1888 Liverpool School Board election explained

Election to the Liverpool School Board were held in November 1888.^{[1] [2]}

There were twenty-seven candidates for the fifteen Board member positions.

Each voter had fifteen votes to cast.

After the election, the composition of the school board was:

Allegiance	Members	±
	6
	4
Independent	3
	2

• - Retiring board member seeking re-election

Elected

Allegiance	Name	Votes
	M. Fitzpatrick	28,053
	C. McArdle	26,604
	J.A. Doughan	26,537
	R. Yates	25,542
	John Hand *	25,270
	W.J. Sparrow	25,291
Independent	H. Thomas	22,425
Independent	S.G. Rathbone *	21,337
		18,585
	R.B. Baron	18,188
Independent	J. Bell Cox	17,763
	James Hakes *	17,501
	D. Rycroft *	14,121
	Anne Jane Davies *	13,377
	William Oulton *	11,572

Not Elected

	T.C Ryley	9,705
	J.H. Parker	8,062
	W. Pierce	7,698
Independent	J.R. Anderson	4,918
Independent	D.S. Collin	4,432
Independent	W. A. Newcomb	4,131
Independent	H.W. Pearson	2,779
Independent	W. King	755
Independent	W. Saxton	734
Independent	B. Jones	650
Independent	C.J. Fox	452
Independent	H.S. Anthony	252

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Notes and References

1. Book: Collins, Neil . 2017 . Politics and Elections in Nineteenth-Century Liverpool . Taylor & Francis . 209-209 . 9781351910224.
2. Fidler . Geoffrey C. . 1980 . The Liverpool Labour Movement and the School Board: an Aspect of Education and the Working Class . Journal of the History of Education Society . 9 . 1 . 43-61 . 10.1080/0046760800090104.
3. [Liverpool Daily Post]