Liverpool City Council election, 1937

Elections to Liverpool City Council were held on 1 November 1937.

After the election, the composition of the council was:

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

Election result

Liverpool Local Election Result 1937
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Conservative	27	8	1	+7	67.5%	57%	97,769
	Labour	11	1	8	-7	27.5%	37%	63,796
	Protestant	1	0	0	0	2.5%	2.6%	4,559
	Liberal	0	0	0	0	0%	2.2%	3,790
	Independent	1	0	0	0	2.5%	1.6%	2,778
	Fascist	0	0	0	0	0%	0.075%	129
	Independent Labour	0	0	0	0	0%	0.065%	113

Ward results

* - Councillor seeking re-election

^(PARTY) - Party of former Councillor

Comparisons are made with the 1934 election results.

Abercromby

No. 9 Abercromby
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Reginald Bevins	2,803	55%
	Conservative	Richard Clitherow	2,291	45%
Majority			512
Registered electors			9,647
Turnout			5,094	53%
	Labour hold		Swing

Aigburth

No. 17 Aigburth
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Edward Stirling Napier	3,121	59%
	Liberal	John Richard Jones	2,151	41%
Majority			970
Registered electors			10,659
Turnout			5,272	49%
	Conservative hold		Swing

Allerton

No. 35 Allerton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Gertrude Elizabeth Wilson *	2,453	79%
	Labour	John Albert Riddell	635	21%
Majority			1,818
Registered electors			6,074
Turnout			3,088	51%
	Conservative hold		Swing

Anfield

No. 29 Anfield
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Young Williamson *	4,179	73%
	Labour	John Francis Kenrick	1,528	27%
Majority			2,651
Registered electors			11,273
Turnout			5,707	51%
	Conservative hold		Swing

Breckfield

No. 30 Breckfield
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George William Prout	4,046	75%
	Labour	William Tipping	1,343	25%
Majority			2,703
Registered electors			9,955
Turnout			5,389	54%
	Conservative hold		Swing

Brunswick

No. 11 Brunswick
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Patrick Moorhead *	unopposed
	Labour hold		Swing

Castle Street

No. 7 Castle Street
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Herbert Neville Bewley *	unopposed
	Conservative hold		Swing

Childwall

No. 38 Childwall
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Stanley Foster	2,423	55%
	Liberal	William Minto Mirrlees	1,639	37%
	Labour	John Wood	319	7%
Majority			784
Registered electors			7,427
Turnout			4,381	59%
	Conservative hold		Swing

Croxteth

No. 40 Croxteth
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alfred Hargreaves *	3,570	62%
	Independent	James Charles Pollard	2,148	38%
Majority			1,422
Registered electors			19,973
Turnout			5,718[
	Conservative hold		Swing

Dingle

No. 12 Dingle
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George William Neale Gillespie	5,798	61%
	Labour	John David Towers *	3,678	39%
Majority			2,120
Registered electors			14,812
Turnout			9,476	64%
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Edge Hill

No.No. 18 Edge Hill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Bertram Saul Morgan	3,568	56%
	Labour	Agnes Mitton *	2,817	44%
Majority			751
Registered electors			11,591
Turnout			6,385	55%
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Everton

No. 21 Everton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Nickson *	4,268	64%
	Conservative	James Moore	2,418	36%
Majority			1,850
Registered electors			12,052
Turnout			6,686	55%
	Labour hold		Swing

Exchange

No. 5 Exchange
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Peter Kavanagh *	unopposed
	Independent hold		Swing

Fairfield

No. 31 Fairfield
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Charles Gordon Snowdon Gordon *	2,983	62%
	Labour	Harold Stanley Martin	1,813	38%
Majority			1,170
Registered electors			10,410
Turnout			4,796	46%
	Conservative hold		Swing

Fazakerley

No. 27 Fazakerley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Albert Gray Meredith	4,168	65%
	Labour	Francis Lavery *	2,278	35%
Majority			1,890
Registered electors			11,985
Turnout			6,446	54%
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Garston

No. 37 Garston
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Alfred Millwood Proffit	2,857	56%
	Labour	John Herbert Webster *	2,201	44%
Majority			656
Registered electors			8,005
Turnout			5,058	63%
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Granby

No. 14 Granby
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ernest Tyrer	2,781	53%
	Labour	Miss Mary Cumella *	2,454	47%
Majority			327
Registered electors			9,699
Turnout			5,235	54%
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Great George

No. 10 Great George
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Hamilton *	1,310	68%
	Independent	Stamford Botley	630	32%
Majority			1,310
Registered electors			4,346
Turnout			1,940	45%
	Labour hold		Swing

Kensington

No. 19 Kensington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Case *	3,808	68%
	Labour	Leo Patrick Taylor	1,780	32%
Majority			2,028
Registered electors			10,871
Turnout			5,588	51%
	Conservative hold		Swing

