1919 London County Council election

Last updated December 17, 2023

An election to the County Council of London took place on 6 March 1919. It was the tenth triennial election of the whole Council. The size of the council was increased to 124 councillors and 20 aldermen. The councillors were elected for electoral divisions corresponding to the new parliamentary constituencies that had been created by the Representation of the People Act 1918. There were 60 dual-member constituencies and one four-member constituency. The council was elected by First Past the Post, with each elector having two votes in the dual-member seats.

National government background

The prime minister of the day was the Liberal David Lloyd George. who had just led a Coalition Government that included the Unionist Party and some Liberals and Socialists to a general election victory three months earlier, with the help of a Coalition government 'coupon'.

London Council background

Although the Municipal Reform Party had won an overall majority at the last elections in 1913, in line with national politics, they decided late in 1917 to form a war-time coalition to mirror the national government. Some Progressive Party members were offered chairmanships of committees. This coalition had continued after the war ended.

Candidates

There was no County wide electoral agreements between any of the parties, though clearly there had been some locally agreed situations. There were very few constituencies where all three parties stood two candidates. In the past, the Progressive Party had encompassed the Labour Party, with candidates running in harness. That situation was becoming less common. A few Progressive candidates ran in harness with Municipal Reform candidates but there was no 'coupon' in operation for the two 'coalition parties' who frequently ran candidates against each other. Among the defeated candidates were future Labour Leader Clement Attlee and future Conservative Chief Whip David Margesson

Outcome

The Municipal Reform Party won an overall majority of seats, electing 68 councillors. They only lost one seat, to an Independent candidate. (The defeated candidate was made an Alderman after the election) As before they decided to operate a form of Coalition with the Progressives. Labour made a substantial advance in terms of seats, but remained the third party. There was just one Independent elected.

Constituency results

Battersea

Incumbent Councillors shown in bold.

London County Council election, 1919: Battersea North ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Joseph George Butler	2,635	28.7
	Labour	Alfred Augustus Watts	2,518	27.4
	Municipal Reform	William Watts	2,019	22.0
	Municipal Reform	G. L. B. Rees	2,003	21.8
Majority			499	5.4
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Battersea South BatterseaSouth.png — Battersea South

London County Council election, 1919: Battersea South ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Municipal Reform	Edwin Evans	3,836	26.3
	Municipal Reform	William Hammond	3,683	25.2
	Progressive	William J. West	1,978	13.5
	Progressive	Walter Richard Warren	1,975	13.5
	Labour	Caroline Selina Ganley	1,603	11.0
	Labour	C. Reed	1,523	10.4
Majority			1,705	11.7
	Municipal Reform gain from Progressive		Swing
	Municipal Reform gain from Progressive		Swing

Bermondsey

Rotherhithe Rotherhithe1918.png — Rotherhithe

London County Council election, 1919: Rotherhithe ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive	Dr. John Scott Lidgett	2,327	36.3
	Progressive	R. L. Stuart	2,252	35.2
	Labour	Ada Salter	988	15.4
	Labour	John Thomas Westcott	839	13.1
Majority			1,264	19.8
	Progressive hold		Swing
	Progressive hold		Swing

Bermondsey West BermondseyWest.png — Bermondsey West

London County Council election, 1919: Bermondsey West ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive	Harold James Glanville	2,214	28.5
	Progressive	Montague Shearman	1,619	20.9
	Labour	Dr. Alfred Salter	1,464	18.9
	Independent	William Shearring	1,420	18.3
	Labour	Charles William Gibson	1,046	13.5
Majority			155	2.0
	Progressive hold		Swing
	Progressive hold		Swing

Bethnal Green

London County Council election, 1919: Bethnal Green North East ^[1]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Progressive	Sir Edward Smith	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Progressive	Garnham Edmonds	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Progressive hold		Swing	n/a
Progressive hold		Swing	n/a

London County Council election, 1919: Bethnal Green South West ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive	Rev. Stewart Duckworth Headlam	1,599	42.0
	Progressive	Percy Alfred Harris	1,446	38.0
	Labour	Joseph James Vaughan	393	10.3
	Labour	H. Fitt	371	9.7
Majority			1,053	27.7
	Progressive hold		Swing
	Progressive hold		Swing

Camberwell

London County Council election, 1919: Dulwich ^[1]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Municipal Reform	Henry Cubitt Gooch	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Municipal Reform	Francis Edward Fremantle	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Municipal Reform hold		Swing	n/a
Municipal Reform hold		Swing	n/a

