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Post by finsobruce on Mar 26, 2020 21:56:26 GMT
Some more results from 1894 (or another year in the same era) tailored to our localities
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Post by finsobruce on Mar 26, 2020 22:06:06 GMT
First up - St Albans for Pete Whitehead and @priceofdawn Elected
Mr W Hurlock (Liberal) 914 Mr T Oakley (Independent)817 Mr A Rowden (The Mayor!)812 Mr W S Green (Independent) 731 Not ElectedMr E Lee (Liberal) 727 Mr A Bond (Independent)688 Mr R L Samuel (Independent) 580 Mr A Young (Liberal) 504 Mr W Westwell (Independent) 232 Registered voters 2,701. Those who voted 1,874 (69%) The paper noted that personalities had been introduced as a result of a recent case involving the Mayor, and this resulted in Lee and Young coming forward as additional Liberal candidates, to Mr Hurlock who was a sitting councillor. Mr Young received an endorsement from The Temperance Union. |
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Post by finsobruce on Mar 27, 2020 17:53:30 GMT
Bishop Street ward
William Robinson (Liberal) 1135 elected
Albert Horton (Conservative) 1096 elected
Edward Turrall (Conservative) 1016 William Lee (Liberal) 982
It goes on to give a breakdown of voting thus:
Robinson 35 Robinson and Lee 880 Robinson and Horton 128 Robinson and Turrall 93 Total of 1136
Horton 23 Horton and Turrall 881 Horton and Robinson 128 Horton and Lee 64 Total of 1096
Turrall 22 Turrall and Horton 881 Turrall and Robinson 93
Turrall and Lee 20 Total of 1016
Lee 19 Lee and Robinson 880 Lee and Horton 64 Lee and Turrall 20 Total of 982
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Post by finsobruce on Mar 27, 2020 18:12:18 GMT
Coventry 1894 cont...
Earl Street ward
Llewellyn Avis (Liberal) 986 elected
William Calcott (Liberal) 985 elected
Walter Furber (Liberal Unionist) 762
Tom Sumner (Conservative) 31 * Sumner had retired before the poll
breakdown of voting thus
Aviss 25
Aviss and Calcott 882
Aviss and Furber 79 Total of 986
Calcott 19
Calcott and Aviss 882
Calcott and Furber 81
Calcott and Sumner 3 Total of 985
Furber 581
Furber and Calcott 81
Furber and Aviss 79
Furber and Sumner 21 Total of 762
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Post by finsobruce on Mar 27, 2020 18:18:27 GMT
Coventry 1894 cont...
Spon Street ward
Charles Slingsby (Conservative) 736 elected
Thomas Neal (Conservative) 707 elected
John Thomas (Liberal) 591
breakdown of voting thus
Slingbsy 24
Slingsby and Neal 621
Slingsby and Thomas 91 Total of 736
Neal 21
Neal and Slingsby 621
Neal and Thomas 65 Total of 707
Thomas 435
Thomas and Slingsby 91
Thomas and Neal 65 Total of 591
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Post by finsobruce on Mar 27, 2020 18:24:02 GMT
Coventry 1894 contd...
Gosford Street ward
Samuel Gorton (Liberal Unionist) 1218 elected
Charles Haywood jnr (Liberal) 934 elected
William Wilkins (Liberal) 829
breakdown of voting thus
Gorton 984
Gorton and Haywood 154
Gorton and Wilkins 80 Total of 1218
Haywood 68
Haywood and Gorton 154
Haywood and Wilkins 712 Total of 934
Wilkins 37
Wilkins and Haywood 712
Wilkins and Gorton 80 Total of 829
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Post by finsobruce on Mar 27, 2020 18:41:43 GMT
Coventry 1894 cont... The Coventry Evening Telegraph reported that the balance of the parties was now : Liberals 23 Conservatives 12 Liberal Unionists 5 There were post election meetings at the Reform, Liberal and Conservative clubs.
At the Liberal club the chairman Mr Joseph Cash said that they wanted to discover the "discrepancy they could not account for" and work out how the Conservatives had managed a majority in Bishop Street ward.
The Conservative club was "uncomfortably crowded".
