# 1955 Kesteven County Council election

Elections to Kesteven County Council were held on Saturday, 2 April 1955. 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.
The County Council was divided into 60 electoral divisions. 45 independents and 15 Labour candidates were returned in the 1955 elections.

## Results by division

The following were the results of the election held on 2 April 1955:
| Division | Candidate | Party | Votes | Retiring member? |
| Ancaster | Robert William Chadburn | Ind | | r |
| Bassingham | W. D. G. Battersby | | | r |
| Bennington | Christopher Ullyatt | Lab | | |
| Billingborough | The Rev. Leslie Ronald Swingler | Ind | | r |
| Billinghay | Bertie Tomlinson | Ind | | |
| Bourne no. 1 | H. L. Hudson | | | r |
| Bourne no. 2 | Dr G. A. F. Holloway | | | |
| Bracebridge | Herbert Edward Hough | Lab | 453 | |
| Bracebridge | Alice Rooke | Ind | 416 | r |
| Branston | W. E. Young | | | r |
| Bytham | J. H. Turner | | | r |
| Caythorpe | John William Oxby | Ind | 443 | r |
| Caythorpe | Mrs Dorothy Lily Pamblett | Ind | 203 | |
| Claypole | Brig. F. McCallum | | | r |
| Colsterworth | Charles Bulstridge Bailey | Ind | 327 | r |
| Colsterworth | Constance Lily Jacques | Ind | 226 | |
| Colsterworth | Gordon Suter | Lab | 100 | |
| Corby | John Hedley Lewis | | | r |
| Cranwell | John Edwin Mountain | Ind | | r |
| Deeping St James | J. J. L. MacKirdy | | | |
| Dunston | J. Ireson | | | r |
| Gonerby and Barrowby | Philip Newton | Ind | 371 | |
| Gonerby and Barrowby | John Edward Snell | Lab | 335 | r |
| Grantham no. 1 | A. E. Bellamy | Lab | | r |
| Grantham no. 2 | W. Bevan | Lab | | r |
| Grantham no. 3 | J. W. Harrison | Lab | | r |
| Grantham no. 4 | K. H. Jennings | Lab | | r |
| Grantham no. 5 | J. W. Browse | | | |
| Grantham no. 6 | Mrs A. S. Chantry | Lab | | r |
| Grantham no. 7 | Arthur Syddall | Ind | 440 | r |
| Grantham no. 7 | George Ernest Waltham | Lab | 222 | |
| Grantham no. 8 | Mrs D. Shipman | | | r |
| Grantham no. 9 | M. W. Patterson | Lab | | r |
| Grantham no. 10 | Cyril Welbourne | Lab | | |
| Heckington | George Henry Dunmore | Ind | | r |
| Helpringham | Sydney Percy King | Lab | | r |
| Kyme | Ernest Leonard Lamyman | Ind | | r |
| Leadenham | Col. William Reeve | Ind | | |
| Market Deeping | F. R. Wade | | | r |
| Martin | J. F. Vickers | | | r |
| Metheringham | Frederick Cooling Townsend | Ind | 439 | r |
| Metheringham | Frederick Archie Burgon | Lab | 332 | |
| Morton | Jack Manton | Lab | 311 | |
| Morton | Alan Shaw | Ind | 265 | r |
| Navenby | Richard Baden Naylor | Ind | | r |
| North Hykeham | Sydney Roe | Ind | 567 | r |
| North Hykeham | Frederick Albert Baker | Lab | 401 | |
| Osbournby | Mrs Nellie Robson | Ind | | r |
| Ponton | Lt-Col. R. W. Newton | | | r |
| Rippingale | Harold Scarborough | Lab | 304 | |
| Rippingale | John Alexander Galletly | Ind | 278 | |
| Ropsley | Mrs J. P. Dixon | | | r |
| Ruskington | Benjamin Ebenezer Brighton | Ind | | r |
| Scopwick | Horace Waudby | Ind | | r |
| Skellingthorpe | R. C. Turner | | | r |
| Sleaford no. 1 | Edgar Wilfred Elmore | Ind | | r |
| Sleaford no. 2 | Cecil John Barnes | Ind | 502 | r |
| Sleaford no. 2 | John Mathieson Klingberg | Lab | 458 | |
| Sleaford no. 3 | William Middleton | Ind | | r |
| Stamford no. 1 | Mrs G. M. Boyfield | | | r |
| Stamford no. 2 | William Arthur James Darnes | Lab | 459 | |
| Stamford no. 2 | Harry Skells | Ind | 173 | r |
| Stamford no. 3 | J. H. W. Taylor | | | r |
| Stamford no. 4 | P. K. Banks | | | r |
| Stamford no. 5 | A. T. West | Lab | | |
| Swinderby | P. W. Spray | | | r |
| Thurlby | G. A. Griffin | | | r |
| Uffington | The Rev. R. Burman | | | |
| Washingborough | H. A. Lillie | | | |
| Welby | Herbert Vian Clark | Ind | 426 | |
| Welby | Reginald Edgar Burnett | Lab | 260 | |
| Wilsford | Henry Pryor Kelway | Ind | | |
| Woolsthorpe | FitzHerbert Wright | | | r |