Winslow History | Bucks County Council election, 1904

Bucks County Council election, 1904

BCC elections were held every three years. The previous one was in 1901 and the next one in 1907.

Buckingham Advertiser, 5 March
WINSLOW DISTRICT
Mr. Norman McCorquodale, present County Councillor, is being opposed by the Rev. A. E. T. Newman, of Grandborough Vicarage. At the 1901 election Mr. Newman lost by over 100 votes.

Buckingham Advertiser, 12 March
WINSLOW.
For Division 16 Mr. N. McCorquodale, of Winslow Hall, the outgoing councillor, was opposed by the Rev. A. E. T. Newman, Vicar of Grandborough, and considerable excitement was caused by the event. There were two polling places, viz., Winslow and North Marston, and at the former things were very lively. Motors, wagonettes and broughams with their colours, were very plentiful, and the polling brisk. As Mr. McCorquodale beat Mr. Newman by 109 votes at the last election it was generally expected that the former gentleman would be again returned, although by a smaller majority, hence when the figures were announced on Wednesday morning by the returning officer (Mr. T. P. Willis, considerable surprise was felt and expressed at Mr. Newman, who is a well-known Radical, being returned. The result was :-
            NEWMAN                                                                              316
                        *McCorquodale                                                        272
                                                                                    Majority          44

Bucks Advertiser and Aylesbury News, 12 March
COUNTY COUNCIL ELECTION.- The defeat of Mr. McCorquodale by the Rev. A. E. T. Newman, to the tune of 44 majority, has formed one of the sensations of the week in North Bucks, and especially in the “capital” of the Winslow division. Mr. McCorquodale’s majority on the last occasion was, if we remember rightly, over 100, so that there must have been a “turnover” of seventy votes, more or less. The result is the more remarkable, and the more creditable to the Vicar of Grandborough, in that that gentleman did scarcely any canvassing himself, whereas Mr. and Mrs. McCorquodale most amiably and perseveringly visited all or most of the voters from Claydon to Winslow and Northmarston to Swanbourne, in which last-mentioned parish Mr. McCorquodale probably obtained, we hear, his only majority, the other parishes of the division, excepting perhaps Winslow, having given majorities, so it is said, to the clergyman over the layman. An address by Mr. Newman, circulated through the constituency “the day before the battle,” too late to be replied to from Winslow Hall, would account for more than the 44 votes, and it was a forcible and well-reasoned appeal to such voters as think before they vote, and vote upon principle rather than impulse. Also, the election was not wholly independent of the fiscal question, and other political issues, and again, Mr. Newman is said to have been personally the more popular candidate.