Hammersmith (London County Council constituency)

London County Council constituency

Hammersmith
Former constituency for the London County Council
Former constituency
Created	1889
Abolished	1919
Member(s)	2
Replaced by	Hammersmith North Hammersmith South

Hammersmith 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	Andrew Arter	Moderate	Charles Courtenay Cramp	Moderate
1892	Andrew Arter	Moderate	William Bull	Moderate
1895	Edward Goulding	Moderate	William Bull	Moderate
1901	Jocelyn Brandon	Moderate	Edward Collins	Moderate
1910	Jocelyn Brandon	Moderate	Isidore Salmon	Municipal Reform
1913	Francis Robert Ince Anderton	Municipal Reform	Isidore Salmon	Municipal Reform

Election results

1889 London County Council election: Hammersmith
	Candidate	Votes
Moderate	Charles Courtenay Cramp	1,591
Moderate	Andrew Arter	1,569
Progressive	Charles Cordingley	1,539
Moderate	William Frederick Layton	1,127
Independent	Robert Francis Webb	388
Moderate win (new seat)
Moderate win (new seat)

1892 London County Council election: Hammersmith
	Candidate	Votes
Moderate	Andrew Arter	2,562
Moderate	William Bull	2,391
Progressive	John Johnson	2,372
Progressive	Thomas Parris	2,366
Progressive	James Flexman	411
Independent	Ferdinand Leopold Martin Firminger	208
Moderate hold		Swing
Moderate hold		Swing

1895 London County Council election: Hammersmith
	Candidate	Votes
Moderate	William Bull	3,429
Moderate	Edward Goulding	3,356
Progressive	Edmund Charles Rawlings	2,682
Progressive	L. Sharpe	2,648
Moderate hold		Swing
Moderate hold		Swing

1898 London County Council election: Hammersmith
	Candidate	Votes
Moderate	William Bull	4,168
Moderate	Edward Goulding	4,121
Progressive	Frank Russell	3,197
Progressive	R. G. Head	3,164
Moderate hold		Swing
Moderate hold		Swing

1901 London County Council election: Hammersmith
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Conservative	Edward Collins	3,128	26.1	−2.4
Conservative	Jocelyn Brandon	3,110	25.9	−2.2
Progressive	William Turner Lord	2,885	24.0	+2.2
Progressive	Edmund Charles Rawlings	2,874	24.0	+2.4
Conservative hold		Swing
Conservative hold		Swing	-2.3

1904 London County Council election: Hammersmith
	Candidate	Votes
Conservative	Jocelyn Brandon	3,501
Conservative	Edward Collins	3,494
Progressive	John Gerald Ritchie	3,483
Progressive	F. Whelen	3,392
Conservative hold		Swing
Conservative hold		Swing

1907 London County Council election: Hammersmith
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Municipal Reform	Jocelyn Brandon	5,850
	Municipal Reform	Edward Collins	5,839
	Progressive	Norman Shairp	2,755
	Progressive	L. E. Camp	2,709
	Labour	W. T. Davidson	897
	Labour	John Thomas Westcott	737
Majority
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

1910 London County Council election: Hammersmith
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Municipal Reform	Jocelyn Brandon	5,815	33.5
	Municipal Reform	Isidore Salmon	5,654	32.6
	Progressive	Ben Cooper	2,960	17.0
	Progressive	D. R. Thomas	2,936	16.9
Majority
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

1913 London County Council election: Hammersmith
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	Francis Robert Ince Anderton	5,615	29.8	−3.7
	Municipal Reform	Isidore Salmon	5,609	29.7	−2.9
	Progressive	W. P. Hunter	3,937	20.9	+3.9
	Progressive	Glynne Williams	3,703	19.6	+2.7
Majority			1,672	8.9
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing	-3.3

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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