General Election of Greater London Councillors
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GENERAL ELECTION OF GREATER LONDON COUNCILLORS 9 APRIL 1964 Compiled under the direction of the Clerk of the London County Council and Returning Officer September, 1964 Published by LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL The County Hall, London, SE1 No. 4258 1s. Postage extra CONTENTS ELECTION FACTS AND FIGURES Page 3 IN EACH ELECTORAL AREA: VOTES CAST FOR EACH CANDIDATE Pages 5-7 NUMBER OF ELECTORS ENTITLED TO VOTE, AND PERCENTAGE VOTING Page 8 NUMBER OF ELECTORS VOTING DURING EACH HOUR OF THE POLL Page 9 PERCENTAGE OF ELECTORS VOTING DURING EACH HOUR OF THE POLL Page 10 3 Under the provisions of the London Government Act 1963 Greater London comprises the whole of the present Administrative County of London and the county boroughs of Croydon, East Ham and West Ham, practically all of the County of Middlesex and the metropolitan parts of the counties of Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent and Surrey. While the Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent and Surrey county councils will continue to administer the remaining parts of their present areas, all other existing local authorities and areas within Greater London, except in the case of the City of London, will cease to exist after 31 March 1965. In their place will be Greater London and the Greater London Council and thirty-two London Boroughs, each with its own council. The first election of Greater London councillors was held on 9 April 1964 and of London Borough councillors on 7 May 1964. The composition of the Greater London Council is 100 councillors and sixteen aldermen. Initially each London borough (one of them - the City of Westminster - joined with the City of London and the Inner and Middle Temples) forms an electoral area returning two, three or four Greater London councillors; but when revised Parliamentary constituencies have been settled, each constituency will return one Greater London councillor. Councillors will hold office for three years and retire together. Elections will be held every third year on a day to be fixed by the Home Secretary. The aldermen, eight of whom will retire every third year, are elected by the councillors from among councillors or persons qualified to be councillors. The appointed day under the Act for the new councils to assume full power is 1 April 1965. The Greater London Council will have jurisdiction over an area of some 620 square miles with a resident population of 8,000,000 and a rateable value of £600,000,000. This return follows the series published by the London County Council after general elections of London County councillors. ELECTION FACTS AND FIGURES, 1964 Number of Candidates-all seats contested: 340 viz.: Conservative .. 100 Communist .. 36 New Liberal .. 3 Labour 100 Independent .. .. 9 Union Movement .. 2 Liberal 86 Ratepayers' Assoc Christian Independent .. 1 iation .. .. 3 Percentages of votes cast (main parties)-Con. 41.7 Lab.46.0 Lib. 10.3 Electorate 5,466,756 Persons voting 2,413,600 Percentage voting 44.2 Votes cast for each party Con. .. .. 3,147,805 Comm. .. 102,649 New Lib. .. 7,421 Lab. .. .. 3,467,634 Ind. 19,983 Chr. Ind. .. 2,895 Lib. 775,385 R.A. 17,574 U.M... .. 2,353 Electoral areas with poll 50 per cent and above Hounslow .. 55.7 Richmond upon Thames .. 53.6 Bexley .. 55.6 Ealing .. .. 51.8 Harrow .. .. 55.4 Merton .. .. 51.4 Bromley .. .. 54.5 Hillingdon...... 51.3 Barnet .. 53.8 Kingston upon Thames .. 50.1 In a further nine divisions the poll was still above the average of 44.2 per cent for this election Electoral areas with poll 25 per cent and below Hackney .. 22.4 Tower Hamlets .. 23.8 4 The following table shows the number voting and the percentage of the total poll recorded during each hour of the poll, arranged in numerical order: 1964 Hour Number of Percentage of persons voting total poll 7-8 p.m. .. .. .. 471,629 19.5 8-9 p.m. .. .. ·. 398,585 16.5 6-7 p.m. .. .. .. 359,084 14.9 5-6 p.m. .. .. .. 228,714 9.5 4-5 p.m. .. .. ·. 126,968 5.3 11-12 a.m. .. .. .. 119,963 5.0 10-11 a.m. .. .. ·. 116,645 4.8 3-4 p.m. .. .. .. 110,252 4.6 2-3 p.m. .. .. .. 102,639 4.3 9-10 a.m. .. .. .. 93,101 3.9 12-1 p.m. .. .. .. 91,518 3.8 8-9 a.m. .. .. .. 89,233 3.7 1-2 p.m. .. .. " 80,624 3.3 By post .. .. .. 24,742 1.0 Total .. 