1946_Liverpool_City_Council_election

1946 Liverpool City Council election

1946 UK local election

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

Quick Facts

After the election, the composition of the council was:

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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.

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Jeffery, David (18 October 2020). "Merseyside Local Election Results Project". Dr David Jeffery. Retrieved 14 April 2021.

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Liverpool Daily Post 2 November 1946

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Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1946-1947

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Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1946-1947 pg 110

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Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1946-1947 pg 182

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Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1946-1947 pg 272

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Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1946-1947 pg 334

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Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1946-1947 pg 272

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Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1946-1947 pg 412

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Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1946-1947 pg 552

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	Councillors	±	Aldermen	Total
Conservative	??	??	??	??
Labour	??	??	??	??
Protestant	??	??	??	??
Liberal	??	??	??	??

	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

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%

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%

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%

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%

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%

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%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Herbert Neville Bewley	unopposed
Registered electors			892

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%

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%

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%

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%

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%

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%

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%

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%

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
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%

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%

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%

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%

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%

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%

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%

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%

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%

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%

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%

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Election result

Ward results

Abercromby

Aigburth

Allerton

Anfield

Breckfield

Brunswick

Castle Street

Childwall

Croxteth

Dingle

Edge Hill

Everton

Exchange

Fairfield

Fazakerley

Garston

Granby

Great George

Kensington

Kirkdale

Little Woolton

Low Hill

Much Woolton

Netherfield

North Scotland

Old Swan

Prince's Park

Sandhills

St. Anne's

St. Domingo

St. Peter's

Sefton Park East

Sefton Park West

South Scotland

Vauxhall

Walton

Warbreck

Wavertree

Wavertree West

West Derby

By-elections

Aigburth 28 November 1946

Castle Street 4 February 1947

Garston 2 April 1947

North Scotland 29 May 1947

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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%

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%

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%

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%

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%

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

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%

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%

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%

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%