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Post by AdminSTB on Jul 5, 2020 21:48:28 GMT
Firstly, a spreadsheet with UDC election results from 1946 to 1972. Shared with the kind permission of Alan Willis , who has done a huge amount of work compiling the data for Urban District Council election results, and continues to do so. I have transferred the data onto a shareable Google spreadsheet. There is a tab for each year between 1946 and 1972, all containing a list of results so far compiled, mostly from newspaper archives. UDC elections 1946-1972I hope everyone enjoys it. Gaps are inevitable, as some of the data is yet to be made available, and unopposed returns were often not deemed worthy of reporting. We hope that reading this might encourage some of you to help us fill in the gaps where possible, as we continue to add more results to the Old UK Councils forum. I have managed to find a few from Yorkshire so far and will be adding those. |
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Post by J.G.Harston on Jul 6, 2020 4:36:07 GMT
Firstly, a spreadsheet with UDC election results from 1946 to 1972. Shared with the kind permission of Alan Willis , who has done a huge amount of work compiling the data for Urban District Council election results, and continues to do so. I have transferred the data onto a shareable Google spreadsheet. There is a tab for each year between 1946 and 1972, all containing a list of results so far compiled, mostly from newspaper archives. Wonderful, you're owed some beers. It's filled most of my gaps in the Whitby election results. I'm going to merge the Whitby bits with my details where I have full names for candidates and resulting council composition which I've been gleaning from the Whitby Gazette when I've been able to get into the library. What should I add to it to note Alan Willis as the source? Of interest in Whitby is that the 99% "Independent" council fell at the end of the 1960s coincident with the council "slum clearing" the historic heart out of the centre of town. It's also highlighted where I need to do extra digging, I've had to put fractional councillors in my table to get the numbers to add up where I don't know who stood down in multiple vacancies:  The library has announced it will be re-opening next Monday for IT and research use, so I'll be queuing up to get in. |
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Post by yellowperil on Jul 6, 2020 6:10:18 GMT
Firstly, a spreadsheet with UDC election results from 1946 to 1972. Shared with the kind permission of Alan Willis , who has done a huge amount of work compiling the data for Urban District Council election results, and continues to do so. I have transferred the data onto a shareable Google spreadsheet. There is a tab for each year between 1946 and 1972, all containing a list of results so far compiled, mostly from newspaper archives. Wonderful, you're owed some beers. It's filled most of my gaps in the Whitby election results. I'm going to merge the Whitby bits with my details where I have full names for candidates and resulting council composition which I've been gleaning from the Whitby Gazette when I've been able to get into the library. What should I add to it to note Alan Willis as the source? Of interest in Whitby is that the 99% "Independent" council fell at the end of the 1960s coincident with the council "slum clearing" the historic heart out of the centre of town. It's also highlighted where I need to do extra digging, I've had to put fractional councillors in my table to get the numbers to add up where I don't know who stood down in multiple vacancies: The library has announced it will be re-opening next Monday for IT and research use, so I'll be queuing up to get in. I do like the idea of fractional councillors. I've known one or two such. |
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Post by nick10 on Jul 6, 2020 12:06:52 GMT
Firstly, a spreadsheet with UDC election results from 1946 to 1972. Shared with the kind permission of Alan Willis , who has done a huge amount of work compiling the data for Urban District Council election results, and continues to do so. I have transferred the data onto a shareable Google spreadsheet. There is a tab for each year between 1946 and 1972, all containing a list of results so far compiled, mostly from newspaper archives. UDC elections 1946-1972I hope everyone enjoys it. Gaps are inevitable, as some of the data is yet to be made available, and unopposed returns were often not deemed worthy of reporting. We hope that reading this might encourage some of you to help us fill in the gaps where possible, as we continue to add more results to the Old UK Councils forum. I have managed to find a few from Yorkshire so far and will be adding those. Just a very quick glance fills in some gaps on my records for Esher and Walton & Weybridge UDCs, both of which I’ve worked on (along with all other predecessor authorities for Elmbridge BC) for many years. I’m also able to fill gaps, including unopposed returns, so will compare and come back. |
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Post by greenhert on Jul 6, 2020 14:43:04 GMT
Having looked through this spreadsheet, to note interesting examples, I cannot help but be somewhat amused that Trowbridge, the county town of Wiltshire, elected a Communist councillor during the 1960s.
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Post by AdminSTB on Jul 6, 2020 16:11:47 GMT
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Post by No Offence Alan on Jul 6, 2020 23:27:45 GMT
Having looked through this spreadsheet, to note interesting examples, I cannot help but be somewhat amused that Trowbridge, the county town of Wiltshire, elected a Communist councillor during the 1960s. If I was a pitchfork salesman in need of trade, I would suggest a cross-border Wilts/Somerset seat of "Frome and Trowbridge". |
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Post by hullenedge on Jul 11, 2020 8:47:03 GMT
Labour controlled UDCs after the Spring 1946 elections (list may be incomplete, asterisk indicates 1946 gains);-   |
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Post by hullenedge on Jul 16, 2020 10:10:49 GMT
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Post by AdminSTB on Jul 18, 2020 17:05:18 GMT
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Post by finsobruce on Jul 18, 2020 17:18:55 GMT
I don't know about elections but following meetings (at the Moravian school Westgate and the Woodbottom Schoolboard) on the 5th and 6th November 1900 the owners and ratepayers of Baildon UDC were polled on the following question:
"That the Baildon Urban District Council be hereby authorised to approve of the conditions approved by the City of Bradford regarding the inclusion of the district within the city boundaries". This poll taken under the auspices of the Public Health Act 1875.
