Greenwich (London County Council constituency)

Greenwich
Former Constituency for the London County Council
Former constituency
Created	1889
Abolished	1965
Member(s)	2 (to 1949) 3 (from 1949)

Greenwich was a constituency used for elections to the London County Council between 1889 and the council's abolition, in 1965. The seat shared boundaries with the UK Parliament constituency of the same name.

Councillors

Year	Name	Party		Name	Party		Name	Party
1889	Richard Jackson		Progressive	George Lidgett		Progressive	Two seats until 1949
1895	Henry Thomas Banning		Moderate	Ralph Gooding		Moderate
1898	Richard Jackson		Progressive	John Peppercorn		Progressive
1901				Frederick William Warmington		Progressive
1907	Ion Hamilton Benn		Municipal Reform	Alexander Thynne		Municipal Reform
1910	Rowland Clegg-Hill		Municipal Reform	George Hume		Municipal Reform
1919	Ernest Dence		Municipal Reform
1922				George Rowland Hill		Municipal Reform
1922				Madeline Hill		Municipal Reform
1928				Cuthbert Edward Hunter		Municipal Reform
1934	Esther Rickards		Labour	Walter Windsor		Labour
1937				Bernard Sullivan		Labour
1946	Harold Gibbons		Labour
1948	Johanna Gollogly		Labour
1949							Arthur Chrisp		Labour
1955	Thomas Beacham		Labour	Peggy Middleton		Labour
1958	Julia Johnson		Labour

Election results

1889 London County Council election: Greenwich ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	George Lidgett	3,102
	Progressive	Richard Jackson	3,025
	Moderate	Thomas Boord	2,440
	Moderate	Stuart Knill	2,390
	Progressive win (new seat)
	Progressive win (new seat)

1892 London County Council election: Greenwich ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Richard Jackson	3,667
	Progressive	George Lidgett	3,628
	Moderate	William Fox Batley	3,168
	Moderate	George Maryon-Wilson	3,080
	Progressive hold		Swing
	Progressive hold		Swing

1895 London County Council election: Greenwich ^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Moderate	Henry Thomas Banning	3,284
	Moderate	Ralph Gooding	3,258
	Progressive	Richard Jackson	3,131
	Progressive	George Lidgett	2,983
	Ind. Labour Party	Pete Curran	391
	Moderate gain from Progressive		Swing
	Moderate gain from Progressive		Swing

1898 London County Council election: Greenwich ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Richard Jackson	3,898
	Progressive	John Peppercorn	3,249
	Moderate	Edward George Bootle-Wilbraham	3,194
	Moderate	W. E. Ball	3,190
	Ind. Labour Party	J. M. McCarthy	689
	Progressive gain from Moderate		Swing
	Progressive gain from Moderate		Swing

1901 London County Council election: Greenwich ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Richard Jackson	4,242	28.5	+1.1
	Progressive	Frederick William Warmington	3,937	26.5	+3.7
	Conservative	John Edward Shaw	3,209	21.6	-0.9
	Conservative	William Kent Lemon	3,178	21.4	-1.0
	Independent	James Ellis	315	2.1	n/a
	Progressive hold		Swing
	Progressive hold		Swing	+1.7

1904 London County Council election: Greenwich ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Richard Jackson	Unopposed	N/A
	Progressive	Frederick William Warmington	Unopposed	N/A
	Progressive hold		Swing
	Progressive hold		Swing

1907 London County Council election: Greenwich ^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	Ion Hamilton Benn	6,217
	Municipal Reform	Alexander Thynne	5,991
	Progressive	D. McCall	3,727
	Progressive	J. Wilson	3,545
Majority
	Municipal Reform gain from Progressive		Swing
	Municipal Reform gain from Progressive		Swing

1910 London County Council election: Greenwich ^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	Rowland Clegg-Hill	4,574	28.6
	Municipal Reform	George Hume	4,569	28.6
	Progressive	Thomas Ford	2,919	17.3
	Progressive	John Belcher Allpass	2,768	17.3
	Labour	Ernest Gilbert	1,161	7.3
Majority
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

