1945 Liverpool City Council election

1945 UK local election February 2019 February 2019 1945 Liverpool City Council election Coat of arms of Liverpool City Council.svg 1945 11 01 y 1938 1938 Liverpool City Council election 1946 1946 Liverpool City Council election 1945 Liverpool City Council election result map.jpg 300px Map of Liverpool showing wards won (first placed party)Jeffery David Merseyside Local Election Results Project https://david-jeffery.com/project/merseyside-local-election-results-project/ Dr David Jeffery 14 April 2021 Elections to Liverpool City Council were held on Thursday 1 November 1945. It was the first local election in which all those who qualified for a parliamentary vote could vote. After the election, the composition of the council was: PartyCouncillors  ±  AldermenConservative 66 -6 24Labour 44+11 8Liberal 2 -4 4Protestant 4+1 1Independent 3 -1 2 Election result Liverpool local election result 1945 Conservative Party (UK) 21 45% 81,337 Labour Party (UK) 35 47% 86,200 Liberal Party (UK) 1 3.6% 6,550 Liverpool Protestant Party 2 2.2% 4,067 Independent (politician) 2 1.4% 2,576 Communist 0 0% 0.54% 981 Ward results * - Councillor seeking re-election (PARTY) - Party of former Councillor As this was the first election since the disruption caused by the Second World War no comparisons are made. Abercromby Abercromby - 2 seats Labour Party (UK) Francis Lavery 2,466 56% Labour Party (UK) Harry Livermore 2,439 55% Conservative Party (UK) Joseph James E. Sloan 1,963 44% Conservative Party (UK) George Bowman 1,961 44% 503 12,663 4,429 35% Aigburth Aigburth Conservative Party (UK) Herbert Mylrea Allen 4,468 60% Labour Party (UK) John Francis Carr 1,505 20% Liberal Party (UK) Vera Catherine Davie 827 11% Independent (politician) Arthur Jas. Holland 673 9% 2,963 16,061 7,473 47% Allerton Allerton Conservative Party (UK) Charles Haswell 2,369 52% Labour Party (UK) William Dean-Jones 1,392 31% Liberal Party (UK) Herbert Griffith Edwards 761 17% 977 9,784 4,522 46% Anfield Anfield Conservative Party (UK) Aled Owen Roberts 3,818 56% Labour Party (UK) Eric Barnes 3,031 44% 787 16,905 6,849 41% Breckfield Breckfield Conservative Party (UK) David John Lewis 2,554 51% Labour Party (UK) William Tipping 2,499 49% 55 12,201 5,053 41% Brunswick Brunswick - 2 seats Labour Party (UK) Andrew Basnett unopposed Labour Party (UK) Frank Hampton Cain unopposed 6,410 Castle Street Castle Street Liberal Party (UK) William S.S. Hannay 525 96% Labour Party (UK) A. Kay 24 4% 501 910 549 60% Childwall Childwall - 2 seats Conservative Party (UK) William J. Matthew Clark 3,281 53% Conservative Party (UK) Alexander Young 3,105 50% Labour Party (UK) Albert Clegg 1,857 30% Labour Party (UK) Alice Elliott 1,733 28% Liberal Party (UK) John Richard Jones 1,070 17% Liberal Party (UK) Lilian Howorth 909 15% 1,424 12,988 6,208 48% Croxteth Croxteth - 2 seats Labour Party (UK) James Cullen 5,205 82% Labour Party (UK) William Henry Barton 5,091 80% Independent (politician) James Charles Pollard 1,164 18% 4,041 29,224 6,369 22% Dingle Dingle Labour Party (UK) Edward Daniel Whittle 3,919 53% Conservative Party (UK) George Horrace Duckett 3,523 47% 396 17,363 7,442 43% Edge Hill Edge Hill - 2 seats Labour Party (UK) James Johnstone 3,113 64% Labour Party (UK) John Bagot 3,082 64% Conservative Party (UK) Joseph Parry 1,733 36% Conservative Party (UK) Charles Stamper 1,676 35% 1,380 12,736 4,846 38% Everton Everton Labour Party (UK) John Leslie Hughes unopposed 12,593 Exchange Exchange - 2 seats Independent (politician) Leo Henry Wright 728 74% Independent (politician) Walter McGrath 721 73% Labour Party (UK) Sarah Ann McArd 252 26% Labour Party (UK) Herbert F. Granby 257 26% 471 1,619 985 61% Fairfield Fairfield - 3 seats Labour Party (UK) Henry V. Cove 3,159 46% Labour Party (UK) Isadore Levin 3,088 45% Conservative Party (UK) Robert Meadows 3,022 44% Conservative Party (UK) Charles Tillson 2,992 43% Labour Party (UK) Edward William Harby 2,984 43% Conservative Party (UK) James