Kirkdale

No. 24 Kirkdale
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Joseph Alan Reston	5,420	56%
	Labour	William James Riddick *	4,209	44%
Majority			1,211
Registered electors			16,128
Turnout			9,629	60%
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Little Woolton

No. 39 Little Woolton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Rupert Henry Bremner *	496	88%
	Labour	George Thomas Wood	69	12%
Majority			427
Registered electors			874
Turnout			565	65%
	Conservative hold		Swing

Low Hill

No. 20 Low Hill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Kenneth Harvey Steel	3,271	53%
	Labour	Frederick Charles Pasco *	2,932	47%
Majority			339
Registered electors			10,319
Turnout			6,203	60%
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Much Woolton

No. 36 Much Woolton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Vivian Forsyth Crosthwaite	1,453	71%
	Labour	Andrew Campbell	586	29%
Majority			867
Registered electors			2,911
Turnout			2,039	70%
	Conservative hold		Swing

Netherfield

No. 22 Netherfield
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Evan Thomas Edwards	4,436	68%
	Labour	John Bagot	2,073	32%
Majority			2,363
Registered electors			10,638
Turnout			6,509	61%
	Conservative hold		Swing

North Scotland

No. 2 North Scotland
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Patrick Fay *	unopposed
	Labour hold		Swing

Old Swan

No. 32 Old Swan
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Waterworth *	5,770	63%
	Labour	John Gordon Houston	3,370	37%
Majority			2,400
Registered electors			18,227
Turnout			9,140	50%
	Conservative hold		Swing

Prince's Park

No. 13 Prince's Park
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Arthur Perrins Bevan	3,484	63%
	Labour	Alfred Demain *	2,050	37%
Majority			1,434
Registered electors			9,664
Turnout			5,534	57%
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Sandhills

No. 1 Sandhills
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Thomas Henry Dunford *	unopposed
	Labour hold		Swing

St. Anne's

No. 6 St. Anne's
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	J.D.Mack *	unopposed
	Liberal
Majority
Registered electors
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

St. Domingo

No. 23 St. Domingo
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Protestant	William Reuben Price *	4,559	77%
	Labour	John Victor Shortt	1,350	23%
Majority			3,209
Registered electors			10,968
Turnout			5,909	54%
	Protestant hold		Swing

St. Peter's

No. 8 St. Peter's
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Hugh Carr	551	52%
	Conservative	Sydney James Hill *	512	48%
Majority			39
Registered electors			2,353
Turnout			1,063	45%
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Sefton Park East

No. 15 Sefton Park East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Webster Armour *	2,710	76%
	Labour	John Henry Higgins	848	24%
Majority			1,862
Registered electors			8,752
Turnout			3,558	41%
	Conservative hold		Swing

Sefton Park West

No. 16 Sefton Park West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Graham Reece *	2,785	76%
	Labour	Mary Woodward Walbank	876	24%
Majority			1,909
Registered electors			6,718
Turnout			3,661	545
	Conservative hold		Swing

South Scotland

No. 3 South Scotland
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Joseph Harrington *	3,619'	975
	Independent Labour	Charles Malachie Williams	113	3%
Majority			3,619
Registered electors			7,964
Turnout			3,732	47%
	Labour hold		Swing

Vauxhall

No. 4 Vauxhall
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Joseph Leo Carney *	unopposed
	Labour hold		Swing

Walton

No. 25 Walton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Reginald Richards Bailey *	6,289	72%
	Labour	Richard Austin Rockliff	2,442	28%
Majority			3,847
Registered electors			16,609
Turnout			8,731	535
	Conservative hold		Swing

Warbreck

No. 26 Warbreck
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Alexander Critchley *	4,251	71%
	Labour	William Bent	1,778	29%
Majority			2,473
Registered electors			13,336
Turnout			6,029	45%
	Conservative hold		Swing

Wavertree

No. 34 Wavertree
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Village *	unopposed
	Conservative hold		Swing

Wavertree West

No. 33 Wavertree West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Maurice Voss	3,129	67%
	Labour	Daniel Whelan	1,436	31%
	Fascist	William Edwards	129	2.7%
Majority			1,693
Registered electors			8,681
Turnout			4,694	54%
	Conservative hold		Swing

West Derby

No. 28 West Derby
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Robert Duncan French *	6,869	71%
	Labour	Joseph Henry Sayle	2,810	29%
Majority			4,059
Registered electors			20,686
Turnout			9,679	47%
	Conservative hold		Swing

^[1] ^[2]

By-elections

No.31 Fairfield, 30 November 1937

Caused by the death of Cllr. John Barry (Conservative, elected 1 November 1935).

