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1841 Liverpool Town Council election

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1841 Liverpool Town Council election
← 1840 1 November 1841 (1841-11-01) 1842 →
16 seats were up for election: one seat for each of the 16 wards
33 (incl. Aldermen) seats needed for a majority
Registered9,214
Turnout%
  First party Second party
 
Conservative
Reformers
Leader ?
Party Conservative Reformers
Seats before 27 21
Seats won 34 14
Seat change Increase7 Decrease7
Popular vote 4,270 3,672
Percentage 54% 46%
Swing Increase3 Decrease3
Council Leader before election


Reformers

Council Leader after election


Conservative

Elections to Liverpool Town Council were held on Monday 1 November 1841. One third of the council seats were up for election, the term of office of each councillor being three years.

There were a total of 12,097 registered electors for the entire borough in 1841. The census of 1841 recorded the population of the borough as 293,963 (exclusive of about 10,000 seamen). These figures revealing that only about 4% of the population were enfranchised. (Although the census figures includes children, which skews the figures to some extent).

1841 Census Population 1841 electorate % enfranchised
Parish of Liverpool 222,954 9,214 4.1%
Everton & Kirkdale 9,148 & 3,779 820 6.3%
West Derby 16,902 568 3.4%
Toxteth Park 41,180 1,495 3.6%
Borough of Liverpool 293,963 12,097 4.1%

[1] [2]

Three of the sixteen wards were uncontested.

After the election of 16 Councillors on 1 November 1841, and the election of 8 Aldermen on 9 November 1841, the composition of the council was:

Party Councillors   ±   Aldermen   ±   Total
Conservative 34 +7 8 +8 42
Reformers 14 -7 8 -8 22

Election result

Liverpool Local Election Result 1841
Party Seats Gains Losses Net gain/loss Seats % Votes % Votes +/−
  Conservative 13 7 0 +7 81% 54% 4,270
  Whig 3 0 7 -7 19% 46% 3,672

Ward results

* - Retiring Councillor seeking re-election

Abercromby

No. 11 Abercromby
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Robertson Gladstone * 388 60%
Whig John Cooper 257 40%
Majority 131 20%
Registered electors 882
Turnout 645 73%
Conservative hold Swing

Castle Street

No. 6 Castle Street
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Whig John Holmes Unopposed N/A N/A
Registered electors 814
Whig hold

Everton

No. 1 Everton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Thomas Shaw 330 62%
Whig Michael Ashcroft 203 38%
Majority 127 24% N/A
Registered electors 820
Turnout 533 65%
Conservative gain from Whig Swing

Exchange

No. 5 Exchange
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Whig Henry Holmes * 329 52%
Conservative John Ridgway 300 48%
Majority 29 4%
Registered electors 804
Turnout 629 78%
Whig hold Swing

Great George

No. 9 Great George
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative James Lawrence * 344 51%
Whig William Rathbone 324 49%
Majority 20 2%
Registered electors 768
Turnout 668 87%
Conservative hold Swing

Lime Street

No. 12 Lime Street
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative John Buck Lloyd 424 50.5%
Whig Thomas Moorecroft * 416 49.5%
Majority 8 1.0% N/A
Registered electors 1,011
Turnout 840 83%
Conservative gain from Whig Swing

North Toxteth

No. 16 North Toxteth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Alexander Smith jun. 374 53%
Whig William Lockerby 338 47%
Majority 36 6% N/A
Registered electors 964
Turnout 712 74%
Conservative gain from Whig Swing

Pitt Street

No. 8 Pitt Street
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative James Aspinall 317 54%
Whig Hugh Hornby * 275 46%
Majority 42 8% N/A
Registered electors 768
Turnout 592 77%
Conservative gain from Whig Swing

Rodney Street

No. 10 Rodney Street
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Henry Lawrence 345 56%
Whig Charles Holland 274 44%
Majority 71 12% N/A
Registered electors 884
Turnout 619 70%
Conservative gain from Whig Swing

