Chelsea | |
Parl Name: | London County Council |
Members: | 2 (to 1949) 3 (from 1949) |
Chelsea was a constituency used for elections to the London County Council between 1889 and the council's abolition, in 1965. The seat shared boundaries with the UK Parliament constituency of the same name.
Year | Name | Party | Name | Party | Name | Party | |||
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1889 | William Æneas Smith | Progressive | George William Osborn | Two seats until 1949 | |||||
1892 | Frank Costelloe | Progressive | |||||||
1893 | Edmund Turton | ||||||||
1895 | George Cadogan | ||||||||
1895 | Cecil Chapman | ||||||||
1898 | Emslie Horniman | James Jeffery | |||||||
1907 | Thomas Clarence Edward Goff | Ronald Collet Norman | Municipal Reform | ||||||
1910 | Ernest Louis Meinertzhagen | Municipal Reform | |||||||
1922 | William Sidney | Municipal Reform | |||||||
1933 | Basil Futvoye Marsden-Smedley | Municipal Reform | |||||||
1934 | Catherine Fulford | Conservative | |||||||
1946 | John Vaughan-Morgan | Conservative | |||||||
1949 | Alexander Lloyd | ||||||||
1952 | Marion Bennett | Conservative | Roderick Edwards | Geoffrey Rippon | Conservative | ||||
1958 | Stuart Townend | Conservative | |||||||
1961 | John Elliott Brooks | Percy Rugg |
In 1898, Horniman and Chapman tied on 3,675 votes after the initial count. A recount reduced Chapman's vote total by two, so Horniman was elected.[1] [2]