United Kingdom local elections, 1889

English administrative counties, 1890-1965.

Elections to the municipal and county councils of England and Wales were held in 1889. Elections to the various county councils were held in January 1889. Progressive candidates won a majority on London County Council, although at this point party labels were relatively unimportant, with municipal and county politics in Victorian Britain being somewhat detached from national politics, and national political divisions.^[1] Liberal candidates would do particularly well in Wales however, winning clear majorities in 11 of Wales' 13 counties.^[2] The Liberals only failed to take Brecknockshire and Radnorshire, which had hung councils.^[2] In the English counties the Liberals took only Cumberland, Holland, London, and the West Riding, with most councils being run on an apolitical basis.

The elections were the first following the Local Government Act 1888, which had established county councils and county borough councils in England and Wales. Prior to the act there had been no elected body at the county level, with counties being governed by justices of the peace in Quarter Sessions.^[3]

A similar act - the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889 - would later establish county councils in Scotland. Irish local governance would remain unreformed until 1898, and the passing of the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898.

Results

England

Council		Details
Bedfordshire	Independent	Details
Berkshire	Independent	Details
Buckinghamshire	Independent	Details
Cambridgeshire	Independent	Details
Cheshire	Independent	Details
Cornwall	Independent	Details
Cumberland	Liberal	Details
Derbyshire	Independent	Details
Devon	Independent	Details
Dorset	Independent	Details
Durham	Independent	Details
East Suffolk	Independent	Details
East Sussex	Independent	Details
Essex	Independent	Details
Gloucestershire	Independent	Details
Hampshire	Independent	Details
Herefordshire	Independent	Details
Hertfordshire	Independent	Details
Holland	Liberal	Details
Huntingdonshire	Independent	Details
Isle of Ely	Independent	Details
Kent	Independent	Details
Kesteven	Independent	Details
Lancashire	Independent	Details
Leicestershire	Independent	Details
Lindsey	Independent	Details
London	Progressive	Details
Middlesex	Independent	Details
Nottinghamshire	No overall control	Details
East Riding	Independent	Details
North Riding	Independent	Details
West Riding	Liberal	Details
West Suffolk	Independent	Details
West Sussex	Independent	Details
Westmorland	Independent	Details
Wiltshire	Independent	Details
Worcestershire	Independent	Details

Wales

Council		Details
Anglesey	Liberal	Details
Brecknockshire	No overall control	Details
Carnarvonshire	Liberal	Details
Cardiganshire	Liberal	Details
Carmarthenshire	Liberal	Details
Denbighshire	Liberal	Details
Flintshire	Liberal	Details
Glamorgan	Liberal	Details
Merionethshire	Liberal	Details
Monmouthshire	Liberal	Details
Montgomeryshire	Liberal	Details
Pembrokeshire	Liberal	Details
Radnorshire	No overall control	Details

References

Elections and referendums in the United Kingdom

General elections	1801 co-option 1802 1806 1807 1812 1818 1820 1826 1830 1831 1832 1835 1837 1841 1847 1852 1857 1859 1865 1868 1874 1880 1885 1886 1892 1895 1900 1906 1910 (Jan) 1910 (Dec) 1918 1922 1923 1924 1929 1931 1935 1945 1950 1951 1955 1959 1964 1966 1970 1974 (Feb) 1974 (Oct) 1979 1983 1987 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 2015 Next

Local elections	1889 1890 1892 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

European elections	1979 1984 1989 1994 1999 2004 2009 2014 2019

Referendums	1975 2011 2016

Elections and referendums in England (1264–1705) Scotland (Pre-1707) Great Britain (1708–1796) Ireland Northern Ireland Scotland Wales

(1888 ←) United Kingdom local elections, 1889 (→ 1890)

Administrative county councils (England)	Bedfordshire Berkshire Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cheshire Cornwall Cumberland Derbyshire Devon Dorset Durham East Riding East Suffolk East Sussex Essex Gloucestershire Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Holland Huntingdonshire Isle of Ely Kent Kesteven Lancashire Leicestershire Lindsey London Middlesex Norfolk North Riding Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Rutland Shropshire Soke of Peterborough Somerset Staffordshire Surrey Warwickshire West Riding West Suffolk West Sussex Westmorland Wiltshire Worcestershire

Administrative county councils (Wales)	Anglesey Brecknockshire Carnarvonshire Cardiganshire Carmarthenshire Denbighshire Flintshire Glamorganshire Merionethshire Monmouthshire Montgomeryshire Pembrokeshire Radnorshire

County boroughs (England)	Barrow-in-Furness Bath Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bootle Bradford Brighton Bristol Burnley Bury Canterbury Chester Coventry Croydon Derby Devonport Dudley Exeter Gateshead Gloucester Great Yarmouth Halifax Hanley Hastings Huddersfield Ipswich Kingston upon Hull Leeds Leicester Lincoln Liverpool Manchester Middlesbrough Newcastle upon Tyne Northampton Norwich Nottingham Oldham Oxford Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Rochdale Salford Sheffield South Shields Southampton St Helens Stockport Sunderland Walsall West Bromwich West Ham Wigan Wolverhampton Worcester York

County boroughs (Wales)	Cardiff Swansea

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United Kingdom local elections, 1889

Results

England

Wales

See also

References