1910 London County Council election

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1910 London County Council election

← 1907 5 March 1910 1913 →
118 Council Seats 60 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader William Fisher Sir John Benn None Party Municipal Reform Progressive Labour Leader since 1910 1907 — Leader's seat Alderman Kennington — Last election 79 seats 37 seats 1 seat Seats won 60 55 3 Seat change 19 18 2 Popular vote 217,537 174,872 24,736 Percentage 52.1% 41.9% 5.9%

An election to the County Council of London took place on 5 March 1910. It was the eighth triennial election of the whole Council. The size of the council was 118 councillors and 19 aldermen. The councillors were elected for electoral divisions corresponding to the parliamentary constituencies that had been created by the Representation of the People Act 1884. There were 57 dual member constituencies and one four member constituency. The council was elected by First Past the Post with each elector having two votes in the dual member seats.

The Prime Minister of the day was the Liberal H. H. Asquith who led a minority Liberal Government that relied upon the Irish Parliamentary Party for a majority. A General Election had taken place a couple of months earlier in January at which the Liberals had lost their overall majority. The Conservatives and Liberal Unionists formed the official opposition. The Labour Party was the fourth party and generally voted with the Liberals in parliament.

The Municipal Reform party had been in power since winning a majority in 1907. It was now seeking its second mandate.

All constituencies were contested. The governing Municipal Reform Party ran a full slate of 118 candidates. The opposition Progressive Party ran 110 candidates. They ran candidates everywhere except the City of London where they ran three candidates, Hampstead, St George's Hanover Square and Strand where only one candidate stood, three constituencies where one candidate ran in tandem with Labour and Woolwich where they did not oppose a Labour pair. Four Independents also ran.

The party fielded ten candidates, five of these candidates ran in tandem with Progressive candidates, a further two candidates were not opposed by Progressives. The other three all stood in opposition to Progressive candidates. The Labour Party in London had no elected or otherwise recognised Leader.

The Municipal Reform Party was returned with its second successive majority. At the 1907 elections, they had an overall majority of 40. After that election they shared out the 9 vacant Aldermanic seats giving them an effective working majority of 43. At the 1910 elections, their overall majority was cut to just 2. After the election they decided to bolster their majority by giving themselves all 10 of the vacant Aldermanic seats. This gave them an effective working majority of 17. Two of their new Aldermanic appointments were people who had just been voted out by the electors.

• Incumbent Councillors shown in bold.

Battersea^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	William J Davies	7,254	26.3
	Progressive	Walter Richard Warren	7,049	25.6
	Municipal Reform	Arthur Shirley Benn	6,837	24.8
	Municipal Reform	Edwin Evans	6,441	23.4
Majority			212	0.8
	Progressive hold		Swing
	Progressive gain from Municipal Reform		Swing

Clapham^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	Alexander Murray	9,184	30.6
	Municipal Reform	Robert Montefiore Sebag-Montefiore	9,087	30.3
	Progressive	F Griffiths	5,864	19.5
	Progressive	William Watts	5,861	19.5
Majority			3,223	10.8
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

Bethnal Green North East^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Garnham Edmonds	3,423	36.6
	Progressive	Edward A Smith	3,369	36.1
	Municipal Reform	Alexander Edwards	1,327	14.2
	Municipal Reform	William Long Restall	1,221	13.1
Majority			2,042	21.9
	Progressive hold		Swing

Bethnal Green South West^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Stewart Headlam	2,684	29.0
	Progressive	Percy Harris	2,618	28.2
	Municipal Reform	Eric Alfred Hoffgaard	2,060	22.2
	Municipal Reform	Horace Alfred Medway	1,900	20.5
Majority			558	6.0
	Progressive hold		Swing

Dulwich^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	Frederick Hall	5,836	30.1
	Municipal Reform	Arthur Griffith-Boscawen	5,786	29.9
	Progressive	Arthur John Waldron	3,872	20.0
	Progressive	J. E. Boon	3,871	20.0
Majority			1,914	9.9
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

Camberwell North^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Reginald Bray	4,355	31.1
	Progressive	Henry Robert Taylor	4,339	30.9
	Municipal Reform	W. Courtney	2,694	19.2
	Municipal Reform	P. Michael	2,633	18.8
Majority			1,645	11.7
	Progressive hold		Swing

Peckham^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Thomas Gautrey	4,381	28.0
	Progressive	George Gordon	4,097	26.2
	Municipal Reform	William Leonard Dowton	3,653	23.3
	Municipal Reform	P Conway	3,508	22.4
Majority			444	2.9
	Progressive hold		Swing
	Progressive gain from Municipal Reform		Swing