Camberwell North CamberwellNorth.png — Camberwell North

London County Council election, 1919: Camberwell North ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Charles George Ammon	1,450	34.5	n/a
	Progressive	Herbert Arthur Baker	1,021	24.3	-3.9
	Municipal Reform	Henry Joseph Raiment	932	22.2	-0.1
	Municipal Reform	Arthur Charles Fox-Davies	802	19.1	-2.7
Majority			89	2.1	-3.9
	Progressive hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Progressive		Swing

Camberwell North West CamberwellNorthWest.png — Camberwell North West

London County Council election, 1919: Camberwell North-West ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Henry Ernest Wood	1,534	27.8	n/a
	Progressive	Seth Coward	1,503	27.3	n/a
	Municipal Reform	Rose Dunn-Gardner	1,255	22.8	n/a
	Municipal Reform	J M Fraser	1,222	22.2	n/a
Majority			248	4.5	n/a
	Progressive win

London County Council election, 1919: Peckham ^[1]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Progressive	Thomas Gautrey	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Progressive	Earl of Haddo	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Progressive hold		Swing	n/a
Progressive hold		Swing	n/a

Chelsea

London County Council election, 1919: Chelsea ^[1]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Municipal Reform	Ernest Louis Meinertzhagen	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Municipal Reform	Ronald Collet Norman	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Municipal Reform hold		Swing	n/a
Municipal Reform hold		Swing	n/a

City of London

London County Council election, 1919: City of London ^[1]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Municipal Reform	Sir John Lulham Pound	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Municipal Reform	William Wilson Grantham	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Municipal Reform	Sir Percy Coleman Simmons	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Municipal Reform	Sir George Rowland Blades	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Municipal Reform hold		Swing	n/a
Municipal Reform hold		Swing	n/a
Municipal Reform hold		Swing	n/a
Municipal Reform hold		Swing	n/a

Deptford

London County Council election, 1919: Deptford ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Margaret McMillan	4,575	31.0
	Labour	John Speakman	4,356	29.5
	Municipal Reform	William Francis Marchant	3,094	21.0
	Municipal Reform	Fred Bramston	2,730	18.5
Majority			1,262	8.6
	Labour gain from Progressive		Swing
	Labour gain from Municipal Reform		Swing

Finsbury

London County Council election, 1919: Finsbury ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive	George Masterman Gillett	2,897	29.9
	Progressive	Alfred Baker	2,569	26.5
	Municipal Reform	Henry Baldwin Barton	2,146	22.2
	Municipal Reform	James Little	2,073	21.4
Majority			423	4.3
	Progressive hold		Swing
	Progressive hold		Swing

Fulham

London County Council election, 1919: Fulham East ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Municipal Reform	Sir Francis Lloyd	2,747	34.8
	Municipal Reform	Beatrix Margaret Lyall	2,673	33.8
	Labour	Dr Robert Dunstan	1,264	16.0
	Labour	L A. Hill	1,218	15.4
Majority			1,409	17.8
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

Fulham West FulhamWest1918.png — Fulham West

London County Council election, 1919: Fulham West ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Municipal Reform	Sir Cyril Stephen Cobb	3,834	34.8
	Municipal Reform	William Ward Warner	3,542	32.2
	Labour	Robert Mark Gentry	1,934	17.6
	Labour	John Palmer	1,695	15.4
Majority			1,608	14.6
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

Greenwich

London County Council election, 1919: Greenwich ^[1]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Municipal Reform	Ernest Martin Dence	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Municipal Reform	George Hopwood Hume	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Municipal Reform hold		Swing	n/a
Municipal Reform hold		Swing	n/a

Hackney

London County Council election, 1919: Hackney Central ^[1]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Progressive	Henrietta Adler	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Municipal Reform	William Ray	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Progressive hold		Swing	n/a
Municipal Reform hold		Swing	n/a

Hackney North HackneyNorth1918.png — Hackney North

London County Council election, 1919: Hackney North ^[1]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Municipal Reform	Lady Trustram Eve	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Municipal Reform	Oscar Emanuel Warburg	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Municipal Reform hold		Swing	n/a
Municipal Reform hold		Swing	n/a

Hackney South HackneySouth1918.png — Hackney South

London County Council election, 1919: Hackney South ^[1]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Progressive	Theodore Chapman	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Progressive	John James McClelland	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Progressive hold		Swing	n/a
Progressive gain from Municipal Reform		Swing	n/a

