Conservative hold		Swing

Sandhills

Sandhills

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Henry Alldritt	2,408	79%	+6%
	Conservative	Frederick C. Hitches	645	21%	−6%
Majority			1,763
Registered electors			7,961
Turnout			3,053	38%	−3%
	Labour hold		Swing

St. Anne's

St. Anne's

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mrs. Sarah Anne McArd	1,324	65%	+3%
	Conservative	Miss Joan Ailsa Blackie	440	22%	−1%
	Independent	Joseph Francis Fusco	270	13%
Majority			884
Registered electors			5,527
Turnout			2,034	37%	−6%
	Labour hold		Swing	+3%

St. Domingo

St. Domingo

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Protestant	George Phipps (PARTY)	2,868	64%	+4%
	Labour	Stanley Michael McGorian	1,608	36%	−4%
Majority			1,260
Registered electors			13,070
Turnout			4,476	34%	−8%
	Protestant hold		Swing

St. Peter's

St. Peter's

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Mrs. Evaline Ida Bligh	414	58%	−12%
	Labour	Thomas George Dominic McGuire	306	43%	+13%
Majority			108
Registered electors			1,369
Turnout			720	53%	+7%
	Conservative hold		Swing

Sefton Park East

Sefton Park East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Nuttall Maxwell Entwistle (PARTY)	unopposed
	Conservative hold		Swing

Sefton Park West

Sefton Park West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Walter Pickles	4,037	76%	−2%
	Labour	Richard John Alcock	1,310	24%	+2%
Majority			2,727
Registered electors			10,913
Turnout			5,347	49%	−2%
	Conservative hold		Swing	-2%

South Scotland

South Scotland - 2 seats

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Frederick Ernest Granby (PARTY)	2,053	97%
	Labour	Edward Corrigan (PARTY)	1,988	94%
	Communist	Dr. Cyril Taylor	66	3%
Majority			1,987
Registered electors			6,355
Turnout			2,119	33%
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Vauxhall

Vauxhall

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Patrick O'Brien (PARTY)	598	69%
	Conservative	Sydney Charles Freeman	274	31%	0%
Majority			324
Registered electors			2,736
Turnout			872	32%
	Labour hold		Swing

Walton

Walton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Moore (PARTY)	5,767	58%	−2%
	Labour	Walter Gibbs	4,131	42%	+2%
Majority			1,636
Registered electors			23,033
Turnout			9,898	43%
	Conservative hold		Swing	-2%

Warbreck

Warbreck

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Arthur Whitaker Lowe (PARTY)	5,220	69%	−2%
	Labour	Ian Isidore Levin	2,319	31%	+2%
Majority			2,901
Registered electors			19,085
Turnout			7,539	40%	−7%
	Conservative hold		Swing

Wavertree

Wavertree - 2 seats

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	??????? Wilson	6,911	75%
	Conservative	Edward Jennings	6,863	75%
	Labour	Francis Burke	2,334	25%
	Labour	Mrs. ????? Wright	2,278	25%
Majority			4,567
Registered electors
Turnout			9,255
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Wavertree West

Wavertree West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John James Merrigan (PARTY)	2,705	51%	−4%
	Labour	Charles James Minton	2,609	49%	+4%
Majority			96
Registered electors			11,539
Turnout			5,314	46%	−8%
	Conservative hold		Swing	-4%

West Derby

West Derby

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Alec James Garnock-Jones	8,679	69%	0%
	Labour	William Indcox Jones	3,347	27%	−4%
	Liberal	Cameron Melville	493	4%
Majority			5,332
Registered electors			31,444
Turnout			12,519	40%	−11%
	Conservative hold		Swing

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By-elections

North Scotland, Thursday 22 November 1950

Vacancy left by Cllr. Herbert F. Granby.

North Scotland

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Thomas Robinson	1,527	87%	−11%
	Conservative	Leonard James Carr	234	13%
Majority			1,293
Registered electors			7,154
Turnout			1,761	25%	+2%
	Labour hold		Swing	-11%

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References

1. Jeffery, David. "Merseyside Local Election Results Project". Dr David Jeffery. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
2. Liverpool Daily Post 12 May 1950
3. Liverpool Echo 12 May 1950
4. Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1950-1951
5. Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1947-1948
6. Liverpool Daily Post 22 November 1950
7. Liverpool Daily Post 23 November 1950
8. Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1950-1951