The size of the council was 124 councillors and 20 aldermen. The councillors were elected for electoral divisions corresponding to the parliamentary constituencies that had been created by the Representation of the People Act 1918, with two councillors for each division. Aldermen were elected by the council itself, and served for a six-year term of office. Half of the aldermen were chosen every three years at the first meeting of the newly elected council. Like the councillors, vacancies on the aldermanic bench thereafter were filled by co-option during the war.
| Electoral division | Elected
4 March 1937[1] | Party | Co-opted under the Local Elections and Register of Electors (Temporary Provisions) Act 1939 | Party | Elected
7 March 1946[2] | Party |
|---|
| City of London | Angus Newton Scott
(resigned 17 July 1941) | | Municipal Reform | Arthur Charles Bonsor (23 September 1941) | | Municipal Reform | Arthur Charles Bonsor | | Conservative |
Percy Simmons
(died 19 September 1939) | | Municipal Reform | Harold Webbe (6 February 1940) | | Municipal Reform | | | Conservative |
George Henry Wilkinson (created baronet 1941)
(resigned 23 February 1944) | | Municipal Reform | Harry Twyford (7 March 1944) | | Municipal Reform | Seymour Howard | | Conservative |
William Wilson Grantham
(died 18 February 1942) | | Municipal Reform | John Musker (21 April 1942) | | Municipal Reform | John Musker
(resigned 13 October 1947)
Angus Mackinnon
(elected unopposed 19 October 1947) | | Conservative |
| Battersea North | Francis Douglas | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Douglas Prichard | | Labour |
| Ewart Culpin | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | J. S. Wilkie
(died 23 July 1947)
Marjorie McIntosh
(elected 23 October 1947) | | Labour |
| Battersea South | Charles James Allpass | | Municipal Reform | NO CHANGE | | Municipal Reform | David Rapoport | | Labour |
| Viscount Curzon | | Municipal Reform | NO CHANGE | | Municipal Reform | Dorothy Archibald | | Labour |
| Bermondsey Rotherhithe | Albert Charles Starr | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Albert Charles Starr | | Labour |
| James Allan Gillison[3] | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | James Allan Gillison | | Labour |
| Bermondsey West | Eveline Lowe | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Reg Goodwin | | Labour |
Ada Salter
(resigned 6 October 1941) | | Labour | Leslie Davison
(resigned 14 August 1944)
Edward Snowdon
(appointed 10 October 1944) | | Labour | Edward Snowdon | | Labour |
| Bethnal Green North East | Rachel Susanna Keeling
Resigned 19 March 1941 | | Labour | Wyndham Deedes
Co-opted 29 July 1941 | | Labour | Helen Bentwich ‡ | | Labour |
| Thomas Dawson | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Ronald McKinnon Wood | | Labour |
| Bethnal Green South West | John Edward Anthony King | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Percy Harris | | Liberal |
| Reginald Stamp | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Edward Martell | | Liberal |
| Camberwell Dulwich | Frederick Charles Eaton
(died 17 October 1938)[4] Charles Pearce
(elected unopposed 24 November 1938) | | Municipal Reform | NO CHANGE | | Municipal Reform | Charles Pearce | | Conservative |
Viscount Sandon
(resigned 1940) | | Municipal Reform | Frank Griffiths Woollard
(appointed 6 February 1940) | | Municipal Reform | Frank Griffiths Woollard | | Conservative |
| Camberwell North | Charles Ammon | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Richard Samuel Griffith | | Labour |
| Cecil Manning | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Cecil Manning | | Labour |
| Camberwell North West | Frederick George Burgess | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Frederick George Burgess | | Labour |
| Freda Corbet | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Freda Corbet | | Labour |
| Camberwell Peckham | Richard Sargood | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Richard Sargood | | Labour |
| Earl Beatty | | Municipal Reform | NO CHANGE | | Municipal Reform | James Walter Frederick Lucas | | Labour |
| Chelsea | Basil Futvoye Marsden-Smedley | | Municipal Reform | NO CHANGE | | Municipal Reform | John Vaughan-Morgan | | Conservative |
| Catherine Fulford | | Municipal Reform | NO CHANGE | | Municipal Reform | Catherine Fulford | | Conservative |
