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Election result

Rothwell Urban District Council Result 1894
Party	Seats	Gains	Loses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	±%	Votes
Independent	9	-	-	-	60	60.5	-	2109
Labour	4	-	-	-	26.7	27.8	-	968
Liberal	2	-	-	-	13.3	10.2	-	356
Invalid	0	-	-	-	0	1.5	-	54
Total								3487
Turnout: 1510 (79.7%)
Registered electors: 1895

Ward results

Carlton

Carlton ward^[1]^[2]^[3]
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Independent	Walter Hargreaves^*	273	33.4	-
Independent	Thomas Oliver^*	208	25.4	-
Independent	George Armitage^*	171	20.9	-
Labour	John William Clarkson	105	12.8	-
Labour	Joseph Holdroyd	61		-
Majority		-	-
Turnout		358	77.8
Registered electors		460
Bold indicates the candidate was elected. ^* indicates that the candidate was previously a member of the Rothwell Local Board.

Lofthouse-with-Thorpe

Lofthouse-with-Thorpe ward^[1]^[2]^[3]
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Independent	Thomas Hargreaves^*	195	28.7	-
Independent	James Armitage^*	186	27.4	-
Labour	Thomas Maddock	131	19.3	-
Independent	Francis Edward Middleton^*	114	16.8	-
Invalid^{[n. 1]}	James Horner	54	7.9	-
Majority		-	-
Turnout		268	86.5
Registered electors		310
Bold indicates the candidate was elected. ^* indicates that the candidate was previously a member of the Rothwell Local Board.

North

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

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.

Stourton

Stourton ward^[1]^[2]^[3]
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Independent	John Oliver^*	199	29.9	-
Independent	Fred Puffett	153	23	-
Liberal	Tom Chapman	133	20	-
Independent	John William Hirst^*	113	17	-
Labour	Eli Taylor	68	10.2	-
Majority		-	-
Turnout		310	88.6
Registered electors		350
Bold indicates the candidate was elected. ^* indicates that the candidate was previously a member of the Rothwell Local Board.

Notes

↑ Horner's candidacy was objected to.

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 (Rothwell Times, 1894a); results.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 (Wakefield Free Press, 1894); party affiliations.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 ^3.4 (Rothwell Times, 1894b); electorate numbers.

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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Rothwell Urban District Council elections
1894 • 1896 • 1897

Revision as of 15:53, 10 June 2024

Election result

Ward results

Carlton

Lofthouse-with-Thorpe

North

South

Stourton

Notes

References

See also