Kesteven County Council election, 1955

The administrative county of Kesteven (1889–1974), shown within England.

Elections to Kesteven County Council were held on Saturday, 2 April 1955. Kesteven was one of three divisions of the historic county of Lincolnshire in England; it consisted of the ancient wapentakes (or hundreds) of Aswardhurn, Aveland, Beltisloe, Boothby Graffoe, Flaxwell, Langoe, Loveden, Ness, and Winnibriggs and Threo.^[1] The Local Government Act 1888 established Kesteven as an administrative county, governed by a Council;^[2] elections were held every three years from 1889, until it was abolished by the Local Government Act 1972, which established Lincolnshire County Council in its place.^[3]^[4]

The County Council was divided into 60 electoral divisions. 45 independents and 15 Labour candidates were returned in the 1961 elections.^[5]

Results by division

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Division	Candidate^[5]	Party	Votes	Retiring member?
Ancaster	Robert William Chadburn	Ind		r
Bassingham
Bennington	Christopher Ullyatt	Lab
Billingborough	Leslie Ronald Swingler	Ind		r
Billinghay	Bertie Tomlinson	Ind
Bourne no. 1
Bourne no. 2
Bracebridge	Herbert Edward Hough	Lab	453
Bracebridge	Miss Alice Rooke	Ind	416
Branston
Bytham
Caythorpe	John William Oxby	Ind	443	r
Caythorpe	Mrs Dorothy Lily Pamblett	Ind	203
Claypole
Colsterworth	Charles Bulstridge Bailey	Ind	327
	Mrs Constance Lily Jacques	Ind	226
	Gordon Suter	Lab	100
Corby
Cranwell	John Edwin Mountain	Ind
Deeping St James
Dunston
Gonerby and Barrowby	Philip Newton	Ind	371
Gonerby and Barrowby	John Edward Snell	Lab	335	r
Grantham no. 1
Grantham no. 2
Grantham no. 3
Grantham no. 4
Grantham no. 5
Grantham no. 6
Grantham no. 7	Arthur Syddall	Ind	440
Grantham no. 7	George Ernest Waltham	Lab	222
Grantham no. 8
Grantham no. 9
Grantham no. 10
Heckington	George Henry Dunmore	Ind		r
Helpringham	Sydney Percy King	Lab		r
Kyme	Ernest Leonard Lamyman	Ind		r
Leadenham	William Reeve	Ind
Market Deeping
Martin
Metheringham	Frederick Cooling Townsend	Ind	439	r
Metheringham	Frederick Archie Burgon	Lab	332
Morton	Jack Manton	Lab	311
Morton	Alan Shaw	Ind	265	r
Navenby	Richard Baden Naylor	Ind
North Hykeham	Sydney Roe	Ind	567	r
North Hykeham	Frederick Albert Baker	Lab	401
Osbournby	Mrs Nellie Robson	Ind		r
Ponton
Rippingale	Harold Scarborough	Lab	304
Rippingale	John Alexander Galletly	Ind	278
Ropsley
Ruskington	Benjamin Ebenezer Brighton	Ind		r
Scopwick	Horace Waudby	Ind		r
Skellingthorpe
Sleaford no. 1	Edgar Wilfred Elmore	Ind		r
Sleaford no. 2	Cecil John Barnes	Ind	502	r
Sleaford no. 2	John Mathieson Klingberg	Lab	458
Sleaford no. 3	William Middleton	Ind		r
Stamford no. 1
Stamford no. 2	William Arthur James Darnes	Lab	459
Stamford no. 2	Harry Skells	Ind	173	r
Stamford no. 3
Stamford no. 4
Stamford no. 5
Swinderby
Thurlby
Uffington
Washingborough
Welby	Herbert Vian Clark	Ind	426
Welby	Reginald Edgar Burnett	Lab	260
Wilsford	Henry Pryor Kelway	Ind
Woolsthorpe

References

Notes

Citations

↑ "Kesteven, Lincolnshire", A Vision of Britain (University of Portsmouth). Retrieved 21 April 2015.
↑ Local Government Act 1888, part ii, section 46.1(a), cf. part v, section 83.10
↑ Local Government Act 1888, part i, section 2, and part vi, section 103
↑ Local Government Act 1972, schedule 1
1 2 "Labour gains seats on County Council". Sleaford Gazette. 8 April 1955. p. 2.

Council elections in Lincolnshire

Current councils

Lincolnshire County Council	1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 2009 2013

Boston Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015

East Lindsey District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015

City of Lincoln Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015

North East Lincolnshire Council	1995 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015

North Kesteven District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015

North Lincolnshire Council	1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015

South Holland District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015

South Kesteven District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015

West Lindsey District Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015

Former councils

Holland County Council	1889 1892 1895 1898 1901 1904 1907 1910 1913 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1934 1937 1946 1949 1952 1955 1958 1961 1964 1967 1970 Abolished

Humberside County Council	1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 Abolished

Kesteven County Council	1889 1892 1895 1898 1901 1904 1907 1910 1913 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1934 1937 1946 1949 1952 1955 1958 1961 1964 1967 1970 Abolished

Lindsey County Council	1889 1892 1895 1898 1901 1904 1907 1910 1913 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1934 1937 1946 1949 1952 1955 1958 1961 1964 1967 1970 Abolished

Boothferry Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 Abolished

Cleethorpes Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 Abolished

Glanford Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 Abolished

Great Grimsby Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 Abolished

Scunthorpe Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 Abolished

See also: Wards
Boundary changes

(1954 ←) United Kingdom local elections, 1955 (→ 1956)

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See also: UK General election

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