1919 Edinburgh Corporation election

An Election to the Edinburgh Corporation was held on 3 November 1919, alongside municipal elections across Scotland.[1]

Aggregate results

Edinburgh Corporation election, 1919[1]
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Votes
Liberal	7
Unionist	5
Labour	1
EWCA	1	1	0	1	2,396
Independent	0
B.S.I.S.L.P.	0

Ward Results

Canongate

Canongate[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Unionist	R. Bathgate*	2,338
	Liberal	Peter Harvey Allan	1,638
	Labour	J. Campbell	1509
	Liberal	J. Stewart	1334
	Independent Socialist	G. Milne	155
Majority
Turnout				40.3
	Unionist hold		Swing
	Liberal hold		Swing

Merchiston

Merchiston[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	EWCA	Mrs Euphemia Somerville	2396
	Unionist	A. B. Stewart	1241
Majority			1155
Turnout				31.2
	WCA gain from

References

"RESULTS OF MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS: Edinburgh". The Glasgow Herald. 4 November 1919. p. 24.
Edinburgh Evening News - Wednesday 05 November 1919

Elections in Edinburgh
Edinburgh Corporation	1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973
City of Edinburgh District Council	1974 1977 1980 1984 1988 1992
Lothian Regional Council	1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994
City of Edinburgh Council	1995 1999 2003 2007 2012 2017 2022
Referendums	2005

(1913 ←) 1919 United Kingdom local elections (→ 1920)
County councils (England)	Bedfordshire Berkshire Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cheshire Cornwall Cumberland Derbyshire Devon Dorset Durham East Riding East Suffolk East Sussex Essex Gloucestershire Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Holland Huntingdonshire Isle of Ely Isle of Wight Kent Kesteven Lancashire Leicestershire Lindsey London Middlesex Norfolk North Riding Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Rutland Shropshire Soke of Peterborough Somerset Staffordshire Surrey Warwickshire West Riding West Suffolk West Sussex Westmorland Wiltshire Worcestershire
County councils (Wales)	Anglesey Brecknockshire Carnarvonshire Cardiganshire Carmarthenshire Denbighshire Flintshire Glamorganshire Merionethshire Monmouthshire Montgomeryshire Pembrokeshire Radnorshire
County councils (Scotland)	Aberdeenshire Argyllshire Ayrshire Banffshire Berwickshire Buteshire Caithness Clackmannanshire Dumfriesshire Dunbartonshire Elginshire Fife Forfarshire Haddingtonshire Inverness-shire Kincardineshire Kinross-shire Kirkcudbrightshire Lanarkshire Linlithgowshire Midlothian Nairnshire Peeblesshire Perthshire Orkney Renfrewshire Ross and Cromarty Roxburghshire Selkirkshire Stirlingshire Sutherland Wigtownshire Zetland
Metropolitan boroughs	Battersea Bermondsey Bethnal Green Camberwell Chelsea Deptford Finsbury Fulham Greenwich Hackney Hammersmith Hampstead Holborn Islington Kensington Lambeth Lewisham Paddington Poplar Shoreditch Southwark St Marylebone St Pancras Stepney Stoke Newington Wandsworth Westminster Woolwich
Other English councils	Liverpool
Municipal councils (Scotland)	Aberdeen Dundee Edinburgh Glasgow Greenock Leith Paisley
Other Welsh councils	Cardiff Llandeilo Swansea
Irish councils	Sligo Corporation

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