Elections to Liverpool City Council were held on Thursday 12 May 1955.

[2] [3] At the meeting of the City Council on 23 May 1955 the terms of office of twenty of the forty Aldermen expired and the Councillors elected twenty Aldermen to fill the vacant positions for a term of six years.

Fifteen Conservative, one Independent, and two Liberal Aldermen were replaced by eighteen Labour Aldermen, allowing Labour to take control of the council for the first time.

By-election caused by the election of Bessie Braddock as Alderman.

for St. James in 1953) and William George Ingham (elected as Cllr.

for Sandhills in 1953), Henry Aldritt (elected as Cllr.

for Sandhills in 1954) and Stanley Part (elected as Cllr.

Peter James O'Hare was elected by the Councillors as an Alderman on 4 January 1956 and assigned as the Returning Officer for the County ward.