2,413,697t 100.0 t See note (a) page 8. NOTES The figures in Table I (pp. 5-7) are votes counted, of which the total is 7,543,699. The names of successful candidates, shown in heavy type, also give an indication of the number of seats available, two, three or four, in each electoral area. The number of valid ballot papers counted at this election was 2,405,890 which includes 503 papers 'rejected in part', i.e., papers in which only some of the total possible votes were valid. There were 7,710 ballot papers wholly rejected as invalid; these comprised 68 lacking the official mark; 4,308 where the elector voted for more candidates than he was entitled to; 418 marked so that the voter could be identified; 2,291 unmarked or wholly void for uncertainty; and 625 received from postal voters before the close ofthe poll which failed in various ways to comply with postal voting regulations. 6,243 spoilt papers were replaced. The total of ballot papers used, valid and invalid, but excluding spoilt papers, was 2,413,600 and this figure is used in Table /I (p. 8) for the number of ' persons voting " since each such ballot paper represents an elector who made an attempt to vote or to record a deliberate abstention. COMPOSITION OF THE COUNCIL FOLLOWING THE 1964 ELECTION Aldermen Labour .. 11 Conservative 5 total 16 Councillors Labour .. 64 Conservative .. 36 total 100 TOTAL SEATS BY PARTIES Labour .. .. 75 Conservative .. 41 5 TABLE I Number of votes recorded for each candidate at the General Election of Greater London Councillors, 9 April 1964 Successful candidates are shown in heavy type. BARKING CAMDEN Charles Prendergast,B.E. M. (Lab.) 25,380 Mrs Leila Campbell .. (Lab.) 38,198 Mrs Maud Ball .. (Lab.) 23,803 Louis W. Bondy .. .. (Lab.) 38,191 R. C. Denney .. (Con.) 7,653 Mrs Evelyn Denington .. (Lab.) 37,364 C. A. Pool .. (Con.) 7,547 Francis Bennett, C.B.E. C. H. C. Blake .. (Lib.) 4,625 J.P. .. .. .. (Con.) 30,096 J. D. Tyrrell .. (Li b.) 3,824 Mrs John Townsend .. (Con.) 28,723 K. Halpin .. (Comm.) 1,385 Miss I. C. Mansel .. (Con.) 28,588 BARNET A. J. F. Macdonald .. (Lib.) 4,839 P. B. Black, J.P. .. .. (Can.) 52,807 Miss J. M. Arram .. (Lib.) 4,614 Miss Jean L. Scott, B.Sc., M. S. Watson .. (Lib.) 4,087 .. (Comm.) 2,875 F.R.I.C. .. (Can.) 51,939 J. Nicolson ·. .. (Ind.) Colonel Sir Joseph B. W. Haines 1,016 Haygarth, C.B.E... .. (Can.) 51,612 CROYDON Reginald Marks, LL.B. .. (Can.) 51,053 John L. Aston, J.P. .. (Can.) 57,625 N. Birch ·. .. (Lab.) 34,303 G. W. Aplin, F.R.I.C.S., Mrs B. R. Scharf .. (Lab.) 33,230 M.R.S.H. .. (Can.) 57,237 .. (Lab.) 32,212 .. C. H. F. Reynolds P. A. Saunders .. (Can.) 53,828 .. (Lab.) 31,538 F. B. Groves Keith A. Edwards .. (Can.) 50,866 J. Webb .. .. (Lib.) 25,496 Arthur G. Edwards (Lab.) 34,927 .. (Lib.) 25,463 M. Medway F. T. Cole (Lab.) 31,840 (Lib.) P. H. Billenness 24,209 J. A. Clinch (Lab.) 28,957 (Li b.) 24,104 O. C. Williams S. Sutcliffe (Lab.) 27,752 (Comm.) 4,308 R. T. Gooding R. E. J. Banks .. (Lib.) 13,445 J. W. Pinder (Comm.) 3,409 Mrs B. M. Bashford (Lib.) 12,731 BEXLEY L. G. Pine .. .. (Lib.) 10,398 Edwin Furness, B.A. .. (Lab.) 41,300 R. F. Tapsell .. (Lib.) 10,112 J. N. Powrie .. .. (Lab.) 39,079 M. Rapaport .. (Comm.) 3,498 Robin Thompson .. .. (Lab.) 37,314 S. B. Stray .. .. (Ind.) 2,998 D. M. Fielding .. (Con.) 33,958 Jesse T. E. A. Waddell (Ind.) 2,578 A. F. Cobbold .. (Con.) 33,906 R. J. F. Monk .. (Con.) 31,939 EALING R. J. Marsh ·. .. (Lib.) 7,435 Peter E. Anderson .. .. (Lab.) 50,949 R. H. A. Saunders .. (Lib.) 6,770 Christopher T. Higgins .. (Lab.) 49,655 C. E. Wright .. (Lib.) 5,991 G. F. Palmer, J.P. .. .. (Lab.) 49,304 L. H. Smith .. (Comm.) 2,929 Mrs E. W. Jones .. .. (Lab.) 49,253 .. (Con.) 45,688 BRENT Lady Henniker-Heaton Mrs M. R. Forbes, C.B.E., J. H. Ward .. .. (Con.) 43,971 (Lab.) 46,786 Mrs E. L. Prodham .. (Con.) 43,118 J.P. .. .. .. (Con.) 42,894 Peter Otwell .. (Lab.) 46,307 R. F. Tovell .. .. (Lib.) 8,649 IIItyd Harrington .. (Lab.) 46,284 H. C. N. Baylis .. (Lab.) 45,552 J. E. Elsom .. (Lib.) 8,272 Frank Towell .. .. (Lib.) Miss R. G. N. Freeman S. E. Smith 7,448 .. (Lib.) 7,299 (Mrs Taylor) .. .. (Con.) 38,500 J. A. Sullivan L. .. (Ind.) 3,311 C. H. Ansted .. (Con.) 38,221 J. McConville .. (Comm.) 3,137 H. J. C. Faulkner .. (Con.) 38,079 H. A. Tank A. A. Berney .. (Con.) 37,892 ENFIELD E. Baker ·. .. (Li b.) 11,180 Sir Graham Rowlandson, J. E. C. Perry .. (Lib.) 10,727 M.B.E., J.P., F.C.A. (Can.) 37,527 .. (Lib.) G. Phelps .. ·. 10,416 Gordon Dixon, M.A. (Can.) 37,284 M.