1889 United Kingdom local elections

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File:United Kingdom local elections, 1889 (England & Wales).svg
Resulting party control by county council.

Elections to the municipal and county councils of England and Wales were held in 1889. Elections to the various county councils were held in January 1889. Progressive candidates won a majority on London County Council, although at this point party labels were relatively unimportant, with municipal and county politics in Victorian Britain being somewhat detached from national politics, and national political divisions.[1] Liberal candidates would do particularly well in Wales however, winning clear majorities in 11 of Wales' 13 counties.[2] The Liberals only failed to take Brecknockshire and Radnorshire, which had hung councils.[2] In the English counties the Liberals took only Cumberland, Holland, London, and the West Riding, with most councils being run on a non-party basis.

The elections were the first following the Local Government Act 1888, which had established county councils and county borough councils in England and Wales. Prior to the act there had been no elected body at the county level, with counties being governed by justices of the peace in Quarter Sessions.[3]

A similar act - the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889 - would later establish county councils in Scotland. Irish local governance would remain unreformed until 1898, and the passing of the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898.

Results

England

English administrative counties, 1890-1965.
File:1889 London County Council election map.svg
Representation by divisions on the London County Council. Liberals held a majority.
Council Result Details
Bedfordshire style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | Independent Details
Berkshire style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | Independent Details
Buckinghamshire style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | Independent Details
Cambridgeshire style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | Independent Details
Cheshire style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | Independent Details
Cornwall style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | Independent Details
Cumberland style="width: 5px; background-color: #ffd700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" | Liberal Details
Derbyshire style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | Independent Details
Devon style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | Independent Details
Dorset style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | Independent Details
Durham style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | Independent Details
East Suffolk style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | Independent Details
East Sussex style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | Independent Details
Essex style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | Independent Details
Gloucestershire style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | Independent Details
Hampshire style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | Independent Details
Herefordshire style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | Independent Details
Hertfordshire style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | Independent Details
Holland style="width: 5px; background-color: #ffd700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" | Liberal Details
Huntingdonshire style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | Independent Details
Isle of Ely style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | Independent Details
Kent style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | Independent Details
Kesteven style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | Independent Details
Lancashire style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | Independent Details
Leicestershire style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | Independent Details
Lindsey style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | Independent Details
London style="width: 5px; background-color: #ffd700;" data-sort-value="Progressive Party (London)" | Progressive Details
Middlesex style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | Independent Details
Nottinghamshire style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control Details
East Riding style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | Independent Details
North Riding style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | Independent Details
West Riding style="width: 5px; background-color: #ffd700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" | Liberal Details
West Suffolk style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | Independent Details
West Sussex style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | Independent Details
Westmorland style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | Independent Details
Wiltshire style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | Independent Details
Worcestershire style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | Independent Details

Wales

Council Result Details
Anglesey style="width: 5px; background-color: #ffd700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" | Liberal Details
Brecknockshire style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control Details
Carnarvonshire style="width: 5px; background-color: #ffd700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" | Liberal Details
Cardiganshire style="width: 5px; background-color: #ffd700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" | Liberal Details
Carmarthenshire style="width: 5px; background-color: #ffd700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" | Liberal Details
Denbighshire style="width: 5px; background-color: #ffd700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" | Liberal Details
Flintshire style="width: 5px; background-color: #ffd700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" | Liberal Details
Glamorgan style="width: 5px; background-color: #ffd700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" | Liberal Details
Merionethshire style="width: 5px; background-color: #ffd700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" | Liberal Details
Monmouthshire style="width: 5px; background-color: #ffd700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" | Liberal Details
Montgomeryshire style="width: 5px; background-color: #ffd700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" | Liberal Details
Pembrokeshire style="width: 5px; background-color: #ffd700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" | Liberal Details
Radnorshire style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control Details

See also

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