County Council Election December 1932

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The 1932 County Council Election occurred on Tuesday 6 December. This election was the first county council election since the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1929 came into effect on May 1930. This resulted in Lerwick Central, North and South combining to become Lerwick Landward (shown here), a five seat district council ward.

The legislation defined Burghs as 'large' or 'small', with a burgh requiring a population of 20,000 or more to classify as 'large'. Lerwick Landward was a 'small burgh' and as such, much of its powers remained with the Zetland County Council.

Given that the new District council had reduced powers, the Shetland History Online database will not log any further elections beyond 1932. The reason that 1932 is highlighted below is because it produced the first female councillor, Elizabeth Tait. Given that Tait was elected unopposed and that the new district council had reduced status, this database recognises Charlotte Nicol as the first full female councillor in Shetland. Not only was she elected on to an existing council, she placed fourth in the 1933 Lerwick Town Council election as a Ratepayers Association candidate, receiving 880 votes in the process.

For this election, Sandwick was also abolished by the new legislation and absorbed into Cunningsburgh and Dunrossness, but this change was reversed and Sandwick returned as a constituency in 1935.

Results

Aithsting

Electorate:
Turnout: N/A

Candidate	Votes	Elected?
Andrew D. Clark	Unopposed

Bressay

Electorate:
Turnout: N/A

Candidate	Votes	Elected?
Archibald MacIntyre	Unopposed

Burra and Quarff

Electorate:
Turnout: N/A

Candidate	Votes	Elected?
John Percy Henderson	Unopposed

Cunningsburgh

Electorate:
Turnout: N/A

Candidate	Votes	Elected?
Henry Mouat	Unopposed

Delting North

Electorate:
Turnout: N/A

Candidate	Votes	Elected?
Joseph Garfield Gordon Pole	Unopposed

Delting South

Electorate:
Turnout:

Candidate	Votes	Elected?
Edward Percival Adie	Unopposed

Dunrossness North

Electorate:
Turnout:

Candidate	Votes	Elected?
John W. Robertson	Unopposed

Dunrossness South

Electorate:
Turnout: N/A

Candidate	Votes	Elected?
William Laidlaw McDougall	Unopposed

Fetlar

Electorate:
Turnout: N/A

Candidate	Votes	Elected?
Reverend William G. Carson	Unopposed

Gulberwick

Electorate:
Turnout: N/A

Candidate	Votes	Elected?
Thomas Johnston	Unopposed

Lerwick Landward

Electorate: 2296
Turnout: N/A

Candidate	Votes	Elected?
Robert A Johnson	Unopposed
J. G. Williamson	Unopposed
John Taylor	Unopposed
Boyd Morgan	Unopposed
Elizabeth Tait	Unopposed

Nesting And Lunnasting

Electorate:
Turnout: N/A

Candidate	Votes	Elected?
Thomas J. Anderson	Unopposed

Northmavine North

Electorate:
Turnout: N/A

Candidate	Votes	Elected?
John Tulloch	Unopposed

Northmavine South

Electorate:
Turnout: N/A

Candidate	Votes	Elected?
Arthur Irvine	Unopposed

Sandness

Electorate:
Turnout:

Candidate	Votes	Elected?
James A. Jamieson	Unopposed

Sandsting

Electorate: 420
Turnout: 224 (53.3%)
Rejected ballot: 1

Candidate	Votes	Elected?
Hercules Arthurson	132
Gerald J. Aston	91

Tingwall

Electorate:
Turnout: N/A

Candidate	Votes	Elected?
James Peter Mouat	Unopposed

Unst North

Electorate:
Turnout: N/A

Candidate	Votes	Elected?
Charles G. D. Sandison	Unopposed

Unst South

Electorate:
Turnout: N/A

Candidate	Votes	Elected?
Basil Neven-Spence	Unopposed

Walls

Electorate:
Turnout: N/A

Candidate	Votes	Elected?
Andrew Halcrow	Unopposed

Whalsay And Skerries

Electorate:
Turnout: N/A

Candidate	Votes	Elected?
Magnus Shearer	Unopposed

Whiteness And Weisdale

Electorate:
Turnout: N/A

Candidate	Votes	Elected?
Laurence William Smith	Unopposed

Yell North

Electorate: 307
Turnout: 137 (44.6%)
Rejected ballots: 4

Candidate	Votes	Elected?
Robert J. Smith	93
Charles S. Nicholson	40

Yell South

Electorate: 554
Turnout: 287 (51.8%)
Rejected ballots: 3

Candidate	Votes	Elected?
Thomas R. Manson	153
James A. Smith	131

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