| Deptford | Isaac Hayward | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Isaac Hayward | | Labour |
John Speakman
(died) | | Labour | Ernest Sherwood
(appointed 17 November 1942) | | Labour | Ernest Sherwood | | Labour |
| Finsbury | William Henry Martin | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Barbara Marian Dobb | | Labour |
| George Edward Hayes | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Chuni Lal Katial | | Labour |
| Fulham East | Paul Williams | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Joan Ash | | Labour |
| Fred Powe | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Fred Powe | | Labour |
| Fulham West | Christopher Lancaster | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Christopher Lancaster | | Labour |
| Geoffrey Weston Aplin | | Municipal Reform | NO CHANGE | | Municipal Reform | Frank Banfield | | Labour |
| Greenwich | Esther Rickards | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Harold Gibbons
(died 5 June 1948)
Johanna Gollogly
(elected at byelection 22 July 1948) | | Labour |
| Bernard Sullivan | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Bernard Sullivan | | Labour |
| Hackney Central | Bernard Homa | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Bernard Homa | | Labour |
Mary O'Brien Harris
(died 19 April 1938)
Peggy Jay
(elected at by-election 16 May 1938) | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | | | Labour |
| Hackney North | Henry Edwin Goodrich | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Max Sorsby[5] | | Labour |
| Molly Bolton | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Molly Bolton | | Labour |
| Hackney South | Alfred Baker (died 2 April 1943) | | Labour | Giles Charles Burton
(appointed 1 June 1943) | | Labour | Giles Charles Burton | | Labour |
| Charles Latham | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | William Nichols | | Labour |
| Hammersmith North | William Henry Church | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | James Bishop Bennie | | Labour |
| Thomas Henry Jones[6] | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Thomas Henry Jones | | Labour |
| Hammersmith South | Walter Clifford Northcott | | Municipal Reform | NO CHANGE | | Municipal Reform | Bill Fiske | | Labour |
| Bertie Jonathan Samels | | Municipal Reform | NO CHANGE | | Municipal Reform | Vera Dart | | Labour |
| Hampstead | Sydney Copeman
(resigned 23 July 1945) | | Municipal Reform | John Fremantle
(appointed 31 July 1945) | | Municipal Reform | John Fremantle | | Conservative |
| William Reed Hornby Steer | | Municipal Reform | NO CHANGE | | Municipal Reform | William Reed Hornby Steer | | Conservative |
| Holborn | Alfred Walter Scott | | Municipal Reform | NO CHANGE | | Municipal Reform | Alfred Walter Scott | | Conservative |
| Theodore Magnus Wechsler | | Municipal Reform | NO CHANGE | | Municipal Reform | Theodore Magnus Wechsler | | Conservative |
| Islington East | Day Kimball
(resigned 2 March 1940) | | Municipal Reform | Leslie Walker
(appointed 30 April 1940) | | Municipal Reform | Irene Chaplin | | Labour |
Ronald Storrs
(resigned 28 May 1945) | | Municipal Reform | Hugh Quennell
(appointed 19 June 1945) | | Municipal Reform | Edwin Bayliss | | Labour |
| Islington North | Eva Elizabeth Bull | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Eva Elizabeth Bull | | Labour |
| Arthur Norman Dove | | Municipal Reform | NO CHANGE | | Municipal Reform | Arthur Edward Middleton | | Labour |
| Islington South | Eric Fletcher | | Labour | Eric Fletcher | | Labour | Eric Fletcher | | Labour |
John Dugdale
(resigned 17 June 1941) | | Labour | George Leonard Parker
(appointed 1 July 1941) | | Labour | George Percival Wright | | Labour |
| Islington West | Alfred George Prichard
(died 8 December 1945: seat remained vacant)[7] | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Albert Evans | | Labour |
| George Bryant Naish | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | George Bryant Naish | | Labour |
| Kensington North | Ivan Power
(resigned 18 October 1940) | | Labour | Donald Daines
(appointed 19 November 1940) | | Labour | Leonard Foster Browne | | Labour |
| Helen Bentwich | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Eva Marian Hubback | | Labour |
| Kensington South | Robert Jenkins | | Municipal Reform | NO CHANGE | | Municipal Reform | Robert Jenkins | | Conservative |
