Elections to Kesteven County Council were held on Saturday, 2 April 1955. Kesteven was one of three divisions of the historic county of Lincolnshire in England; it consisted of the ancient wapentakes (or hundreds) of Aswardhurn, Aveland, Beltisloe, Boothby Graffoe, Flaxwell, Langoe, Loveden, Ness, and Winnibriggs and Threo. [1] The Local Government Act 1888 established Kesteven as an administrative county, governed by a Council; [2] elections were held every three years from 1889, until it was abolished by the Local Government Act 1972, which established Lincolnshire County Council in its place. [3] [4]
The County Council was divided into 60 electoral divisions. 45 independents and 15 Labour candidates were returned in the 1961 elections. [5]
Division | Candidate [5] | Party | Votes | Retiring member? |
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Ancaster | Robert William Chadburn | Ind | r | |
Bassingham | ||||
Bennington | Christopher Ullyatt | Lab | ||
Billingborough | Leslie Ronald Swingler | Ind | r | |
Billinghay | Bertie Tomlinson | Ind | ||
Bourne no. 1 | ||||
Bourne no. 2 | ||||
Bracebridge | Herbert Edward Hough | Lab | 453 | |
Miss Alice Rooke | Ind | 416 | ||
Branston | ||||
Bytham | ||||
Caythorpe | John William Oxby | Ind | 443 | r |
Mrs Dorothy Lily Pamblett | Ind | 203 | ||
Claypole | ||||
Colsterworth | Charles Bulstridge Bailey | Ind | 327 | |
Mrs Constance Lily Jacques | Ind | 226 | ||
Gordon Suter | Lab | 100 | ||
Corby | ||||
Cranwell | John Edwin Mountain | Ind | ||
Deeping St James | ||||
Dunston | ||||
Gonerby and Barrowby | Philip Newton | Ind | 371 | |
John Edward Snell | Lab | 335 | r | |
Grantham no. 1 | ||||
Grantham no. 2 | ||||
Grantham no. 3 | ||||
Grantham no. 4 | ||||
Grantham no. 5 | ||||
Grantham no. 6 | ||||
Grantham no. 7 | Arthur Syddall | Ind | 440 | |
George Ernest Waltham | Lab | 222 | ||
Grantham no. 8 | ||||
Grantham no. 9 | ||||
Grantham no. 10 | ||||
Heckington | George Henry Dunmore | Ind | r | |
Helpringham | Sydney Percy King | Lab | r | |
Kyme | Ernest Leonard Lamyman | Ind | r | |
Leadenham | William Reeve | Ind | ||
Market Deeping | ||||
Martin | ||||
Metheringham | Frederick Cooling Townsend | Ind | 439 | r |
Frederick Archie Burgon | Lab | 332 | ||
Morton | Jack Manton | Lab | 311 | |
Alan Shaw | Ind | 265 | r | |
Navenby | Richard Baden Naylor | Ind | ||
North Hykeham | Sydney Roe | Ind | 567 | r |
Frederick Albert Baker | Lab | 401 | ||
Osbournby | Mrs Nellie Robson | Ind | r | |
Ponton | ||||
Rippingale | Harold Scarborough | Lab | 304 | |
John Alexander Galletly | Ind | 278 | ||
Ropsley | ||||
Ruskington | Benjamin Ebenezer Brighton | Ind | r | |
Scopwick | Horace Waudby | Ind | r | |
Skellingthorpe | ||||
Sleaford no. 1 | Edgar Wilfred Elmore | Ind | r | |
Sleaford no. 2 | Cecil John Barnes | Ind | 502 | r |
John Mathieson Klingberg | Lab | 458 | ||
Sleaford no. 3 | William Middleton | Ind | r | |
Stamford no. 1 | ||||
Stamford no. 2 | William Arthur James Darnes | Lab | 459 | |
Harry Skells | Ind | 173 | r | |
Stamford no. 3 | ||||
Stamford no. 4 | ||||
Stamford no. 5 | ||||
Swinderby | ||||
Thurlby | ||||
Uffington | ||||
Washingborough | ||||
Welby | Herbert Vian Clark | Ind | 426 | |
Reginald Edgar Burnett | Lab | 260 | ||
Wilsford | Henry Pryor Kelway | Ind | ||
Woolsthorpe |
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