Cornwall Council elections, 1929

The Cornwall Council elections in 1929 were the third ever elections to the Cornwall Council during the onset of the great depression. The first two elections to the Cornwall Council resulted in a Cornish Progressive Party victory and Craig Baxter becoming the Mayor of Cornwall. The economy of town being heavily interdependent, felt the effects of the depression as other towns and settlements in nearby areas also started to falter. Unemployment in Cornwall was up to 7.4% at the day of the election, and increasing. The Progressive Party had failed to take many ideological positions in the first term and only a few in the second, the ineffective leadership and scandal in the Cornwall corruption scandal of 1927 with the coup d'eat occurring since Mayor Baxter tried asserting himself as Council President. The Conservatives were able to become the majority with a one seat gain in the elections by winning District Northwest. During this election the Conservatives adopted the famous slogan for the Party, "Caring about you". The Progressives lost two seats, one to the Conservatives and another one to the Moderate Party since they were able to pick up one seat from party list proportional representation.

While in power the Conservatives cut the Council's spending and taxes which while picked up by the private sector mostly. The Conservatives passed the rules and regulations for referendums within the settlement limits, that a referendum would be used for any issue which seemed to need the consent of the people, in addition 30 days time minimum would be given for voters to decide and then vote. A minimum of 50% of the franchise would need to turn out to vote and then at least 50% of that electorate would need to approve it for it to become law. The Conservatives passed the first ever referndum in Cornwall's history the Cornwall naming referendum, 1929 where voters decided to drop the "New" in "New Cornwall", replacing old signs and just having the settlement's name as Cornwall. It was passed for economic reasons to create new signs through some form of minute stimulus, and cultural reasons. In January of 1930 unemployment was 6.9% before it skyrocketed up towards 30%. In 1932 it dropped back down to 26%, as some of the population had left Cornwall. In 1933 poverty in the settlement reached 45% with no social welfare and no economic mangement. The Conservatives tried cutting taxes more trying to create better economic conditions, the Income tax rate was set to 1.5%, which was only imposed on the richest of citizens, and 0.6% property tax. The unpopular government led to the Progressives and Moderates forming a coalition in the Cornwall Council elections, 1934.