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Post by finsobruce on Mar 27, 2020 18:45:04 GMT
I will look up results where I know people's locations. If anyone would like to suggest their area, just let me know.
Our large concentration of Forumites in Sheffield would make that an obvious place to go, but I'm assuming that David Ashforth already has these recorded. Let me know if not, David. |
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Post by finsobruce on Mar 27, 2020 19:04:03 GMT
Bad news for gwynthegriff in Crewe. Thus speaks the Crewe Guardian 3rd November 1894 "The municipal elections at Crewe passed over on Thursday without any contests taking place. Of recent years such little interest has been evinced in municipal matters that if the local electors were not reminded of the fact that November 1st is associated with the election of members to act on the governing body of the town they would never trouble themselves about it. It is now no difficult matter for anyone to secure a seat on Crewe Town council , and while it would be much better for the interests of the town if the parties were more evenly balanced, I suppose we must,under the circumstances wait patiently for a revival of the good old times when noone could secure a seat on the local parliament without having to go through the ordeal of a contest". |
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Post by David Ashforth on Mar 27, 2020 21:04:03 GMT
I will look up results where I know people's locations. If anyone would like to suggest their area, just let me know.
Our large concentration of Forumites in Sheffield would make that an obvious place to go, but I'm assuming that David Ashforth already has these recorded. Let me know if not, David. I do have a pdf of the newspaper report of the results, but I don't have anything typed and ready to post here. Not that it should take too long to type the results as only three of Sheffield's nine wards had contested elections: Attercliffe - 'Independent Liberal (Economist)' GAIN from Liberal ( ? I think that's correct) Brightside - x2 Conservative GAINS from Liberal St. George's - x2 Conservative HOLD But, if you have results ready to post, please do. |
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Post by finsobruce on Mar 27, 2020 21:24:05 GMT
I will look up results where I know people's locations. If anyone would like to suggest their area, just let me know.
Our large concentration of Forumites in Sheffield would make that an obvious place to go, but I'm assuming that David Ashforth already has these recorded. Let me know if not, David. I do have a pdf of the newspaper report of the results, but I don't have anything typed and ready to post here. Not that it should take too long to type the results as only three of Sheffield's nine wards had contested elections: Attercliffe - 'Independent Liberal (Economist)' GAIN from Liberal ( ? I think that's correct) Brightside - x2 Conservative GAINS from Liberal St. George's - x2 Conservative HOLD But, if you have results ready to post, please do. It's amazing to us how many wards were uncontested back in them days, but a large part of it must have been the difficulty of finding candidates to take on an unpaid, day time meetings commitment
I haven't got them to hand, but I can look them up and post them if people would like to see them.
In terms of any requests people might like to make, it needn't be big places either as the Rural District councils came into being this year and the papers did report vestry, sanitary board and parish elections with varying degrees of detail and enthusiasm.
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Post by lbarnes on Mar 28, 2020 0:33:46 GMT
Lincoln
Upper (2)
Harrison (Lib) 860
Ellis (Con) 766
Mawer (Lab ) 355
Middle (2)
Cottingham (Lib) 1246
Pratt (Lib) 1133
White (Unionist) 680
Lower (2)
Wyatt (Lib) 1575
Kitkby (Con) 1433
Poppleton (Lib) 1035
Benson (Soc) 389
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Mar 28, 2020 5:38:57 GMT
Bad news for gwynthegriff in Crewe. Thus speaks the Crewe Guardian 3rd November 1894 "The municipal elections at Crewe passed over on Thursday without any contests taking place. Of recent years such little interest has been evinced in municipal matters that if the local electors were not reminded of the fact that November 1st is associated with the election of members to act on the governing body of the town they would never trouble themselves about it. It is now no difficult matter for anyone to secure a seat on Crewe Town council , and while it would be much better for the interests of the town if the parties were more evenly balanced, I suppose we must,under the circumstances wait patiently for a revival of the good old times when noone could secure a seat on the local parliament without having to go through the ordeal of a contest". I bet Brian Silvester wishes he was born a century earlier |
