1955 Liverpool City Council election


Elections to Liverpool City Council were held on Thursday 12 May 1955. After the election, the composition of the council was:

Election result

Ward results

* - Councillor seeking re-election
- Party of former Councillor
The Councillors seeking re-election at this election were elected in the 'all-up' election in 1953 for a two-year term. Therefore, comparisons are made with the 1953 election results.

Abercromby

Aigburth

Allerton

Anfield

Arundel

Breckfield

Broadgreen

Central

Childwall

Church

Clubmoor

County

Croxteth

Dingle

Dovecot

Everton

Fairfield

Fazakerley

Gillmoss

Granby

Kensington

Low Hill

Melrose

Netherfield

Old Swan

Picton

Pirrie

Prince's Park

Sandhills

St. Domingo

St. James

St. Mary's

St. Michael's

Smithdown

Speke

Tuebrook

Vauxhall

Warbreck

Westminster

Woolton

Aldermanic elections

At the meeting of the City Council on 23 May 1955 the terms of office of twenty of the forty Aldermen expired and the Councillors elected twenty Aldermen to fill the vacant positions for a term of six years. Fifteen Conservative, one Independent, and two Liberal Aldermen were replaced by eighteen Labour Aldermen, allowing Labour to take control of the council for the first time.

By-elections

Low Hill

By-election caused by the election of John Mathew Taylor as Alderman.

Abercromby

By-election caused by the election of Harry Livermore as Alderman.

Central

By-election caused by the election of Bessie Braddock as Alderman.

Granby

By-election caused by the election of Elizabeth Trainor as Alderman.

St. James

By-election caused by the election of Hugh Carr and William George Ingham as Aldermen.

Speke

By-election caused by the election of Alexander Hardman as Alderman.

Westminster

By-election caused by the election of John Hamilton as Alderman.

Everton

By-election caused by the election of John Leslie Hughes and David Nickson as Aldermen.

Sandhills

By-election caused by the election of Peter McKernan, Henry Aldritt and Stanley Part as Aldermen.

Vauxhall

By-election caused by the election of Joseph Cyril Brady as Alderman.

Dingle

By-election caused by the election of Frank Hampton Cain as Alderman.

Pirrie

By-election caused by the election of Joseph Morgan as Alderman.

Picton

By-election caused by the election of Charles James Minton as Alderman.

Dovecot

By-election caused by the election of Abraham Louis Caplan as Alderman.

Church by-election 27 October 1955

Alderman Mabel Fletcher M.A. Died on 2 December 1955.
Cllr. Peter James O'Hare was elected by the Councillors as an Alderman on 4 January 1956 and assigned as the Returning Officer for the County ward.