Liverpool City Council election, 1894

Elections to Liverpool City Council were held on Thursday 1 November 1894. One third of the council seats were up for election, the term of office of each councillor being three years.

Eleven of the sixteen seats were uncontested.

After the election, the composition of the council was:

Party		Councillors	±	Aldermen	Total
	Conservative	??	??	??	??
	Liberal	??	??	??	??
	Irish Nationalists	??	??	??	??

Election result

Liverpool Local Election Result 1894
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Conservative	7	0	0	0	44%	69%	8,537
	Liberal	7	0	2	-2	44%	10%	1,208
	Irish Nationalist	2	2	0	+2	12.5%
	Labour	0	0	0	0	0%	15%	1,902

Ward results

* - Retiring Councillor seeking re-election

Abercromby

No. 11 Abercromby

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Thomas Menlove	691	94%
	Labour	John O'Brien	41	5.6%
Majority			650
Registered electors
Turnout			732
	Conservative hold		Swing

Castle Street

No. 6 Castle Street

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Bartlett *	unopposed
Registered electors
	Conservative hold		Swing

Everton

No. 1 Everton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Houlding *	4,737	89%
	Labour	John Naylor	568	11%
Majority			4,169
Registered electors
Turnout			5,305
	Conservative hold		Swing

Exchange

No. 5 Exchange

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Alphonse Doughan *	unopposed
Registered electors
	Liberal hold		Swing

Great George

No. 9 Great George

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John Lamport Eills	unopposed
Registered electors
	Liberal hold		Swing

Lime Street

No. 12 Lime Street

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Charles Petrie *	unopposed
Registered electors
	Conservative hold		Swing

North Toxteth

No. 16 North Toxteth

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William James Burgess *	unopposed
Registered electors
	Conservative hold		Swing

Pitt Street

No. 8 Pitt Street

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John Scott *	unopposed
Registered electors
	Liberal hold		Swing

Rodney Street

No. 10 Rodney Street

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	William Henry Picton *	555	93%
	Labour	William Gibson	43	7.2%
Registered electors
	Liberal hold		Swing

St. Anne's Street

No. 13 St. Anne's Street

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Samuel McMillin *	653	66%
	Labour	John Callow	337	34%
	Labour	Aaron John Fowler	28	2.8%
Majority			316
Registered electors
Turnout			990
	Liberal hold		Swing

St. Paul's

No. 4 St. Paul's

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Richard Robert Meade-King *	unopposed
Registered electors
	Liberal hold		Swing

St. Peter's

No. 7 St. Peter's

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	George Grierson *	unopposed
Registered electors
	Liberal hold		Swing

Scotland

No. 1 Scotland

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Nationalist	Patrick Kearney	unopposed
Registered electors
	Irish Nationalist gain from Liberal		Swing

South Toxteth

No. 15 South Toxteth

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Thomas Evans	unopposed
Registered electors
	Conservative hold		Swing

Vauxhall

No. 3 Vauxhall

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Nationalist	Thomas John Flynn	unopposed
Registered electors
	Irish Nationalist gain from Liberal		Swing

West Derby

No. 14 West Derby

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Edward Hatton Cookson *	'3,800	81%
	Labour	Samuel Reeves	885	19%
Majority			2,915
Registered electors			11,825
Turnout			4,685	40%
	Conservative hold		Swing