Election Name: | 1906 Liverpool City Council election |
Flag Image: | Coat of arms of Liverpool City Council.svg |
Type: | parliamentary |
Previous Year: | 1905 |
Previous Election: | 1905 Liverpool City Council election |
Next Year: | 1907 |
Next Election: | 1907 Liverpool City Council election |
Seats For Election: | 34 seats were up for election (one third): one seat for each of the 34 wards |
Majority Seats: | 69 (incl. Aldermen) |
Elections to Liverpool City Council were held on 1 November 1906.
One councillor was elected for each of the thirty-four wards.A total of fourteen councillors were elected unopposed, and twenty councillors were elected in contested elections.
Fourteen of the thirty-four seats were uncontested.
The Liverpool Protestant Party lost all three of the seats that they had won in the 1903 elections.
After the election, the composition of the council was:
Party | Councillors | ± | Aldermen | Total | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
?? | ?? | ?? | 72 | ||
?? | 0 | ?? | 46 | ||
12 | +1 | 2 | 14 | ||
2 | -3 | 0 | 2 | ||
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
Socialist Party | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Comparisons are made with the 1903 election results, as the retiring councillors were elected in that year.
Caused by the death of Alderman Thomas Evans (Conservative, elected 9 November 1901).[8]
In his place, Councillor Louis Samuel Cohen (Conservative, Breckfield, elected 1 November 1905)[9] was elected by the Council as an alderman on 5 December 1906
[10] [11]The death of Alderman Joseph Ball JP (Conservative, elected as an alderman on 9 November 1901)[12] on 11 August 1907 was reported to the council on 4 September 1907.[13]
This position was filled by ???
Caused by Councillor Louis Samuel Cohen (Conservative, Breckfield, elected on 1 November 1905)[14] being elected by the Council as an alderman on5 December 1906.