1889 Lancashire County Council election

1889 UK local government election August 2020 July 2014 thumb|Administrative county of Lancashire Elections to Lancashire County Council were held on Tuesday, 15 January 1889. The council was newly created, and at the time covered the entire administrative county of Lancashire. Party politics played a limited role in Lancashire politics at the time, and would remain limited until the First World War. As a result, the election saw limited competition, with only 38.1% of divisions contested, in contrast to the 56.3% average across England & Wales in the 1889 local elections. Urban Politics and Space in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Regional Perspectives https://books.google.com/books?id=ogcaBwAAQBAJ&q=1889+lancashire+county+council+election&pg=PA89 Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2009 89 9781443815918 The limited role of party politics was also seen in the composition of the council leadership, with the first county Chairman being J. T. Hibbert, a Liberal, while his Vice-Chairman, C. R. Jackson, was a Conservative. Election result Division results Moss Side Moss Side Liberal Unionist Charles Hopkinson 792 52.3 Independent (politician) Frederick Murgatroyd 409 27.0 Independent (politician) Samuel Warren 312 20.7 383 25.3 1,513 Liberal Unionist Withington Withington Independent (politician) G. H. Gaddum 1,414 59.1 Conservative Party (UK) Robert Boyd 980 40.9 434 18.2 2,394 Independent (politician) References expanded Lancashire 1889 Category:1880s in Lancashire Category:May 1889 in the United Kingdom