1889_Kesteven_County_Council_election
1889 Kesteven County Council election
Election in England
The first elections to Kesteven County Council were held on Thursday, 17 January 1889. Kesteven was one of three divisions of the historic county of Lincolnshire in England; it consisted of the ancient wapentakes (or hundreds) of Aswardhurn, Aveland, Beltisloe, Boothby Graffoe, Flaxwell, Langoe, Loveden, Ness, and Winnibriggs and Threo.[1] The Local Government Act 1888 established Kesteven as an administrative county, governed by a Council;[2] elections were held every three years from 1889, until it was abolished by the Local Government Act 1972, which established Lincolnshire County Council in its place.[3][4]
The forty-six electoral divisions of the new Council were outlined in December 1888. All but two returned one candidate: Sleaford and Quarrington and Bourne and Morton returned two each. The town of Grantham was represented across seven divisions, while Stamford had four.[5] Twenty-one candidates (including both for Sleaford) were returned unopposed. The remainder were informed of the result on the day after polling. Votes were counted in one of the court rooms in Lincoln; the Sheriff of Lincolnshire, A. S. Leslie-Melville, was the presiding officer, while R. A. Stephens was his deputy for Kesteven.[6]
Ancaster
Barrowby
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sir W. E. Welby-Gregory Bt JP | NA | NA | |||
Bassingham
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
The Viscount St Vincent JP | 218 | ||||
William Brocklebank | 168 | ||||
Turnout |
Bennington
Billingborough
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Captain Henry Smith JP | 207 | ||||
Edward John Grummitt | 246 | ||||
Billinghay
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
J. D. Bowling | NA | NA | |||
Bourne and Morton
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
William Robert Wherry | 578 | ||||
John Derry | 527 | ||||
Christopher Gilbert Peacock JP | 309 | ||||
Thomas Lawrence | 204 | ||||
Turnout |
- = Two seats
Bracebridge
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
W. J. Warrener | NA | NA | |||
Branston
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
E. J. Howard | NA | NA | |||
Bytham
Caythorpe
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Colonel F. Fane JP | NA | NA | |||
Claypole
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
George Nevile JP | NA | NA | |||
Colsterworth
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Eli Crabtree | 250 | ||||
Robert Heathcote JP | 139 | ||||
Corby
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
The Lord Willoughby de Eresby JP | NA | NA | |||
Deeping
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
W. Holland JP | NA | NA | |||
Gonerby
Grantham no. 1
Grantham no. 2
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
G. S. Hannett | NA | NA | |||
Grantham no. 3
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
A. Hutchinson | NA | NA | |||
Grantham no. 4
Grantham no. 5
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
W. L. Wand | NA | NA | |||
Grantham no. 6
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
J. W. Martin | NA | NA | |||
Grantham no. 7
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
W. B. Harrison | NA | NA | |||
Heckington
Heighington
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
C. C. Sibthorpe | NA | NA | |||
Helpringham
Kyme
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
The Earl of Winchelsea and Nottingham JP | NA | NA | |||
Martin
Metheringham
Navenby
Osbournby
Ponton
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sir H. A. H. Cholmeley Bt JP | NA | NA | |||
Rippingale
Ropsley
Ruskington
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Captain Neville Henry Reeve JP | 255 | ||||
Samuel Pattinson | 183 | ||||
Turnout |
Skellingthorpe
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
G. E. Jarvis JP | NA | NA | |||
Sleaford and Quarrington
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
G. H. W. Hervey JP | NA | NA | |||
Charles Sharpe | NA | NA | |||
- = Two seats
Stamford (All Saints)
Stamford (St George's)
Stamford (St Michael's and St John's)
Stamford (St Martin's and St Mary's)
Thurlby
Uffington
Waddington
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
R. G. Ellison JP | NA | NA | |||
Wellingore
Wilsford
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Colonel M. Willson JP | NA | NA | |||
The Council held its first meeting on 31 January, where it elected a Chairman and sixteen aldermen.[6] If a councillor were elected an alderman, he had to forfeit his seat. Eleven members of the Council were elected to the aldermanic bench, which meant that their seats became vacant, triggering by-elections. Colonel Willson, who had been returned for Wilsford at the first round of elections, was disqualified because he held a paid commission in the armed forces; this triggered a by-election. All twelve were held on 18 February; four candidates stood unopposed.[7]
Grantham no. 2
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | William Scoffield | 198 | |||
Conservative | Alfred Childs | 184 | |||
Turnout | 382 |
Barrowby
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Richard Welborn | 245 | |||
Liberal | Henry Bowman | 168 | |||
Turnout | 413 |
Ponton
Corby
Sleaford
Wilsford
Bourne
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | James Measures | 442 | |||
Liberal | John Cappitt | 410 | |||
Turnout | 852 |
Helpringham
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Joseph Senior Barber | 197 | |||
Liberal | Charles Edward Harris | 147 | |||
Charles Hardstaffe Read | 37 | ||||
Turnout | 381 |
Billingborough
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
E. J. Grummitt | NA | NA | |||
Branston
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
William Roberts | NA | NA | |||
Billinghay
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
J. Creasey | NA | NA | |||
Wellingore
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Colonel Reave | NA | NA | |||
- "Kesteven, Lincolnshire", A Vision of Britain (University of Portsmouth). Retrieved 21 April 2015.
- Local Government Act 1972, schedule 1
- "Kesteven County Council". Grantham Journal. 8 December 1888. p. 3. Retrieved 26 April 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- "Kesteven County Council: Result of the Poll". Grantham Journal. 19 January 1889. p. 4. Retrieved 26 April 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- "Kesteven County Council: the recent elections". Grantham Journal. 23 February 1889. p. 6. Retrieved 26 April 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.