Westminster (London County Council constituency)

Westminster
Former constituency for the London County Council
Former constituency
Created	1889
Abolished	1919
Member(s)	2
Replaced by	Westminster Abbey and Westminster St George's

Westminster was a constituency used for elections to the London County Council between 1889 and 1919. The seat shared boundaries with the UK Parliament constituency of the same name.

Councillors

Year	Name	Party		Name	Party
1889	Walter Eugene de Souza		Moderate	Vernon James Watney		Moderate
1892				Henry Fox-Strangways		Moderate
1895				Lionel Holland		Moderate
1897	Louis Henry Hayter		Moderate
1898				Reginald White Granville-Smith		Moderate
1904	Clement Young Sturge		Municipal Reform
1907				William Peel		Municipal Reform
1910				Reginald White Granville-Smith		Municipal Reform
1911	Percy Gates		Municipal Reform

Election results

1889 London County Council election: Westminster ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Moderate	Walter de Souza	1,539
	Moderate	Vernon James Watney	1,482
	Progressive	John Coppen	1,415
	Progressive	Ashley Ponsonby	1,184
	Independent	David de Pinna	455
	Independent	William Lewis Josephs	88
	Moderate win (new seat)
	Moderate win (new seat)

1892 London County Council election: Westminster ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Moderate	Walter de Souza	2,074
	Moderate	Henry Fox-Strangways	1,979
	Progressive	G. Stewart Ross	1,514
	Moderate hold		Swing
	Moderate hold		Swing

1895 London County Council election: Westminster ^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Moderate	Walter de Souza	2,224
	Moderate	Lionel Holland	2,150
	Progressive	C. de Selincourt	1,251
	Moderate hold		Swing
	Moderate hold		Swing

1898 London County Council election: Westminster ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Moderate	Louis Henry Hayter	2,212
	Moderate	Reginald White Granville-Smith	2,190
	Progressive	T. Bremner	789
	Moderate hold		Swing

1901 London County Council election: Westminster ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Louis Henry Hayter	1,509	35.3	−7.3
	Conservative	Reginald White Granville-Smith	1,485	34.7	−7.5
	Progressive	Charles Langstein Heywood	883	20.7	+5.5
	Temperance	John George Chappell	399	9.3	n/a
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing	-6.5

1904 London County Council election: Westminster ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Reginald White Granville-Smith	2,006
	Conservative	Clement Young Sturge	1,935
	Labour	Charles Langstein Heywood	1,192
	Labour	Charles Duncan	1,169
Majority
	Conservative hold		Swing

1907 London County Council election: Westminster ^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	William Peel	3,419
	Municipal Reform	Clement Young Sturge	3,392
	Progressive	W. B. Campbell	1,299
	Progressive	E. Herrin	1,298
Majority
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

1910 London County Council election: Westminster ^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	Reginald White Granville-Smith	2,907
	Municipal Reform	Clement Young Sturge	2,828
	Progressive	William Wheeler	1,018
	Progressive	Charles Langstein Heywood	1,014
Majority
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

1913 London County Council election: Westminster ^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	Reginald White Granville-Smith	3,310
	Municipal Reform	Percy George Gates	3,228
	Progressive	Mabel St Clair Stobart	1,199
	Progressive	Lionel Gurney Buxton	1,168
Majority
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

References

1. "The London County Council election". The Times. 7 March 1892.
2. "London County Council election". The Times. 5 March 1895.
3. "London County Council election: results of the polling". The Times. 26 February 1898.
4. "London County Council Election." Times [London, England] 4 Mar. 1901: 7. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 22 Sept. 2016.
5. "London County Council election". The Times. 7 March 1904.
6. "London County Council election: great Municipal Reform victory". The Times. 4 March 1907.
7. "London County Council Election." Times [London, England] 7 Mar. 1910: 7. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 1 May 2016.
8. London Municipal Notes, 1913