1946 Liverpool City Council election

1946 Liverpool City Council election

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Map of Liverpool showing wards won (first placed party)[1]

Elections to Liverpool City Council were held on 1 November 1946.

After the election, the composition of the council was:

Party		Councillors	±	Aldermen	Total
	Conservative	??	??	??	??
	Labour	??	??	??	??
	Protestant	??	??	??	??
	Liberal	??	??	??	??

Liverpool Local Election Result 1946

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Conservative	22					51%	106,206
	Labour	14					45%	96,623
	Protestant	2					2.3%	4,890
	Independent	1					0.83%	1,729
	Liberal	1					0.91%	1,911
	Communist	0	0	0	0	0%	0.64%	1,342

* - Councillor seeking re-election

^(PARTY) - Party of former Councillor

Due to the disruptions caused by the Second World War, no comparisons are made.

Abercromby

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Reginald Bevins	2,435	52%
	Labour	Richard Clitherow	2,279	48%
Majority			156
Registered electors			13,858
Turnout			4,714	34%

Aigburth

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Vere Egerton Cotton	5,778	82%
	Labour	Eric Barnes	1,249	18%
Majority			4,529
Registered electors			16,530
Turnout			7,027	43%

Allerton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John McMillan	3,211	64%
	Labour	Charles Chesworth	1,325	27%
	Liberal	William Henry Ledsom	459	9%
Majority			1,886
Registered electors			10,076
Turnout			4,995	50%

Anfield

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William John Harrop	4,672	60%
	Labour	John Christopher Caroll	3,151	40%
Majority			1,521
Registered electors			17,660
Turnout			7,823	44%

Breckfield

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George William Prout	3,308	59%
	Labour	Peter Joseph Haines	2,306	41%
Majority			1,002
Registered electors			13,166
Turnout			5,614	43%

Brunswick

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Joseph Whitehead	2,377	81%
	Conservative	William Henry Bevan	411	14%
	Communist	Albert Southern	131	4.5%
Majority			1,966
Registered electors			7,593
Turnout			2,919	38%

Castle Street

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Herbert Neville Bewley	unopposed
Registered electors			892

Childwall

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jack Creswell	4,860	76%
	Labour	Thomas McConnell	1,535	24%
Majority			3,325
Registered electors			13,294
Turnout			6,395	43%

Croxteth

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alfred Hargreaves	5,514	54%
	Conservative	John G. Morgan	4,238	41%
	Communist	John Coward	478	4.7%
Majority			1,276
Registered electors			30,938
Turnout			10,230	33%

Dingle

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Basil Cashin	4,035	51%
	Conservative	Edward Thomas White	3,877	49%
Majority			158
Registered electors			18,244
Turnout			7,912	43%

Edge Hill

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Arthur Leadbetter	2,973	56%
	Conservative	Bertram Saul Morgan	2,125	40%
	Communist	Sidney Foster	172	3.2%
	Independent	Charles Henry Parry	23	0.43%
Majority			848
Registered electors			18,244
Turnout			5,293	29%

Everton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Nickson	3,165	66%
	Conservative	Joseph George Hatton	1,620	34%
Majority			1,545
Registered electors			13,629
Turnout			4,785	35%

Exchange

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	John Gerard Granby	648	73%
	Labour	Alfred Strange	228	26%
	Independent	Frederick Bowman	9	1%
Majority			420
Registered electors			1,589
Turnout			885	56%

Fairfield

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Robert Meadows	3,912	57%
	Labour	Dorothy C. Keeling	2,973	43%
Majority			939
Registered electors			15,828
Turnout			6,885	43%

Fazakerley

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Arthur J. Brownlow	4,404	53%
	Conservative	George Moore	3,929	47%
Majority			475
Registered electors			20,478
Turnout			8,333	41%

Garston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alex Hardman	3,584	57%
	Conservative	Victor C. Sutton	2,355	38%
	Independent	Arthur J.Holland	301	5%
Majority			1,229
Registered electors			16,027
Turnout			6,240	39%

Granby

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Walter Clarke	2,457	50%
	Labour	William Tipping	2,435	50%
Majority			22
Registered electors			13,302
Turnout			4,892	37%

Great George - 2 seats

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William George Ingham	827	56%
	Conservative	John Gwilyn Hughes	805	55%
	Labour	Alexander Kay	644	44%
	Labour	John Hamilton	632	43%
Majority			183
Registered electors			3,953
Turnout			1,471	37%

Kensington

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Frederick H. Bailey	3,117	52%
	Labour	Walter Gibbs	2,838	48%
Majority			279
Registered electors			14,505
Turnout			5,955	41%

Kirkdale

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Isaac Richmond	3,986	56%
	Conservative	Joseph Trevor Booth	3,182	44%
Majority			804
Registered electors			19,580
Turnout			7,168	37%

No election.

