1935 Liverpool City Council election

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Elections to Liverpool City Council were held on 1 November 1935. One third of the council seats were up for election, the term of office of each councillor being three years.

Seven of the thirty nine seats up for election were uncontested.

After the election, the composition of the council was:

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

Liverpool Local Election Result 1935

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Conservative	20					45%	63,229
	Labour	15					47%	67,209
	Liberal	3					4.4%	6,295
	Independent	1					1.9%	2,746
	Protestant	1					1.8%	2,574

* - Councillor seeking re-election

Comparisons are made with the 1932 election results.

No. 9 Abercromby

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Charles William Bailey *	2,118	50%
	Labour	John Reginald Bevins	2,081	50%
Majority			37
Registered electors			9,574
Turnout			4,199	44%
	Conservative hold		Swing

No. 17 Aigburth

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Vere Egerton Cotton O.B.E. *	2,699	60%
	Liberal	Arthur Donald Dennis	1,780	40%
Majority			919
Registered electors			10,095
Turnout			4,479	44%
	Conservative hold		Swing

No. 35 Allerton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John William Jones *	1,968	71%
	Labour	Cedric Ernest Hargreaves	795	29%
Majority			1,173
Registered electors			5,250
Turnout			53%
	Conservative hold		Swing

No. 29 Anfield

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Alfred Rennick Gates *	unopposed
Registered electors
	Liberal hold		Swing

No. 30 Breckfield

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Mrs. Ada Martha Burton *	2,294	55%
	Labour	Alfred Walker Boothman	1,895	45%
Majority			399
Registered electors			10,292
Turnout			4,189	41%
	Conservative hold		Swing

No. 11 Brunswick

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Lawrence King *	unopposed
Registered electors
	Labour hold		Swing

No. 7 Castle Street

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Bennett O.B.E.	unopposed
Registered electors
	Conservative hold		Swing

No. 38 Childwall

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	William John Tristram	1,813	82%
	Labour	Arthur Andrew Arnot	385	18%
Majority			1,428
Registered electors			4,554
Turnout			2,198	48%
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing

No. 40 Croxteth

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Henry Boothman *	unopposed
Registered electors
	Labour hold		Swing

No. 12 Dingle

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Charles Matthew Belk *	4,187	55%
	Conservative	Mrs. Nancy Proctor	3,365	45%
Majority			822
Registered electors			15,215
Turnout			7,552	50%
	Labour hold		Swing

No. 18 Edge Hill

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alexander Griffin *	3,443	60%
	Conservative	Bertram Saul Morgan	2,325	40%
Majority			1,118
Registered electors			12,745
Turnout			5,768
	Labour hold		Swing

No. 21 Everton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Braddock *	3,936	74%
	Conservative	Murray Rowland Fletcher Rogers	1,372	26%
Majority			2,564
Registered electors			12,831
Turnout			5,308	41%
	Labour hold		Swing

No. 5 Exchange

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Thomas Patrick Staunton *	757	63%
	Labour	Alfred Donohue	438	37%
Majority			319
Registered electors			2,351
Turnout			1,195	51%
	Independent gain from Centre

No. 31 Fairfield

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Barry *	2,595	62%
	Labour	Richard Thomas Hughes	1,573	38%
Majority			1,022
Registered electors			10,430
Turnout			4,168	40%
	Conservative hold		Swing

No. 27 Fazakerley

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Frederick Baxter	2,505	52%
	Labour	Mrs. Sarah Ann Demain	2,286	48%
Majority			219
Registered electors			11,637
Turnout			4,791	41%
	Conservative hold		Swing

No. 37 Garston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Sydney Dytor *	2,766	59%
	Conservative	Alfred Midwood Proffit	1,939	41%
Majority			827
Registered electors			7,920
Turnout			4,705	59%
	Labour hold		Swing

