1894_Liverpool_City_Council_election
1894 Liverpool City Council election
Liverpool City Council elections 1894
Elections to Liverpool City Council were held on Thursday 1 November 1894. One third of the council seats were up for election, the term of office of each councillor being three years.
Quick Facts 16 seats were up for election (one third): one seat for each of the 16 wards 33 (incl. Aldermen) seats needed for a majority ...
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16 seats were up for election (one third): one seat for each of the 16 wards 33 (incl. Aldermen) seats needed for a majority | ||||
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Eleven of the sixteen seats were uncontested.
After the election, the composition of the council was:
More information Party, Councillors ...
| Party | Councillors | ± | Aldermen | Total | |
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| Conservative | 20 | 0 | 8 | 28 | |
| Liberal | 21 | -2 | 6 | 27 | |
| Irish Nationalists | 5 | +2 | 2 | 7 | |
| Independent Irish Nationalist | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Liberal Unionist | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
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More information Party, Seats ...
| Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
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| Conservative | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 44% | 69% | 8,537 | ||
| Liberal | 7 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 44% | 10% | 1,208 | ||
| Irish Nationalist | 2 | 2 | 0 | +2 | 12.5% | ||||
| Labour | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 15% | 1,902 | ||
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Because of the large number of uncontested seats, these statistics should be taken in that context.
* - Retiring Councillor seeking re-election
Abercromby
More information Party, Candidate ...
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Conservative | Thomas Menlove | 691 | 94% | ||
| Labour | John O'Brien | 41 | 5.6% | ||
| Majority | 650 | ||||
| Registered electors | |||||
| Turnout | 732 | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
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Castle Street
More information Party, Candidate ...
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Conservative | William Bartlett * | unopposed | |||
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| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
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Everton
More information Party, Candidate ...
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Conservative | John Houlding * | 4,737 | 89% | ||
| Labour | John Naylor | 568 | 11% | ||
| Majority | 4,169 | 78% | |||
| Registered electors | |||||
| Turnout | 5,305 | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
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Exchange
More information Party, Candidate ...
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Liberal | James Alphonse Doughan * | unopposed | |||
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| Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
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Great George
More information Party, Candidate ...
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Liberal | John Lamport Eills | unopposed | |||
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| Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
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Lime Street
More information Party, Candidate ...
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Conservative | Charles Petrie * | unopposed | |||
| Registered electors | |||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
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North Toxteth
More information Party, Candidate ...
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Conservative | William James Burgess * | unopposed | |||
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| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
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Pitt Street
More information Party, Candidate ...
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Liberal | John Scott * | unopposed | |||
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| Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
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Rodney Street
More information Party, Candidate ...
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Liberal | William Henry Picton * | 555 | 93% | ||
| Labour | William Gibson | 43 | 7.2% | ||
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| Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
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St. Anne Street
More information Party, Candidate ...
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Liberal | Samuel McMillin * | 653 | 66% | ||
| Labour | John Callow | 337 | 34% | ||
| Labour | Aaron John Fowler | 28 | 2.8% | ||
| Majority | 316 | 32% | |||
| Registered electors | |||||
| Turnout | 990 | ||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
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St. Paul's
More information Party, Candidate ...
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Liberal | Richard Robert Meade-King * | unopposed | |||
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| Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
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St. Peter's
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Liberal | George Grierson * | unopposed | |||
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| Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
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Scotland
More information Party, Candidate ...
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Irish Nationalist | Patrick Kearney | unopposed | |||
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| Irish Nationalist gain from Liberal | Swing | ||||
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South Toxteth
More information Party, Candidate ...
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Conservative | Thomas Evans | unopposed | |||
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| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
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Vauxhall
More information Party, Candidate ...
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Irish Nationalist | Thomas John Flynn | unopposed | |||
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| Irish Nationalist gain from Liberal | Swing | ||||
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West Derby
More information Party, Candidate ...
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Conservative | Edward Hatton Cookson * | 3,800 | 81% | ||
| Labour | Samuel Reeves | 885 | 19% | ||
| Majority | 2,915 | 62% | |||
| Registered electors | 11,825 | ||||
| Turnout | 4,685 | 40% | |||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
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Councillor Thomas Kelly (Irish Nationalist, Vauxhall, elected 1 November 1893)[5] died on 17 October 1895.[6]
As the November 1895 election was near and an all-up election, there was no by-election.
- Liverpool City Council
- Liverpool Town Council elections 1835 - 1879
- Liverpool City Council elections 1880–present
- Mayors and Lord Mayors of Liverpool 1207 to present
- History of local government in England
- Liverpool Daily Post Friday 2 November 1894
- "Liverpool City Council - Proceedings of the Council 1894-1895 front page". Retrieved 9 April 2017.
- "Liverpool City Council - Proceedings of the Council 1894-1895 page 1". Retrieved 9 April 2017.
- "Liverpool City Council - Proceedings of the Council 1894-1895 page 2". Retrieved 9 April 2017.
- "Liverpool City Council - Proceedings of the Council 1893-1894 page 2". Retrieved 9 April 2017.
- "Liverpool City Council - Proceedings of the Council 1894-1895 page 281". Retrieved 9 April 2017.