| Angela, Countess of Limerick | | Municipal Reform | NO CHANGE | | Municipal Reform | Elizabeth Evelyn Halton
(Halton became known as Mrs. Pepler on her marriage in January 1947, and as Lady Pepler when her husband was knighted on 1 January 1948.) | | Conservative |
| Lambeth Brixton | | | Municipal Reform | NO CHANGE | | Municipal Reform | Victor Mishcon | | Labour |
| Barbara Lythgoe Hornby[8] | | Municipal Reform | NO CHANGE | | Municipal Reform | Walter Guy Robert Boys | | Labour |
| Lambeth Kennington | Charles Gibson | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Charles Gibson | | Labour |
| Amy Sayle | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Howell John Powell | | Labour |
| Lambeth North | Will Lockyer | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Will Lockyer | | Labour |
| Ada Emily Gray | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Patricia Strauss | | Labour |
| Lambeth Norwood | Joan Vickers | | Municipal Reform | NO CHANGE | | Municipal Reform | Ronald Russell | | Conservative |
| William Francis Marchant | | Municipal Reform | NO CHANGE | | Municipal Reform | Margery Thornton | | Conservative |
| Lewisham East | Walter Richard Owen | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Walter Richard Owen | | Labour |
| Earl of Listowel | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Edmund Hambly | | Labour |
| Lewisham West | Malcolm Campbell-Johnston
(died 12 March 1938)
Geoffrey Paul Hardy-Roberts
(elected unopposed 28 April 1938) | | Municipal Reform | NO CHANGE | | Municipal Reform | George Rowland Durston Bradfield | | Conservative |
Rupert Brabner
(resigned 29 January 1945) | | Municipal Reform | Henry Brooke
(appointed 20 February 1945) | | Municipal Reform | Henry A. Price | | Conservative |
| Paddington North | Eric Hall | | Municipal Reform | NO CHANGE | | Municipal Reform | George de Swiet | | Labour |
| Frank Stanley Henwood | | Municipal Reform | NO CHANGE | | Municipal Reform | Xenia Field | | Labour |
| Paddington South | Harold Kenyon | | Municipal Reform | NO CHANGE | | Municipal Reform | Norris Kenyon | | Conservative |
Henry Gray Studholme
(resigned 13 April 1945) | | Municipal Reform | Ernest Hyatt
(appointed 1 May 1945) | | Municipal Reform | Frederick Lawrence | | Conservative |
| Poplar, Bow and Bromley | Ethel Mary Lambert
(disqualified 31 July 1945) | | Labour | Edward Heslop Smith
(appointed 31 July 1945) | | Labour | Edward Heslop Smith
(elected unopposed) | | Labour |
Edward Cruse
(died 15 December 1938)
Thomas John Goodway
(elected unopposed 16 February 1939)[9] | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Lilian Maud Sadler
(elected unopposed) | | Labour |
| Poplar South | Frederick Thomas Baldock | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Frederick Thomas Baldock | | Labour |
| William Henry Guy | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | William Henry Guy | | Labour |
| St Marylebone | Frederick William Dean | | Municipal Reform | NO CHANGE | | Municipal Reform | Alfred Edward Reneson Coucher | | Conservative |
Ernest Sanger
(died 26 December 1939) | | Municipal Reform | Richard Stiles Allen
(appointed 5 March 1940) | | Municipal Reform | Eric Hall | | Conservative |
| St Pancras North | George House | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | George House | | Labour |
| Harry Smith | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Harry Smith | | Labour |
| St Pancras South East | Frank Lawrence Combes | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Frank Lawrence Combes
Died 26 September 1948
Iris Mary Caroline Bonham
Elected at byelection 18 November 1948 | | Labour |
| David C. Webster | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | David C. Webster | | Labour |
| St Pancras South West | Monica Felton | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Evelyn Denington | | Labour |
| Maurice Orbach | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Marks Ripka | | Labour |
| Shoreditch | Santo Jeger | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Dorothy Thurtle | | Labour |
| Henrietta Girling | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Henrietta Girling | | Labour |
| Southwark Central | Harry Day
(died 16 September 1939) | | Labour | Ernest George Saunders
(appointed 5 March 1940) | | Labour | Albert Gates | | Labour |
