1928 Southwark Borough election

Elections to the Metropolitan Borough of Southwark were held in 1928.

The borough had ten wards which returned between 3 and 9 members.

Election summary

At the previous elections in 1925 the Ratepayers Association won 44 seats to the Labour Party's 16. The Ratepayers Association was the name adopted for an anti-Labour Party electoral alliance. By 1928 this electoral alliance had ended in two of the ten of wards. In other wards, candidates reverted to running either as Liberals (Progressives) or Municipal Reform (Conservatives).

Southwark Borough Election Result 1928^[1]
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes
Labour	18	3	1	+2	30.0	10,728	45.6
Liberal	17	17	0	+17	28.3	5,802	24.7
Municipal Reform	13	13	0	+13	21.7	3,596	15.3
Ratepayers	12	0	32	-32	20.0	2,990	12.7
Unemployed Workers	0	0	0	0	0.0	301	1.3
Independent Progressive	0	0	0	0	0.0	105	0.4

Election result

No. 1 St Michael's^[2]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Liberal	Henry Arthur Dalton	1,385	51.4	−1.6
Liberal	F G Niblett *	1,295
Liberal	Miss Catherine M Green	1,288
Liberal	Peter William Wallace	1,263
Liberal	Frank Thomas Maish	1,227
Liberal	J G Wood	1,223
Labour	W Cuss	1,075	39.9	−7.1
Labour	K Day	1,062
Labour	W O'Brien	1,056
Labour	J Ammond	1,037
Labour	C McGovern	1,034
Labour	J Read	985
Unemployed Workers	E Rothery	236	8.8	n/a
Unemployed Workers	W Southwell	178
Unemployed Workers	W Cameron	170
Unemployed Workers	B Ball	150
Unemployed Workers	J Dean	125
Unemployed Workers	A Peck	100

Liberal gain 5 from Ratepayers and 1 from Labour

No. 2 St Jude's^[3]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Liberal	B. Rowe	831	50.2
Liberal	Frederick Charles Rowe
Liberal	W. Myers
Labour	T. Cullen		43.4
Labour	P. Gallagher
Labour	H. Gidden
Independent Progressive	A. Bennett		6.3	n/a

Liberal gain 3 from Ratepayers

No. 3 St George's^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour			73.7
	Labour
	Labour
	Labour
	Labour
	Labour
	Municipal Reform			26.3
	Municipal Reform
	Municipal Reform
	Municipal Reform
	Municipal Reform
	Municipal Reform

No Change

No. 4 Christchurch^[5]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Municipal Reform	M. Rushen	489	49.6
Liberal	F. Martin	487
Municipal Reform	A. Evans
Municipal Reform	S. Cole
Municipal Reform	J. Moyle
Liberal	H. Brockman	453
Labour	Leonard James Styles	431	43.8
Labour
Labour
Labour
Labour
Labour
Unemployed Workers	J. Brown	65	6.6	n/a
Unemployed Workers
Unemployed Workers
Unemployed Workers
Unemployed Workers
Unemployed Workers

Municipal Reform gain 4 and Liberals 2 from Ratepayers

No. 5 St Saviour^[6]
	Votes	%
Municipal Reform	792	63.6
Municipal Reform
Municipal Reform
Municipal Reform
Municipal Reform
Municipal Reform
Municipal Reform
Municipal Reform
Municipal Reform
Labour	453	36.4
Labour
Labour
Labour
Labour
Labour
Labour
Labour
Labour

Municipal Reform gain 9 from Ratepayers

No. 6 St Mary's^[7]
	Candidate	Votes	%
Liberal	P. McCarthy	1,734	54.1
Ratepayers
Ratepayers
Ratepayers
Ratepayers
Ratepayers
Labour		1,474	45.9
Labour
Labour
Labour
Labour	Albert Joseph Gates
Labour

Liberal gain 1 from Ratepayers

No. 7 St Paul's^[8]
	Candidate	Votes	%
Liberal	William Westcott	1,928
Liberal	L. Want
Liberal	A. Bodenham
Liberal	F. Dupree
Liberal	D. Shadbolt
Liberal	T. Willers
Labour		857	30.8
Labour
Labour
Labour
Labour
Labour

Liberal gain 6 from Ratepayers

No. 8 St Peter's^[9]
	Candidate	Votes	%
Labour	H. Aldridge	1,974	58.5
Labour
Labour
Labour
Labour
Labour		1,909
Liberal	W. Bremer	738	21.9
Liberal
Municipal Reform	E. Gledhill	661	19.6
Liberal
Liberal
Municipal Reform
Municipal Reform
Municipal Reform
Liberal
Municipal Reform
Liberal
Municipal Reform

Labour gain 3 from Ratepayers

No. 9 St John's^[10]
	Candidate	Votes	%
Labour	Harry Hinkins	1,679	64.5
Labour
Labour
Labour
Labour
Labour
Municipal Reform	H. Russell	491	18.9
Municipal Reform
Municipal Reform
Municipal Reform
Municipal Reform
Municipal Reform		436
Liberal	H. Betts	433	16.6
Liberal
Liberal
Liberal
Liberal
Liberal

No Change

No. 10 Trinity^[11]
	Candidate	Votes	%
Ratepayers	C. Fordham	1,256	58.4
Ratepayers	J. Davies
Ratepayers	William Frederick Castle
Ratepayers	Peter Milne Middleton
Ratepayers	J. Witham
Ratepayers	B. Calvert
Labour	P. Daly	893	41.6
Labour	F. Foot
Labour	A. Saunders
Labour	W. Jones
Labour	C. Wagner
Labour	J. Yates

No Change

Notes

References

^ Willis, Alan; Woollard, John (2000). Twentieth Century Local Election Results Volume 1: Election Results For the London County Council (1889-1961) and London Metropolitan Boroughs (1900–1928). Plymouth: Local Government Chronicle Elections Centre.
^ The Municipal Year Book and Public Services Directory
^ The Municipal Year Book and Public Services Directory
^ The Municipal Year Book and Public Services Directory
^ The Municipal Year Book and Public Services Directory
^ The Municipal Year Book and Public Services Directory
^ The Municipal Year Book and Public Services Directory
^ The Municipal Year Book and Public Services Directory
^ The Municipal Year Book and Public Services Directory
^ The Municipal Year Book and Public Services Directory
^ The Municipal Year Book and Public Services Directory

Preceded by 1925 Southwark Borough election	Southwark local elections	Succeeded by 1931 Southwark Borough election

[1] Willis, Alan; Woollard, John (2000). Twentieth Century Local Election Results Volume 1: Election Results For the London County Council (1889-1961) and London Metropolitan Boroughs (1900–1928). Plymouth: Local Government Chronicle Elections Centre.

[2] The Municipal Year Book and Public Services Directory

[3] The Municipal Year Book and Public Services Directory

[4] The Municipal Year Book and Public Services Directory

[5] The Municipal Year Book and Public Services Directory

[6] The Municipal Year Book and Public Services Directory

[7] The Municipal Year Book and Public Services Directory

[8] The Municipal Year Book and Public Services Directory

[9] The Municipal Year Book and Public Services Directory

[10] The Municipal Year Book and Public Services Directory

[11] The Municipal Year Book and Public Services Directory

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