Hammersmith

London County Council election, 1919: Hammersmith North ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Municipal Reform	Frank Mayle	1,557	36.4
	Municipal Reform	David Cawdron	1,421	33.2
	Labour	T Martin	1,296	30.3
Majority			125	2.9
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

Hammersmith South HammersmithSouth1918.png — Hammersmith South

London County Council election, 1919: Hammersmith South ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Municipal Reform	Francis Robert Ince Anderton	2,168	40.4
	Municipal Reform	Isidore Salmon	2,109	39.3
	Labour	Dora Montefiore	1,093	20.4
Majority			1,016	18.9
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

Hampstead

London County Council election, 1919: Hampstead ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Municipal Reform	Andrew Thomas Taylor	3,378
	Municipal Reform	Walter Reynolds	3,289
	Labour	Benjamin Skene Mackay	1,352
	Labour	Rev. Arthur Stuart Duncan-Jones	1,286
Majority			1,937
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

Holborn

London County Council election, 1919: Holborn ^[1]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Municipal Reform	Robert Inigo Tasker	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Municipal Reform	Lord Eustace Percy	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Municipal Reform hold		Swing	n/a
Municipal Reform hold		Swing	n/a

Islington

London County Council election, 1919: Islington East ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive	William Lace Clague	3,438	35.3
	Progressive	Jack Percy Blake	3,289	33.8
	Municipal Reform	George King Naylor	1,514	15.6
	Municipal Reform	Henry Myers	1,490	15.3
Majority			1,775	18.2
	Progressive hold		Swing
	Progressive hold		Swing

Islington North IslingtonNorth1918.png — Islington North

London County Council election, 1919: Islington North ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Robert McKenna	1,791	49.5
	Municipal Reform	Frederick Lionel Dove	915	25.3
	Municipal Reform	Alfred Sim	910	25.2
Majority			876	24.2
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing	n/a
	Labour gain from Municipal Reform		Swing

Islington South IslingtonSouth1918.png — Islington South

London County Council election, 1919: Islington South ^[1]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Progressive	Howell Jones Williams	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Progressive	George Dew	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Progressive hold		Swing	n/a
Progressive hold		Swing	n/a

Islington West IslingtonWest1918.png — Islington West

London County Council election, 1919: Islington West ^[1]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Progressive	Henry Mills	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Progressive	James Skinner	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Progressive hold		Swing	n/a
Progressive hold		Swing	n/a

Kensington

London County Council election, 1919: Kensington North ^[1]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Municipal Reform	David Davis	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Municipal Reform	Cecil Bingham Levita	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Municipal Reform hold		Swing	n/a
Municipal Reform hold		Swing	n/a

Kensington South KensingtonSouth1918.png — Kensington South

London County Council election, 1919: Kensington South ^[1]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Municipal Reform	William Frederick Cavaye	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Municipal Reform	Henry Vincent Rowe	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Municipal Reform hold		Swing	n/a
Municipal Reform hold		Swing	n/a

Lambeth

London County Council election, 1919: Brixton ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Municipal Reform	Sir Charles Henry Gibbs	2,159	32.0
	Municipal Reform	Ernest Gray MP	2,102	31.2
	Labour	Horace Herbert Tavender	1,261	18.7
	Labour	W. Burroughs	1,216	18.1
Majority			841	12.5
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

London County Council election, 1919: Kennington ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Harry Gosling	2,764	31.6
	Progressive	Sir John Williams Benn	2,743	31.3
	Municipal Reform	Frederick Benjamin Oliphant Hawes	1,685	19.3
	Municipal Reform	Henry David Reginald Margesson	1,558	17.8
Majority			1,058	12.0
	Progressive hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Municipal Reform		Swing

Lambeth North LambethNorth1918.png — Lambeth North

London County Council election, 1919: Lambeth North ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Thomas Owen Jacobsen	2,656	38.1
	Independent	Rose Emma Lamartine Yates	2,619	37.6	n/a
	Municipal Reform	Louis Courtauld	885	12.7
	Municipal Reform	Dr. Camac Wilkinson	809	11.6
Majority			1,734	24.9
	Progressive hold		Swing
	Independent gain from Municipal Reform		Swing	n/a

London County Council election, 1919: Norwood ^[1]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Municipal Reform	Cecil Urquhart Fisher	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Municipal Reform	Forbes St John Morrow	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Municipal Reform hold		Swing	n/a
Municipal Reform hold		Swing	n/a