No. 14 Granby

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Charles Edward Burke	2,191	53%
	Liberal	Henry Humphreys Jones	1,949	47%
Majority			242
Registered electors			9,760
Turnout			4,140	42%
	Labour gain from Independent		Swing

No. 10 Great George

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Percy Ernest Sherwin *	1,403	59%
	Conservative	Dudley Richmond-Jones	964	41%
Majority			439
Registered electors			4,771
Turnout			2,367	50%
	Labour hold		Swing

No. 19 Kensington

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Edward Clouston Ralph Littler-Jones *	2,753	60%
	Labour	Thomas Ernest Martin	1,844	40%
Majority			909
Registered electors			11,030
Turnout			4,597	42%
	Conservative hold		Swing

No. 24 Kirkdale

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Henry Barton *	4,259	55%
	Conservative	Arthur Mackson Brown	3,494	45%
Majority			765
Registered electors			16,787
Turnout			7,753	46%
	Labour hold		Swing

No. 20 Low Hill

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Fred Robinson *	2,783	53%
	Conservative	David Rowan	2,422	47%
Majority			361
Registered electors			11,056
Turnout			5,205	47%
	Labour hold		Swing

No. 36 Much Woolton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Isaac Robinson	1,013	51%
	Independent	Mrs. Caroline Whiteley *	853	43%
	Liberal	John Richard Jones	123	6%
Majority			160
Registered electors			2,747
Turnout			1,989	72%
	Conservative gain from Independent		Swing

No. 22 Netherfield

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William John Matthew Clark	3,451	57%
	Labour	George Chadwick *	2,505	42%
	Independent Labour and Protestant	Joshua George Perkins	68	1%
Majority			946
Registered electors			11,301
Turnout			6,024	53%
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

No. 2 North Scotland

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Henry Gaskin	2,870	86%
	Independent	Mrs. Margaret Macfarlane *	465	14%
Majority			2,405
Registered electors			8,360
Turnout			3,335	40%
	Labour hold		Swing

No. 32 Old Swan

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Charles Harold Leftwich	3,913	51%
	Labour	Thomas Williamson *	3,784	49%
Majority			129
Registered electors			18,115
Turnout			7,697	42%
	Conservative hold		Swing

No. 13 Prince's Park

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Charles Rowland Clare *	2,746	53%
	Labour	Joseph Schofield Ogden	2,406	47%
Majority			340
Registered electors			9,850
Turnout			5,152	52%
	Conservative hold		Swing

No. 1 Sandhills

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Stanley Part	Unopposed
Registered electors
	Labour hold		Swing

No. 6 St. Anne's

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Samuel Sydney Silverman *	2,425	79%
	Conservative	Thomas Henry Nabb	650	21%
Majority			1,775
Registered electors			7,725
Turnout			3,075	40%
	Labour hold		Swing

No. 23 St. Domingo

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Protestant	Mrs. Mary Jane Longbottom *	2,506	55%
	Labour	George Thompson Holliday	2,024	45%
Majority			482
Registered electors			11,382
Turnout			4,530	40%
	Protestant hold		Swing

No. 8 St. Peter's

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John Bennion	630	57%
	Labour	Laurence William Kennan	482	43%
Majority			148
Registered electors			2,504
Turnout			1,112	44%
	Liberal hold		Swing

No. 15 Sefton Park East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Michael Cory Dixon *	unopposed
Registered electors
	Conservative hold		Swing

No. 16 Sefton Park West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William James Austin	unopposed
Registered electors
	Conservative hold		Swing

No. 3 South Scotland

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Sheehan *	2,625	93%
	Independent	Thomas Patrick Sheehan	187	7%
Majority			2,438
Registered electors			8,308
Turnout			2,812	34%
	Labour hold		Swing

No. 4 Vauxhall

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Arthur Brian Hoer *	877	80%
	Independent	Mrs. Martha Veronica Fernie	220	20%
Majority			657
Registered electors			3,605
Turnout			1,097	30%
	Labour hold		Swing