| David Arlott | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | John J. Keen | | Labour |
| Southwark North | Charles Brook
(resigned 3 March 1942) | | Labour | Thomas George Gibbings
(appointed 21 April 1942) | | Labour | Thomas George Gibbings | | Labour |
| James Hyndman MacDonnell | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | James Hyndman MacDonnell | | Labour |
| Southwark South East | George Russell Strauss | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Albert Bernard Kennedy | | Labour |
| Lewis Silkin | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Mary Ormerod | | Labour |
| Stepney, Limehouse | Richard Coppock | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Richard Coppock | | Labour |
| Monica Whately | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Louise Reeve | | Labour |
| Stepney, Mile End | Somerville Hastings | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Ted Bramley | | Communist |
| Daniel Frankel | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Jack Gaster | | Communist |
| Stepney, Whitechapel and St George's | Morry Davis
(disqualified 11 January 1945)[10] | | Labour | Richard Clements
(appointed 17 April 1945) | | Labour | Richard Clements | | Labour |
| John Richard Anthony Oldfield | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Jack Oldfield | | Labour |
| Stoke Newington | Mark Auliff | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Mark Auliff | | Labour |
| Catherine Jefferies | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Reginald Pestell | | Labour |
| Wandsworth, Balham and Tooting | Stephen Benson
(resigned 18 February 1942) | | Municipal Reform | Harold William Hayden
(appointed 10 March 1942) | | Municipal Reform | Eleanor Goodrich | | Labour |
George Doland
(resigned 4 April 1940) | | Municipal Reform | William Charles Bonney
(appointed 30 April 1940) | | Municipal Reform | Albert Samuels | | Labour |
| Wandsworth, Central | George Welsh Currie
(resigned 27 December 1939) | | Labour | John William Bowen
(appointed 5 March 1940) | | Labour | John William Bowen | | Labour |
Eleanor Joan Clara Nathan
(Lady Nathan from 1940) | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Lady Nathan | | Labour |
| Wandsworth, Clapham | Bertram Mills
(died 16 April 1938) | | Municipal Reform | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Leslie Banks | | Labour |
John Rose Battley
(elected at by-election 19 May 1938) | | Labour |
| John Leigh | | Municipal Reform | NO CHANGE | | Municipal Reform | Alfred Bransom | | Labour |
| Wandsworth, Putney | Robert Taylor | | Municipal Reform | Viscount Cranley
(appointed 5 March 1940)
Succeeded to the peerage as Earl of Onslow 9 June 1945 | | Municipal Reform | Earl of Onslow | | Municipal Reform |
Arthur Bellamy
(resigned 16 February 1940) | | Municipal Reform | Herbert Ryan
(appointed 5 March 1940) | | Municipal Reform | Herbert Ryan | | Municipal Reform |
| Wandsworth, Streatham | J. Elliott Mark | | Municipal Reform | NO CHANGE | | Municipal Reform | Frank Henry Campbell
(Died 17 November 1948: seat remained vacant)[11] | | Conservative |
Frederic Bertram Galer
(Knighted as Sir Bertram Galer 1939) | | Municipal Reform | NO CHANGE | | Municipal Reform | Bertram Galer | | Conservative |
| Westminster, Abbey | Samuel Gluckstein | | Municipal Reform | NO CHANGE | | Municipal Reform | Samuel Gluckstein | | Conservative |
| Frank Rye | | Municipal Reform | NO CHANGE | | Municipal Reform | Frank Rye | | Conservative |
| Westminster, St George's | Florence Barrie Lambert
(Dame from 1938)[12] | | Municipal Reform | NO CHANGE | | Municipal Reform | Henry Brooke | | Conservative |
| Edmund Walter Hanbury Wood | | Municipal Reform | NO CHANGE | | Municipal Reform | Anthony Kershaw | | Conservative |
| Woolwich, East | Reginald H. Pott | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Reginald H. Pott
(elected unopposed) | | Labour |
| Henry Berry | | Labour | NO CHANGE | | Labour | Henry Berry
(elected unopposed) | | Labour |
| Woolwich, West | Francis William Beech | | Municipal Reform | NO CHANGE | | Municipal Reform | Edwin Thomas Lamerton | | Labour |
James Harry Millar
(resigned 25 July 1945) | | Municipal Reform | Stanley Charles Camps Harris
(appointed 31 July 1945) | | Municipal Reform | Ethel Maud Newman | | Labour | |
‡ Previously councillor for a different division.¶ Previously an alderman.