Lewisham

London County Council election, 1919: Lewisham East ^[1]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Municipal Reform	Eric Ball	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Municipal Reform	Richard Owen Roberts	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Municipal Reform hold		Swing	n/a
Municipal Reform hold		Swing	n/a

Lewisham West LewishamWest1918.png — Lewisham West

London County Council election, 1919: Lewisham West ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Municipal Reform	Philip Dawson	3,438	27.2
	Municipal Reform	Robert Jackson	3,320	26.3
	Progressive	Frank Walter Raffety	2,950	23.4
	Progressive	G. H. Stepney	2,915	23.1
Majority			370	2.9
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

Paddington

London County Council election, 1919: Paddington North ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Municipal Reform	John Herbert Hunter	1,938	28.8
	Municipal Reform	Herbert Lidiard	1,864	27.7
	Labour	Charles Terry Hendin	1,470	21.9
	Labour	Hugh Roberts	1,454	21.6
Majority			394	5.8
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

Paddington South PaddingtonSouth1918.png — Paddington South

London County Council election, 1919: Paddington South ^[1]
	Candidate	Votes
Municipal Reform	John Burgess-Preston Karslake
Municipal Reform	Harry Barned Lewis-Barned
Municipal Reform hold		Swing
Municipal Reform hold		Swing

Poplar

Bow and Bromley BowBromley1918.png — Bow and Bromley

London County Council election, 1919: Bow and Bromley ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Charles Edwin Sumner	3,461
	Labour	Edward Cruse	3,169
	Independent	Rev. W H Hunt	1,224	21.6
	Municipal Reform	Herbert Geraint Williams	1,193
	Municipal Reform	Malcolm Campbell-Johnston	1,061
Majority
	Labour gain from Municipal Reform		Swing
	Labour gain from Municipal Reform		Swing

Poplar South PoplarSouth1918.png — Poplar South

London County Council election, 1919: Poplar South ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Samuel March	3,466
	Labour	Arabella Susan Lawrence	3,317
	Progressive	Fred Thorne	1,528
	Progressive	John Bussey	1,313
Majority
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Progressive		Swing

St Marylebone

London County Council election, 1919: St Marylebone ^[1]
	Candidate	Votes
Municipal Reform	Eustace Widdrington Morrison-Bell	Unopposed
Municipal Reform	Ernest Sanger	Unopposed
Municipal Reform hold		Swing
Municipal Reform hold		Swing

St Pancras

London County Council election, 1919: St. Pancras North ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive	William Lloyd-Taylor	Unopposed
	Progressive	John Hunter Harley	Unopposed
Majority
	Progressive hold		Swing
	Progressive hold		Swing

St Pancras South East StPancrasSouthEast.png — St Pancras South East

London County Council election, 1919: St. Pancras South East ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Municipal Reform	Mrs Ethelind J Hopkins	2,106
	Municipal Reform	David Davies	2,015
	Progressive	Albert William Claremont	1,455
	Progressive	Henry de Rosenbach Walker	1,420
Majority
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

N.B.: Davies had been an outgoing councillor for St Pancras South, Claremont and Walker were outgoing councillors for St Pancras East

St Pancras South West StPancrasSouthWest.png — St Pancras South West

London County Council election, 1919: St. Pancras South West ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Municipal Reform	Auberon Claud Hegan Kennard	Unopposed
	Municipal Reform	Charles William Matthews	Unopposed
Majority
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

Shoreditch

London County Council election, 1919: Shoreditch ^[1]
	Candidate	Votes	%
Progressive	Henry Ward	1,701
Labour	Charles Edward Taylor	1,464	35.3
Progressive	Godfrey Russell Vick	1,454
Municipal Reform	Major W Weber	1,116
Municipal Reform	Rosamund Smith	1,110
Progressive hold		Swing
Labour gain from Progressive		Swing

Southwark

London County Council election, 1919: Southwark Central ^[1]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Progressive	James Daniel Gilbert MP	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Progressive	George Henry Cook	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Progressive hold		Swing	n/a
Progressive hold		Swing	n/a

London County Council election, 1919: Southwark North ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive	Duchess of Marlborough	2,602	39.9
	Progressive	Walter James Wightman	2,392	36.7
	Labour	J. Osborne	764	11.7
	Labour	S. G. Weaver	761	11.7
Majority			1,628	25.0
	Progressive hold		Swing
	Progressive hold		Swing