No. 31 Fairfield
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Clitherow	2,305
	Labour	Harold Stanley Martin	831
Majority			1,374
Registered electors			10,410
Turnout			3,136
	Conservative hold		Swing

^[3]

No.1 Sandhills, 9 December 1937

No. 1 Sandhills
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Henry Aldritt	3,686
		William Edward McLachlan	1,548
Majority
Registered electors
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

^[4]

No.11 Brunswick, 9 December 1937

Caused by the resignation of Cllr. Patrick Moorhead (Labour, elected unopposed for the Brunswick ward on 1 November 1937)

No. 11 Brunswick
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Joseph Whitehead	unopposed
	Labour hold		Swing

^[5]

No.2 North Scotland, 9 December 1937

Caused by the death of Cllr. Henry Gaskin (party? elected 1 November 1935)

No. 2 North Scotland
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Patrick O'Brien	unopposed
	Labour hold		Swing

^[6]

No.34 Wavertree, 11 January 1938

Following the death of Alderman Maxwell Hyslop Maxwell C.B. C.B.E.(Conservative, elected as an alderman 9 November 1935), Cllr. John Morris Griffith J.P. (Conservative, elected to the Wavertree ward on 1 November 1936) was elected by the councillors as an alderman on 1 December 1937.^[7]

No. 34 Wavertree
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Harold Threlfall Wilson	2,969
		William Edwards	132
Majority
Registered electors
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

^[8]

No.38 Childwall, 24 February 1938

Caused by the resignation of Cllr. Alan Anderson Boyle (Liberal, elected unopposed 1 November 1936)

No. 38 Childwall
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		William Moss
		Edward Thomas White
		Andrew Campbell
		Arthur Morris
Majority
Registered electors			7,427
Turnout
	[[\|N/A]] hold		Swing

^[9]

No.9 Abercromby, Tuesday 5 April 1938

On 25 January 1938, Alderman Sir Thomas White died.^[10] To fill the vacancy, Cllr. William Thomas Roberts J.P. (Conservative, elected to the Abercromby ward on 1 November 1936) was elected as an alderman by the councillors on 2 March 1938.^[11]

No. 9 Abercromby
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Joseph James Eastwood Sloan	1,978
		Andrew Campbell	1,972
		Thomas Lyon Hurst	27
Majority			6
Registered electors			9,647
Turnout			3,977
	[[\|N/A]] hold		Swing

^[12]

No.15 Sefton Park East, Tuesday 31 May 1938

Occasioned by the resignation of Cllr.Eric Douglas Mackay Heriot-Hill (Conservative, elected 1 November 1936).

No. 15 Sefton Park East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Dinsdale Walker	1,344
		Muriel Edith Mee	418
Majority
Registered electors			8,752
Turnout
	[[\|N/A]] hold		Swing

^[13]

No.32 Old Swan, Tuesday 14 June 1938

Caused by the death of Cllr. John Waterworth (Conservative, elected 1 November 1937) in May 1938.^[14]

No. 32 Old Swan
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Arthur Haswell	2,323
	Labour	John Gordon Houston	1,212
Majority			1,111
Registered electors			18,227
Turnout			3,535
	Conservative hold		Swing

^[15]

No.24 Kirkdale, Tuesday 26 July 1938

Caused by the resignation of Cllr. Arthur Mackson Brown (Conservative, elected for the Kirkdale ward on 1 November 1936).

No. 24 Kirkdale
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		William Edward McLachlan	3,226
		Joseph Henry Sayle	2,644
Majority
Registered electors			16,128
Turnout
	[[\|N/A]] gain from [[\|N/A]]		Swing

^[16]

No.28 West Derby, 26 July 1938

Following the death of Alderman Edwin Haigh in May 1938,^[17] Cllr. Robert Duncan French (Conservative, elected for West Derby on 1 November 1937) was elected by the councillors as an alderman on 6 July 1938.^[18]

No. 28 West Derby
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Charles William Wingrove	unopposed
Registered electors			20,686
	Conservative hold		Swing

^[19]

No.29 Anfield, 30 August 1938

Following the death of Alderman James Bolger on 5 July 1938.^[20] Cllr. George Young Williamson (Conservative, elected to represent Anfield on 1 November 1937) was elected by the councillors as an alderman on 27 July 1938.^[21]

No. 29 Anfield
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William John Harrop	unopposed
Registered electors			11,273
	Conservative hold		Swing

^[22]

References

↑ Liverpool Daily Post 2 November 1937
↑ Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1937-1938
↑ Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1937-1938 pg 98
↑ Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1937-1938 pg 208
↑ Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1937-1938 pg 208
↑ Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1937-1938 pg 209
↑ Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1937-1938 pg 99
↑ Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1937-1938 pg 297
↑ Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1937-1938 pg 374
↑ Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1937-1938 pg 294
↑ Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1937-1938 pg 375
↑ Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1937-1938 pg 494
↑ Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1937-1938 pg 675
↑ Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1937-1938 pg 674
↑ Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1937-1938 pg 757
↑ Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1937-1938 pg 838
↑ [[Liverpool City Council]] Proceedings of the Council 1937-1938 pg 674
↑ Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1937-1938 pg 758
↑ Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1937-1938 pg 839
↑ Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1937-1938 pg 756
↑ Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1937-1938 pg 841
↑ Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1937-1938 pg 922

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