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Post by lbarnes on Mar 28, 2020 10:05:30 GMT
Northampton
East (2)
A E Phipps (Con) 1995
A F Mulliner (Con) 1832
H Wooding (Rate) 1800
J E Hall (Rate) 1494
T Powell (Lab) 925
W Whitehall (Lab) 899
West (2)
John Brown (Cn) 825
J T Ambidge (Con) 711
*George Gibbs (Rate) 546
*D Stanton (Lab) 456
F Johnson (Rate) 403
C C Luck (Lab) 400
South (2)
S Barber (Con) 614
*J Banks (Con) 607
W Kirkton (Lab) 153
Composition:
Con 21, Lib 2, Lib Unionist 1
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Post by lbarnes on Mar 28, 2020 10:06:13 GMT
Bad news for gwynthegriff in Crewe. Thus speaks the Crewe Guardian 3rd November 1894 "The municipal elections at Crewe passed over on Thursday without any contests taking place. Of recent years such little interest has been evinced in municipal matters that if the local electors were not reminded of the fact that November 1st is associated with the election of members to act on the governing body of the town they would never trouble themselves about it. It is now no difficult matter for anyone to secure a seat on Crewe Town council , and while it would be much better for the interests of the town if the parties were more evenly balanced, I suppose we must,under the circumstances wait patiently for a revival of the good old times when noone could secure a seat on the local parliament without having to go through the ordeal of a contest". I bet Brian Silvester wishes he was born a century earlier He was! |
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Post by The Bishop on Mar 28, 2020 10:06:45 GMT
What exactly are these (Lab) candidates in 1894?
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Post by hullenedge on Mar 28, 2020 10:46:26 GMT
What exactly are these (Lab) candidates in 1894? Probably ILP. From memory, there were Labour councillors in the Colne Valley in the 1890s. Our - Elland UDC - first Labour councillor was elected in 1911 after numerous attempts. Swift came from a good Tory background so was instantly accepted amongst his fellow councillors. Michael Meadowcroft's grandfather stood in the Labour interest but never successful. He was a troublemaker. |
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Post by greenchristian on Mar 28, 2020 12:23:40 GMT
Coventry 1894 cont... The Coventry Evening Telegraph reported that the balance of the parties was now : Liberals 23 Conservatives 12 Liberal Unionists 5 There were post election meetings at the Reform, Liberal and Conservative clubs.
At the Liberal club the chairman Mr Joseph Cash said that they wanted to discover the "discrepancy they could not account for" and work out how the Conservatives had managed a majority in Bishop Street ward.
The Conservative club was "uncomfortably crowded". It feels very odd seeing such a large proportion of Coventry councillors being third party. Unless there were some defections I'm unaware of no third party has managed to be represented in two different Coventry wards at the same time since before the 1970s local government reorganisation. |
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Post by lbarnes on Mar 28, 2020 13:20:43 GMT
What exactly are these (Lab) candidates in 1894? That's how they were referred to in the local press. As there were no labels on the ballot paper I suspect these were descriptions used by the newspaper from their own knowledge. |
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Post by lbarnes on Mar 28, 2020 13:24:05 GMT
Burnley
St Pauls
Hargreaves (Con) unopposed
Daneshouse
Caleb Thornber (Lib) 867
T H Simpson (Lab) 430
St Peters
J W Harker (Con) 740
B Creeke (Lab) 249
Fulledge
Albert Carrington (Con) 752
Matthew Holdsworth (Soc) 232
Trinity
D D Dickinson (Con) 652
W G Dent (Soc) 299
Gannow
Henry Shapcott (Con) 497
H Ormerod (Co-op) 216
W Marshall (Ind Lab) 218
Healey
A N Ratcliffe (Con) 423
W C Robinson (Trades Council) 378
Lowerhose
J Heap (Ind Lib) 510
F Mallindon (Trades Council) 491
Burnley Wood
W E Hacking (Lib) 675
J Pate (Con) 472
J Sparling (Soc) 360
Stoneyholme
R Pollard (Lib) 438
J Hacking (Con) 387
J H Riley (Soc) 143
Whittlefield
J Bibby (Lib) 415
J W Hargreaves (Con) 315
John Tamlyn (Soc) 123
St Andrews
Sydney McFarlane (Lib) 673
Sam Elsworth (Con) 576
Composition:
Lib 28, Con 19, Unionist 1, Soc 1
(This looks like a mstake and is 1 member too many)
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