1949_Kesteven_County_Council_election

1949 Kesteven County Council election

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Elections to Kesteven County Council were held on Saturday, 9 April 1949.^[1] 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.^[2] The Local Government Act 1888 established Kesteven as an administrative county, governed by a Council;^[3] 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.^[4]^[5]

The administrative county of Kesteven (1889–1974), shown within England.

For the 1949 election, the county was divided into sixty wards, ten of which accounted for the town of Grantham, five for Stamford, three for Sleaford and two for Bourne. Every seat in Grantham was contested, but all of the nominated candidates for the towns of Bourne, Sleaford and Stamford were returned unopposed. The majority of the councillors returned were independents.

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"Nominations yesterday". Grantham Journal. 25 March 1949. p. 1. Retrieved 29 June 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.

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"Kesteven, Lincolnshire", A Vision of Britain (University of Portsmouth). Retrieved 21 April 2015.

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Local Government Act 1888, part ii, section 46.1(a), cf. part v, section 83.10

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Local Government Act 1888, part i, section 2, and part vi, section 103

[5] [5]
Local Government Act 1972, schedule 1

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"Kesteven Elections". Nottingham Evening Post. 11 April 1949. p. 5. Retrieved 29 June 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.

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"Kesteven County Council Election Fights". Lincolnshire Echo. 24 March 1949. p. 4. Retrieved 29 June 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.

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"Kesteven Elections". Lincolnshire Echo. 11 April 1949. p. 3. Retrieved 29 June 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.

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Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		W. H. G. Battersby	597
	Labour	J. Collins	159

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		?	?	?
Turnout

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		W. E. Young
		J. R. Wilkinson

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		John W. Milner	452
		A. Musson	133

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		John Edwin Mountain	492
		Samuel Edward Bainbridge Pattinson	151

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Harry Kelham Scrimshaw	336
	Labour	John Edward Snell	232

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	John W. Harrison	472
	Conservative	John C. Barry Thompson	395
Turnout

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Independent	William Griffin	533
	Labour	John Leslie Foweather	519
Turnout

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Independent	Mrs Jessie E. W. Browse	602
	Labour	Wilfred A. Ogden	398
Turnout

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Independent	Frederick L. Preston	329
	Labour	Charles F. Robinson	288
Turnout

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Independent	Albert E. E. Cooper	426
	Labour	Frederick G. Atwood	272
Turnout

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Mrs Dorothy Shipman	400
	Labour	Daniel Hadley Horrigan	173
Turnout

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Independent	Mrs Veronica M. F. Webster	799
	Labour	Reginald Charles Moore	715
Turnout

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Mrs Louise Marion Ward	445
	Labour	George Ernest Waltham	264
Turnout

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		John Harold Emerson	240
		Archibald W. Sharman	192
		Arthur Hoyes	165

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Results

Ancaster

Bassingham

Bennington

Billingborough

Billinghay

Bourne no. 1

Bourne no. 2

Bracebridge

Branston

Bytham

Caythorpe

Claypole

Colsterworth

Corby

Cranwell

Deeping St James

Dunston

Gonerby and Barrowby

Grantham no. 1

Grantham no. 2

Grantham no. 3

Grantham no. 4

Grantham no. 5

Grantham no. 6

Grantham no. 7

Grantham no. 8

Grantham no. 9

Grantham no. 10

Heckington

Helpringham

Kyme

Leadenham

Market Deeping

Martin

Metheringham

Morton

Navenby

North Hykeham

Osbournby

Ponton

Rippingale

Ropsley

Ruskington

Scopwick

Skellingthorpe

Sleaford no. 1

Sleaford no. 2

Sleaford no. 3

Stamford no. 1

Stamford no. 2

Stamford no. 3

Stamford no. 4

Stamford no. 5

Swinderby

Thurlby

Uffington

Washingborough

Welby

Wilsford

Woolsthorpe

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