1961_Kesteven_County_Council_election

1961 Kesteven County Council election

1961 Kesteven County Council election

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Elections to Kesteven County Council were held on Saturday, 15 April 1961. 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 administrative county of Kesteven (1889–1974), shown within England.

The county was divided into 60 electoral divisions, each of which returned one member. In 1961 there were contests in 7 of these.

Results by division

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Notes

  1. No nomination was received, so the retiring member was deemed re-elected

References

  1. [1]
    "Kesteven, Lincolnshire", A Vision of Britain (University of Portsmouth). Retrieved 21 April 2015.
  2. [2]
    Local Government Act 1888, part ii, section 46.1(a), cf. part v, section 83.10
  3. [3]
    Local Government Act 1888, part i, section 2, and part vi, section 103
  4. [4]
    Local Government Act 1972, schedule 1
  5. [5]
    "K.C.C. elections – 7 straight fights". Sleaford Standard. 31 March 1961. p. 13.
  6. [6]
    "Ruskington swing to Labour—but it was a near thing!". Sleaford Standard. 21 April 1961. p. 26.
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