Cornwall Council elections, 1925

The Cornwall Council elections in 1925 were the second ever full elections to the Cornwall Council. In the first term of the Council the Cornish Progressive Party and the Party instituted the laws and regulations for the settlement, the economy and the Council itself. While the Progressives didn't take many actions, in terms of ideological policy, the Party was seen as good with dealing on certain settlement issues. The same issues were still being dealt with from the previous term on issues like the Economy, Banking, Taxes, and Education. Settlement construction had taken a back seat as many private contractors had already built most of the homes in the settlement. Due to this, the population rose greatly as the economy was booming in the fishing settlement and the CPP stated this as their doing. Still the Conservatives were able to make the only change in the election which was winning a seat through proportional representation, while district and Council Presidency seats stayed the same. In the end the CPP won a second election this time with the minimum majority of eight seats.

In the next four years as the great depression loomed and started to take effect the Progressive Party was seen as already "content with nothing" as the Conservatives would run with that in the next elections, since the Progressives were always a bit late to respond to events in the settlement. Actions taken during the second term of Craig Baxter included a jobs act which created 10 council homes and creating about fifty short term jobs during the four years. Unemployment fell to about 5% during 1927, but by the Cornwall Council elections, 1929 unemployment was 7.4%.

The reason elections were called a year early was because of the possible coup d'eat taken by Mayor of Cornwall, Craig Baxter. Council President George Oswald died from a heart attack in 1927 and with a tie in seats on the Council, Craig Baxter claimed he could give himself two votes if he asserted himself as Council President and also run for the position. While his own backbench even lost support in him they passed strong regulations against corruption, the power of the Mayor, asserting that the Council President is a councilor with a vote but its primary function is as a speaker of the body, a Mayor cannot also be Council President, and that when a Council President needs a by-election another Councilor will serve as interim President but then cannot run for Council President himself in the upcoming by-election. The actions taken showed that Craig Baxter, while being a slightly popular Mayor had lost support from his own Party and an election called a year early.