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1886 Liverpool City Council election
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Liverpool Town Council elections 1886
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1886 Liverpool City Council election Coat of arms of Liverpool City Council.svg parliamentary 1886 11 01 1886 1885 Liverpool City Council election 1887 1887 Liverpool City Council election 16 seats were up for election (one third): one seat for each of the 16 wards 33 (incl. Aldermen)
Elections to Liverpool City Council were held on Tuesday 1 November 1886. One third of the council seats were up for election, the term of office of each councillor being three years.
After the election, the composition of the council was:
PartyCouncillors ± Aldermen TotalConservative ?? +4 16 ??Liberal ?? -6 0 ??Irish Home Rule 5 +2 0 5Irish Nationalists 1 0 0 1
Election result
Liverpool local election result 1886
Conservative Party (UK)
12
4
0
+4
75%
55%
3,805
Liberal Party (UK)
2
0
6
-6
12.5%
45%
3,103
Home Rule League
2
2
0
+2
12.5%
Ward results
* - Retiring Councillor seeking re-election
Abercromby
No. 11 Abercromby
Conservative Party (UK)
Thomas Menlove
903
60%
Liberal Party (UK)
Thomas Goffey
606
40%
297
20%
N/A
2,323
1,509
65%
Conservative Party (UK)
Liberal Party (UK)
Castle Street
No. 6 Castle Street
Conservative Party (UK)
James Marke Wood *
unopposed
Conservative Party (UK)
Everton
No. 1 Everton
Conservative Party (UK)
Edward Whitley MP *
Unopposed
N/A
N/A
Conservative Party (UK)
Exchange
No. 5 Exchange
Liberal Party (UK)
Robert Durning Holt *
Unopposed
N/A
N/A
Liberal Party (UK)
Great George
No. 9 Great George
Conservative Party (UK)
Thomas Bird Hall
400
51%
Liberal Party (UK)
Edward Paull
389
49%
11
2%
1,132
789
70%
Conservative Party (UK)
Lime Street
No. 12 Lime Street
Conservative Party (UK)
James Duncan the younger
unopposed
Conservative Party (UK)
North Toxteth
No. 16 North Toxteth
Conservative Party (UK)
Herbert Campbell
unopposed
Conservative Party (UK)
Pitt Street
No. 8 Pitt Street
Liberal Party (UK)
Henry Charles Hawley *
327
57%
Conservative Party (UK)
Ephraim Walker
246
43%
81
14%
785
573
73%
Liberal Party (UK)
Rodney Street
No. 10 Rodney Street
Conservative Party (UK)
Matthew Henry Larmor
809
56%
Liberal Party (UK)
John McDiarmid *
626
40%
183
16%
N/A
2,403
1,435
60%
Conservative Party (UK)
Liberal Party (UK)
St. Anne Street
No. 13 St. Anne Street
Conservative Party (UK)
Dr. William Cross *
889
60%
Liberal Party (UK)
John Prendeville
600
40%
289
20%
2,234
1,489
67%
Conservative Party (UK)
St. Paul's
No. 4 St. Paul's
Conservative Party (UK)
Sylvester Mattison
unopposed
Conservative Party (UK)
Liberal Party (UK)
St. Peter's
No. 7 St. Peter's
Conservative Party (UK)
Isaac Morris
558
50%
Liberal Party (UK)
Edmund Knowles Muspratt *
555
50%
3
0%
N/A
1,523
1,113
73%
Conservative Party (UK)
Liberal Party (UK)
Scotland
No. 2 Scotland
Home Rule League
William Madden
unopposed
Home Rule League
Liberal Party (UK)
South Toxteth
No. 15 South Toxteth
Conservative Party (UK)
Thomas Bland Royden M.P. *
Unopposed
N/A
N/A
Conservative Party (UK)
Vauxhall
No. 3 Vauxhall
Home Rule League
John Yates *
unopposed
Home Rule League
Liberal Party (UK)
West Derby
No. 14 West Derby
Conservative Party (UK)
James Poole *
unopposed
Conservative Party (UK)
Liverpool Daily Post Wednesday 2 November 1886
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwOaUiDOoD1pRUJNbmRPYjBteTQ Liverpool City Council - Proceedings of the Council 1886-1887 front page 25 March 2017
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwOaUiDOoD1panpyVjFVQ2JpblE Liverpool City Council - Proceedings of the Council 1886-1887 page 1 25 March 2017
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwOaUiDOoD1pU29tX1Z6Z1EtSnM Liverpool City Council - Proceedings of the Council 1886-1887 page 2 25 March 2017
Aldermanic Election
At the meeting of the Council on 9 November 1886, the terms of office of eight
alderman expired. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwOaUiDOoD1pMDJEeE9QZWZKV3c Liverpool City Council - Proceedings of the Council 1886-1887 page 4 25 March 2017 The following eight were elected as Aldermen by the Council (Aldermen and Councillors) on 9 November 1886 for a term of six years.
