Whitechapel (London County Council constituency)

Whitechapel
Whitechapel
Former constituency; for the London County Council
Former constituency
Created	1889
Abolished	1919
Member	2
Replaced by	Whitechapel and St George's

Whitechapel was a constituency used for elections to the London County Council between 1889 and 1919. The seat shared boundaries with the UK Parliament constituency of the same name.

Councillors

Year	Name		Name
1889	Stuart Samuel	Progressive	Charles Tarling	Progressive
1892	Thomas Catmur	Progressive	Charles Tarling	Progressive
1895	Thomas Catmur	Progressive	Morris Abrahams	Moderate
1897	Harry Levy-Lawson	Progressive	Morris Abrahams	Moderate
1898	Harry Levy-Lawson	Progressive	William Cowlishaw Johnson	Progressive
1904	Henry Herman Gordon	Independent
1907	Henry Herman Gordon	Progressive

Election results

1889 London County Council election: Whitechapel^[1]
	Candidate	Votes
Progressive	Stuart Samuel	1,523
Progressive	Thomas Catmur	1,477
Moderate	Morris Abrahams	1,205
Independent	John Harris	854
Progressive	Thomas Catmur	845
Moderate	Henry Wren Henderson	512
Progressive win (new seat)
Progressive win (new seat)

1892 London County Council election: Whitechapel^[1]
	Candidate	Votes
Progressive	Charles Tarling	1,672
Progressive	Thomas Catmur	1,666
Moderate	John Hawkins	1,433
Moderate	Elim Henry d'Avigdor	1,281
Progressive hold		Swing
Progressive hold		Swing

1895 London County Council election: Whitechapel^[2]
	Candidate	Votes
Moderate	Morris Abrahams	1,375
Progressive	Thomas Catmur	1,165
Moderate	Ernest Louis Meinertzhagen	1,124
Progressive	William Cowlishaw Johnson	1,036
Progressive	R. Ambrose	708
Progressive	Charles Tarling	692
Moderate gain from Progressive		Swing
Progressive hold		Swing

1898 London County Council election: Whitechapel^[3]
	Candidate	Votes
Progressive	Harry Levy-Lawson	1,917
Progressive	William Cowlishaw Johnson	1,768
Moderate	L. Campbell-Johnson	1,322
Progressive gain from Moderate		Swing
Progressive hold		Swing

1901 London County Council election: Whitechapel^[4]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Progressive	Harry Levy-Lawson	1,785	32.9	+2.6
Progressive	William Cowlishaw Johnson	1,701	31.3	+3.4
Conservative	Donald Alexander Munro	1,053	19.4	−1.2
Conservative	Henry Wren Henderson	892	16.4	4.5
Progressive hold		Swing
Progressive hold		Swing

1904 London County Council election: Whitechapel^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Independent	Henry Herman Gordon	1,616
	Progressive	William Cowlishaw Johnson	1,326
	Progressive	George Lewis Bruce	1,163
	Conservative	E. C. Carter	910
	Conservative	G. B. B. Hobart	710
Majority
	Progressive hold		Swing
	Independent gain from Progressive		Swing

1907 London County Council election: Whitechapel^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive	William Cowlishaw Johnson	1,756
	Independent	Henry Herman Gordon	1,627
	Municipal Reform	E. Hodsoll	1,211
	Municipal Reform	C. Wertheimer	980
	Independent Progressive	Elkin	772
Majority
	Progressive hold		Swing
	Independent hold		Swing

1910 London County Council election: Whitechapel^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive	William Cowlishaw Johnson	1,954
	Progressive	Henry Herman Gordon	1,950
	Municipal Reform	W. Dully	825
	Municipal Reform	John Benjamin Lindenbaum	813
Majority
	Progressive hold		Swing
	Progressive gain from Independent		Swing

1913 London County Council election: Whitechapel^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive	Henry Herman Gordon	1,746
	Progressive	William Cowlishaw Johnson	1,792
	Municipal Reform	E. G. Parry	1,008
	Municipal Reform	A. Ludski	916
Majority			738
	Progressive hold		Swing
	Progressive hold		Swing

References

^ ^a ^b "The London County Council election". The Times. 7 March 1892.
^ "London County Council election". The Times. 5 March 1895.
^ "London County Council election: results of the polling". The Times. 26 February 1898.
^ "London County Council Election." Times [London, England] 4 Mar. 1901: 7. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 22 Sept. 2016.
^ "London County Council election". The Times. 7 March 1904.
^ "London County Council election: great Municipal Reform victory". The Times. 4 March 1907.
^ "London County Council Election." Times [London, England] 7 Mar. 1910: 7. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 1 May 2016.
^ London Municipal Notes, 1913

[1892results-1] "The London County Council election". The Times. 7 March 1892.

[2] "London County Council election". The Times. 5 March 1895.

[3] "London County Council election: results of the polling". The Times. 26 February 1898.

[4] "London County Council Election." Times [London, England] 4 Mar. 1901: 7. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 22 Sept. 2016.

[5] "London County Council election". The Times. 7 March 1904.

[6] "London County Council election: great Municipal Reform victory". The Times. 4 March 1907.

[7] "London County Council Election." Times [London, England] 7 Mar. 1910: 7. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 1 May 2016.

[8] London Municipal Notes, 1913

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