Chelsea^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	Ronald Collet Norman	4,935	32.1
	Municipal Reform	Ernest Louis Meinertzhagen	4,886	31.7
	Progressive	Leonard Costello	2,809	18.2
	Progressive	John Mackenzie	2,766	18.0
Majority			2,077	13.5
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

City of London^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	Nathaniel Louis Cohen	5,413	21.0
	Municipal Reform	James William Domoney	5,404	20.9
	Municipal Reform	Herbert Stuart Sankey	5,383	20.9
	Municipal Reform	William Henry Pannell	5,370	20.8
	Progressive	Edmund Charles Rawlings	1,439	5.6
	Progressive	Harold Glanville	1,403	5.4
	Progressive	Samuel Lammas Dore	1,403	5.4
	Progressive	Frederick Link	1,393	5.4
Majority
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

Deptford^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	William Freeman Barrett	5,932	28.6
	Municipal Reform	Edwin Mumford Preston	5,047	24.3
	Progressive	William James Pethybridge	4,910	23.6
	Labour	Campion Watson	4,880	23.5
Majority
	Municipal Reform gain from Progressive		Swing
	Municipal Reform gain from Progressive		Swing

Finsbury Central^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Arthur Barnett Russell	2,482	25.3
	Municipal Reform	Lawrence William Simpson Rostron	2,460	25.1
	Progressive	Fitzroy Hemphill	2,459	25.0
	Municipal Reform	Samuel Joyce Thomas	2,420	24.6
Majority
	Progressive hold		Swing
	Municipal Reform gain from Progressive		Swing

Finsbury East^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Evan Cotton	2,026	27.9
	Progressive	George Gillett	2,020	27.8
	Municipal Reform	Lord Hardwicke	1,616	22.3
	Municipal Reform	Joseph Lewthwaite	1,592	21.9
Majority
	Progressive gain from Municipal Reform		Swing
	Progressive gain from Municipal Reform		Swing

Holborn^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	Henry Lygon	3,324	35.0
	Municipal Reform	Robert Tasker	3,309	34.8
	Progressive	T. E. Morris	1,444	15.2
	Progressive	David Endacott	1,424	15.0
Majority
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

Fulham^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	Cyril Cobb	7,398	30.1
	Municipal Reform	Edward George Easton	7,314	29.8
	Progressive	W R Sayer	4,989	20.3
	Progressive	George Arthur Gale	4,856	19.8
Majority
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

Greenwich^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	Rowland Clegg-Hill	4,574	28.6
	Municipal Reform	George Hume	4,569	28.6
	Progressive	Thomas Ford	2,919	17.3
	Progressive	John Belcher Allpass	2,768	17.3
	Labour	Ernest Gilbert	1,161	7.3
Majority
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

Hackney Central^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Alfred James Shepheard	3,634	27.5
	Progressive	Henrietta Adler	3,521	26.2
	Municipal Reform	G J Dowse	3,157	23.5
	Municipal Reform	John Foster Vesey-FitzGerald	3,053	22.8
Majority			364	2.7
	Progressive gain from Municipal Reform		Swing
	Progressive gain from Municipal Reform		Swing

Hackney North^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	George Jones	5,133	28.4
	Municipal Reform	Oscar Emanuel Warburg	5,042	27.9
	Progressive	Edward Calcott Pryce	3,970	21.9
	Progressive	John Bussey	3,953	21.8
Majority			1,072	5.9
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

Hackney South^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Theodore Chapman	4,947	32.0
	Progressive	William Augustus Casson	4,867	31.5
	Municipal Reform	William Deedes	2,830	18.3
	Municipal Reform	Master of Saltoun	2,809	18.2
Majority
	Progressive hold		Swing

Hammersmith^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	Jocelyn Brandon	5,815	33.5
	Municipal Reform	Isidore Salmon	5,654	32.6
	Progressive	Ben Cooper	2,960	17.0
	Progressive	D R Thomas	2,936	16.9
Majority
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

Hampstead^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	Andrew Taylor	4,527	39.5
	Municipal Reform	Walter Reynolds	4,509	39.3
	Progressive	Alexander Jones David	2,431	21.2
Majority
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

Islington East^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Edward Smallwood	4,031	26.2
	Progressive	Arthur Augustus Thomas	3,949	25.7
	Municipal Reform	Charles Crole-Rees	3,715	24.2
	Municipal Reform	Percy Simner	3,685	24.0
Majority
	Progressive gain from Municipal Reform		Swing
	Progressive gain from Municipal Reform		Swing

Islington North^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	John Cathles Hill	4,613	27.1
	Municipal Reform	Frederick Lionel Dove	4,591	27.0
	Progressive	William Edward Mullins	3,918	23.0
	Progressive	Gordon Hall Caine	3,884	22.8
Majority
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