No. 25 Walton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Harold Irwin *	4,374	61%
	Labour	Mervyn Forbes Hudson	2,852	39%
Majority			1,552
Registered electors			16,460
Turnout			7,226	44%
	Conservative hold		Swing

No. 26 Warbreck

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Jude *	3,003	63%
	Labour	Albert Smitton	1,470	31%
	Independent	William Fry	264	6%
Majority			1,553
Registered electors			13,188
Turnout			4,737	36%
	Conservative hold		Swing

No. 34 Wavertree

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Stanley Ronald Williams	4,337	64%
	Labour	John Gibbon Elliott	2,445	36%
Majority			1,892
Registered electors			15,480
Turnout			6,782	44%
	Conservative hold		Swing

No. 33 Wavertree West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Charlton Thomson *	2,152	59%
	Labour	Daniel Whelan	1,508	41%
Majority			644
Registered electors			8,833
Turnout			3,660	41%
	Conservative hold		Swing

No. 28 West Derby

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Albert Morrow *	4,777	64%
	Labour	Miss Mabel Kennedy	2,671	36%
Majority			2,106
Registered electors			19,521
Turnout			7,448	38%
	Conservative hold		Swing

^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]}

The terms of office of twenty aldermen expired, so there was an election to replace these positions at the council meeting on 9 November 1935.

This was the first Aldermanic election since the Local Government Act, 1933, which disenfranchised aldermen from voting in aldermanic elections. Only councillors were eligible to vote in the aldermanic elections. Although only Councillors had voted in aldermanic elections to Liverpool City Council for some years.

* - re-elected alderman.

Party		Alderman	Votes
	Conservative	Harold Edward Davies *	64	elected
	Conservative	Thomas Dowd *	64	elected
	Conservative	Mabel Fletcher *	64	elected
	Conservative	Edwin Haigh *	64	elected
	Conservative	Maxwell Hyslop Maxwell C.B. C.B.E. *	64	elected
	Conservative	Henry Morley Miller *	64	elected
	Conservative	William Muirhead *	64	elected
	Conservative	John George Paris *	64	elected
	Conservative	George Miller Platt *	64	elected
	Conservative	Richard Rutherford *	64	elected
	Conservative	Frank Campbell Wilson *	64	elected
	Conservative	Councillor Thomas Henry Burton	63	elected
	Independent	Joseph Belger *	59	elected
	Protestant	Councillor Rev. Harry Dixon Longbottom	58	elected
	Labour	Frederick Thomas Richardson *	52	elected
	Labour	Sir James Sexton C.B.E. *	51	elected
	Labour	Herbert Edward Rose *	49	elected
	Labour	William Albert Robinson *	47	elected
	Labour	David Gilbert Logan *	45	elected
	Labour	Henry Walker *	45	elected
	Labour	Councillor Lawrence King	44	unelected
	Labour	Councillor John Wolfe Tone Morrissey	44	unelected
	Labour	Councillor Joseph Jackson Cleary	43	unelected
	Labour	Councillor Alexander Griffin	43	unelected
	Labour	Councillor Thomas Hanley	43	unelected
	Labour	Councillor Victor Bertie Kirby	43	unelected
	Labour	Councillor Fred Robinson	43	unelected
	Independent	Councillor Peter Kavanagh	2	unelected

^{[8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19]}

Caused by the death on 5 May 1936^[20] of Alderman Burton William Eills JP (Liberal, last elected as an alderman on 9 November 1932,^[21] in whose place Councillor Charles Sydney Jones JP (Liberal, elected unopposed for the Fairfield ward in November 1933)^[22] was elected as an alderman by the councillors on 3 June 1936.

Aldermanic Election 3 June 1936
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Allocated ward
	Liberal	Councillor Charles Sydney Jones JP	53	58%	No. 36 Much Woolton
	Labour	Councillor Lawrence King	39	42%	Not elected

^{[23] [24]}

The term of office to expire on 9 November 1938.

