The 1964 Havering Council election took place on 7 May 1964 to elect members of

Havering London Borough Council Havering London Borough Council, also known as Havering Council, is the local authority for the London Borough of Havering in Greater London, England. It is a London boroughs#London borough councils, London borough council, one of 32 in London. T ...

London London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Wester ...

, England. The whole council was up for election and the council went into no overall control.

Background

These elections were the first to the newly formed borough. Previously elections had taken place in the

Municipal Borough of Romford Romford was a local government district in southwest Essex from 1851 to 1965 around the town of Romford.Vision of Britain Romford UD/MB

and

Hornchurch Urban District Hornchurch was a local government district in southwest Essex from 1926 to 1965, formed as an Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland), urban district for the civil parish of Hornchurch. It was greatly expanded in 1934 with the addition of Cran ...

. The borough and urban district was joined to form the new London Borough of Havering by the

London Government Act 1963 The London Government Act 1963 (c. 33) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which created Greater London and a new local government structure within it. The Act significantly reduced the number of local government districts in the ...

. A total of 146 candidates stood in the election for the 55 seats being contested across 20 wards. These included a full slate from the Labour party, while the Conservative and Liberal parties stood 44 and 19 respectively. Other candidates included 24 Independents and 4 Communists. There were 15 three-seat wards and 5 two-seat wards. The council was elected in 1964 as a "shadow authority" but did not start operations until 1 April 1965.

Results

General election of councillors

The results saw no party gain overall control of the new council with Labour winning 27 and the Conservatives winning 16 of the 55 seats. Overall turnout in the election was 40.9%. This turnout included 713

postal votes Postal voting is voting in an election where ballot papers are distributed to electors (and typically returned) by post, in contrast to electors voting in person at a polling station or electronically via an electronic voting system. In an ele ...

Aldermanic election

In addition to the 55 councillors, there were nine

aldermen An alderman is a member of a municipal assembly or council in many jurisdictions founded upon English law with similar officials existing in the Netherlands (wethouder) and Belgium (schepen). The term may be titular, denoting a high-ranking membe ...

elected by the council. The four aldermen with the least votes were elected to serve until 1967 (subsequently extended to 1968) and the other five until 1970 (subsequently extended to 1971). Aldermen elected in 1964, to retire in 1967: Aldermen elected in 1964, to retire in 1970: The aldermen divided four to Labour, three to the Conservatives and two Independents.

Ward results

The results for each electoral ward were as follows:

Bedfords

Central

Collier Row

Cranham

Elm Park

Emerson Park

Gidea Park

Gooshays

Hacton

Harold Wood

Heath Park

Heaton

Hilldene

Hylands

Mawney

Oldchurch

Rainham

St Andrew's

South Hornchurch

Upminster

Notes

References

{{United Kingdom local elections, 1964

1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 – In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patria ...

1964 London Borough council elections