# 1898 Kesteven County Council election

The fourth set of elections to Kesteven County Council were held in March 1898. Kesteven was one of three divisions of the historic county of Lincolnshire in England; it consisted of the ancient wapentakes (or hundreds) of Aswardhurn, Aveland, Beltisloe, Boothby Graffoe, Flaxwell, Langoe, Loveden, Ness, and Winnibriggs and Threo. The Local Government Act 1888 established Kesteven as an administrative county, governed by a Council; elections were held every three years from 1889, until it was abolished by the Local Government Act 1972, which established Lincolnshire County Council in its place.
Forty-eight electoral divisions of the new Council were outlined in December 1888. Nearly every candidate was returned unopposed, with contests in only three divisions.

## Results by division
### Ancaster

Ancaster :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | William Avery | NA | NA | |

### Barrowby

Barrowby :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Charles G. E. Welby JP | NA | NA | |

### Bassingham

Bassingham :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Charles C. Curtis | NA | NA | |

### Bennington

Bennington :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | William Hutchinson | NA | NA | |

### Billingborough

Billingborough :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Edward Smith | NA | NA | |

### Billinghay

Billinghay :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | John Creasey | NA | NA | |

### Bourne and Morton

Bourne and Morton :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | James Measures | | | |

### Bracebridge

Bracebridge :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Hugh Jackson | NA | NA | |

### Branston

Branston :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Liberal | W. S. Fox | NA | NA | |

### Bytham

Bytham :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Thomas Williamson | NA | NA | |

### Caythorpe

Caythorpe :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | | William Oxley | NA | NA | |

### Claypole

Claypole :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | George Nevile | NA | NA | |

### Colsterworth

Colsterworth :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Liberal | Eli Crabtree | NA | NA | |

### Corby

Corby :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes |
| | Conservative | Conyers Chapman | 218 |
| | Conservative | Henry Minta | 81 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 299 |

### Deeping

Deeping :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | William Holland | NA | NA | |

### Grantham no. 1

Grantham no. 1 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | | William Bailey | NA | NA | |

### Grantham no. 2

Grantham no. 2 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | | James Perkins Coultas | NA | NA | |

### Grantham no. 3

Grantham no. 3 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | | Arthur Hutchinson | NA | NA | |

### Grantham no. 4

Grantham no. 4 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | | Rev. George Benson Bowler | NA | | |

### Grantham no. 5

Grantham no. 5 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | | William Long Wand | NA | NA | |

### Grantham no. 6

Grantham no. 6 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | | John William Martin | NA | NA | |

### Grantham no. 7

Grantham no. 7 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | | Joshua Lincoln | NA | NA | |

### Great Gonerby

Gonerby :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Thomas Newton | NA | NA | |

### Heckington

Heckington :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Liberal | Daniel G. Harris | NA | NA | |

### Heighington

Heckington :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Samuel Oglesby | NA | NA | |

### Helpringham

Helpringham :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | James S. Barber | NA | NA | |

### Kyme

Kyme :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | The Earl of Winchelsea | NA | NA | |

### Martin

Martin :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | John H. Copping | NA | NA | |

### Metheringham

Metheringham :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | E. G. Allen | NA | NA | |

### Morton

Morton :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Liberal | John T. Swift | NA | NA | |

### Navenby

Navenby :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Andrew Campbell | NA | NA | |

### Osbournby

Osbournby :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | William A. Cragg | NA | NA | |

### Ponton

Ponton :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Robert C. Newton | NA | NA | |

### Rippingale

Rippingale :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes |
| | Conservative | Arthur Wellesley Dean | 214 |
| | Liberal | William Bacon | 153 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 367 |

### Ropsley

Ropsley :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | J. Cecil Rudkin | NA | NA | |

### Ruskington

Ruskington :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Samuel F. Pattinson | NA | NA | |

### Skellingthorpe

Skellingthorpe :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Captain George E. Jarvis | NA | NA | |

### Sleaford East

Sleaford East :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | John Nickolls | NA | NA | |

### Sleaford West

Sleaford West :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Liberal | William B. Harris | NA | NA | |

### Stamford All Saints

Stamford All Saints :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes |
| | | Charles Chapman | 268 |
| | | J. Woolston | 239 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 507 |

### Stamford St George's

Stamford St George's :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | | J. S. Loweth | NA | NA | |

### Stamford St Michael's and St John's

Stamford St Michael's and St John's :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | | Major Hart | NA | NA | |

### Stamford St Martin's and St Mary's

Stamford St Martin's and St Mary's :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | | G. Higgs | NA | NA | |

### Thurlby

Thurlby :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Liberal | Robert Peasgood | NA | NA | |

### Uffington

Uffington :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | The Lord Kesteven | NA | NA | |

### Waddington

Waddington :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Colonel R. G. Ellison | NA | NA | |

### Wellingore

Wellingore :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Robert N. Moreley | NA | NA | |

### Wilsford

Wilsford :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | | Richard M. Cole | NA | NA | |