1955 Liverpool City Council election
Elections to Liverpool City Council were held on Thursday 12 May 1955. After the election, the composition of the council was:
Ward results
* - Councillor seeking re-election- Party of former Councillor
The Councillors seeking re-election at this election were elected in the 'all-up' election in 1953 for a two-year term. Therefore, comparisons are made with the 1953 election results.
Central
Everton
Netherfield
St. Mary's
Aldermanic elections
At the meeting of the City Council on 23 May 1955 the terms of office of twenty of the forty Aldermen expired and the Councillors elected twenty Aldermen to fill the vacant positions for a term of six years. Fifteen Conservative, one Independent, and two Liberal Aldermen were replaced by eighteen Labour Aldermen, allowing Labour to take control of the council for the first time.By-elections
Low Hill
By-election caused by the election of John Mathew Taylor as Alderman.Abercromby
By-election caused by the election of Harry Livermore as Alderman.Central
By-election caused by the election of Bessie Braddock as Alderman.Granby
By-election caused by the election of Elizabeth Trainor as Alderman.St. James
By-election caused by the election of Hugh Carr and William George Ingham as Aldermen.Speke
By-election caused by the election of Alexander Hardman as Alderman.- Pritchard had contested Kirkdale as a Liberal in the 1950 General Election
Westminster
By-election caused by the election of John Hamilton as Alderman.Everton
By-election caused by the election of John Leslie Hughes and David Nickson as Aldermen.Sandhills
By-election caused by the election of Peter McKernan, Henry Aldritt and Stanley Part as Aldermen.Vauxhall
By-election caused by the election of Joseph Cyril Brady as Alderman.Dingle
By-election caused by the election of Frank Hampton Cain as Alderman.Pirrie
By-election caused by the election of Joseph Morgan as Alderman.Picton
By-election caused by the election of Charles James Minton as Alderman.Dovecot
By-election caused by the election of Abraham Louis Caplan as Alderman.Church by-election 27 October 1955
Alderman Mabel Fletcher M.A. Died on 2 December 1955.Cllr. Peter James O'Hare was elected by the Councillors as an Alderman on 4 January 1956 and assigned as the Returning Officer for the County ward.