St. Anne Street

No. 13 St. Anne Street
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative James Parker 276 57%
Whig Thomas Chalmers 206 43%
Majority 70 14% N/A
Registered electors 619
Turnout 482 78%
Conservative gain from Whig Swing

St. Paul's

No. 4 St. Paul's
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Joshua Edwards 306 54%
Whig Christopher Rawdon 263 46%
Majority 43 8%
Registered electors 771
Turnout 569 80%
Conservative hold Swing

St. Peter's

No. 7 St. Peter's
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Ebenezer Rae 312 52%
Whig John Woollright * 287 48%
Majority 25 4% N/A
Registered electors 721
Turnout 599 83%
Conservative gain from Whig Swing

Scotland

No. 2 Scotland
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Isaac Holmes * 313 51%
Whig George Quayle 303 49%
Majority 10 2%
Registered electors 720
Turnout 616 86%
Conservative hold Swing

South Toxteth

No. 15 South Toxteth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Simon Lee Trotman 241 55%
Whig William H. Taylour 197 45%
Majority 44 10% N/A
Registered electors 531
Turnout 438 82%
Conservative gain from Whig Swing

Vauxhall

No. 3 Vauxhall
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Whig William Preston Unopposed N/A N/A
Registered electors 512
Whig gain from Conservative

West Derby

No. 14 West Derby
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative John Shaw Leigh * Unopposed N/A N/A
Registered electors 568
Conservative hold

[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]

Aldermanic Elections

On 9 November 1841, the term of office of eight of the sixteen aldermen expired.

The following were elected as Aldermen by the council on 9 November 1841 for a term of office of six years.

* - re-elected Alderman.

Party Alderman
Conservative William Nicol
Conservative John Bramley-Moore
Conservative Thomas Chilton
Conservative Richard Smethurst Crook
Conservative John Haywood Turner
Conservative Richard Houghton sen.
Conservative Edmund Molyneux
Conservative Richard Griffith

[15] [16]

See also

References

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  2. ^ "Liverpool Mercury Almanac 1844 (1) (scan)". Retrieved 28 October 2016.
  3. ^ "Liverpool Mercury and Lancashire General Advertiser 5 November 1842 (1) (scan)". Retrieved 28 October 2016.
  4. ^ "Liverpool Mercury and Lancashire General Advertiser 5 November 1842 (2) (scan)". Retrieved 28 October 2016.
  5. ^ "Liverpool Mercury and Lancashire General Advertiser 5 November 1842 (3) (scan)". Retrieved 28 October 2016.
  6. ^ "Liverpool Courier and Commercial Advertiser 3 November 1842 (1) (scan)". Retrieved 28 October 2016.
  7. ^ "Liverpool Courier and Commercial Advertiser 3 November 1842 (2) (scan)". Retrieved 28 October 2016.
  8. ^ "Liverpool Courier and Commercial Advertiser 3 November 1842 (3) (scan)". Retrieved 28 October 2016.
  9. ^ "Liverpool Courier and Commercial Advertiser 3 November 1842 (4) (scan)". Retrieved 28 October 2016.
  10. ^ "Liverpool Courier and Commercial Advertiser 3 November 1842 (5) (scan)". Retrieved 28 October 2016.
  11. ^ "Liverpool Courier and Commercial Advertiser 3 November 1842 (6) (scan)". Retrieved 28 October 2016.
  12. ^ "Liverpool Courier and Commercial Advertiser 3 November 1842 (7) (scan)". Retrieved 28 October 2016.
  13. ^ "Liverpool Courier and Commercial Advertiser 3 November 1842 (8) (scan)". Retrieved 28 October 2016.
  14. ^ "Liverpool Courier and Commercial Advertiser 3 November 1842 (9) (scan)". Retrieved 28 October 2016.
  15. ^ "Liverpool Mercury and Lancashire General Advertiser Friday 12 November 1842 (1) (scan)". Retrieved 28 October 2016.
  16. ^ "Liverpool Mercury and Lancashire General Advertiser Friday 12 November 1842 (2) (scan)". Retrieved 28 October 2016.
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