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Post by Right Leaning on Aug 25, 2014 2:35:56 GMT
I attach the County Borough results from the war through to 1972. I think that 1968 is worth a look, Labour did not win any ward in the city (all be it narrowly - Sparkbrook by 4 votes), which is inconceivable these days. Please feel free to let me have any corrections or comments. Steve Birmingham CB.xlsx (995.67 KB) |
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Post by No Offence Alan on Aug 25, 2014 7:42:26 GMT
I knew Graham Gopsill, when he moved to Droitwich in the 1980s. My first job in my "gap year" after school was in a chain of menswear shops owned by the Zissman family.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2014 10:10:46 GMT
Does anyone know why places like Nechells, Aston and Newtown were strongholds for the Liberals at least towards the end of this period?
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Aug 25, 2014 10:38:20 GMT
Birmingham was the birthplace of Liberal 'community politics' - beginning with Wallace Lawler who won Newtown ward in 1962 but not taking off until the late 1960s.
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Post by ColinJ on Aug 25, 2014 11:17:17 GMT
I hope people haven't forgotten the excellent publication from Christopher Phillips: Birmingham Votes 1911-2000. It was issued by LGC Communications in 2000 under the auspices of the LGC Elections Centre in Plymouth.
At over 260 pages, it contains the results of every election, including by-elections, during the period. There are short commentaries about each borough election, statistics, maps etc. The results are presented in two ways: Firstly, for each (usually annual) election, listing the ward results alphabetically by ward name. Later in the book each ward is examined individually by providing a chronological listing of results over the complete time-frame, but in a more concise style so as not to make unnecessary repetitions from the first section.
There is also Chapter 5 in Sam Davies' and Bob Morley's first volume of County Borough Elections in England and Wales, 1919-1938 to remember. Obviously the period studied by them is more narrow and they do not give the results of by-elections or when the poll was postponed. The book from Philllips is therefore much to be preferred as the source of results for Birmingham elections.
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Aug 30, 2014 9:31:50 GMT
The book Colin mentions is available for £15 now from the LGC site so there is no reason why anybody on this site would not have a copy of it
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Post by ColinJ on Aug 31, 2014 9:20:45 GMT
£15? An absolute bargain, even for readers with only a passing interest in Birmingham.
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Post by iainbhx on Aug 31, 2014 15:26:27 GMT
Does anyone know why places like Nechells, Aston and Newtown were strongholds for the Liberals at least towards the end of this period? They were very different places to what they are now, they were much smaller wards affected by slum-clearances where community politics worked very well. |
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Post by Sibboleth on Aug 31, 2014 17:32:37 GMT
I think that 1968 is worth a look, Labour did not win any ward in the city (all be it narrowly - Sparkbrook by 4 votes), which is inconceivable these days. It was pretty inconceivable in 1968 as well... |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2014 18:08:05 GMT
The book Colin mentions is available for £15 now from the LGC site so there is no reason why anybody on this site would not have a copy of it Unless they lent their copy to skybluecolu two years ago and haven't seen it since |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2014 19:40:32 GMT
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