Southwark South East SouthwarkSouthEast.png — Southwark South East

London County Council election, 1919: Southwark South East ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive	Rev. John Charles Morris	1,864	39.0
	Progressive	William James Pincombe	1,864	39.0
	Labour	Benjamin Thomas Embleton	1,053	22.0
Majority			811	17.0
	Progressive hold		Swing
	Progressive hold		Swing

Stepney

London County Council election, 1919: Limehouse ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive	Henry Marks	1,269	23.1
	Labour	Robert M Bryan	1,244	22.6
	Labour	Clement Richard Attlee	1,147	20.8
	Independent	R. Ridge	1,110	20.2
	Progressive	Miss Ida Samuel	732	13.3
Majority			97	0.2
	Progressive hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Progressive		Swing

London County Council election, 1919: Mile End ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Municipal Reform	Alfred Ordway Goodrich	1,874	31.2
	Municipal Reform	David Hazel	1,800	29.9
	Labour	I. Sharp	1,172	19.5
	Labour	Bernard Noël Langdon-Davies	1,166	19.4
Majority			628	10.4
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing
	Municipal Reform gain from Progressive		Swing

Whitechapel & St George's WhitechapelStGeorges1918.png — Whitechapel & St George's

London County Council election, 1919: Whitechapel ^[1]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Progressive	Henry Herman Gordon	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Progressive	William Cowlishaw Johnson	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Progressive hold		Swing
Progressive hold		Swing

Stoke Newington

London County Council election, 1919: Stoke Newington ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Municipal Reform	Edward Holton Coumbe	1,508	43.3
	Municipal Reform	Walter Henry Key	1,451	41.7
	Independent	George Wicks	523	15.0
Majority			928	26.7
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

Wandsworth

Balham and Tooting BalhamandTooting.PNG — Balham and Tooting

London County Council election, 1919: Balham & Tooting ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive	Rev. Bevill Allen	3,149	27.1
	Progressive	Rev. Henry Herman Carlisle	3,082	26.5
	Municipal Reform	William P Mellhuish	1,584	13.6
	Municipal Reform	Harry Ralph Selley	1,542	13.3
	Labour	W. Eland	1,200	10.3
	Labour	R. Champion	1,059	9.1
Majority			1,498	12.9
	Progressive hold		Swing
	Progressive hold		Swing

Wandsworth Central WandsworthCentral.png — Wandsworth Central

London County Council election, 1919: Wandsworth Central ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Municipal Reform	Viscount Bury	2,192	29.3
	Municipal Reform	Robert G Taylor	2,172	29.1
	Labour	George Pearce Blizard	1,647	22.0
	Independent	Cecil Aubrey Gwynne Manning	1,459	19.5
Majority			525	7.1
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

London County Council election, 1919: Clapham ^[1]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Municipal Reform	Sir George Bettesworth Piggott	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Municipal Reform	Herbert Francis Golds	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Municipal Reform hold		Swing	n/a
Municipal Reform hold		Swing	n/a

London County Council election, 1919: Putney ^[1]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Municipal Reform	Alfred Cooper Rawson	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Municipal Reform	Charles Thomas Dickins	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Municipal Reform hold		Swing	n/a
Municipal Reform hold		Swing	n/a

London County Council election, 1919: Streatham ^[1]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Municipal Reform	Sir Arthur Cornelius Roberts	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Municipal Reform	A. Clifford Thomas	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Municipal Reform hold		Swing	n/a
Municipal Reform hold		Swing	n/a

Westminster

London County Council election, 1919: Westminster Abbey ^[1]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Municipal Reform	Reginald White Granville-Smith	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Municipal Reform	John Maria Emilio Gatti	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Municipal Reform hold		Swing	n/a
Municipal Reform hold		Swing	n/a

St George's WestminsterStGeorges.png — St George's

London County Council election, 1919: Westminster St George's ^[1]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Municipal Reform	Richard Joshua Cooper	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Municipal Reform	Hubert John Greenwood	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Municipal Reform hold		Swing	n/a
Municipal Reform hold		Swing	n/a

Woolwich

London County Council election, 1919: Woolwich East ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Leslie Haden Haden-Guest	7,788	34.1
	Labour	Henry Snell	7,720	33.8
	Municipal Reform	Cyril Jacobs	3,681	16.1
	Municipal Reform	R. Campbell	3,636	15.9
Majority			4,039	17.7
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Woolwich West WoolwichWest1918.png — Woolwich West

