Liverpool City Council election, 1946

Elections to Liverpool City Council were held on 1 November 1946.

After the election, the composition of the council was:

PartyCouncillors  ±  AldermenTotal
Conservative????????
Labour????????
Protestant????????
Liberal????????

Election result

Liverpool Local Election Result 1946
Party Seats Gains Losses Net gain/loss Seats % Votes % Votes +/−
  Conservative 22 51% 106,206
  Labour 14 45% 96,623
  Protestant 2 2.3% 4,890
  Independent 1 0.83% 1,729
  Liberal 1 0.91% 1,911
  Communist 0 0 0 0 0% 0.64% 1,342

Ward results

* - Councillor seeking re-election

(PARTY) - Party of former Councillor

Due to the disruptions caused by the Second World War, no comparisons are made.

Abercromby

Abercromby
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative John Reginald Bevins 2,,435 52%
Labour Richard Clitherow 2,279 48%
Majority 156
Registered electors 13,858
Turnout 4,714 34%

Aigburth

Aigburth
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Vere Egerton Cotton 5,778 82%
Labour Eric Barnes 1,249 18%
Majority 4,529
Registered electors 16,530
Turnout 7,027 43%

Allerton

Allerton
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative John McMillan 3,211 64%
Labour Charles Chesworth 1,325 27%
Liberal William Henry Ledsom 459 9%
Majority 1,886
Registered electors 10,076
Turnout 4,995 50%

Anfield

Anfield
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative William John Harrop 4,672 60%
Labour John Christopher Caroll 3,151 40%
Majority 1,521
Registered electors 17,660
Turnout 7,823 44%

Breckfield

Breckfield
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative George William Prout 3,308 59%
Labour Peter Joseph Haines 2,306 41%
Majority 1,002
Registered electors 13,166
Turnout 5,614 43%

Brunswick

Brunswick
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Joseph Whitehead 2,377 81%
Conservative William Henry Bevan 411 14%
Communist Albert Southern 131 4.5%
Majority 1,966
Registered electors 7,593
Turnout 2,919 38%

Castle Street

Castle Street
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Hertbert Neville Bewley unopposed
Registered electors 892

Childwall

Childwall
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Jack Creswell 4,860 76%
Labour Thomas McConnell 1,535 24%
Majority 3,325
Registered electors 13,294
Turnout 6,395 43%

Croxteth

Croxteth
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Alfred Hargreaves 5,514 54%
Conservative John G. Morgan 4,238 41%
Communist John Coward 478 4.7%
Majority 1,276
Registered electors 30,938
Turnout 10,230 33%

Dingle

Dingle
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour William Basil Cashin 4,035 51%
Conservative Edward Thomas White 3,877 49%
Majority 158
Registered electors 18,244
Turnout 7,912 43%

Edge Hill

Edge Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Arthur Leadbetter 2,973 56%
Conservative Bertram Saul Morgan 2,125 40%
Communist Sidney Foster 172 3.2%
Independent Charles Henry Parry 23 0.43%
Majority 848
Registered electors 18,244
Turnout 5,293 29%

Everton

Everton
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour David Nickson 3,165 66%
Conservative Joseph George Hatton 1,620 34%
Majority 1,545
Registered electors 13,629
Turnout 4,785 35%

Exchange

Exchange
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Independent John Gerard Granby 648 73%
Labour Alfred Strange 228 26%
Independent Frederick Bowman 9 1%
Majority 420
Registered electors 1,589
Turnout 885 56%

Fairfield

Fairfield
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Robert Meadows 3,912 57%
Labour Dorothy C. Keeling 2,973 43%
Majority 939
Registered electors 15,828
Turnout 6,885 43%

Fazakerley

Fazakerley
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Arthur J. Brownlow 4,404 53%
Conservative George Moore 3,929 47%
Majority 475
Registered electors 20,478
Turnout 8,333 41%

Garston

Garston
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Alex Hardman 3,584 57%
Conservative Victor C. Sutton 2,355 38%
Independent Arthur J.Holland 301 5%
Majority 1,229
Registered electors 16,027
Turnout 6,240 39%

Granby

Granby
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Walter Clarke 2,457 50%
Labour William Tipping 2,435 50%
Majority 22
Registered electors 13,302
Turnout 4,892 37%

Great George

Great George - 2 seats
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative William George Ingham 827 56%
Conservative John Gwilyn Hughes 805 55%
Labour Alexander Kay 644 44%
Labour John Hamilton 632 43%
Majority 183
Registered electors 3,953
Turnout 1,471 37%

Kensington

Kensington
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Frederick H. Bailey 3,117 52%
Labour Walter Gibbs 2,838 48%
Majority 279
Registered electors 14,505
Turnout 5,955 41%

Kirkdale

Kirkdale
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Isaac Richmond 3,986 56%
Conservative Joseph Trevor Booth 3,182 44%
Majority 804
Registered electors 19,580
Turnout 7,168 37%

Little Woolton

No election.