C. Cotdon 2,932 42% Liberal Party (UK) William Henry Ledsom 755 11% Liberal Party (UK) Charles Frederick Elias 553 8% Liberal Party (UK) Leonard Baines 467 7% 137 14,457 6,936 48% Fazakerley Fazakerley Labour Party (UK) Joseph L. Morgan 4,393 63% Conservative Party (UK) Robert A. Smith 2,576 37% 1,817 19,248 6,969 36% Garston Garston Labour Party (UK) Alfred Demain 3,950 66% Conservative Party (UK) William Fletcher 2,008 34% 1,942 14,994 5,958 40% Granby Granby Labour Party (UK) Elizabeth Trainor 2,344 53% Conservative Party (UK) Walter Clarke 2,065 47% 279 12,424 4,409 35% Great George Great George - 2 seats Labour Party (UK) Robert Edward Cottier unopposed Labour Party (UK) John David Towers unopposed 3,720 Kensington Kensington - 2 seats Labour Party (UK) John Matthew Taylor 2,827 51% Labour Party (UK) Joseph Brogan 2,812 51% Conservative Party (UK) Jack Creswell 2,663 49% Conservative Party (UK) Stephen Minion 2,616 48% 162 13,466 5,492 41% Kirkdale Kirkdale Labour Party (UK) Peter McKernan 4,340 60% Conservative Party (UK) William E. McLachlan 2,863 40% 1,477 18,333 7,203 39% Little Woolton Little Woolton - 2 seats Conservative Party (UK) James Forster Brakell 715 68% Conservative Party (UK) Gordon Frederick Catlin 671 64% Liberal Party (UK) Marshal Fraser McGregor 196 19% Labour Party (UK) Margaret Ella Doughty 137 13% 519 1,456 1,048 72% Low Hill Low Hill - 2 seats Labour Party (UK) Fred Robinson 2,963 55% Labour Party (UK) David Horan 2,880 54% Conservative Party (UK) Samuel Cecil Saltmarsh 2,420 45% Conservative Party (UK) George Moore 2,315 43% 543 11,568 5,383 47% Much Woolton Much Woolton Conservative Party (UK) Reginald Wm. Stewart 1,541 59% Labour Party (UK) Griffith D. Ellis 1,084 41% 457 5,180 2,625 51% Netherfield Netherfield Liverpool Protestant Party George E. Lewis 1,611 51% Labour Party (UK) William J. Riddick 1,562 49% 48 10,653 3,174 30% North Scotland North Scotland - 2 seats Labour Party (UK) Thomas Fay 1,690 63% Labour Party (UK) Frederick W. Tucker 1,546 58% Communist Party of Great Britain Leo McGree 981 37% 709 6,778 2,671 39% Old Swan Old Swan Labour Party (UK) Samuel Cantor 5,497 53% Conservative Party (UK) Ernest Walker 4,874 47% 623 26,860 10,371 39% Prince's Park Prince's Park - 2 seats Labour Party (UK) Sarah Ann Demain 2,476 54% Labour Party (UK) Henry Evans 2,407 54% Conservative Party (UK) Charles Cowlin 2,082 46% Conservative Party (UK) Thomas Thompson 2,044 45% 394 11,593 4,558 39% Sandhills Sandhills Labour Party (UK) Henry Aldritt unopposed 7,277 St. Anne's St. Anne's - 2 seats Labour Party (UK) Elizabeth M. Braddock M.P. unopposed Labour Party (UK) Abraham Louis Caplan unopposed 5,996 St. Domingo St. Domingo Liverpool Protestant Party Albert Victor Harris 2,456 55% Labour Party (UK) Charles Gallacher 1,970 45% 486 12,399 4,426 36% St. Peter's St. Peter's Conservative Party (UK) John D.R.T. Tilney 423 72% Labour Party (UK) Peter James O'Hare 154 26% Independent and anti war F.Bowman 11 2% 269 1,108 588 53% Sefton Park East Sefton Park East - 2 seats Conservative Party (UK) John Frank N. Holland 3,352 66% Conservative Party (UK) Arthur Maiden 3,268 65% Labour Party (UK) Margaret Roberts 1,700 34% Labour Party (UK) Louie Viner 1,517 30% 1,652 13,664 5,052 37% Sefton Park West Sefton Park West - 2 seats Conservative Party (UK) Arthur Brierley Collins 3,104 66% Conservative Party (UK) Frederick Bidston 3,043 64% Labour Party (UK) Cecil Ronffignac 1,618 34% Labour Party (UK) John Eric Yeadon 1,565 33% 1,486 10,398 4,722 45% South Scotland South Scotland Labour Party (UK) Michael John Reppion unopposed 5,971 Vauxhall Vauxhall - 2 seats Labour Party (UK) Joseph Cyril Brady unopposed Labour Party (UK) Thomas Hogan unopposed 2,526 Walton Walton Conservative Party (UK) Richard Edward Searle 4,681 48% Labour Party (UK) Arthur Jas. Brownlow 4,508 46% Liberal Party (UK) Evan Llewellyn Lloyd 594 6% 173 22,454 9,783 44% Warbreck Warbreck - 2 seats Conservative Party (UK) Herbert W. Metcalfe 3,648 49% Conservative Party (UK) John Green 