Battersea
Former constituency for the London County Council
Former constituency
Created	1889
Abolished	1919
Member(s)	2
Replaced by	Battersea North Battersea South

Battersea was a constituency used for elections to the London County Council between 1889 and 1919. The seat shared boundaries with the UK Parliament constituency of the same name.

Councillors

Year	Name		Name
1889	John Burns	Progressive	James Tims	Progressive
1893			William Willis	Progressive
1895			William J. Davies	Progressive
1907	Arthur Shirley Benn	Municipal Reform
1910	Walter Richard Warren	Progressive
1913	Walter Richard Warren	Progressive	William J. West	Progressive

Election results

1889 London County Council election: Battersea^[1]
	Candidate	Votes
Progressive	John Burns	3,071
Progressive	James Tims	2,307
Progressive	Andrew Cameron	1,279
Radical	Robert Arthur Valpy	1,564
Independent	George Harrison	188
Vestryman	William Davies	54
Progressive win (new seat)
Progressive win (new seat)

1892 London County Council election: Battersea^[1]
	Candidate	Votes
Progressive	John Burns	5,168
Progressive	James Tims	4,470
Moderate	J. G. Taylor Whitehead	2,011
Moderate	James Innes Michin	1,780
Independent Progressive	Howarth Barnes	1,060
Progressive hold		Swing
Progressive hold		Swing

1893 Battersea by-election^[2]
	Candidate	Votes
Progressive	William Willis	2,817
Moderate	Arthur Philip Quicke	2,165
Social Democratic Federation	Harry B. Rogers	414
Independent Labour	W. F. Grey	360
Progressive hold		Swing

1895 London County Council election: Battersea^[3]
	Candidate	Votes
Progressive	William Davies	4,095
Progressive	John Burns	3,940
Moderate	A. T. Quicke	2,945
Moderate	T. Costigan	2,921
Progressive hold		Swing
Progressive hold		Swing

1898 London County Council election: Battersea^[4]
	Candidate	Votes
Progressive	William Davies	5,284
Progressive	John Burns	5,126
Moderate	Rudolph Feilding	3,715
Moderate	A. T. Quicke	3,670
Progressive hold		Swing
Progressive hold		Swing

1901 London County Council election: Battersea^[5]
	Candidate	Votes	%
Progressive	William Davies	5,951	38.6
Progressive	John Burns	5,906	38.3
Conservative	Stanley Boulter	1,829	11.9
Conservative	John Dumphreys	1,746	11.3
Progressive hold		Swing
Progressive hold		Swing

1904 London County Council election: Battersea^[6]
	Candidate	Votes
Progressive	John Burns	5,513
Progressive	William Davies	5,502
Conservative	Francis Danford Thomas	2,503
Progressive hold		Swing
Progressive hold		Swing

1907 London County Council election: Battersea^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive	William Davies	7,250
	Municipal Reform	Arthur Benn	7,217
	Municipal Reform	Edwin Evans	6,691
	Progressive	William J. West	6,669
	Independent Socialist	W. H. Humphreys	489
	Socialist (GB)	Jack Fitzgerald	98
	Socialist (GB)	H. Jansen-Neumann	42
Majority
	Municipal Reform gain from Progressive		Swing
	Progressive hold		Swing

1910 London County Council election: Battersea^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive	William Davies	7,254	26.3
	Progressive	Walter Richard Warren	7,049	25.6
	Municipal Reform	Arthur Benn	6,837	24.8
	Municipal Reform	Edwin Evans	6,441	23.4
Majority			212	0.8
	Progressive gain from Municipal Reform		Swing
	Progressive hold		Swing

1913 London County Council election: Battersea^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Walter Richard Warren	5,483	27.5	+1.9
	Progressive	William J. West	5,451	27.3	+1.0
	Municipal Reform	H. Ramsden	4,502	22.6	-2.2
	Municipal Reform	George Bettesworth Piggott	4,502	22.6	-0.8
Majority			949	4.7	+3.9
	Progressive hold		Swing	+2.0
	Progressive hold		Swing

References

^ ^a ^b "The London County Council election". The Times. 7 March 1892.
^ "The County Council election in Battersea". The Morning Post. 24 July 1893.
^ "The London County Council election". The Times. 4 March 1895.
^ "London County Council election: results of the polling". The Times. 26 February 1898.
^ "London County Council Election." Times [London, England] 4 Mar. 1901: 7. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 22 Sept. 2016.
^ "London County Council election". The Times. 7 March 1904.
^ "London County Council election: great Municipal Reform victory". The Times. 4 March 1907.
^ "London County Council Election." Times [London, England] 7 Mar. 1910: 7. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 1 May 2016.
^ London Municipal Notes, 1913

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Elections	1889 1892 1895 1898 1901 1904 1907 1910 1913 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1934 1937 1946 1949 1952 1955 1958 1961
Members	Chairmen Members 1889-1919 Members 1919-1937 Members 1937-1949 Members 1949-1965
Constituencies (1889–1919)	Battersea Bermondsey Bethnal Green North East Bethnal Green South West Bow and Bromley Brixton Camberwell North Chelsea City of London Clapham Deptford Dulwich Finsbury Central Finsbury East Fulham Greenwich Hackney Central Hackney North Hackney South Haggerston Hammersmith Hampstead Holborn Hoxton Islington East Islington North Islington South Islington West Kennington Kensington North Kensington South Lambeth North Lewisham Limehouse Marylebone East Marylebone West Mile End Newington West Norwood Paddington North Paddington South Peckham Poplar Rotherhithe St George's Hanover Square St George St Pancras East St Pancras North St Pancras South St Pancras West Southwark West Stepney Strand Walworth Wandsworth Westminster Whitechapel Woolwich
Constituencies (1919–1949)	Balham and Tooting Battersea North Battersea South Bermondsey West Bethnal Green North East Bethnal Green South West Bow and Bromley Brixton Camberwell North Camberwell North West Chelsea City of London Clapham Deptford Dulwich Finsbury Fulham East Fulham West Greenwich Hackney Central Hackney North Hackney South Hammersmith North Hammersmith South Hampstead Holborn Islington East Islington North Islington South Islington West Kennington Kensington North Kensington South Lambeth North Lewisham East Lewisham West Limehouse Mile End Norwood Paddington North Paddington South Peckham Poplar South Putney Rotherhithe St Marylebone St Pancras North St Pancras South East St Pancras South West Shoreditch Southwark Central Southwark North Southwark South East Stoke Newington Streatham Wandsworth Central Westminster Abbey Westminster St George's Whitechapel and St George's Woolwich East Woolwich West
Constituencies (1949–1964)	Barons Court (1955–1964) Battersea North Battersea South Bermondsey Bethnal Green Brixton Chelsea Cities of London and Westminster Clapham Deptford Dulwich Fulham (1955–1965) Fulham East (1949–1955) Fulham West (1949–1955) Greenwich Hackney Central (1955–1964) Hackney South (1949–1955) Hammersmith North Hammersmith South (1949–1955) Hampstead Holborn and St Pancras South Islington East Islington North Islington South West Kensington North Kensington South Lewisham North Lewisham South Lewisham West Norwood Paddington North Paddington South Peckham Poplar Putney St Marylebone St Pancras North Shoreditch and Finsbury Southwark Stepney Stoke Newington and Hackney North Streatham Vauxhall Wandsworth Central Woolwich East Woolwich West
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