1841 Liverpool Town Council election
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← 1840 | 1 November 1841 (1841-11-01) | 1842 → |
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16 seats were up for election: one seat for each of the 16 wards 33 (incl. Aldermen) seats needed for a majority |
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Registered | 9,214 |
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Turnout | % |
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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.
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:
Party | Councillors | ± | Aldermen | ± | Total |
| Conservative | 34 | +7 | 8 | +8 | 42 |
| Reformers | 14 | -7 | 8 | -8 | 22 |
Election result
Liverpool Local Election Result 1841 Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− |
| Conservative | 13 | 7 | 0 | +7 | 81% | 54% | 4,270 | |
| Whig | 3 | 0 | 7 | -7 | 19% | 46% | 3,672 | |
Ward results
* - Retiring Councillor seeking re-election
Abercromby
No. 11 Abercromby 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 | | |
Castle Street
No. 6 Castle Street Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Whig | John Holmes | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |
Registered electors | 814 | | |
| Whig hold |
Everton
No. 1 Everton Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| 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 | | |
Exchange
No. 5 Exchange 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 | | |
Great George
No. 9 Great George 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 | | |
Lime Street
No. 12 Lime Street Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| 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 | | |
North Toxteth
No. 16 North Toxteth Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| 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 | | |
Pitt Street
No. 8 Pitt Street Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| 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 | | |
Rodney Street
No. 10 Rodney Street Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| 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 | | |
St. Anne Street
No. 13 St. Anne Street Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| 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 | | |
St. Paul's
No. 4 St. Paul's 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 | | |
St. Peter's
No. 7 St. Peter's Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| 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 | | |
Scotland
No. 2 Scotland 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 | | |
South Toxteth
No. 15 South Toxteth Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| 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 | | |
Vauxhall
No. 3 Vauxhall Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Whig | William Preston | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |
Registered electors | 512 | | |
| Whig gain from Conservative |
West Derby
No. 14 West Derby Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Conservative | John Shaw Leigh * | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |
Registered electors | 568 | | |
| Conservative hold |
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On 9 November 1841, the term of office of eight of the sixteen aldermen expired.
The following were elected as Aldermen by the council on 9 November 1841 for a term of office of six years.
* - re-elected Alderman.
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 |
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See also
References
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