1894 Rothwell Urban District Council election (view source)
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The '''1894 Rothwell Urban District Council election''' was held on 15 December 1894. It was the first election of the Rothwell Urban District Council following its creation and the abolishment of the Rothwell Local Board.{{Election
|type=Rothwell Urban District Council
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|registered=1895
|turnout=1510 (79.7%)
|image=RUDC 1894.svg
|party1=Independent
|seats1=9
|seats after1=9
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|percentage1=60.5%
|party2=Ind. Labour
|seats2=4
|seats after2=4<ref group="n.">This is not including the subsequent by-election, where Labour lost a seat.</ref>
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|percentage2=27.8%
|party3=Liberal
|seats3=2
|seats after3=2
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|percentage3=10.2%
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: right;"
|+ style="text-align:center"|Rothwell Urban District Council Result 1894
!rowspan="2" style="background-color: var(--color-surface-3); border-bottom-left-radius: inherit;" |'''Party'''
! class="unsortable" colspan="6" style="background-color: var(--color-surface-3); border-bottom-left-radius: inherit;" |'''
! class="unsortable" colspan="3" style="background-color: var(--color-surface-3); border-bottom-left-radius: inherit;" |'''
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!style="background-color: var(--color-surface-3);"|'''Loses'''▼
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!style="background-color: var(--color-surface-3);" |'''
!style="background-color: var(--color-surface-3);"|'''
!style="background-color: var(--color-surface-3);"|'''Unseated'''
!style="background-color: var(--color-surface-3);"|'''% of total'''
!style="background-color: var(--color-surface-3);"|'''%'''
!style="background-color: var(--color-surface-3);"|'''±%'''
!style="background-color: var(--color-surface-3); border-bottom-right-radius: inherit;"|'''
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|style="border-left:black 10px solid; border-radius: inherit;"|Independent
|15
|9
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|style="border-left:#B22222 10px solid; border-radius: inherit;"|Ind. Labour<ref group="n." name="ILP>Though the Wakefield Free Press (1894) does not mention the Independent Labour Party, the Labour Party as it is now known was not in existence during this period. Labour candidates have therefore been labelled Ind. Labour, even if this is not entirely accurate either.</ref>
|style="border-left:#E4003B 10px solid; border-radius: inherit;"|Labour▼
|12
|4
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|style="border-left:#FFD700 10px solid; border-radius: inherit;"|Liberal
|5
|2
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|style=" border-radius: inherit;"|Invalid
|1
|0
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|54
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! colspan="
|3487
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==Ward results==
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|John William Clarkson
|105
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|Joseph Holdroyd
|61
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|'''Thomas Maddock'''
|'''131'''
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|'''William Ward Harrison'''
|'''108'''
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|Wright Stead
|60
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|Joseph Stead<sup>*</sup>
|52
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|Raymond Ellis
|26
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!style="background-color: var(--color-surface-3); border-bottom-right-radius: inherit;"|'''±%'''
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|'''Ben Taylor'''
|'''154'''
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|'''John Smith'''
|'''126'''
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|Joseph Stead Jr.
|77
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|Eli Taylor
|68
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! colspan="4" |<small>'''Bold''' indicates the candidate was elected.<br/><sup>*</sup> indicates that the candidate was previously a member of the Rothwell Local Board.</small>
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==Reaction==
Following the vote, there was a large attendance at the Mechanics Hall, where Cllr. James Hargreaves proposed a thanks to the presiding officer, J. Bouchier Wimbush, which was seconded by Raymond Ellis.<ref name="RUDC results 1894" />
The Rothwell Times noted that 9 of the Rothwell Local Board members were elected to the new Rothwell Urban District Council, along with “4 or perhaps 5 ... [L]abour representatives”. Therefore, there was the “prospect of all interests being considered” and the newspaper anticipated “the establishment of whatever is worth keeping, and the gradual addition of such improvements in our social condition as may be considered best for all.”<ref name="RUDC results 1894" />
==By-election==
In 1895, Lofthouse-with-Thorpe ward councillor Thomas Maddock resigned from the council. A by-election was held on 12th August 1895.<ref>(Rothwell Times, 1895a)</ref>
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: right;"
|+ style="text-align:center"|Lofthouse-with-Thopre ward by-election<ref>(Rothwell Times, 1895b)</ref>
!style="background-color: var(--color-surface-3); border-bottom-left-radius: inherit;" |'''Party'''
!style="background-color: var(--color-surface-3);" |'''Candidate'''
!style="background-color: var(--color-surface-3);"|'''Votes'''
!style="background-color: var(--color-surface-3);"|'''%'''
!style="background-color: var(--color-surface-3); border-bottom-right-radius: inherit;"|'''±%'''
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|style="border-left:black 10px solid; border-radius: inherit;"|'''Independent'''<ref>(Skyrack Courier, 1902)</ref><ref group="n.">Milner's party affiliation is not listed in the Skyrack Courier even though others are, which would suggest he was an independent. The source is also from years later so his party affiliation may have changed.</ref>
|'''P.G. Milner'''
|'''77'''
|'''34.5'''
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|style="border-left:#B22222 10px solid; border-radius: inherit;"|Ind. Labour<ref name="WFP"/><ref group="n." name="ILP/>
|James Horner
|59
|26.5
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|style="border-radius: inherit;"|Unknown
|John Ward
|44
|19.7
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|John Denby
|43
|19.7
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! colspan="2" style="text-align:right;background-color: var(--color-surface-2); border-radius: inherit;"| '''Majority'''
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! colspan="2" style="text-align:right;background-color: var(--color-surface-2);"| '''Turnout'''
|224
|65.1
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! colspan="2" style="text-align:right;background-color: var(--color-surface-2); border-bottom-left-radius: inherit;"| '''Registered electors'''
|344
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! colspan="5" style="text-align:left;border-left:black 10px solid; background-color: var(--color-surface-2); border-top-left-radius: inherit; border-bottom-left-radius: var(--border-radius--medium);"| Independent '''gain''' from Labour
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! colspan="5" |<small>'''Bold''' indicates the candidate was elected.<br/></small>
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==Notes==
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* ''Rothwell Times'' (1894a) ‘Rothwell District Council Election’, 21 December. Available at: https://archive.org/details/1894rothwelltimescomplete/page/n53/
* ''Rothwell Times'' (1894b) ‘Rothwell Urban District Council Election: Analysis of the Voting’, 28 December. Available at: https://archive.org/details/1894rothwelltimescomplete/page/n55/
*''Rothwell Times'' (1895a) ‘The Lofthouse Vacancy’, 26 July. Available at: https://archive.org/details/1895rothwelltimescomplete/page/n61/
*''Rothwell Times'' (1895b) ‘Rothwell District Council’, 16 August. Available at: https://archive.org/details/1895rothwelltimescomplete/page/n67/
*''Skyrack Courier'' (1902) ‘Rothwell’, 22 March, p. 5.
* ''Wakefield Free Press'' (1894) ‘Nominations for Urban and District Councils and Guardians’, 8 December, p. 8.
==See also==
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