1946 Liverpool City Council election

1946 Liverpool City Council election

← 1945 November 1, 1946 (1946-11-01) 1947 →

Map of Liverpool showing wards won (first placed party)[1]

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

After the election, the composition of the council was:

Party		Councillors	±	Aldermen	Total
	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[]

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[]

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[]

- 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[]

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[]

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[]

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[]

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[]

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%

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[]

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%

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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 4 February 1947[]

Alderman John Case died on 1 December 1946. ^[4]

On 8 January 1947 the Council elected Councillor Herbert Neville Bewley (Conservative ) as an Alderman. ^[5]

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

^[6]

Garston 2 April 1947[]

Alderman Sir Sydney Jones died on 16 February 1947.^[7]

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.^[8]

Garston

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

^[9]

North Scotland 29 May 1947[]

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

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

^[10]

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