Aldermen elected for 1934-1940 had their term of office extended until 1946; those elected for 1937-1943 had their term of office extended to 1949.[13]
| Term | Alderman | Party |
|---|
| 1934 - 1946 | George Hume | | Municipal Reform |
| 1934 - 1946; 1946 - 1950 | Emil Davies
(died 18 July 1950) | | Labour |
| 1934 - 1946[14] | Harold Webbe
(appointed a councillor February 1940) | | Municipal Reform |
| 1934 - 1946 | William Bennett
(died 4 November 1937) | | Labour |
| 1934 - 1946 | Jack Percy Blake | | Labour |
| 1934 - 1946 | George Pearce Blizard | | Labour |
| 1934 - 1946 | Henry Charleton
(resigned 17 December 1935) | | Labour |
| 1934 - 1946 | Barbara Drake | | Labour |
| 1934 - 1946 | William Kelly
(resigned 27 July 1939) | | Labour |
| 1934 - 1946; 1946 - 1952 | Charles Robertson | | Labour |
| 1935 - 1942; 1946 - 1952 | Ruth Dalton
(in place of Charleton, 11 February 1935)
(resigned 10 October 1945) | | Labour |
| 1937 - 1949[15] | Eric Ball
(resigned 25 January 1946) | | Municipal Reform |
| 1937 - 1949 | John Hare | | Municipal Reform |
| 1937 - 1949 | Edward Martin
(died 10 February 1946) | | Municipal Reform |
| 1937 - 1949 | John Martin Oakey | | Municipal Reform |
| 1937 - 1949 | Norah Runge | | Municipal Reform |
| 1937 - 1949 | Edgar John Sainsbury
(died 29 January 1949) | | Municipal Reform |
| 1937 - 1949 | Herbert Morrison
(resigned 21 November 1945)[16] | | Labour |
| 1937 - 1949 | Leah L'Estrange Malone | | Labour |
| 1937 - 1949 | John Cliff | | Labour |
| 1937 - 1949 | Mary Agnes Hamilton
(resigned 8 March 1939) | | Labour |
| 1937 - 1946[17] | John Wilmot
(in place of William Bennett, deceased) | | Labour |
| 1939 - 1949 | Ethel Maud Newman
(in place of Hamilton, 14 March 1939)
(elected as councillor 13 March 1946) | | Labour |
| 1939 - 1941 | John Thomas Scoulding
(in place of Kelly, 1 August 1939)
(resigned 29 April 1941) | | Labour |
| 1940 - 1946 | Herbert Williams
(in place of Webbe, 5 March 1940)
(resigned 20 December 1944)[18] | | Municipal Reform |
| 1941 - 1946 | Eddie Binks
(in place of Scoulding)
(29 July 1941) | | Labour |
| 1942 - 1946 | Arthur Edward Middleton
(in place of Dalton, 19 May 1942)[19] | | Labour |
| 1945 - 1946; 1946 - 1949 | Geoffrey Hutchinson
(in place of Williams, 6 February 1945)
(in place of Martin 5 March 1946) | | Municipal Reform |
| 1945 - 1946; 1946 - 1952 | Donald Daines
(in place of Wilmot, 23 October 1945) | | Labour |
| 1945 - 1947 | Lord Latham
(in place of Wilmot, 4 December 1945)
(resigned 19 November 1947) | | Labour |
| 1946 - 1949 | Florence Barrie Lambert
(in place of Ball, 5 February 1946) | | Municipal Reform |
| 1946 - 1949 | Amy Sayle
(in place of Newman, 19 March 1946) | | Labour |
| 1946 - 1952 | Florence Cayford | | Labour |
| 1946 - 1952 | Ewart Culpin
(died 1 December 1946) | | Labour |
| 1946 - 1952 | Walter Henry Green | | Labour |
| 1946 - 1952 | Somerville Hastings | | Labour |
| 1946 - 1952 | Reginald Stamp | | Labour |
| 1946 - 1952 | Tom Wheeler | | Labour |
| 1946 - 1952 | Harold Shearman
(in place of Culpin, 17 December 1946) | | Labour |
| 1947 - 1949 | Douglas Houghton
(in place of Latham, 12 December 1947) | | Labour |
| 1949 | Jack Cooper
(in place of Sainsbury, 22 February 1949) | | Labour | |
