There was one bye-election in May. On November 1st 1842 one third (14) of the Councillors retired and submitted themselves for re-election. 3 Councillors lost their seats. There were no elections to the Aldermanic Bench in November 1842. There was an election for Mayor.
MAYOR
James Hoskins
ALDERMEN
Edward Carter, William Thompson, Samuel Wyatt Garrett, George Caught, Thomas Ellyet, Daniel Howard, William Jones, Thomas Jackson, William Bilton, Charles Robbins, William Cooper, Thomas Heather, George John Scale, James Paul
COUNCILLORS ELECTED OR RE-ELECTED
|
St. George |
May 9th |
John Ellis |
Paviour, in place of S. Griffin |
COUNCILLORS NOT STANDING FOR ELECTION
|
St. Thomas |
Joseph Warn |
NOTE: The evidence for compiling this list is confusing as in St. Thomas's ward Robert Gibbon is reported as being re-elected when he had been so re-elected only two years earlier. In contrast, Henry Slight should have been standing for re-election but does not appear to have been required to do so. It is assumed that for some reason Gibbon and Slight exchanged position in the tri-ennial election cycle.