Caused by the death of Alderman Frederick Smith (Liberal, elected as an alderman on 9 November 1932),^[21] in whose place Councillor Arthur Richard Price (Liberal, elected unopposed for the Anfield ward on 1 November 1933),^[25] retired corn merchant of 77 Newsham Drive, Liverpool 6, was elected as an alderman by the councillors on 3 June 1936.

Aldermanic Election 3 June 1936
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Allocated ward
	Liberal	Councillor Arthur Richard Price	51	57%	No.
	Labour	Councillor Lawrence King	39	43%	Not elected

^{[26] [27]}

The Term of Office to expire on 9 November 1936.

Caused by the disqualification of Councillor Arthur Lumb (Labour, elected 1 November 1934).^[28]

No. 9 Abercromby

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Reginald Bevins	1,991	53%
	Conservative	Alexander Maver Finlayson	1,756	47%
Majority			235
Registered electors			9,574
Turnout			3,747	39%
	Labour hold		Swing

^[29]

The term of office to expire on 1 November 1937.

Caused by the election as an alderman on 9 November 1935 of Councillor Rev. Harry Dixon Longbottom (Protestant, last elected 1 November 1933).^[30]

No. 23 St. Domingo

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Protestant	George Henry Dunbar	2,024	58%
	Labour	George Thompson Holliday	1,482	42%
Majority			542
Registered electors			11,382
Turnout			3,506	31%
	Protestant hold		Swing

^[31]

The term of office to expire on 1 November 1936.

Caused by the resignation of Councillor Ernest Whiteley (Independent, elected 1 November 1934).^[32]

No. 36 Much Woolton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Vivian Forsyth Crosthwaite	804	54%
	Independent	Mrs. Caroline Whiteley	611	41%
		Cedric Ernest Hargreaves	87	6%
Majority			193
Registered electors			2,747
Turnout			1,502	55%
	Conservative gain from Independent		Swing

^[33]

The term of office to end on 1 November 1937.

Caused by the election as an alderman on 9 November 1935 of Councillor Thomas Henry Burton (Conservative, elected 1 November 1933).^[34]

No. 30 Breckfield

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David John Lewis	1,398	67%
	Labour	Alfred Walker Boothman	682	33%
Majority			716
Registered electors			10,292
Turnout			2,080	20%
	Conservative hold		Swing

^[35]

The term of office to end on 1 November 1936.

Caused by the resignation of Councillor Eric Errington MP (Conservative, elected 1 November 1934).^[36]

No. 17 Aigburth

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Arthur Donald Dennis	2,415	66%
	Conservative	Harold Diedrick Arrowsmith	1,267	34%
Majority			1,148
Registered electors			10,095
Turnout			3,682	36%
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing

^{[37] [38]}

The term of office to end on 1 November 1937.

Caused by the resignation of Councillor Arthur Donald Dennis (Liberal, elected at the by-election of 3 March 1936).

No. 17 Aigburth

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John Richard Jones	unopposed
Registered electors			10,095
	Liberal hold		Swing

^[39]

The term of office to end on 1 November 1937.

Following the death on 5 May 1936^[20] of Alderman Burton William Eills JP (Liberal, last elected as an alderman on 9 November 1932,^[21] in whose place Councillor Charles Sydney Jones JP (Liberal, elected unopposed for the Fairfield ward in November 1933)^[22] was elected as an alderman by the councillors on 3 June 1936.^[23][24]

No. 31 Fairfield

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Charles Sydney Jones
Majority
Registered electors			10,430
Turnout
			Swing

Following the death of Alderman Frederick Smith (Liberal, elected as an alderman on 9 November 1932),^[21] in whose place Councillor Arthur Richard Price (Liberal, elected unopposed for the Anfield ward on 1 November 1933)^[25] was elected as an alderman by the councillors on 3 June 1936.^[26]

No. 29 Anfield

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Arthur Richard Price
Majority
Registered electors
Turnout
			Swing

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