Low Hill

Low Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative John Nuttall Maxwell Entwistle 2,502 51%
Labour William Dean-Jones 2,364 49%
Majority 138
Registered electors 12,372
Turnout 4,866 39%

Much Woolton

Much Woolton
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Vivian Forsyth Crosthwaite 1,886 63%
Labour Griffith Daniel Ellis 1,128 37%
Majority 758
Registered electors 5,387
Turnout 3,014 56%

Netherfield

Netherfield
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative and Protestant Harry Victor Shaw 2,161 57%
Labour George Carmichael 1,634 43%
Majority 527
Registered electors 10,300
Turnout 3,795 37%

North Scotland

North Scotland
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Joseph O'Neill 2,140 83%
Communist Leo Joseph McGree 424 17%
Majority 1,716
Registered electors 7,187
Turnout 2,564 36%

Old Swan

Old Swan
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Leslie Thomas Rogers 6,834 56%
Labour Clifford Selly 5,290 44%
Majority 1,553
Registered electors 28,456
Turnout 12,133 43%

Prince's Park

Prince's Park
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative William Browne 2,627 52%
Labour Mrs. Ethel May Wormald 2,416 48%
Majority 211
Registered electors 12,421
Turnout 5,043 41%

Sandhills

Sandhills
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Thomas Henry Dunford 2,076 74%
Conservative John Edward Molloy 715 26%
Majority 1,361
Registered electors 7,904
Turnout 2,791 35%

St. Anne's

St. Anne's
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Mrs. Sarah Anne McArd 1,138 59%
Independent John Larkin 780 41%
Majority 358
Registered electors 6,420
Turnout 1,918 30%

St. Domingo

St. Domingo
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Protestant James Wareing 2,729 58%
Labour Walter Louis Cleaver 2,006 42%
Majority 723
Registered electors 13,428
Turnout 4,735 35%

St. Peter's

St. Peter's
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Mrs Evaline Ida Bligh 370 69%
Labour Peter James O'Hare 166 31%
Majority 204
Registered electors 1,260
Turnout 536 43%

Sefton Park East

Sefton Park East
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative George Webster Armour 3,600 72%
Labour Robert Craig Smart 1,409 28%
Majority 2,191
Registered electors 14,664
Turnout 5,009 34%

Sefton Park West

Sefton Park West
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative George Walter Pickles 3,733 68%
Labour Thomas Scott 1,732 32%
Majority 2,001
Registered electors 11,104
Turnout 5,465 49%

South Scotland

South Scotland
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Frederick Ernest Granby unopposed
Registered electors 6,375

Vauxhall

Vauxhall
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Patrick J. O'Brien 656 72%
Conservative Ernest Watkinson 258 28%
Communist
Majority 398
Registered electors 2,637
Turnout 914 35%

Walton

Walton
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Reginald Richard Bailey 5,490 54%
Labour Charles McDonald 4,689 46%
Majority 801
Registered electors 23,677
Turnout 10,179 43%

Warbreck

Warbreck
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Arthur Whitaker Lowe 4,535 62%
Labour John Metcalf 2,795 38%
Majority 1,740
Registered electors 20,101
Turnout 7,330 36%

Wavertree

Wavertree
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative John Village 6,267 57%
Labour John F. Hughes 3,720 34%
Liberal Francis F.C. Moulton 1,082 10%
Majority 2,547
Registered electors 23,442
Turnout 11,069 47%

Wavertree West

Wavertree West
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Thomas Wallace 2,966 53%
Conservative Maurice Voss 2,545 45%
Communist Thomas McCann 137 2%
Majority 421
Registered electors 11,779
Turnout 5,648 48%

West Derby

West Derby
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Charles William Wingrove 8,086 63%
Labour Edward William Harby 4,665 37%
Majority 3,421
Registered electors 32,400
Turnout 12,751 39%

[1] [2]

By-elections

Aigburth 28 November 1946

On 9 November 1946 the aldermanic vacancy caused by the death of Alderman William Denton (???), Vere Egerton Cotton C.B.E. (Conservative, elected to the Aigburth ward on 1 November 1946) was elected as an Alderman.

Aigburth
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative William Latham Bateson unopposed
Registered electors 16,530

Castle Street 4th February 1947

Alderman John Case died on 1 December 1946. [3]

On 8 January 1947 the Council elected Councillor Herbert Neville Bewley (Conservative ) as an Alderman. [4]

Castle Street
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Thomas Winlock Harley 411
Herbert Griffith Edwards 47
Clifford Selly 15
Majority 364
Registered electors 892
Turnout

[5]

Garston 2nd April 1947

Alderman Sir Sydney Jones died on 16 February 1947.[6]

Councillor Joseph Williams ( ) was elected by the Council as an Alderman on 5 March 1947 to fill the vacant post left by the death of Alderman Sir Sydney Jones.[7]

Garston
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Henry Clarke 3,588
William Henry Sefton 3,279
Majority 309
Registered electors 16,027
Turnout

[8]

North Scotland 29th May 1947

Caused by the resignation of Councillor Thomas Fay(Labour, elected ??? ).

North Scotland
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Herbert Francis Granby 2,167
Richard Haddow Forrest 507
Majority 1,660
Registered electors 7,187
Turnout

[9]

References

  1. ↑ Liverpool Daily Post 2 November 1946
  2. ↑ Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1946-1947
  3. ↑ Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1946-1947 pg 110
  4. ↑ Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1946-1947 pg 182
  5. ↑ Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1946-1947 pg 272
  6. ↑ Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1946-1947 pg 334
  7. ↑ Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1946-1947 pg 272
  8. ↑ Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1946-1947 pg 412
  9. ↑ Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1946-1947 pg 552
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