Low Hill

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Nuttall Maxwell Entwistle	2,502	51%
	Labour	William Dean-Jones	2,364	49%
Majority			138
Registered electors			12,372
Turnout			4,866	39%

Much Woolton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Vivian Forsyth Crosthwaite	1,886	63%
	Labour	Griffith Daniel Ellis	1,128	37%
Majority			758
Registered electors			5,387
Turnout			3,014	56%

Netherfield

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative and Protestant	Harry Victor Shaw	2,161	57%
	Labour	George Carmichael	1,634	43%
Majority			527
Registered electors			10,300
Turnout			3,795	37%

North Scotland

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Joseph O'Neill	2,140	83%
	Communist	Leo Joseph McGree	424	17%
Majority			1,716
Registered electors			7,187
Turnout			2,564	36%

Old Swan

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Leslie Thomas Rogers	6,834	56%
	Labour	Clifford Selly	5,290	44%
Majority			1,553
Registered electors			28,456
Turnout			12,133	43%

Prince's Park

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Browne	2,627	52%
	Labour	Mrs. Ethel May Wormald	2,416	48%
Majority			211
Registered electors			12,421
Turnout			5,043	41%

Sandhills

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Thomas Henry Dunford	2,076	74%
	Conservative	John Edward Molloy	715	26%
Majority			1,361
Registered electors			7,904
Turnout			2,791	35%

St. Anne's

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mrs. Sarah Anne McArd	1,138	59%
	Independent	John Larkin	780	41%
Majority			358
Registered electors			6,420
Turnout			1,918	30%

St. Domingo

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Protestant	James Wareing	2,729	58%
	Labour	Walter Louis Cleaver	2,006	42%
Majority			723
Registered electors			13,428
Turnout			4,735	35%

St. Peter's

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Mrs Evaline Ida Bligh	370	69%
	Labour	Peter James O'Hare	166	31%
Majority			204
Registered electors			1,260
Turnout			536	43%

Sefton Park East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Webster Armour	3,600	72%
	Labour	Robert Craig Smart	1,409	28%
Majority			2,191
Registered electors			14,664
Turnout			5,009	34%

Sefton Park West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Walter Pickles	3,733	68%
	Labour	Thomas Scott	1,732	32%
Majority			2,001
Registered electors			11,104
Turnout			5,465	49%

South Scotland

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Frederick Ernest Granby	unopposed
Registered electors			6,375

Vauxhall

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Patrick J. O'Brien	656	72%
	Conservative	Ernest Watkinson	258	28%
	Communist
Majority			398
Registered electors			2,637
Turnout			914	35%

Walton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Reginald Richard Bailey	5,490	54%
	Labour	Charles McDonald	4,689	46%
Majority			801
Registered electors			23,677
Turnout			10,179	43%

Warbreck

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Arthur Whitaker Lowe	4,535	62%
	Labour	John Metcalf	2,795	38%
Majority			1,740
Registered electors			20,101
Turnout			7,330	36%

Wavertree

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Village	6,267	57%
	Labour	John F. Hughes	3,720	34%
	Liberal	Francis F.C. Moulton	1,082	10%
Majority			2,547
Registered electors			23,442
Turnout			11,069	47%

Wavertree West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Thomas Wallace	2,966	53%
	Conservative	Maurice Voss	2,545	45%
	Communist	Thomas McCann	137	2%
Majority			421
Registered electors			11,779
Turnout			5,648	48%

West Derby

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Charles William Wingrove	8,086	63%
	Labour	Edward William Harby	4,665	37%
Majority			3,421
Registered electors			32,400
Turnout			12,751	39%

^{[2] [3]}

On 9 November 1946 the aldermanic vacancy caused by the death of Alderman William Denton (???), Vere Egerton Cotton C.B.E. (Conservative, elected to the Aigburth ward on 1 November 1946) was elected as an Alderman.

Aigburth

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Latham Bateson	unopposed
Registered electors			16,530

Alderman John Case died on 1 December 1946. ^[4]

On 8 January 1947 the Council elected Councillor Herbert Neville Bewley (Conservative ) as an Alderman. ^[5]

Castle Street

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Thomas Winlock Harley	411
	Liberal	Herbert Griffith Edwards	47
	Labour	Clifford Selly	15
Majority			364
Registered electors			892
Turnout

^[6]

Alderman Sir Sydney Jones died on 16 February 1947.^[7]

The Councillor for Garston ward Councillor Joseph Williams (Conservative, last elected 1st November 1938) was elected by the Council as an Alderman on 5 March 1947 to fill the vacant post left by the death of Alderman Sir Sydney Jones (Liberal).^[8]

Garston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Henry Clarke	3,588	52.2%
	Labour	William Henry Sefton	3,279	47.7%
Majority			309
Registered electors			16,027
Turnout			6,867	42.8%
	Conservative hold		Swing

^[9]

Caused by the resignation of Councillor Thomas Fay (Labour, elected 1st November 1945 ).

North Scotland

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Herbert Francis Granby	2,167
		Richard Haddow Forrest	507
Majority			1,660
Registered electors			7,187
Turnout			2,674	37.2
	Labour hold		Swing

^[10]