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North Ward^[1]^[2]^[3]
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Independent	James Hargreaves^*	152	27	-
Labour	William Ward Harrison	108	19.1	-
Liberal	Henry Peter Newsom^*	95	16.8	-
Independent	Richard Rodley	71	12.6	-
Labour	Wright Stead	60	10.6	-
Labour	Joseph Stead^*	52	9.2	-
Labour	Raymond Ellis	26	4.6	-
Majority		-	-
Turnout		240	73.8
Registered electors		325
Bold indicates the candidate was elected. ^* indicates that the candidate was previously a member of the Rothwell Local Board.

South Ward^[1]^[2]^[3]
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Labour	Ben Taylor	154	20.4	-
Labour	John Smith	126	16.7	-
Independent	Charles Ward^*	111	14.7	-
Independent	John Turner^*	87	11.5	-
Liberal	William Sykes^*	86	11.4	-
Labour	Joseph Stead Jr.^*	77	10.2	-
Independent	William Cawdell	76	10.1	-
Liberal	Thomas Brook	42	5.6	-
Majority		-	-
Turnout		334	74.2
Registered electors		450
Bold indicates the candidate was elected. ^* indicates that the candidate was previously a member of the Rothwell Local Board.

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/
Wakefield Free Press (1894) ‘Nominations for Urban and District Councils and Guardians’, 8 December, p. 8.

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