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Post by hullenedge on Oct 3, 2016 17:09:06 GMT
Short answer...too many! They won seats in Stepney (10), Westminster (3), Blyth (2), Finsbury, Hackney, Maidstone, Surbiton, Portsmouth, Bromley, Neath, Merthyr Tydfil, Hemel Hempstead, Andover and Wolverhampton. They already held seats on Leeds and Sheffield councils. Probably a few more represented on the UDCs/RDCs and in Scotland.
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Oct 4, 2016 10:47:26 GMT
Some unlikely places there. Do you know which area in Hemel they won? (and the other areas mentioned)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2016 12:20:27 GMT
Bromley was Plaistow ward, unopposed (!).
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Oct 4, 2016 13:11:57 GMT
I remember reading (on here I imagine) about a Communist being elected in I think it was Bumpstead or Yeldham or somewhere like that in the old Halstead RD
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Post by hullenedge on Oct 4, 2016 14:55:19 GMT
From the Daily Worker, 3rd Nov. 1945, Hemel Hempstead - Apsley ward - Weller won with 823 votes.
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Oct 4, 2016 16:19:30 GMT
I was going to guess Apsley - back then it would have been all paper mill workers and the like. One of the more Tory areas now
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Oct 4, 2016 16:39:45 GMT
I don't suppose you've found the results for Urmston UDC during your research? (May I echo everyone else in saying how good it is!) |
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Oct 4, 2016 16:50:13 GMT
I don't suppose you've found the results for Urmston UDC during your research? (May I echo everyone else in saying how good it is!) is certainly one of the unsung (well perhaps not quite unsung, but insufficientlysung) heroes of this site |
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Post by La Fontaine on Oct 4, 2016 17:59:47 GMT
I remember reading (on here I imagine) about a Communist being elected in I think it was Bumpstead or Yeldham or somewhere like that in the old Halstead RD I think it was the Sampfords, though that would have been Saffron Walden RD. He actually stood as an independent, but I can't remember his name. I think it was the same person who won election to the first Uttlesford council in 1973, defeating the Conservative parliamentary agent on the draw from a hat, which I witnessed. But I might be getting some things muddled up! |
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Oct 4, 2016 18:51:25 GMT
That must be someone else - this one was definitely elected as a Communist and IIRC was a Jewish woman. There was an article about wider Communist strength in the Braintree area
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Oct 4, 2016 18:55:53 GMT
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Post by La Fontaine on Oct 4, 2016 19:32:40 GMT
That must be someone else - this one was definitely elected as a Communist and IIRC was a Jewish woman. There was an article about wider Communist strength in the Braintree area Yes, you are correct. The Sampfords independent was a man. |
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Post by hullenedge on Oct 4, 2016 21:04:24 GMT
A Communist was elected to Brentwood UDC, 29th March 1947. D. Campbell gained South Weald ward. He polled 463 votes to the Rev Rooke's 448.
Urmston UDC, 1970, report states no gains/losses - Con 20, Owner Occupier 1. The Municipal Year Book, kindly uploaded by David Boothroyd, states Con 20 Rates 1.
The 1970 Lancs CC result for the Urmston & Davyhulme division - A. Scholes Con 3523 Mrs A. Jones Lab 1356, no change.
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Post by Izzyeviel on Oct 5, 2016 14:51:42 GMT
What is the total number of councilors for each party for 1974? Unless i'm missing something, I can't see it.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Oct 5, 2016 15:24:56 GMT
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Post by Robert Waller on Oct 5, 2016 21:25:12 GMT
I had actually missed the early part of this thread.
David's Municipal Yearbooks really take me back.
I spent a lot of time when very young at my uncle's - he was Borough Surveyor of Newark on Trent municipal borough and brought these weighty volumes home at the end of the year.
As I was a voracious reader, they played a considerable part in creating my initial interest in the local government and electoral geography of Britain, and some of you know whither that led ...
I still possess some of those Municipal Yearbooks. And a lot of space they take up on bookshelves too!
The pages scanned by David are very well thumbed.
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Post by hullenedge on Oct 7, 2016 22:24:12 GMT
Banbury MBC 1945 to 1956 (includes county council results 1946-55):- www.dropbox.com/sh/mzagjvi93qpyq9x/AABs8LCcl2VDdo81aU2bnLUra?dl=0The Banbury constituency was covered in the 1955 Election Study. There's mention of the county and borough elections. Bit of an oddity - the borough was unwarded so six seats up (unless extra vacancies) every year whereas the town was divided into five divisions for county council elections. |
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Post by Zardoz on Oct 11, 2016 11:05:18 GMT
Short answer...too many! They won seats in Stepney (10), Westminster (3), Blyth (2), Finsbury, Hackney, Maidstone, Surbiton, Portsmouth, Bromley, Neath, Merthyr Tydfil, Hemel Hempstead, Andover and Wolverhampton. They already held seats on Leeds and Sheffield councils. Probably a few more represented on the UDCs/RDCs and in Scotland. Do you have any further details for Leeds, Hullenedge? Were they, for example, defections or by-election gains - or were they elected in the normal election cycle? If the latter, when were they elected and for what ward? |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Oct 11, 2016 19:25:03 GMT
Speaking of Urmston UDC ( and thank you hullenedge), I noticed this bill from 22nd June 1949: www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=1949-06-22a.175.9I can't find much more on what happened to it, does anyone know how I might find out? The references to it in Hansard are very thin. Given the date I assumed it was connected to moving hospitals into the NHS, but then the local hospital passed into NHS control in 1948 (indeed, it was the first), and the bill was first proposed in 1935. |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Oct 11, 2016 20:32:07 GMT
Speaking of Urmston UDC ( and thank you hullenedge), I noticed this bill from 22nd June 1949: www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=1949-06-22a.175.9I can't find much more on what happened to it, does anyone know how I might find out? The references to it in Hansard are very thin. Given the date I assumed it was connected to moving hospitals into the NHS, but then the local hospital passed into NHS control in 1948 (indeed, it was the first), and the bill was first proposed in 1935. You want the 1949 volume of Acts L+P. There's some info here, on page 163, when bits of it were repealed: www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/1981/9/pdfs/ukla_19810009_en.pdfFrom that, looks like an omnibus local Act to fix various local problems. |
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