The result was as follows :
Votes in Favour : 853
Votes Against: 676
Result declared 4th December by George Waud, Chairman and Returning Officer. Published in Shipley Times and Express 22nd December.
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Post by finsobruce on Jul 18, 2020 18:50:13 GMT
And I can't find anything for 1900, but in 1902 The Leeds Mercury recorded the following nominations for Baildon UDC : North ward: Mr Benjamin Lee (Gentleman) East ward: Mr Shaw Robinson (Gentleman)
South ward: Mr Frederick Holmes (Master Tanner)
West ward: Mr J Wilks (Plasterer and Contractor), Mr T Denby/Denbigh & Mr Francis Jagger
The Wharfedale and Airedale Observer noted that Denby/Denbigh and Jagger withdrew, leaving everybody else elected unopposed
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Post by finsobruce on Jul 18, 2020 19:03:59 GMT
No contests in 1910 either with the nominations as follows:
North ward: Mr George Robinson (Manufacturer)
South ward: Mr William Holmes (gentleman)
East ward: Mr John Denby (Spinner and Manufacturer)
West ward: Mr Joseph B Jennings (Butcher)
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Post by finsobruce on Jul 18, 2020 19:11:13 GMT
And I've found 1900! Again, no contests with unopposed elections as follows:
West Ward: Mr Edwin Rowling
East ward: Mr Frederick Robinson
North ward: Mr Joseph Mann
South ward: Mr William Holmes
As a general note the Wharfedale and Airedale Observer, seemed at least as informative, if not more so than the Shipley Times
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Post by ColinJ on Jul 18, 2020 19:13:59 GMT
I don't know about elections but following meetings (at the Moravian school Westgate and the Woodbottom Schoolboard) on the 5th and 6th November the owners and ratepayers of Baildon UDC were polled on the following question: "That the Baildon Urban District Council be hereby authorised to approve of the conditions approved by the City of Bradford regarding the inclusion of the district within the city boundaries". This poll taken under the auspices of the Public Health Act 1875. The result was as follows : Votes in Favour : 853 Votes Against: 676 Result declared 4th December by George Waud, Chairman and Returning Officer. Published in Shipley Times and Express 22nd December.
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Post by finsobruce on Jul 18, 2020 19:18:02 GMT
I don't know about elections but following meetings (at the Moravian school Westgate and the Woodbottom Schoolboard) on the 5th and 6th November the owners and ratepayers of Baildon UDC were polled on the following question: "That the Baildon Urban District Council be hereby authorised to approve of the conditions approved by the City of Bradford regarding the inclusion of the district within the city boundaries". This poll taken under the auspices of the Public Health Act 1875. The result was as follows : Votes in Favour : 853 Votes Against: 676 Result declared 4th December by George Waud, Chairman and Returning Officer. Published in Shipley Times and Express 22nd December.
Any idea what went wrong? Was a two-thirds majority required? I found a follow up report concerning the foundation of a campaign to overturn the result. It was mentioned in this report that the ballot was not secret, and it was felt that some people hadn't voted as a result. So maybe votes were taken at the meetings? Seems like a large attendance if so. |
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Post by AdminSTB on Jul 18, 2020 20:26:21 GMT
Well done finso!
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Post by swanarcadian on Jul 27, 2020 21:15:09 GMT
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Post by bjornhattan on Jul 28, 2020 1:52:43 GMT
Having looked through this spreadsheet, to note interesting examples, I cannot help but be somewhat amused that Trowbridge, the county town of Wiltshire, elected a Communist councillor during the 1960s. It might be the county town of Wiltshire, but that makes it sound rather more bucolic than it actually is - it's no rural idyll! It would have still been very much an industrial town, and rougher than a badgers behind, so I could imagine it electing Communists in the dim and distant past. |
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Post by finsobruce on Jul 28, 2020 6:57:05 GMT
Having looked through this spreadsheet, to note interesting examples, I cannot help but be somewhat amused that Trowbridge, the county town of Wiltshire, elected a Communist councillor during the 1960s. It might be the county town of Wiltshire, but that makes it sound rather more bucolic than it actually is - it's no rural idyll! It would have still been very much an industrial town, and rougher than a badgers behind, so I could imagine it electing Communists in the dim and distant past. the successful candidate was Idris Rose who had been active in the party in Trowbridge since at least the 1940s and in 1956 had been expelled from the local Trades council for "revealing council business to the Communist party and to the local press". Elected as far back as 1962.
And if you go further on a Ms P Rose (presumably the daughter of Idris) was also elected in the same ward (Longfield) in 1969 and 1972, having previously stood in both Seymour and Studley wards and in the previous 'unwarded' elections. In one election there are two P Roses listed, which is either a mistake or possibly father, daughter and mother (or other family member)
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