1879 Liverpool Town Council election

Elections to Liverpool Town Council were held on Saturday 1 November 1879. One third of the council seats were up for election, the term of office of each councillor being three years.

Four of the sixteen wards were uncontested.

After the election, the composition of the council was:

	Councillors	±	Aldermen	Total
Conservative	??	??	??	??
Liberal	??	??	??	??
Irish Home Rule	5	0	0	5
Independent	1	0	0	1

Election result[edit]

Liverpool Local Election Result 1879
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes
Conservative	2	0	6	-6	12.5%	48%	17,519
Liberal	11	6	0	+6	70%	37%	13,572
Home Rule	2	0	0	0	12.5%	7.7%	2,938
Independent	1	1	0	+1	6%	7.5%	2,736

Ward results[edit]

* - Retiring Councillor seeking re-election

Abercromby[edit]

No. 11 Abercromby
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Thomas English Stephens	881	50%
	Conservative	Dr. Nicholas Kendrick Marsh	872	50%
Majority			9	0%
Registered electors			2,540
Turnout			1,753	69%
	Liberal hold		Swing

Castle Street[edit]

No. 6 Castle Street
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Samuel Smith	695	51%
	Conservative	David MacIver *	656	49%
Majority			39	2%	N/A
Registered electors			1,900
Turnout			1,351	71%
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing

Everton[edit]

No. 1 Everton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	David Hughes	6,301	50%
	Conservative	Robert Vining *	6,286	50%
Majority			15	0%	N/A
Registered electors			21,625
Turnout			12,587	58%
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing

Exchange[edit]

No. 5 Exchange
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Stephen Barker Guion *	unopposed
Registered electors
	Liberal hold		Swing

Great George[edit]

No. 9 Great George
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Benjamin Lewis	530	52%
	Conservative	George Peet *	498	48%
Majority			32	4%	N/A
Registered electors			1,283
Turnout			1,028	80%
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing

Lime Street[edit]

No. 12 Lime Street
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	James Allanson Picton *	unopposed
Registered electors
	Liberal hold		Swing

North Toxteth[edit]

No. 16 North Toxteth
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Thomas Hughes	unopposed
Registered electors
	Conservative hold		Swing

Pitt Street[edit]

No. 8 Pitt Street
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Jeremiah Miles	371	59%
	Conservative	Robert Andrew Thomas	249	39%
	Conservative	William de Silva	11	2%
Majority			122	20%	N/A
Registered electors			880
Turnout			631	72%
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing

Rodney Street[edit]

No. 10 Rodney Street
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Philip Henry Rathbone *	970	56%
	Conservative	John Henstock	751	44%
Majority			219	12%
Registered electors			2,542
Turnout			1,721	68%
	Liberal hold		Swing

St. Anne Street[edit]

No. 13 St. Anne Street
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Henry Vaughan	1,135	53%
	Conservative	George Fowler *	1,010	47%
Majority			125	6%	N/A
Registered electors			2,792
Turnout			2,145	77%
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing

St. Paul's[edit]

No. 4 St. Paul's
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John Davies	697	54%
	Conservative	Thomas Huntington *	602	46%
Majority			95	8%	N/A
Registered electors			1,803
Turnout			1,299	72%
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing

St. Peter's[edit]

No. 7 St. Peter's
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Alexander Balfour *	590	53%
	Conservative	John Hughes	531	47%
Majority			59	6%
Registered electors			1,602
Turnout			1,121	70%
	Liberal hold		Swing

Scotland[edit]

No. 2 Scotland
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Home Rule	Dr. Alexander Murray Bligh *	2,838	56%
	Conservative	Joshua Siddeley	2,191	44%
Majority			647	12%
Registered electors			8,300
Turnout			5,029	61%
	Home Rule hold		Swing

South Toxteth[edit]

No. 15 South Toxteth
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	William Radcliffe *	1,729	55%
	Liberal	Edward Paull	1,402	45%
Majority			327	10%
Registered electors			4,772
Turnout			3,131	66%
	Conservative hold		Swing

Vauxhall[edit]

No. 3 Vauxhall
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Home Rule	Andrew Commins *	unopposed
Registered electors
	Home Rule hold		Swing

West Derby[edit]

No. 14 West Derby
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	William Simpson	2,736	56%
	Conservative	John Nicol *	2,144	44%
Majority			592	12%	N/A
Registered electors			8,845
Turnout			4,880	55%
	Independent gain from Conservative		Swing

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By-elections[edit]

Aldermanic By-Election, 4 February 1880[edit]

Caused by the resignation of Alderman Richard Cardwell Gardner. ^[4]

Former councillor John Nicol (Conservative, West Derby, elected 1 November 1876) was elected as an Alderman by the Council on 4 February 1880. ^[5]

No.16, North Toxteth, 18 February 1880[edit]

Caused by the resignation of Alderman John Woodruff. ^[6]

Councillor Arthur Bower Forwood (Conservative, North Toxteth, elected 1 November 1877) was elected as an Alderman by the Council on 4 February 1880. ^[7]

No. 16 North Toxteth
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	John Hughes	2,595	54%
		Mr. Matheson	2,223	46%
Majority			372
Registered electors
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

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No. 11, Abercromby, 18 February 1880[edit]

Caused by Thomas English Stephens (Liberal, Abercromby, elected 1 November 1879) ceasing to be a councillor.

No. 11 Abercromby
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Dr. Nicholas Kendrick Marsh	1,026	51%
		Mr. Stephens	988	49%
Majority			38
Registered electors			2,540
Turnout			2,014	79%
	Conservative hold		Swing

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No. 1 Everton, 18 February 1880[edit]

Caused by William Simpson (Independent, West Derby, elected 1 November 1879) ceasing to be a councillor.

No. 1 Everton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Robert Galloway	8,038	55%
	Liberal	Mr. Hughes	6,590	45%
Majority			1,448	10%	N/A
Registered electors			21,625
Turnout			14,628	68%
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing

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No. 14, West Derby, 23 March 1880[edit]