The fourth set of elections to Kesteven County Council were held in March 1898. Kesteven was one of three divisions of the historic county of Lincolnshire in England; it consisted of the ancient wapentakes (or hundreds) of Aswardhurn, Aveland, Beltisloe, Boothby Graffoe, Flaxwell, Langoe, Loveden, Ness, and Winnibriggs and Threo.[1] The Local Government Act 1888 established Kesteven as an administrative county, governed by a Council;[2] elections were held every three years from 1889, until it was abolished by the Local Government Act 1972, which established Lincolnshire County Council in its place.[3][4]
Forty-eight electoral divisions of the new Council were outlined in December 1888.[5] Nearly every candidate was returned unopposed, with contests in only three divisions.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Avery | NA | NA |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Charles G. E. Welby JP | NA | NA |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Charles C. Curtis | NA | NA |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Hutchinson | NA | NA |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Edward Smith | NA | NA |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Creasey | NA | NA |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | James Measures |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Hugh Jackson | NA | NA |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | W. S. Fox | NA | NA |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Thomas Williamson | NA | NA |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
William Oxley | NA | NA |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | George Nevile | NA | NA |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Eli Crabtree | NA | NA |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Conyers Chapman | 218 | |||
Conservative | Henry Minta | 81 | |||
Turnout | 299 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Holland | NA | NA |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
William Bailey | NA | NA |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
James Perkins Coultas | NA | NA |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Arthur Hutchinson | NA | NA |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rev. George Benson Bowler | NA |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
William Long Wand | NA | NA |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
John William Martin | NA | NA |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Joshua Lincoln | NA | NA |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Thomas Newton | NA | NA |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Daniel G. Harris | NA | NA |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Samuel Oglesby | NA | NA |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | James S. Barber | NA | NA |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | The Earl of Winchelsea | NA | NA |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John H. Copping | NA | NA |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | E. G. Allen | NA | NA |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | John T. Swift | NA | NA |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Andrew Campbell | NA | NA |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William A. Cragg | NA | NA |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Robert C. Newton | NA | NA |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Arthur Wellesley Dean | 214 | |||
Liberal | William Bacon | 153 | |||
Turnout | 367 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | J. Cecil Rudkin | NA | NA |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Samuel F. Pattinson | NA | NA |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Captain George E. Jarvis | NA | NA |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Nickolls[nb 1] | NA | NA |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | William B. Harris | NA | NA |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Charles Chapman | 268 | ||||
J. Woolston | 239 | ||||
Turnout | 507 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
J. S. Loweth | NA | NA |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Major Hart | NA | NA |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
G. Higgs | NA | NA |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Robert Peasgood | NA | NA |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | The Lord Kesteven | NA | NA |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Colonel R. G. Ellison | NA | NA |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Robert N. Moreley | NA | NA |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Richard M. Cole | NA | NA |