London County Council election, 1919: Woolwich West ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Municipal Reform	William James Squires	4,269	28.1
	Municipal Reform	Percy Reginald Owen Abel Simner	4,104	27.0
	Labour	Charles H. Langham	3,461	22.8
	Labour	Angus Macdonald Tynemouth	5,845	22.1
Majority			643	4.2
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

Aldermen

In addition to the 124 councillors the council consisted of 20 county aldermen. Aldermen were elected by the council, and served a six-year term. Half of the aldermanic bench were elected every three years following the triennial council election. After the elections, there were eleven Aldermanic vacancies and the following Alderman were appointed by the newly elected council;

Louis Courtauld, Municipal Reform (defeated Councillor at Lambeth North)
John William Gilbert, Municipal Reform (re-appointed)
Bernard Henry Holland, Municipal Reform (re-appointed)
Sir Cyril Jackson, Municipal Reform (former Alderman)
Howard Willmott Liversidge, Municipal Reform (re-appointed)
Lady St Helier, Municipal Reform (re-appointed)
Charles James Mathew, Progressive (retiring Councillor)
Henry Evan Auguste Cotton, Progressive (retiring Councillor)
Henry de Rosenbach Walker, Progressive (retiring Councillor)
Katherine Talbot Wallas, Progressive (former Alderman)
Albert Emil Davies, Labour

By-elections 1919–1922

There were five by-elections to fill casual vacancies during the term of the tenth London County Council.

City of London, 1 December 1919

Cause: resignation of Sir Rowland Blades 11 November 1919

London County Council by-election, 1919: City of London
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	Geoffrey Head	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing	N/A

Southwark North, 13 May 1920

Cause: resignation of Duchess of Marlborough, 27 April 1920^[2]

London County Council by-election, 1920: Southwark North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive	James Owers Devereux	2,314	57.6
	Labour	Herbert Stanley Morrison	1,703	42.4
Majority			611	12.2
	Progressive hold		Swing

Wandsworth, Clapham, 2 May 1921

Cause: death of Herbert Francis Golds, 9 April 1921

London County Council by-election, 1921: Clapham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Municipal Reform	Cyril Henry M Jacobs	7,293	66.7
	Labour	F Thoresby	3,638	33.3
Majority			3,655	33.4
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

Wandsworth, Streatham, 9 May 1921

Cause: resignation of A C Thomas 26 April 1921

London County Council by-election, 1921: Streatham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	Frederic Bertram Galer	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing	N/A

Battersea South, 28 June 1921

Cause: death of William Hammond, 10 June 1921

London County Council by-election, 1921: Battersea South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Municipal Reform	William Hall	6,358	66.2
	Labour	Caroline Selina Ganley	3,247	33.8
Majority			3,111	32.4
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

Aldermanic vacancies filled 1919–1922

There were six casual vacancies among the aldermen in the term of the tenth London County Council, which were filled as follows:^[3]

8 July 1919: Alfred Fowell Buxton (Municipal Reform) to serve until 1922 in place of Sir George Dashwood Taubman Goldie, resigned 1 July 1919. Buxton had previously served two aldermanic terms from 1904 to 1916.
24 February 1920: Arthur Acland Allen (Progressive) to serve until 1922 in place of the Hon. Oswald Partington, resigned 10 February 1920. Allen had previously served as a councillor from 1899 to 1913.
20 July 1920: George Sitwell Campbell Swinton (Municipal Reform) to serve until 1922 in place of Herbert James Francis Parsons, resigned 3 July 1920. Swinton had previously sat a councillor from 1901 to 1907 and as an alderman from 1907 to 1912.
2 November 1920: Sir Godfrey Baring (Progressive) to serve until 1922 in place of George Alexander Hardy, died 2 October 1920.
8 February 1921: Sir Philip Gutterez Henriques (Municipal Reform) to serve until 1925 in place of Bernard Henry Holland, resigned 25 January 1921.
15 March 1921: Viscount Hill (Municipal Reform) to serve until 1925 in place of Howard Willmott Liversidge, resigned 8 March 1921. Hill had previously sat as a councillor from 1910 to 1919.

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↑ "Duchess of Marlborough's Work". The Times . 1 May 1920. p. 8.
↑ Jackson, W Eric (1965). "Appendix II: Members of the London County Council from 1889". Achievement: A short History of the LCC. London: Longmans. pp. 252–286.

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[2] "Duchess of Marlborough's Work". The Times . 1 May 1920. p. 8.

[Jackson-3] Jackson, W Eric (1965). "Appendix II: Members of the London County Council from 1889". Achievement: A short History of the LCC. London: Longmans. pp. 252–286.

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