3,637 49% Labour Party (UK) Frederick J. Hughes 2,354 32% Labour Party (UK) William H. Pugh 2,325 31% Liberal Party (UK) Walter Howarth 1,450 19% Liberal Party (UK) Marv. G. Ruddy 1,371 18% 1,294 19,161 7,452 39% Wavertree Wavertree Conservative Party (UK) Harold Threlfall Wilson 6,100 58% Labour Party (UK) Joseph Brian Alexander 4,447 42% 1,653 22,419 10,547 47% Wavertree West Wavertree West Labour Party (UK) Charles James Minton 2,517 51% Conservative Party (UK) Florence Blume Levy 2,011 41% Liberal Party (UK) Douglas Kilgour Mitchell 372 8% 506 10,994 4,900 45% West Derby West Derby - 2 seats Conservative Party (UK) Robert C. Beattie 7,478 59% Conservative Party (UK) Hedley A. Williams 7,477 59.5% Labour Party (UK) John C. Carroll 5,241 41.5% Labour Party (UK) Thomas W. Jolley 5,313 42.5% 2,237 30,484 12,719 425 Liverpool Daily Post 2 November 1945 Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1945-1946 Aldermanic elections At the meeting of the City Council on 9 November 1945 the terms of office of twenty of the forty Aldermen expired and the councilors (but not the sitting aldermen) elected twenty Aldermen to fill the vacant positions for a term of six years. Alderman re-elected PartyAldermanConservative Thomas Henry Burton *Conservative John Case *Labour Joseph Jackson Cleary *Conservative Alexander Critchley *Conservative Harold Edward Davies *Conservative Thomas Dowd *Labour Patrick Fay *Conservative Mabel Fletcher *Conservative Robert Duncan French *Labour Alexander Griffin *Labour Bertie Victor Kirby M.P.Conservative Walter Thomas Lancashire *Conservative Alfred Levy *Labour David Gilbert Logan M.P.Protestant Rev. Harry Dixon Longbottom *Conservative George Miller Platt *Conservative James Graham Reece *Labour William Albert Robinson *Conservative George Alfred Srong *Conservative Gertrude Elizabeth Wilson * Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1945-1946 pg 7 By-elections Netherfield, 29 January 1946 Caused by the resignation of Councillor William Matthew Clark (Labour, Netherfield, elected 1 November 1938). Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1945-1946 pg 208 Netherfield Liverpool Protestant Party William George Jones 1,302 53% Labour Party (UK) William James Riddick 1,144 47% 158 10,653 2,446 23% Liverpool Protestant Party Dingle 19 February 1946 Caused by the death of Councillor George William Gillespie (Conservative, Dingle, elected 1 November 1937). Dingle Conservative Party (UK) George Horrace Duckett 3,546 54% Labour Party (UK) William Basil Cashin 3,004 46% 542 17,363 6,550 38% Conservative Party (UK) Labour Party (UK) Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1945-1946 pg 278 Breckfield, 9 May 1946 Alderman Thomas Dowd died on 19 March 1946. Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1945-1946 pg 346 Councillor Ada Martha Burton (Conservative, elected for the Breckfield ward 1 November 1938) was elected by the councillors as an alderman on 3 April 1946 to fill this vacancy. Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1945-1946 pg 347 Breckfield Thomas Henry Thompson 2,539 61% George Henry Dunbar 1,630 39% 909 12,201 4,169 34% Aigburth, 16 May 1946 Caused by the resignation of Councillor William Edward Stirling Napier (Conservative, Aigburth, elected 1 November 1937). Aigburth Richard Martin Bingham 5,036 73% Victor Harold Edgar Baker 1,255 18% Edmund Booth 619 9% 3,781 16,061 6,910 43% South Scotland Alderman Patrick Fay died on 16 April 1946. Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1945-1946 pg 424 Councilor Joseph Harrington (Labour, South Scotland, elected 1 November 1937) was elected by the councillors as an alderman to fill this vacancy. Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1945-1946 pg 427 Childwall Councillor Stanley Foster (Conservative, Childwall, elected 1 November 1937) died on 18 May 1946. Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1945-1946 pg 492 References Category:1945 English local elections 1945 Category:1940s in Liverpool