UK Elections Info

Postmaster-General	15 October 1964	4 July 1966
Minister of Technology	4 July 1966	19 June 1970
Minister for Posts and Telecommunications	March 1974	1975
Secretary of State for Industry	5 March 1974	10 June 1975
Secretary of State for Energy	10 June 1975	4 May 1979

Elections fought

30 November 1950	Bristol South East	Labour Party	19,367	56.73
25 October 1951	Bristol South East	Labour Party	30,811	65.05
26 May 1955	Bristol South East	Labour Party	25,257	59.47
8 October 1959	Bristol South East	Labour Party	26,273	56.24
17 November 1960 Hon Anthony Wedgewood Benn succeeds to peerage as 2nd Viscount Stansgate. He signed an instrument of renunciation and petitioned the House of Commons to set up a Select Committee to examine his case. The House referred the matter to the Committee of Privileges who confirmed that he was disqualified from sitting in the House of Commons. A new writ was issued, and Viscount Stansgate decided to contest the by-election to draw attention to what he considered to be an unjust law.
4 May 1961	Bristol South East	Labour Party	23,275	69.47
July 1961 The Court held that Viscount Stansgate was disqualified from sitting in the House of Commons and declared Malcolm St Clair duly elected. Malcolm St Clair then gave an undertaking to resign the seat if a subsequent change in the law permitted Viscount Stansgate to be elected to the House of Commons.
20 August 1963	Bristol South East	Labour Party	20,313	79.73
15 October 1964	Bristol South East	Labour Party	29,117	60.16
31 March 1966	Bristol South East	Labour Party	30,851	61.35
18 June 1970	Bristol South East	Labour Party	29,176	55.40
28 February 1974	Bristol South East	Labour Party	26,540	47.00
10 October 1974	Bristol South East	Labour Party	25,978	49.13
3 May 1979	Bristol South East	Labour Party	24,878	45.38
9 June 1983	Bristol East	Labour Party	18,055	36.88
1 March 1984	Chesterfield	Labour Party	24,633	46.48
11 June 1987	Chesterfield	Labour Party	24,532	45.46
9 April 1992	Chesterfield	Labour Party	26,461	47.27
1 May 1997	Chesterfield	Labour Party	26,105	50.80