User:Alekksandr/Londonderry Corporation 1926

Elections to Londonderry Borough Council were held on 15 January 1926.

Results

|- | style="background-color: #48A5EE; width: 3px;" |   | style="width: 130px;" |UUP | style="text-align:right; " | 12 | style="text-align:right; " | 0 | style="text-align:right; " | 0 | style="text-align:right; " | 0 | style="text-align:right; " | 66.7 | style="text-align:right; " | 32.2 | style="text-align:right; " | ^[1] | style="text-align:right; " | |-

|- | style="background-color: #32cd32; width: 3px;" |   | style="width: 130px;" |Nationalist | style="text-align:right; " | 8 | style="text-align:right; " | 0 | style="text-align:right; " | 0 | style="text-align:right; " | 0 | style="text-align:right; " | 33.3 | style="text-align:right; " | 33.9 | style="text-align:right; " | | style="text-align:right; " | |-

|- | style="background-color: #DC241f; width: 3px;" |   | style="width: 130px;" |NI Labour | style="text-align:right; " | 0 | style="text-align:right; " | 0 | style="text-align:right; " | 0 | style="text-align:right; " | 0 | style="text-align:right; " | 0 | style="text-align:right; " | 31.9 | style="text-align:right; " | | style="text-align:right; " | |-

|- style="background-color:#F6F6F6;" ! colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" | Registered electors | style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em" | ^[2] | style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em" | | style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em" | |-

|- style="background-color:#F6F6F6" ! colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" | Turnout | style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" | ^[3] | style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" | 69.76% | style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" | |-

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Ward results

West Ward

West Ward - results by party
2 Aldermen, 6 Councillors^[4]

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Northern Ireland Labour Party	8	0	0	0	0
	Ulster Unionist Party	0	0	0	0	100
Registered electors			[5]
Turnout			[6]	%
Total valid votes			[7]	%

West Ward
6 elected Councillors

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NI Labour	M. McMenamin	2,070
	NI Labour	P.Healy	2,060
	NI Labour	H. McGrellis	2,047
	NI Labour	H. McCormick	2,037
	NI Labour	W. Quigley	2,011
	NI Labour	Mrs M. Simms	1,894
	UUP	R. Finlay	104
Total votes
Total valid votes			[8]

South Ward

South Ward - results by party
8 Councillors^[9]

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland)	8	0	0	0	100		26,880
	Northern Ireland Labour Party	0	0	0	0	0		14,174
Registered electors			11,287[10]
Turnout			7,487[11]	66.33%
Total valid votes			7,160[12]	63.44

The 1969 report by Lord Cameron into "Disturbances in Northern Ireland" (paragraph 134) gives the total ward electorate as 11,185 rather than 11,287, and divides the 11,185 into 10,047 Catholic voters and 1,138 Other voters.

South Ward
6 Councillors
Electorate: 6,476

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nationalist	James Doherty	4,692	65.53
	Nationalist	James R. Doherty	4,552	63.58
	Nationalist	Patrick Friel	4,624	64.58
	Nationalist	Mary Harrigan	4,293	59.96
	Nationalist	Thomas McDonnell	4,282	59.80
	Nationalist	Michael Eugene O'Hare	4,437	59.80
	NI Labour	Edward J. Campbell	2,145	29.96
	NI Labour	Joseph Doherty	2,701	29.96
	NI Labour	Paul Grace	2,402	33.55
	NI Labour	Charles V. Grant	2,286	31.93
	NI Labour	Jeremiah Mallett	2,244	31.34
	NI Labour	Barry McLaughlin	2,396	33.46
Total votes			41,054

Waterside Ward

Waterside Ward
4 Councillors^[13]

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Ulster Unionist Party	4	0	0	0	100.0		8,337
	Northern Ireland Labour Party	0	0	0	0	0.0		3,261
	Independent	0	0	0	0	0.0		234
Registered electors			5,549[14]
Turnout			4,128[15]	74.39%
Total valid votes			4,101[16]	73.91%

The 1969 report by Lord Cameron into "Disturbances in Northern Ireland" (paragraph 134) divides the total ward electorate of 5,549 into 1,852 Catholic voters and 3,697 Other voters.

Waterside Ward
3 elected Councillors

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	Albert Wesley Anderson	2,740	66.81
	UUP	Leonard Hutchinson	2,834	69.11
	UUP	John T. McParland	2,763	67.37
	NI Labour	James B. Hinds	1,116	27.21
	NI Labour	John I. Hutchinson	1,057	25.77
	NI Labour	Michael T. Roddy	1,088	26.53
	Independent	Denis Colclough	234	5.71
Total votes			11,832

Notes

1.^ Voters in North and South wards could each vote for up to 6 candidates and voters in Waterside ward could vote for up to 3 candidates. As a result totals for registered electors and turnout do not bear a direct relation to votes.

2.^ Two aldermen were elected unopposed in each of the North ward and the South ward and one alderman was elected unopposed in the Waterside ward.

3.^ The Derry Journal gives 25,550 as the total of 17,198 (North ward) and 8,337 (Waterside ward).