1945 Local elections - Communist Party

Daily Worker November 3rd 1945

He knocked out Mayor

In Wolverhampton a communist candidate, Mr Kaye Brutton, knocked out the Conservative Mayor in a straight fight, polling 673 to the Tory's 595

Other Communist Councillors ELECTED November 1945

WESTMINISTER (Covent Garden)
Gabriel "Bill" Carritt
Joan Carritt
Joyce Alergant

STEPNEY
Phil Piratin
Rampling
Kirby
Shapiro
Levitas
Wineberg
Carver
Goldberg
Rosen
Sokoloff

FINSBURY (Old street)
Kay Beauchamp

HACKNEY (Ridley)
Blaston

MAIDSTONE
Hobday

SURBITON (Tolworth South)

WOLVERHAPTON
Kaye Brutton
Lewis

PORTSMOUTH
Russell

HEMEL HAMPSTEAD
Weller

ANDOVER
Brown

NEATH
Jarman

MERTHYR
Williams

WEST HAM
Benton

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COMMUNIST PARTY CANDIDATES
NOT ELECTED

Birmingham candidates
Mrs Jessie Eden 2,887
Mr S Blackwell 1,968
Dr M barrow 1,796

William Rust (Editor of Daily Worker missed by 36 votes in Hackney

Finsbury lost second seat by 3 votes

Betty Mathews missed by 40 votes in Luton

B. Moore polled 1,196 votes in Leamington West

St Albans three Communist candidates secured 4,172 votes (more than Communists in sheffield)

Abe Lazarus polled 2,184 in Oxford

Mrs E. Bramley lost 100 votes in Acton

NOTE

Labour made major gains on almost every council
except Bermondsey where it lost 3 seats