* - re-elected aldermen.
PartyAlderman Conservative William Cross Conservative John Hughes * Conservative Henry Jennings * Conservative Joseph Gibbons Livingston * Conservative David MacIver * Conservative Hugh Hathorn Nicholson * Conservative Thomas Richard Shallcross * Conservative Sir Andrew Barclay Walker
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwOaUiDOoD1pMDJEeE9QZWZKV3c Liverpool City Council - Proceedings of the Council 1886-1887 page 4 25 March 2017
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwOaUiDOoD1pdlAzMWtoMV9fcms Liverpool City Council - Proceedings of the Council 1886-1887 page 5 25 March 2017
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwOaUiDOoD1pUmNXeUFDU3FqWlE Liverpool City Council - Proceedings of the Council 1886-1887 page 6 25 March 2017
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwOaUiDOoD1pMl83QnQ3eVdsSHc Liverpool City Council - Proceedings of the Council 1886-1887 page 7 25 March 2017
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwOaUiDOoD1paVpXc3lXQU1Tejg Liverpool City Council - Proceedings of the Council 1886-1887 page 8 25 March 2017
By-elections
No. 2, Scotland, Tuesday 2 November 1886
Caused by the resignation of Cllr. Laurence Connolly MP (Irish Home Rule, Scotland, elected 1 November 1884). https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwOaUiDOoD1pSDYtMW0ybEdzVkk Liverpool City Council - Proceedings of the Council 1884-1885 page 2 25 March 2017
No. 2 Scotland
Home Rule League
Edward Purcell
1,237
51%
Patrick Edmund O'Hare
1,175
49%
62
2,412
Home Rule League
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwOaUiDOoD1pNkNRR01hR19lLTg Liverpool City Council - Proceedings of the Council 1886-1887 page 3 25 March 2017
No. 13, St. Anne's Street, 23 November 1886
Caused by the election of Dr. William Cross (Conservative, St. Anne's Street,
elected 1 November 1886) https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwOaUiDOoD1pU29tX1Z6Z1EtSnM Liverpool City Council - Proceedings of the Council 1886-1887 page 2 25 March 2017 as an alderman by the Council on 9 November 1886.
No. 13 St. Anne's Street
William Bennett
841
54%
John Prendiville
710
46%
131
2,234
1,551
69%
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwOaUiDOoD1pdkdoU2FMZ0JWcFk Liverpool City Council - Proceedings of the Council 1886-1887 page 48 25 March 2017
No. 11, Abercromby
Alderman John Pearson died on 2 June 1887. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwOaUiDOoD1pNEFwSUVleElyMFk Liverpool City Council - Proceedings of the Council 1886-1887 page 203 25 March 2017
Councillor Anthony Bower (Conservative, Abercromby, elected 1 November 1884)
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwOaUiDOoD1pSDYtMW0ybEdzVkk Liverpool City Council - Proceedings of the Council 1884-1885 page 2 25 March 2017 was elected by the council as an alderman on 6 July 1887.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwOaUiDOoD1pR1lhUjJRUERicTQ Liverpool City Council - Proceedings of the Council 1886-1887 page 207 25 March 2017
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwOaUiDOoD1pOEs0bUdXY05JX3M Liverpool City Council - Proceedings of the Council 1886-1887 page 208 25 March 2017
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwOaUiDOoD1pWUEyRDA4Tk9jR2c Liverpool City Council - Proceedings of the Council 1887-1888 page 209 25 March 2017
See also
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
References
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