Haggerston (London County Council constituency)

London County Council constituency

Haggerston
Former constituency for the London County Council
Former constituency
Created	1889
Abolished	1919
Member(s)	2
Replaced by	Shoreditch

Haggerston 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. The seat became part of Shoreditch.

Councillors

Year	Name		Name
1889	Joseph Bottomley Firth	Progressive	Robert Collier	Progressive
1889	William James Orsman	Progressive
1895	Edmund Turton	Progressive
1897	George Shaw Lefevre	Progressive
1901	James Stuart	Progressive
1907	Rupert Guinness	Municipal Reform	Gilbert Johnstone	Municipal Reform
1910	Arthur Acland Allen	Progressive	Stephen Gee	Progressive
1913	David Blackley	Progressive	Henry Ward	Progressive

Election results

1889 London County Council election: Haggerston
	Candidate	Votes
Progressive	Joseph Bottomley Firth	1,791
Progressive	Robert Collier	1,671
Moderate	Henry William Mason	1,035
Moderate	Frederick Moore Wenborn	978
Independent	Henry Greenwood	507
Moderate	John Richard Sackett	60
Progressive win (new seat)
Progressive win (new seat)

1889 Haggerston by-election
	Candidate	Votes
Progressive	William James Orsman	1,953
Moderate	Edward Thomas Holloway	626
Progressive hold		Swing

1892 London County Council election: Haggerston
	Candidate	Votes
Progressive	William James Orsman	2,233
Progressive	Robert Collier	2,192
Moderate	Joseph Davies	543
Moderate	James Ritchie Macoun	532
Progressive hold		Swing
Progressive hold		Swing

1895 London County Council election: Haggerston
	Candidate	Votes
Progressive	Robert Collier	1,683
Progressive	Edmund Turton	1,598
Moderate	A. Morris	1,130
Moderate	A. Sieveking	1,102
Progressive hold		Swing
Progressive hold		Swing

1898 London County Council election: Haggerston
	Candidate	Votes
Progressive	Robert Collier	2,067
Progressive	George Shaw Lefevre	2,060
Moderate	Stanley Boulter	862
Moderate	C. F. Shallard	839
Progressive hold		Swing
Progressive hold		Swing

1901 London County Council election: Haggerston
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Progressive	James Stuart	2,300	35.3	0.0
Progressive	Robert Collier	2,251	34.5	−1.0
Conservative	William Bridgeman	1,001	15.3	+0.5
Conservative	Charles Walker	968	14.8	+0.4
Progressive hold		Swing
Progressive hold		Swing	-0.5

1904 London County Council election: Haggerston
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive	Robert Collier	2,479
	Progressive	James Stuart	3,026
	Conservative	Stokoe	1,093
	Conservative	J. H. S. Lloyd	1,030
Majority
	Progressive hold		Swing
	Progressive hold		Swing

1907 London County Council election: Haggerston
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Municipal Reform	Rupert Guinness	3,307
	Municipal Reform	Gilbert Johnstone	3,131
	Progressive	Robert Collier	3,085
	Progressive	Stephen Gee	3,026
Majority
	Municipal Reform gain from Progressive		Swing
	Municipal Reform gain from Progressive		Swing

1910 London County Council election: Haggerston
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive	Stephen Gee	2,845
	Progressive	Arthur Acland Allen	2,839
	Municipal Reform	Gilbert Johnstone	2,479
	Municipal Reform	G. V. Wellesley	2,358
Majority
	Progressive gain from Municipal Reform		Swing
	Progressive gain from Municipal Reform		Swing

1913 London County Council election: Haggerston
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive	Henry Ward	2,178
	Progressive	David Blackley	2,167
	Municipal Reform	John Jarvis	1,975
	Municipal Reform	William Brass	1,970
Majority
	Progressive hold		Swing
	Progressive hold		Swing

References

^ "The London County Council election". The Times. 7 March 1892.
"The London County Council election". The Times. 4 March 1895.
"London County Council election: results of the polling". The Times. 26 February 1898.
"London County Council Election." Times 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 7 Mar. 1910: 7. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 1 May 2016.
London Municipal Notes, 1913

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Elections	1889 1892 1895 1898 1901 1904 1907 1910 1913 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1934 1937 1946 1949 1952 1955 1958 1961
Members	Chairmen Members 1889-1919 Members 1919-1937 Members 1937-1949 Members 1949-1965
Constituencies (1889–1919)	Battersea Bermondsey Bethnal Green North East Bethnal Green South West Bow and Bromley Brixton Camberwell North Chelsea City of London Clapham Deptford Dulwich Finsbury Central Finsbury East Fulham Greenwich Hackney Central Hackney North Hackney South Haggerston Hammersmith Hampstead Holborn Hoxton Islington East Islington North Islington South Islington West Kennington Kensington North Kensington South Lambeth North Lewisham Limehouse Marylebone East Marylebone West Mile End Newington West Norwood Paddington North Paddington South Peckham Poplar Rotherhithe St George's Hanover Square St George St Pancras East St Pancras North St Pancras South St Pancras West Southwark West Stepney Strand Walworth Wandsworth Westminster Whitechapel Woolwich
Constituencies (1919–1949)	Balham and Tooting Battersea North Battersea South Bermondsey West Bethnal Green North East Bethnal Green South West Bow and Bromley Brixton Camberwell North Camberwell North West Chelsea City of London Clapham Deptford Dulwich Finsbury Fulham East Fulham West Greenwich Hackney Central Hackney North Hackney South Hammersmith North Hammersmith South Hampstead Holborn Islington East Islington North Islington South Islington West Kennington Kensington North Kensington South Lambeth North Lewisham East Lewisham West Limehouse Mile End Norwood Paddington North Paddington South Peckham Poplar South Putney Rotherhithe St Marylebone St Pancras North St Pancras South East St Pancras South West Shoreditch Southwark Central Southwark North Southwark South East Stoke Newington Streatham Wandsworth Central Westminster Abbey Westminster St George's Whitechapel and St George's Woolwich East Woolwich West
Constituencies (1949–1964)	Barons Court (1955–1964) Battersea North Battersea South Bermondsey Bethnal Green Brixton Chelsea Cities of London and Westminster Clapham Deptford Dulwich Fulham (1955–1965) Fulham East (1949–1955) Fulham West (1949–1955) Greenwich Hackney Central (1955–1964) Hackney South (1949–1955) Hammersmith North Hammersmith South (1949–1955) Hampstead Holborn and St Pancras South Islington East Islington North Islington South West Kensington North Kensington South Lewisham North Lewisham South Lewisham West Norwood Paddington North Paddington South Peckham Poplar Putney St Marylebone St Pancras North Shoreditch and Finsbury Southwark Stepney Stoke Newington and Hackney North Streatham Vauxhall Wandsworth Central Woolwich East Woolwich West
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