1841 Liverpool Town Council election

1841 Liverpool Town Council election
â 1840 1 November 1841 1842 â
16 seats were up for election: one seat for each of the 16 wards; 33 (incl. Aldermen) seats needed for a majority
Registered	9,214
Turnout	%
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.

Registered9,214

Turnout%

Quick facts 16 seats were up for election: one seat for each of the 16 wards 33 (incl. Aldermen) seats needed for a majority, Registered ...

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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%

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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:

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

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Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/â
	Conservative	13	7	0	+7	81%	54%	4,270
	Whig	3	0	7	-7	19%	46%	3,672

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Â±%
	Whig	John Holmes	Unopposed	*N/A*	*N/A*
Registered electors			814
	Whig hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Â±%
	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

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

1841 Liverpool Town Council election

Election result

Ward results

Abercromby

Castle Street

Everton

Exchange

Great George

Lime Street

North Toxteth

Pitt Street

Rodney Street

St. Anne Street

St. Paul's

St. Peter's

Scotland

South Toxteth

Vauxhall

West Derby

Aldermanic Elections

See also

References

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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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Â±%
	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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Â±%
	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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Â±%
	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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Â±%
	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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Â±%
	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

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Â±%
	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

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Â±%
	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

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Â±%
	Whig	William Preston	Unopposed	*N/A*	*N/A*
Registered electors			512
	Whig gain from Conservative

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Â±%
	Conservative	John Shaw Leigh *	Unopposed	*N/A*	*N/A*
Registered electors			568
	Conservative hold