Westminster
Former constituency for the London County Council
Former constituency
Created	1889
Abolished	1919
Member(s)	2
Replaced by	Westminster Abbey and Westminster St George's

Westminster 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	Walter Eugene de Souza	Moderate	Vernon James Watney	Moderate
1892			Henry Fox-Strangways	Moderate
1895			Lionel Holland	Moderate
1897	Louis Henry Hayter	Moderate	Lionel Holland	Moderate
1898	Louis Henry Hayter	Moderate	Reginald White Granville-Smith	Moderate
1904	Clement Young Sturge	Municipal Reform	Reginald White Granville-Smith	Moderate
1907			William Peel	Municipal Reform
1910			Reginald White Granville-Smith	Municipal Reform
1911	Percy Gates	Municipal Reform	Reginald White Granville-Smith	Municipal Reform

Election results

1898 London County Council election: Westminster^[1]
	Candidate	Votes
Moderate	Louis Henry Hayter	2,212
Moderate	Reginald White Granville-Smith	2,190
Progressive	T. Bremner	789
Moderate hold		Swing

1901 London County Council election: Westminster^[2]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Conservative	Louis Henry Hayter	1,509	35.3	-7.3
Conservative	Reginald White Granville-Smith	1,485	34.7	-7.5
Progressive	Charles Langstein Heywood	883	20.7	+5.5
Temperance	John George Chappell	399	9.3	n/a
Conservative hold		Swing
Conservative hold		Swing	-6.5

1904 London County Council election: Westminster^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Reginald White Granville-Smith	2,006
	Conservative	Clement Young Sturge	1,935
	Labour	Charles Langstein Heywood	1,192
	Labour	Charles Duncan	1,169
Majority
	Conservative hold		Swing

1907 London County Council election: Westminster^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Municipal Reform	William Peel	3,419
	Municipal Reform	Clement Young Sturge	3,392
	Progressive	W. B. Campbell	1,299
	Progressive	E. Herrin	1,298
Majority
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

1910 London County Council election: Westminster^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Municipal Reform	Reginald White Granville-Smith	2,907
	Municipal Reform	Clement Young Sturge	2,828
	Progressive	William Wheeler	1,018
	Progressive	Charles Langstein Heywood	1,014
Majority
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

1913 London County Council election: Westminster^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Municipal Reform	Reginald White Granville-Smith	3,310
	Municipal Reform	Percy George Gates	3,228
	Progressive	Mabel St Clair Stobart	1,199
	Progressive	Lionel Gurney Buxton	1,168
Majority
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

References

^ "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

v t e London County Council
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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