1892 United Kingdom local elections

Wikimedia template August 2019 The 1892 United Kingdom local elections took place throughout 1892. The elections were the second following the Local Government Act 1888 and Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889, which had established county councils and county borough councils in England, Wales, and Scotland. The election saw elections of members to these various new county councils. The March elections saw Liberal Progressives strengthening their control of London County Council.https://books.google.com/books?id=stw5AAAAIAAJ&dq=1892+county+council+elections&pg=PA44 44 Radical Journalist: H. W. Massingham (1860-1924) 9780521203555 Havighurst Alfred F. 5 September 1974 Cambridge University Press The result strengthened the opposition of some Conservatives to female suffrage, as a correlation between widening female suffrage and the Conservative defeat was read into the election.https://books.google.com/books?id=af98RNTVyXcC&dq=1892+county+council+elections&pg=PA156 156 Popular Conservatism in Imperial London, 1868-1906 9780861932887 Windscheffel Alex 2007 Boydell & Brewer Municipal elections were held in England and Wales in November, although like their County Council elections remained generally apolitical.2 November 1892 The Municipal Elections https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=18921102&printsec=frontpage&hl=en The Glasgow Herald 6 2 November 1892 England and Wales https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=18921102&printsec=frontpage&hl=en The Glasgow Herald 8 The elections also witnessed the further growth of the Labour movement in local government, with there being an estimated 200 Labour councillors by 1892, as opposed to 12 Labour councillors in 1882.https://books.google.com/books?id=AeTpAwAAQBAJ&dq=1945+local+elections&pg=PA450 328 A History of British Elections since 1689 9781317693017 Cook Chris Stevenson John 27 June 2014 Routledge References