1913 London County Council election: Greenwich ^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	George Hume	4,815	26.0	-2.6
	Municipal Reform	Rowland Clegg-Hill	4,787	25.8	-2.8
	Progressive	Alfred Henry Scott	4,486	24.2	*+6.9
	Progressive	Hugh Moulton	4,463	24.1	+6.8
Majority			301	1.6
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing	-4.8
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

1919 London County Council election: Greenwich ^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	Ernest Dence	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
	Municipal Reform	George Hume	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing	n/a
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing	n/a

1922 London County Council election: Greenwich ^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	Ernest Dence	9,412	28.3	n/a
	Municipal Reform	George Rowland Hill	9,367	28.2	n/a
	Labour	Hyacinth Morgan	7,332	22.0	n/a
	Labour	J. G. Davenport	7,145	21.4	n/a
Majority					n/a
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing	n/a
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing	n/a

1925 London County Council election: Greenwich ^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	Ernest Dence	8,573
	Municipal Reform	Madeline Hill	8,351
	Labour	Hyacinth Morgan	8,032
	Labour	J. Round	7,758
Majority
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

1928 London County Council election: Greenwich ^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	Ernest Dence	9,807
	Municipal Reform	Cuthbert Edward Hunter	9,684
	Labour	Thomas Henry Philip Beacham	8,443
	Labour	Harold Henry Gibbons	8,280
Majority
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

1931 London County Council election: Greenwich ^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	Ernest Dence	9,463
	Municipal Reform	Cuthbert Edward Hunter	9,387
	Labour	Thomas Beacham	7,003
	Labour	Harold Gibbons	6,736
	Communist	J. T. Bellamy	569		n/a
	Communist	J. Cronin	243		n/a
Majority
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

1934 London County Council election: Greenwich ^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Esther Rickards	10,754
	Labour	Walter Windsor	10,616
	Municipal Reform	Ernest Dence	9,253
	Municipal Reform	C. Drage	9,086
Majority
	Labour gain from Municipal Reform		Swing
	Labour gain from Municipal Reform		Swing

1937 London County Council election: Greenwich ^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Esther Rickards	11,682
	Labour	Bernard Sullivan	11,457
	Municipal Reform	J. H. Barrington	10,793
	Municipal Reform	E. R. Mayer	10,674
Majority
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

1946 London County Council election: Greenwich ^[15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Harold Gibbons	7,733
	Labour	Bernard Sullivan	7,500
	Conservative	W. F. Mills	5,415
	Conservative	S. M. Roberts	5,245
Majority
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

1949 London County Council election: Greenwich ^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Johanna Gollogly	15,137
	Labour	Arthur Chrisp	14,447
	Labour	Bernard Sullivan	14,237
	Conservative	W. F. Mills	13,527
	Conservative	W. Smith	12,840
	Conservative	R. E. A. Purkiss	12,731
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour win (new seat)

1952 London County Council election: Greenwich ^[17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Johanna Gollogly	17,835
	Labour	Arthur Chrisp	17,602
	Labour	Bernard Sullivan	17,437
	Conservative	William H. Bishop	11,227
	Conservative	H. P. Brooks	10,893
	Conservative	Humphry Berkeley	10,783
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

1955 London County Council election: Greenwich ^[18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Arthur Chrisp	11,814
	Labour	Thomas Beacham	11,590
	Labour	Peggy Middleton	11,469
	Conservative	Dorothy Home	9,639
	Conservative	W. Smith	9,201
	Conservative	W. F. Mills	9,197
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

1958 London County Council election: Greenwich ^[19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Arthur Chrisp	13,258
	Labour	Julia Johnson	12,816
	Labour	Peggy Middleton	12,606
	Conservative	Dorothy Home	7,040
	Conservative	A. C. Prothero	6,637
	Conservative	C. Shaw	6,518
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

1961 London County Council election: Greenwich ^[20]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Arthur Chrisp	14,280
	Labour	Peggy Middleton	13,990
	Labour	Julia Johnson	13,467
	Conservative	Rodney Holmes	9,515
	Conservative	C. Shipton	9,192
	Conservative	J. W. Tennant	8,961
	Liberal	G. Findlow	1,981
	Liberal	C. Lindsay	1,830
	Liberal	R. Hart	1,785
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

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