Islington South^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Howell Jones Williams	2,855	26.7
	Progressive	George Dew	2,841	26.6
	Municipal Reform	S Lambert	2,515	23.5
	Municipal Reform	Violet Douglas-Pennant	2,475	23.2
Majority
	Progressive hold		Swing

Islington West^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Richard Cornthwaite Lambert	3,193	27.9
	Progressive	Henry Lorenzo Jephson	3,172	27.7
	Municipal Reform	H J Clarke	2,542	22.2
	Municipal Reform	F Russell Davies	2,524	22.1
Majority
	Progressive gain from Municipal Reform		Swing
	Progressive gain from Municipal Reform		Swing

Kensington North^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	David Davis	3,761
	Municipal Reform	Charles Lancelot Andrewes Skinner	3,714
	Progressive	Frank Murray Carson	2,990
	Labour	Ethel Bentham	2,724
Majority
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

Kensington South^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	William Frederick Cavaye	4,752
	Municipal Reform	William Whitaker Thompson	4,701
	Progressive	J E Allen	566
	Progressive	John Llewellyn Williams	543
Majority
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

Brixton^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	William Haydon	4,324
	Municipal Reform	Ernest Gray	4,295
	Progressive	M B Lange	3,188
	Progressive	George Shrubsall	3,186
Majority
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

Kennington^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	John Benn	3,290
	Progressive	Maurice de Forest	2,828
	Municipal Reform	P. F. Budge	2,421
	Municipal Reform	Cecil Ince	2,317
	Labour	John Gilbert Dale	900
Majority
	Progressive hold		Swing

Lambeth North^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Frank Briant	2,262
	Labour	Frank Smith	1,930
	Municipal Reform	H Norris	1,780
	Municipal Reform	Henry Charlewood Turner	1,753
Majority
	Progressive hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Norwood^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	Cecil Urquhart Fisher	5,604
	Municipal Reform	Forbes St John Morrow	5,565
	Progressive	Nathaniel William Hubbard	3,698
	Progressive	Frederick Kellaway	3,552
Majority
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

Lewisham^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	James Stanhope	9,031
	Municipal Reform	Frederick Houston Carter	8,958
	Progressive	Arthur Robert Gridley	4,950
	Progressive	Gee	2,297
Majority
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

Marylebone East^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	Hercules Pakenham	3,089
	Municipal Reform	Alexander Thynne	3,056
	Progressive	H J Helsdon	1,100
	Progressive	Samuel Eli Hugo Kilner	1,050
Majority
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

Marylebone West^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	Edward White	3,710
	Municipal Reform	Susan Lawrence	3,681
	Progressive	Connelly	1,378
	Progressive	Frederick Dolman	1,359
Majority
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

Walworth^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	James Arthur Dawes	2,981
	Progressive	Charles Jesson	2,868
	Municipal Reform	Frederick Bird	2,029
	Municipal Reform	Collingwood Sproule	1,980
Majority
	Progressive hold		Swing

Newington West^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	James Daniel Gilbert	3,540
	Progressive	Evan Spicer	3,536
	Municipal Reform	Frank Henry Baber	2,483
	Municipal Reform	Richard Owen Roberts	2,470
Majority
	Progressive hold		Swing

Paddington North^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	John Herbert Hunter	4,017
	Municipal Reform	Thomas Clarence Edward Goff	3,965
	Progressive	James Fairbank	3,882
	Progressive	Horace George Holmes	3,732
Majority
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

Paddington South^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	John Burgess Karslake	3,226
	Municipal Reform	Harry Barned Lewis-Barned	3,200
	Progressive	E E Hayward	984
	Progressive	Alfred Young Mayell	946
Majority
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

St George's Hanover Square^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	Herbert Eaton	4,283
	Municipal Reform	Hubert John Greenwood	4,243
	Progressive	Henry Thomas Mackenzie Bell	912
	Progressive	James Scott Duckers	884
Majority
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

St. Pancras East^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Hugh Lea	3,764
	Progressive	Albert William Claremont	3,678
	Municipal Reform	David Hazel	2,789
	Municipal Reform	Arthur Veasey	2,738
Majority
	Progressive hold		Swing

St. Pancras North^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Thomas Frederick Hobson	3,552
	Progressive	Arthur Lewis Leon	3,507
	Municipal Reform	T. H. Russell	3,097
	Municipal Reform	Wyndham Clarke	3,022
Majority
	Progressive hold		Swing

St. Pancras South^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	George Alexander	2,719
	Municipal Reform	John Denison-Pender	2,633
	Progressive	Frederick Hastings	1,281
	Progressive	Charles James Tarring	1,267
Majority
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

