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Elections to Sale Council were held on Thursday, 13 May 1954. One third of the councillors were up for election, with each successful candidate to serve a three-year term of office. The Conservative Party retained overall control of the council. [1] [2]
| Party | Votes | Seats | Full Council | |||||||
| Conservative Party | 6,224 (57.0%) |  1.3 | 7 (87.5%) | 7 / 8 |  1 | 27 (84.4%) | 27 / 32 | |||
| Labour Party | 3,905 (35.7%) | 8.6 | 1 (12.5%) | 1 / 8 | 1 | 5 (15.6%) | 5 / 32 | |||
| Liberal Party | 795 (7.3%) | N/A | 0 (0.0%) | 0 / 8 | N/A | 0 (0.0%) | 0 / 32 | |||
| 5 | 27 |
| 8 |
| 5 | 19 |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | J. G. Steel* | uncontested | |||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | W. A. Jones* | uncontested | |||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | F. S. Laughton* | 1,052 | 73.3 | -16.6 | |
| Liberal | B. T. Ames | 795 | 42.8 | N/A | |
| Majority | 257 | 13.8 | -32.8 | ||
| Turnout | 1,847 | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | C. J. Hobson* | 1,353 | 69.5 | ||
| Labour | E. J. Macauley | 595 | 30.5 | ||
| Majority | 758 | 39.0 | |||
| Turnout | 1,948 | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | J. K. Kerr* | 1,323 | 59.8 | -8.6 | |
| Labour | A. N. Keohane | 888 | 40.2 | +8.6 | |
| Majority | 435 | 19.6 | -17.2 | ||
| Turnout | 2,211 | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | E. Lee* | uncontested | |||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Labour | C. G. Woodward | 1,065 | 53.2 | +0.2 | |
| Conservative | V. S. Webb* | 936 | 46.8 | -0.2 | |
| Majority | 129 | 6.4 | +0.4 | ||
| Turnout | 2,001 | ||||
| Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | L. Bethell* | 1,560 | 53.5 | +12.8 | |
| Labour | G. A. O'Brien | 1,357 | 46.5 | -12.8 | |
| Majority | 203 | 7.0 | |||
| Turnout | 2,917 | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
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