Cities of London and Westminster (London County Council constituency)

Cities of London and Westminster was a constituency used for elections to the London County Council between 1949 and the council's abolition, in 1965. The seat shared boundaries with the UK Parliament constituency of the same name.

Cities of London and Westminster
Former constituency for the London County Council
Former constituency
Created	1949
Abolished	1965
Member(s)	3

Councillors

Year	Name	Party		Name	Party		Name	Party
1949	Henry Brooke		Conservative	Denys Lowson		Conservative	Samuel Isidore Salmon		Conservative
1952				Ralph Perring		Conservative
1955	John Chapman-Walker		Conservative	Hubert Pitman		Conservative
1958	Victor Goodhew		Conservative	James Miller		Conservative
1961	Alison M. Tennant		Conservative

Election results

1949 London County Council election: Cities of London and Westminster^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Henry Brooke	25,300
	Conservative	Denys Lowson	24,948
	Conservative	Samuel Isidore Salmon	24,680
	Labour	B. Hamilton	4,886
	Labour	J. J. Curran	4,844
	Labour	D. Clark	4,828

1952 London County Council election: Cities of London and Westminster^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Henry Brooke	22,674
	Conservative	Ralph Perring	21,987
	Conservative	Samuel Isidore Salmon	21,817
	Labour	B. Hamilton	6,157
	Labour	E. Havers	6,013
	Labour	C. Benjafield	5,751
	Conservative hold		Swing

1955 London County Council election: Cities of London and Westminster^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Hubert Pitman	17,100
	Conservative	John Chapman-Walker	17,052
	Conservative	Samuel Isidore Salmon	16,883
	Labour	P. H. F. Johnson	3,697
	Labour	J. M. Raynor	3,510
	Labour	R. T. Robinson	3,403
	Conservative hold		Swing

1958 London County Council election: Cities of London and Westminster^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Victor Goodhew	14,812
	Conservative	James Miller	14,703
	Conservative	Samuel Isidore Salmon	14,636
	Labour	D. A. J. Smith	4,919
	Labour	H. G. Garside	4,890
	Labour	R. Welan	4,776
	Conservative hold		Swing

1961 London County Council election: Cities of London and Westminster^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Miller	15,246
	Conservative	Alison M. Tennant	15,206
	Conservative	Samuel Isidore Salmon	15,130
	Labour	A. C. Miles	4,920
	Labour	K. V. Taylor	4,862
	Labour	W. H. Wheeler	4,840
	Liberal	Timothy Beaumont	2,308
	Liberal	Jeremy Mostyn	2,252
	Liberal	Manuela Sykes	2,242
	Conservative hold		Swing

References

1. "LCC Polling". The Times. 9 April 1949.
2. "London County Council: Election results". The Times. 5 April 1952.
3. "LCC results: Conservatives make headway". The Times. 25 April 1955.
4. "Complete results of London County Council elections". The Times. 18 April 1958.
5. "No change in last LCC results". The Times. 15 April 1961.