1928 Bethnal Green Borough election

Elections to Bethnal Green Council were held on 1 November 1928. All the council seats were up for election. The term of office for each Councillor being three years.

Background

Following the decision of the Labour Party to expel Communist Party members from their party, in Bethnal Green, a number of their council group were expelled, including leading figure Cllr. Joseph James Vaughan. The Communist Party responded by fielding a full slate of candidates in opposition to Labour Party candidates. Bethnal Green Liberals decided to end their nominal Progressive alliance with the Municipal Reform Party and stand candidates for the first time under the Liberal Party label.

Summary

In the previous elections in 1925, the Labour Party had won 17 of the 30 council seats, giving it a majority of Councillors. In 1928 the Liberal Party swept the board winning all 30 council seats.

Bethnal Green Borough Election Result 1928^[1]
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes
Liberal	30	18	0	+18	100.0	52.4	8,059
Labour	0	0	14	-14	0.0	30.9	4,750
Communist	0	0	3	-3	0.0	9.4	1,441
Municipal Reform	0	0	1	-1	0.0	7.4	1,137

Changes in seats from dissolution

Election result

* - Councillor seeking re-election

Comparisons are made with the 1925 election results.

East

No. 2 East
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Liberal	Garnham Edmonds *	3,777	53.4	+4.9
Liberal	Charles Bennett *	3,664
Liberal	Wesley Clark Chandler *	3,580
Liberal	Arthur Charles Rawles	3,530
Liberal	A T J Brooks	3,484
Liberal	John Robert Davy	3,454
Liberal	Alice Eleanor Davy	3,431
Liberal	J Clark	3,424
Liberal	Rowland Larkins	3,403
Labour	C Adams	2,180	30.8	−13.0
Labour	H E Adams *	2,176
Labour	C Agombar	2,160
Labour	J J W Bradley *	2,157
Labour	Thomas Joseph Boyce	2,144
Labour	A Bean	2,086
Labour	F Jeffcote	2,035
Labour	C Hoskins	1,972
Labour	H Wilson	1,934
Municipal Reform	William Shadforth *	680	9.6
Municipal Reform	F Allen	583
Municipal Reform	S Broadway	537
Municipal Reform	J Dunn	502
Municipal Reform	M Cunnington	476
Municipal Reform	W Wells	464
Municipal Reform	F Read	443
Communist	G Buckmaster *	437	6.2
Municipal Reform	M Sutherland	430
Municipal Reform	B Treadgold	416
Communist	M Elsbury	376
Communist	J Clements	324
Communist	M Greenberg	306
Communist	I Goldman	295
Communist	C White	292
Communist	J Fedor	291
Communist	B Tobin	291
Communist	M Green	286

Liberal gain 2 from Labour and 1 from Municipal Reform

North

No. 1 North
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Liberal	Richard Edward Pearson	1,704	56.0	+22.2
Liberal	H A Bacon	1,698
Liberal	Stanley Brown	1,674
Liberal	C Calnan	1,658
Liberal	Kate Eleanor Rawles	1,629
Liberal	R Cohen	1,563
Labour	Daniel George Alabaster *	1,153	37.9	−13.5
Labour	A G Clark *	1,121
Labour	Charles William Hovell	1,095
Labour	J Ough	1,093
Labour	A Jenkins	1,085
Labour	L Goldstein *	1,076
Communist	G Buckmaster *	184
Communist	H Buck	164
Communist	R Wren	135
Communist	M McAllister	132
Communist	J King	126
Communist	E Lonsinger	101

Liberal gain 5 from Labour and 1 from Communist

South

No. 3 South
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Liberal	Michael Richard Seymour	1,464	46.0	+2.1
Liberal	William Groome	1,404
Liberal	Mary Eleanor Elizabeth James	1,397
Liberal	Sydney Lancaster Sarel	1,324
Liberal	H J Ranson	1,296
Liberal	William H Jones	1,279
Liberal	L Haltrecht	1,223
Liberal	Alfred W Holloway	1,213
Liberal	William Charles McBeth	1,188
Labour	W H Bryant	908	28.6	−16.7
Labour	Charles William Hovell	878
Labour	R Field	876
Labour	J Hercock	872
Labour	Allan Edward McAuliffe	860
Labour	F Wilson	830
Labour	G Prosser	825
Labour	J Taylor	806
Labour	H Smith	803
Communist	Sam Elsbury *	522	16.4
Communist	Rebecca Elsbury *	513
Communist	J King	464
Communist	H Buck	423
Communist	I Greenberg	414
Communist	J Clements	408
Communist	S Lyons	401
Communist	R Wren	398
Communist	S Lazarus	386
Municipal Reform	F Barns	288	9.1
Municipal Reform	R George	272
Municipal Reform	W Doidge	264
Municipal Reform	F Webb	260

Liberal gain 3 from Labour and 3 from Communist

West

No. 4 West
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Liberal	J Harris	1,114	53.3	−7.5
Liberal	Tom Brooks *	1,107
Liberal	Lydia Dorothea Benoly *	1,105
Liberal	George Bayley *	1,033
Liberal	Albert J Sharman	1,002
Liberal	Tom Peter Spring	912
Labour	W Bailey	509	24.4	−14.8
Labour	Daniel George Alabaster *	481
Labour	J Robinson	411
Labour	H Peaston	380
Labour	G Hunt	360
Labour	S Tate	358
Communist	Sam Elsbury *	298	14.3
Communist	E Applebaum	285
Communist	S Bergman	241
Communist	A Cohen	239
Communist	J Cohen	222
Communist	I Sulkin	207
Municipal Reform	J Wilson	169	8.1
Municipal Reform	E Watts	161
Municipal Reform	F Gottlieb	157
Municipal Reform	M Kornfield	153

Liberal hold 6

Aldermanic Elections

References

^ Willis, Alan; Woollard, John (2000). Twentieth Century Local Election Results Volume 1: Election Results For the London County Council (1889-1961) and London Metropolitan Boroughs (1900–1928). Plymouth: Local Government Chronicle Elections Centre.

Preceded by 1925 Bethnal Green Borough election	Bethnal Green local elections	Succeeded by 1931 Bethnal Green Borough election

[1] Willis, Alan; Woollard, John (2000). Twentieth Century Local Election Results Volume 1: Election Results For the London County Council (1889-1961) and London Metropolitan Boroughs (1900–1928). Plymouth: Local Government Chronicle Elections Centre.

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