St. Pancras West^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	William Lloyd-Taylor	3,148
	Progressive	Samuel Lithgow	3,118
	Municipal Reform	Percy Vosper	2,969
	Municipal Reform	Richard Barnett	2,876
Majority
	Progressive gain from Municipal Reform		Swing
	Progressive gain from Municipal Reform		Swing

Haggerston^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Stephen Gee	2,845
	Progressive	Arthur Acland Allen	2,839
	Municipal Reform	Gilbert Johnstone	2,479
	Municipal Reform	G V Wellesley	2,358
Majority
	Progressive gain from Municipal Reform		Swing
	Progressive gain from Municipal Reform		Swing

Hoxton^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Benjamin B Evans	3,645
	Progressive	Stanley Holmes	3,612
	Municipal Reform	C Ford	1,944
	Municipal Reform	Cecil Trotter	1,922
Majority
	Progressive gain from Municipal Reform		Swing
	Progressive gain from Municipal Reform		Swing

Bermondsey^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Charles Russell	3,288	24.5
	Progressive	William Henry Ecroyd	3,276	24.4
	Municipal Reform	Walter T Somerville	2,509	18.7
	Municipal Reform	Joseph Ricardo	2,470	18.4
	Labour	Alfred Salter	1,876	14.0
Majority
	Progressive hold		Swing
	Progressive gain from Labour		Swing

Rotherhithe^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	John Scott Lidgett	3,716
	Progressive	R. L. Stuart	3,706
	Municipal Reform	H.G.L. Davidson	2,060
	Municipal Reform	Gilbert Hurst	2,058
Majority
	Progressive hold		Swing

Southwark West^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Albert Wilson	2,907
	Progressive	Thomas Hunter	2,904
	Municipal Reform	Edward Matthews	2,542
	Municipal Reform	John Tyson Wigan	2,531
Majority
	Progressive hold		Swing

Strand^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	Clifford Probyn	3,004
	Municipal Reform	Philip Pilditch	2,974
	Progressive	J. M. Dent	758
	Progressive	Samuel G Fenton	752
Majority
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

Bow and Bromley^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Lansbury	4,002
	Progressive	George Lewis Bruce	3,442
	Municipal Reform	Horace Victor Rowe	2,507
	Municipal Reform	Alfred Moor-Radford	2,395
Majority
	Labour gain from Municipal Reform		Swing
	Progressive gain from Municipal Reform		Swing

Limehouse^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Alfred William Yeo	1,963
	Municipal Reform	Cyril Jackson	1,962
	Progressive	H J Ogden	1,930
	Municipal Reform	George Lillie Craik	1,825
Majority
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing
	Progressive gain from Municipal Reform		Swing

Mile End^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Carl Stettauer	2,032
	Progressive	James May	2,016
	Municipal Reform	Edward Holton Coumbe	1,973
	Municipal Reform	Cecil Ince	1,924
Majority
	Progressive hold		Swing
	Progressive hold		Swing

Poplar^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	John McDougall	3,169
	Labour	Robert Ensor	2,835
	Municipal Reform	T. J. Clarke	1,883
Majority
	Labour gain from Progressive		Swing
Majority
	Progressive hold		Swing

St George's in the East^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Harry Gosling	1,532
	Progressive	Charles James Mathew	1,492
	Municipal Reform	Percy Coleman Simmons	1,147
	Municipal Reform	G W Gilbert	887
	Independent	Frederick Wallace Brame	56
Majority
	Progressive hold		Swing
	Progressive gain from Municipal Reform		Swing

Stepney^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	Alfred Ordway Goodrich	1,809
	Municipal Reform	John Sankey	1,758
	Progressive	William Samuel Glyn-Jones	1,646
	Progressive	J M Myers	1,524
Majority
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

Whitechapel^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	William Cowlishaw Johnson	1,954
	Progressive	Henry Herman Gordon	1,950
	Municipal Reform	W. Dully	825
	Municipal Reform	John Benjamin Lindenbaum	813
Majority
	Progressive hold		Swing

Wandsworth^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	William Hunt	12,806
	Municipal Reform	John William Lorden	12,665
	Progressive	E A Sanders	6,722
	Progressive	John Dean	6,709
Majority
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

Westminster^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	Reginald White Granville-Smith	2,907
	Municipal Reform	Clement Young Sturge	2,828
	Progressive	William Wheeler	1,018
	Progressive	C L Heywood	1,014
Majority
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

Woolwich^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	William James Squires	7,956
	Municipal Reform	Edward Aubrey Hastings Jay	7,736
	Labour	Margaret Bondfield	6,931
	Labour	Jenkin Jones	6,789
Majority
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing