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Summary | |
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CON | 302 |
LAB | 279 |
NL & CON | 19 |
LAB Co-op | 16 |
LIB | 6 |
N | 2 |
Irish LAB | 1 |
Aberavon | |||
42,826/50,071 | 85.53 | ||
Labour Party | 30,948 | 72.26 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,878 | 27.74 | |
Majority | 19,070 | 44.53 | |
Aberdare | |||
44,284/51,423 | 86.12 | ||
Labour Party | 34,783 | 78.55 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 6,810 | 15.38 | |
Plaid Cymru | 2,691 | 6.08 | |
Majority | 27,973 | 63.17 | |
20 June 1954 Death of David Thomas. | |||
28 October 1954 | 35,487/50,916 | 69.70 | |
Labour Party | 24,658 | 69.48 | |
Plaid Cymru | 5,671 | 15.98 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 5,158 | 14.53 | |
Majority | 18,987 | 53.50 | |
Aberdeen North | |||
52,076/62,817 | 82.90 | ||
Labour Party | 33,711 | 64.73 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,365 | 35.27 | |
Majority | 15,346 | 29.47 | |
Aberdeen South | |||
49,272/59,589 | 82.69 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,947 | 58.75 | |
Labour Party | 20,325 | 41.25 | |
Majority | 8,622 | 17.50 | |
Abertillery | |||
33,725/40,128 | 84.04 | ||
Labour Party | 29,321 | 86.94 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 4,404 | 13.06 | |
Majority | 24,917 | 73.88 | |
Abingdon | |||
44,665/55,856 | 79.96 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,774 | 55.47 | |
Labour Party | 19,891 | 44.53 | |
Majority | 4,883 | 10.93 | |
3 June 1953 Resignation of Sir Ralph Glyn, Bt prior to his elevation to the Peerage as Baron Glyn. | |||
30 June 1953 | 43,172/56,851 | 75.94 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,986 | 53.24 | |
Labour Party | 17,126 | 39.67 | |
Liberal Party | 3,060 | 7.09 | |
Majority | 5,860 | 13.57 | |
Accrington | |||
47,413/52,705 | 89.96 | ||
Labour Party | 24,802 | 52.31 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,611 | 47.69 | |
Majority | 2,191 | 4.62 | |
Acton | |||
44,583/51,292 | 86.92 | ||
Labour Party | 23,287 | 52.23 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,296 | 47.77 | |
Majority | 1,991 | 4.47 | |
Aldershot | |||
41,353/53,123 | 77.84 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,951 | 60.34 | |
Labour Party | 16,402 | 39.66 | |
Majority | 8,549 | 20.67 | |
9 September 1954 Elevation of Rt Hon Oliver Lyttelton to the Peerage - Viscount Chandos. | |||
28 October 1954 | 31,809/54,231 | 58.65 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,108 | 60.07 | |
Labour Party | 12,701 | 39.93 | |
Majority | 6,407 | 20.14 | |
Altrincham & Sale | |||
51,452/61,285 | 83.96 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 33,987 | 66.06 | |
Labour Party | 17,465 | 33.94 | |
Majority | 16,522 | 32.11 | |
Anglesey | |||
29,399/36,117 | 81.40 | ||
Labour Party | 11,814 | 40.19 | |
Liberal Party | 11,219 | 38.16 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 6,366 | 21.65 | |
Majority | 595 | 2.02 | |
Argyll | |||
31,116/46,357 | 67.12 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,191 | 68.10 | |
Labour Party | 9,925 | 31.90 | |
Majority | 11,266 | 36.21 | |
Armagh | |||
Conservative & Unionist Party | Unopposed |   | |
5 November 1954 Resignation of James Harden. | |||
20 November 1954 | |||
Conservative & Unionist Party | Unopposed |   | |
Arundel & Shoreham | |||
51,869/66,515 | 77.98 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 34,946 | 67.37 | |
Labour Party | 16,923 | 32.63 | |
Majority | 18,023 | 34.75 | |
12 February 1954 Resignation of William Cuthbert. | |||
9 March 1954 | 36,277/66,991 | 54.15 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,857 | 68.52 | |
Labour Party | 11,420 | 31.48 | |
Majority | 13,437 | 37.04 | |
Ashford | |||
40,738/49,715 | 81.94 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,093 | 59.14 | |
Labour Party | 16,645 | 40.86 | |
Majority | 7,448 | 18.28 | |
Ashton-under-Lyne | |||
41,164/47,558 | 86.56 | ||
Labour Party | 21,424 | 52.05 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,740 | 47.95 | |
Majority | 1,684 | 4.09 | |
Aylesbury | |||
40,060/48,181 | 83.14 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,455 | 56.05 | |
Labour Party | 17,605 | 43.95 | |
Majority | 4,850 | 12.11 | |
Ayr | |||
37,687/43,574 | 86.49 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,985 | 58.34 | |
Labour Party | 15,702 | 41.66 | |
Majority | 6,283 | 16.67 | |
Banbury | |||
49,624/59,897 | 82.85 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,246 | 46.84 | |
Labour Party | 19,672 | 39.64 | |
Liberal Party | 6,706 | 13.51 | |
Majority | 3,574 | 7.20 | |
Banffshire | |||
23,368/35,643 | 65.56 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,562 | 70.87 | |
Labour Party | 6,806 | 29.13 | |
Majority | 9,756 | 41.75 | |
Barking | |||
45,213/55,219 | 81.88 | ||
Labour Party | 30,486 | 67.43 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,340 | 25.08 | |
Liberal Party | 3,387 | 7.49 | |
Majority | 19,146 | 42.35 | |
Barkston Ash | |||
43,692/51,372 | 85.05 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,155 | 57.57 | |
Labour Party | 18,537 | 42.43 | |
Majority | 6,618 | 15.15 | |
Barnet | |||
62,365/72,408 | 86.13 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 35,527 | 56.97 | |
Labour and Co-operative Party | 22,375 | 35.88 | |
Liberal Party | 4,463 | 7.16 | |
Majority | 13,152 | 21.09 | |
Barnsley | |||
53,821/69,694 | 77.22 | ||
Labour Party | 37,523 | 69.72 | |
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 9,296 | 17.27 | |
Liberal Party | 7,002 | 13.01 | |
Majority | 28,227 | 52.45 | |
Polling was delayed due to the death of the Labour candidate, Frank Collindridge, after nomination. | |||
21 January 1953 Resignation of Sidney Schofield. | |||
31 March 1953 | 40,188/69,351 | 57.95 | |
Labour Party | 29,283 | 72.87 | |
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 10,905 | 27.13 | |
Majority | 18,378 | 45.73 | |
Barrow-in-Furness | |||
46,934/54,459 | 86.18 | ||
Labour Party | 26,709 | 56.91 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,225 | 43.09 | |
Majority | 6,484 | 13.82 | |
Barry | |||
47,721/55,022 | 86.73 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,715 | 51.79 | |
Labour Party | 23,006 | 48.21 | |
Majority | 1,709 | 3.58 | |
Basingstoke | |||
46,625/58,385 | 79.86 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,045 | 55.86 | |
Labour Party | 20,580 | 44.14 | |
Majority | 5,465 | 11.72 | |
Bassetlaw | |||
54,107/64,139 | 84.36 | ||
Labour Party | 32,850 | 60.71 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,257 | 39.29 | |
Majority | 11,593 | 21.43 | |
Bath | |||
50,356/58,799 | 85.64 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,826 | 55.26 | |
Labour Party | 22,530 | 44.74 | |
Majority | 5,296 | 10.52 | |
Batley & Morley | |||
49,137/57,453 | 85.53 | ||
Labour Party | 29,326 | 59.68 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,811 | 40.32 | |
Majority | 9,515 | 19.36 | |
Battersea North | |||
35,687/44,478 | 80.24 | ||
Labour Party | 25,882 | 72.53 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,805 | 27.47 | |
Majority | 16,077 | 45.05 | |
Battersea South | |||
34,968/40,848 | 85.61 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,731 | 50.71 | |
Labour and Co-operative Party | 17,237 | 49.29 | |
Majority | 494 | 1.41 | |
Bebington | |||
57,278/66,742 | 85.82 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 30,611 | 53.44 | |
Labour Party | 22,190 | 38.74 | |
Liberal Party | 4,477 | 7.82 | |
Majority | 8,421 | 14.70 | |
Beckenham | |||
61,264/74,370 | 82.38 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 41,282 | 67.38 | |
Labour Party | 19,982 | 32.62 | |
Majority | 21,300 | 34.77 | |
Bedford | |||
47,093/54,047 | 87.13 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,278 | 49.43 | |
Labour Party | 20,492 | 43.51 | |
Liberal Party | 3,323 | 7.06 | |
Majority | 2,786 | 5.92 | |
Bedwellty | |||
37,921/44,417 | 85.37 | ||
Labour Party | 31,582 | 83.28 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 6,339 | 16.72 | |
Majority | 25,243 | 66.57 | |
Belfast East | |||
46,791/62,768 | 74.55 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,881 | 61.72 | |
Labour Party | 17,910 | 38.28 | |
Majority | 10,971 | 23.45 | |
Belfast North | |||
57,680/76,243 | 75.65 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 34,995 | 60.67 | |
Labour Party | 22,685 | 39.33 | |
Majority | 12,310 | 21.34 | |
Belfast South | |||
48,861/66,212 | 73.79 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 37,046 | 75.82 | |
Labour Party | 11,815 | 24.18 | |
Majority | 25,231 | 51.64 | |
8 October 1952 Resignation of Conolly Gage. | |||
4 November 1952 | 30,722/65,195 | 47.12 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,067 | 75.08 | |
Labour Party | 7,655 | 24.92 | |
Majority | 15,412 | 50.17 | |
Belfast West | |||
66,323/78,828 | 84.14 | ||
Irish Labour | 33,174 | 50.02 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 33,149 | 49.98 | |
Majority | 25 | 0.04 | |
Belper | |||
57,553/66,325 | 86.77 | ||
Labour Party | 32,875 | 57.12 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,678 | 42.88 | |
Majority | 8,197 | 14.24 | |
Bermondsey | |||
33,311/42,587 | 78.22 | ||
Labour Party | 26,267 | 78.85 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 5,265 | 15.81 | |
Liberal Party | 1,779 | 5.34 | |
Majority | 21,002 | 63.05 | |
Berwick-upon-Tweed | |||
33,460/42,438 | 78.84 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,632 | 52.70 | |
Labour and Co-operative Party | 11,069 | 33.08 | |
Liberal Party | 4,759 | 14.22 | |
Majority | 6,563 | 19.61 | |
Berwickshire & East Lothian | |||
42,662/50,933 | 83.76 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,510 | 52.76 | |
Labour Party | 20,152 | 47.24 | |
Majority | 2,358 | 5.53 | |
Bethnal Green | |||
31,775/41,829 | 75.96 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 22,162 | 69.75 | |
Liberal Party | 6,567 | 20.67 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 3,046 | 9.59 | |
Majority | 15,595 | 49.08 | |
Beverley | |||
47,237/59,067 | 79.97 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,937 | 59.14 | |
Labour Party | 12,778 | 27.05 | |
Liberal Party | 6,522 | 13.81 | |
Majority | 15,159 | 32.09 | |
Bexley | |||
56,499/64,343 | 87.81 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,069 | 51.45 | |
Labour Party | 27,430 | 48.55 | |
Majority | 1,639 | 2.90 | |
Billericay | |||
47,549/61,652 | 77.12 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,936 | 56.65 | |
Labour and Co-operative Party | 20,613 | 43.35 | |
Majority | 6,323 | 13.30 | |
Bilston | |||
50,733/61,378 | 82.66 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 31,381 | 61.86 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,352 | 38.14 | |
Majority | 12,029 | 23.71 | |
Birkenhead | |||
52,779/63,762 | 82.78 | ||
Labour Party | 29,014 | 54.97 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,765 | 45.03 | |
Majority | 5,249 | 9.95 | |
Birmingham Aston | |||
44,580/59,777 | 74.58 | ||
Labour Party | 27,899 | 62.58 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,136 | 36.20 | |
Liberal Party | 545 | 1.22 | |
Majority | 11,763 | 26.39 | |
Birmingham Edgbaston | |||
45,850/60,278 | 76.06 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,477 | 64.29 | |
Labour Party | 16,373 | 35.71 | |
Majority | 13,104 | 28.58 | |
3 June 1953 Resignation of Sir Peter Bennett. | |||
2 July 1953 | 29,777/59,326 | 50.19 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,142 | 67.64 | |
Labour Party | 9,635 | 32.36 | |
Majority | 10,507 | 35.29 | |
Birmingham Erdington | |||
55,714/67,425 | 82.63 | ||
Labour Party | 29,561 | 53.06 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,153 | 46.94 | |
Majority | 3,408 | 6.12 | |
Birmingham Hall Green | |||
48,163/58,077 | 82.93 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,289 | 56.66 | |
Labour Party | 20,874 | 43.34 | |
Majority | 6,415 | 13.32 | |
Birmingham Handsworth | |||
45,695/57,830 | 79.02 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,201 | 59.53 | |
Labour Party | 18,494 | 40.47 | |
Majority | 8,707 | 19.05 | |
Birmingham King's Norton | |||
52,781/64,661 | 81.63 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 30,456 | 57.70 | |
Labour Party | 22,325 | 42.30 | |
Majority | 8,131 | 15.41 | |
Birmingham Ladywood | |||
40,339/52,223 | 77.24 | ||
Labour Party | 24,008 | 59.52 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,331 | 40.48 | |
Majority | 7,677 | 19.03 | |
23 November 1954 The Labour whip was withdrawn from Victor Yates. | |||
Birmingham Northfield | |||
50,310/60,363 | 83.35 | ||
Labour Party | 26,580 | 52.83 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,730 | 47.17 | |
Majority | 2,850 | 5.66 | |
Birmingham Perry Barr | |||
40,177/49,548 | 81.09 | ||
Labour Party | 23,322 | 58.05 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,855 | 41.95 | |
Majority | 6,467 | 16.10 | |
Birmingham Small Heath | |||
49,014/63,504 | 77.18 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 31,079 | 63.41 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,156 | 30.92 | |
Liberal Party | 2,779 | 5.67 | |
Majority | 15,923 | 32.49 | |
5 October 1952 Death of Fred Longden. | |||
27 November 1952 | 29,105/62,459 | 46.60 | |
Labour and Co-operative Party | 19,491 | 66.97 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,614 | 33.03 | |
Majority | 9,877 | 33.94 | |
Birmingham Sparkbrook | |||
39,432/51,607 | 76.41 | ||
Labour Party | 24,184 | 61.33 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,248 | 38.67 | |
Majority | 8,936 | 22.66 | |
Birmingham Stechford | |||
57,739/70,951 | 81.38 | ||
Labour Party | 34,355 | 59.50 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,384 | 40.50 | |
Majority | 10,971 | 19.00 | |
Birmingham Yardley | |||
42,899/51,994 | 82.51 | ||
Labour Party | 22,800 | 53.15 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,099 | 46.85 | |
Majority | 2,701 | 6.30 | |
Bishop Auckland | |||
42,776/50,280 | 85.08 | ||
Labour Party | 25,881 | 60.50 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,895 | 39.50 | |
Majority | 8,986 | 21.01 | |
Blackburn East | |||
36,690/41,310 | 88.82 | ||
Labour Party | 19,661 | 53.59 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,029 | 46.41 | |
Majority | 2,632 | 7.17 | |
Blackburn West | |||
36,689/41,285 | 88.87 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,695 | 53.68 | |
Labour Party | 16,994 | 46.32 | |
Majority | 2,701 | 7.36 | |
Blackpool North | |||
42,683/58,271 | 73.25 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,956 | 70.18 | |
Labour Party | 12,727 | 29.82 | |
Majority | 17,229 | 40.37 | |
Blackpool South | |||
41,921/55,910 | 74.98 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,171 | 67.20 | |
Labour Party | 13,750 | 32.80 | |
Majority | 14,421 | 34.40 | |
Blaydon | |||
41,560/47,445 | 87.60 | ||
Labour Party | 28,337 | 68.18 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,223 | 31.82 | |
Majority | 15,114 | 36.37 | |
Blyth | |||
54,007/62,615 | 86.25 | ||
Labour Party | 39,823 | 73.74 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,184 | 26.26 | |
Majority | 25,639 | 47.47 | |
Bodmin | |||
39,418/46,617 | 84.56 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,086 | 50.96 | |
Liberal Party | 10,088 | 25.59 | |
Labour Party | 9,244 | 23.45 | |
Majority | 9,998 | 25.36 | |
Bolsover | |||
42,133/49,362 | 85.36 | ||
Labour Party | 33,661 | 79.89 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 8,472 | 20.11 | |
Majority | 25,189 | 59.78 | |
Bolton East | |||
53,857/63,546 | 84.75 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,106 | 50.33 | |
Labour Party | 26,751 | 49.67 | |
Majority | 355 | 0.66 | |
The Conservative and Liberal Associations made an electoral pact that the Conservatives would contest Bolton East and the Liberals Bolton West in an attempt to defeat the Labour candidates in both constituencies. | |||
Bolton West | |||
49,794/58,725 | 84.79 | ||
Liberal Party | 26,271 | 52.76 | |
Labour Party | 23,523 | 47.24 | |
Majority | 2,748 | 5.52 | |
The Conservative and Liberal Associations made an electoral pact that the Conservatives would contest Bolton East and the Liberals Bolton West in an attempt to defeat the Labour candidates in both constituencies. | |||
Bootle | |||
50,472/62,151 | 81.21 | ||
Labour Party | 26,597 | 52.70 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,535 | 44.65 | |
Anti-Partition GB | 1,340 | 2.65 | |
Majority | 4,062 | 8.05 | |
Bosworth | |||
53,889/63,084 | 85.42 | ||
Labour Party | 30,767 | 57.09 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,122 | 42.91 | |
Majority | 7,645 | 14.19 | |
Bothwell | |||
47,120/54,814 | 85.96 | ||
Labour Party | 26,529 | 56.30 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,591 | 43.70 | |
Majority | 5,938 | 12.60 | |
Bournemouth East & Christchurch | |||
46,026/56,936 | 80.84 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,138 | 63.31 | |
Labour Party | 11,550 | 25.09 | |
Liberal Party | 5,338 | 11.60 | |
Majority | 17,588 | 38.21 | |
8 January 1952 Elevation of Rt Hon Brendan Bracken to the Peerage - Viscount Bracken. | |||
6 February 1952 | 36,344/56,936 | 63.83 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,480 | 61.85 | |
Labour Party | 8,498 | 23.38 | |
Liberal Party | 3,673 | 10.11 | |
Independent | 1,693 | 4.66 | |
Majority | 13,982 | 38.47 | |
Bournemouth West | |||
50,801/65,369 | 77.71 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 33,269 | 65.49 | |
Labour Party | 17,532 | 34.51 | |
Majority | 15,737 | 30.98 | |
8 January 1954 Resignation of Viscount Cranborne. | |||
18 February 1954 | 29,701/65,804 | 45.14 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,695 | 69.68 | |
Labour Party | 9,006 | 30.32 | |
Majority | 11,689 | 39.36 | |
Bradford Central | |||
41,558/49,625 | 83.74 | ||
Labour Party | 25,215 | 60.67 | |
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 16,343 | 39.33 | |
Majority | 8,872 | 21.35 | |
Bradford East | |||
45,795/54,335 | 84.28 | ||
Labour Party | 28,796 | 62.88 | |
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 16,999 | 37.12 | |
Majority | 11,797 | 25.76 | |
Bradford North | |||
45,171/51,836 | 87.14 | ||
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 24,524 | 54.29 | |
Labour Party | 20,647 | 45.71 | |
Majority | 3,877 | 8.58 | |
Bradford South | |||
45,299/52,544 | 86.21 | ||
Labour Party | 21,364 | 47.16 | |
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 17,863 | 39.43 | |
Liberal Party | 6,072 | 13.40 | |
Majority | 3,501 | 7.73 | |
23 November 1954 The Labour whip is withdrawn from George Craddock. | |||
Breconshire & Radnorshire | |||
47,061/52,728 | 89.25 | ||
Labour Party | 24,572 | 52.21 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,489 | 47.79 | |
Majority | 2,083 | 4.43 | |
Brentford & Chiswick | |||
37,714/43,755 | 86.19 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,612 | 52.00 | |
Labour Party | 18,102 | 48.00 | |
Majority | 1,510 | 4.00 | |
Bridgwater | |||
45,021/53,198 | 84.63 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,365 | 56.34 | |
Labour and Co-operative Party | 19,656 | 43.66 | |
Majority | 5,709 | 12.68 | |
Bridlington | |||
50,053/63,860 | 78.38 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 30,576 | 61.09 | |
Labour Party | 12,931 | 25.83 | |
Liberal Party | 6,546 | 13.08 | |
Majority | 17,645 | 35.25 | |
Brierley Hill | |||
48,722/57,322 | 85.00 | ||
Labour Party | 25,510 | 52.36 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,212 | 47.64 | |
Majority | 2,298 | 4.72 | |
Brigg | |||
54,213/65,775 | 82.42 | ||
Labour Party | 31,151 | 57.46 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,062 | 42.54 | |
Majority | 8,089 | 14.92 | |
Brighouse & Spenborough | |||
49,933/56,300 | 88.69 | ||
Labour Party | 26,105 | 52.28 | |
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 23,828 | 47.72 | |
Majority | 2,277 | 4.56 | |
Brighton Kemptown | |||
46,649/60,483 | 77.13 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,923 | 55.57 | |
Labour Party | 20,726 | 44.43 | |
Majority | 5,197 | 11.14 | |
Brighton Pavilion | |||
42,577/56,361 | 75.54 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,167 | 68.50 | |
Labour Party | 13,410 | 31.50 | |
Majority | 15,757 | 37.01 | |
Bristol Central | |||
41,816/50,341 | 83.07 | ||
Labour Party | 26,091 | 62.39 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,725 | 37.61 | |
Majority | 10,366 | 24.79 | |
Bristol North East | |||
41,320/49,911 | 82.79 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 21,910 | 53.03 | |
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 19,410 | 46.97 | |
Majority | 2,500 | 6.05 | |
Bristol North West | |||
52,947/61,506 | 86.08 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,394 | 53.63 | |
Labour Party | 24,553 | 46.37 | |
Majority | 3,841 | 7.25 | |
Bristol South | |||
38,605/45,697 | 84.48 | ||
Labour Party | 24,444 | 63.32 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,161 | 36.68 | |
Majority | 10,283 | 26.64 | |
Bristol South East | |||
47,366/56,493 | 83.84 | ||
Labour Party | 30,811 | 65.05 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,555 | 34.95 | |
Majority | 14,256 | 30.10 | |
Bristol West | |||
40,689/50,517 | 80.55 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,858 | 63.55 | |
Labour Party | 11,716 | 28.79 | |
Liberal Party | 3,115 | 7.66 | |
Majority | 14,142 | 34.76 | |
Brixton | |||
44,199/55,362 | 79.84 | ||
Labour Party | 24,776 | 56.06 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,423 | 43.94 | |
Majority | 5,353 | 12.11 | |
Bromley | |||
39,295/48,486 | 81.04 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,710 | 65.43 | |
Labour Party | 13,585 | 34.57 | |
Majority | 12,125 | 30.86 | |
Bromsgrove | |||
50,819/58,765 | 86.48 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,736 | 52.61 | |
Labour Party | 24,083 | 47.39 | |
Majority | 2,653 | 5.22 | |
Broxtowe | |||
48,591/57,785 | 84.09 | ||
Labour Party | 35,317 | 72.68 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,274 | 27.32 | |
Majority | 22,043 | 45.36 | |
29 May 1953 Death of Frederick Cocks. | |||
17 September 1953 | 36,915/58,125 | 63.51 | |
Labour Party | 27,356 | 74.11 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,559 | 25.89 | |
Majority | 17,797 | 48.21 | |
Buckingham | |||
45,322/52,310 | 86.64 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,688 | 50.06 | |
Labour Party | 22,634 | 49.94 | |
Majority | 54 | 0.12 | |
Burnley | |||
55,295/62,364 | 88.66 | ||
Labour Party | 31,261 | 56.53 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,034 | 43.47 | |
Majority | 7,227 | 13.07 | |
Burton | |||
49,035/56,813 | 86.31 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,884 | 50.75 | |
Labour Party | 24,151 | 49.25 | |
Majority | 733 | 1.49 | |
Bury & Radcliffe | |||
58,007/67,090 | 86.46 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,949 | 51.63 | |
Labour Party | 28,058 | 48.37 | |
Majority | 1,891 | 3.26 | |
Bury St Edmunds | |||
45,369/56,851 | 79.80 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,679 | 54.40 | |
Labour Party | 20,690 | 45.60 | |
Majority | 3,989 | 8.79 | |
Bute & North Ayrshire | |||
34,853/45,110 | 77.26 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,361 | 64.16 | |
Labour Party | 12,492 | 35.84 | |
Majority | 9,869 | 28.32 | |
Caernarvon | |||
35,854/43,453 | 82.51 | ||
Labour Party | 22,375 | 62.41 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,479 | 37.59 | |
Majority | 8,896 | 24.81 | |
Caerphilly | |||
39,564/46,893 | 84.37 | ||
Labour Party | 30,523 | 77.15 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,041 | 22.85 | |
Majority | 21,482 | 54.30 | |
Caithness & Sutherland | |||
19,912/27,097 | 73.48 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,814 | 49.29 | |
Labour Party | 6,799 | 34.15 | |
Liberal Party | 3,299 | 16.57 | |
Majority | 3,015 | 15.14 | |
Cambridge | |||
50,720/60,064 | 84.44 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,570 | 52.39 | |
Labour Party | 20,893 | 41.19 | |
Liberal Party | 3,257 | 6.42 | |
Majority | 5,677 | 11.19 | |
Cambridgeshire | |||
46,653/57,439 | 81.22 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,095 | 53.79 | |
Labour Party | 21,558 | 46.21 | |
Majority | 3,537 | 7.58 | |
Cannock | |||
48,420/58,234 | 83.15 | ||
Labour Party | 32,379 | 66.87 | |
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 16,041 | 33.13 | |
Majority | 16,338 | 33.74 | |
Canterbury | |||
46,870/58,546 | 80.06 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,632 | 61.09 | |
Labour Party | 14,543 | 31.03 | |
Liberal Party | 3,695 | 7.88 | |
Majority | 14,089 | 30.06 | |
12 January 1953 Resignation of John White. | |||
12 February 1953 | 29,050/59,009 | 49.23 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,490 | 67.09 | |
Labour Party | 9,560 | 32.91 | |
Majority | 9,930 | 34.18 | |
Cardiff North | |||
52,008/60,767 | 85.59 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,408 | 56.55 | |
Labour Party | 22,600 | 43.45 | |
Majority | 6,808 | 13.09 | |
Cardiff South East | |||
51,725/60,902 | 84.93 | ||
Labour Party | 28,112 | 54.35 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,613 | 45.65 | |
Majority | 4,499 | 8.70 | |
Cardiff West | |||
52,590/62,528 | 84.11 | ||
Labour Party | 28,995 | 55.13 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,595 | 44.87 | |
Majority | 5,400 | 10.27 | |
Cardiganshire | |||
29,651/41,977 | 70.64 | ||
Liberal Party | 19,954 | 67.30 | |
Labour Party | 9,697 | 32.70 | |
Majority | 10,257 | 34.59 | |
Carlisle | |||
41,990/48,026 | 87.43 | ||
Labour Party | 19,648 | 46.79 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,456 | 39.19 | |
Liberal Party | 5,886 | 14.02 | |
Majority | 3,192 | 7.60 | |
Carlton | |||
49,044/56,362 | 87.02 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,429 | 49.81 | |
Labour Party | 20,685 | 42.18 | |
Liberal Party | 3,930 | 8.01 | |
Majority | 3,744 | 7.63 | |
Carmarthen | |||
50,797/58,709 | 86.52 | ||
Liberal Party | 25,632 | 50.46 | |
Labour Party | 25,165 | 49.54 | |
Majority | 467 | 0.92 | |
Carshalton | |||
55,562/65,313 | 85.07 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 32,634 | 58.73 | |
Labour Party | 22,928 | 41.27 | |
Majority | 9,706 | 17.47 | |
Central Ayrshire | |||
40,313/46,733 | 86.26 | ||
Labour Party | 21,003 | 52.10 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,310 | 47.90 | |
Majority | 1,693 | 4.20 | |
Central Norfolk | |||
39,179/47,923 | 81.75 | ||
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 21,909 | 55.92 | |
Labour Party | 17,270 | 44.08 | |
Majority | 4,639 | 11.84 | |
Cheadle | |||
51,667/60,266 | 85.73 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 32,369 | 62.65 | |
Labour Party | 12,910 | 24.99 | |
Liberal Party | 6,388 | 12.36 | |
Majority | 19,459 | 37.66 | |
Chelmsford | |||
52,844/63,433 | 83.31 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,069 | 55.01 | |
Labour Party | 23,775 | 44.99 | |
Majority | 5,294 | 10.02 | |
Chelsea | |||
35,818/51,433 | 69.64 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,034 | 69.89 | |
Labour Party | 10,784 | 30.11 | |
Majority | 14,250 | 39.78 | |
Cheltenham | |||
41,451/49,844 | 83.16 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,674 | 57.11 | |
Labour Party | 17,777 | 42.89 | |
Majority | 5,897 | 14.23 | |
Chertsey | |||
38,349/47,307 | 81.06 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,539 | 53.56 | |
Labour and Co-operative Party | 14,849 | 38.72 | |
Liberal Party | 2,961 | 7.72 | |
Majority | 5,690 | 14.84 | |
Chester-le-Street | |||
46,143/53,260 | 86.64 | ||
Labour Party | 35,511 | 76.96 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 10,632 | 23.04 | |
Majority | 24,879 | 53.92 | |
Chesterfield | |||
54,528/64,762 | 84.20 | ||
Labour Party | 34,752 | 63.73 | |
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 19,776 | 36.27 | |
Majority | 14,976 | 27.46 | |
Chichester | |||
46,137/59,667 | 77.32 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 32,166 | 69.72 | |
Labour Party | 13,971 | 30.28 | |
Majority | 18,195 | 39.44 | |
Chippenham | |||
40,324/49,494 | 81.47 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,601 | 56.05 | |
Labour Party | 17,723 | 43.95 | |
Majority | 4,878 | 12.10 | |
Chislehurst | |||
62,378/70,906 | 87.97 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 31,679 | 50.79 | |
Labour Party | 30,699 | 49.21 | |
Majority | 980 | 1.57 | |
Chorley | |||
48,959/55,603 | 88.05 | ||
Labour Party | 24,771 | 50.60 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,188 | 49.40 | |
Majority | 583 | 1.19 | |
Cirencester & Tewkesbury | |||
45,331/58,103 | 78.02 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,978 | 59.51 | |
Labour Party | 18,353 | 40.49 | |
Majority | 8,625 | 19.03 | |
31 October 1951 Rt Hon William Morrison elected Speaker of the House of Commons. | |||
Cities of London & Westminster | |||
52,812/78,628 | 67.17 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 35,275 | 66.79 | |
Labour Party | 17,537 | 33.21 | |
Majority | 17,738 | 33.59 | |
City of Chester | |||
45,701/55,348 | 82.57 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,743 | 58.52 | |
Labour Party | 18,958 | 41.48 | |
Majority | 7,785 | 17.03 | |
Clackmannan & East Stirlingshire | |||
42,958/50,142 | 85.67 | ||
Labour Party | 25,231 | 58.73 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,727 | 41.27 | |
Majority | 7,504 | 17.47 | |
Clapham | |||
48,798/59,610 | 81.86 | ||
Labour Party | 25,053 | 51.34 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,745 | 48.66 | |
Majority | 1,308 | 2.68 | |
Cleveland | |||
56,993/66,963 | 85.11 | ||
Labour Party | 31,237 | 54.81 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,756 | 45.19 | |
Majority | 5,481 | 9.62 | |
12 July 1952 Death of George Willey. | |||
23 October 1952 | 48,049/67,296 | 71.40 | |
Labour and Co-operative Party | 25,985 | 54.08 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,064 | 45.92 | |
Majority | 3,921 | 8.16 | |
Clitheroe | |||
41,589/46,150 | 90.12 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,007 | 55.32 | |
Labour Party | 18,582 | 44.68 | |
Majority | 4,425 | 10.64 | |
Coatbridge & Airdrie | |||
42,111/49,254 | 85.50 | ||
Labour Party | 24,159 | 57.37 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,952 | 42.63 | |
Majority | 6,207 | 14.74 | |
Colchester | |||
46,280/54,551 | 84.84 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,063 | 54.16 | |
Labour Party | 21,217 | 45.84 | |
Majority | 3,846 | 8.31 | |
Colne Valley | |||
50,721/58,243 | 87.09 | ||
Labour Party | 26,455 | 52.16 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,266 | 47.84 | |
Majority | 2,189 | 4.32 | |
Consett | |||
51,566/60,622 | 85.06 | ||
Labour Party | 35,705 | 69.24 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,861 | 30.76 | |
Majority | 19,844 | 38.48 | |
Conway | |||
39,438/46,425 | 84.95 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,115 | 43.40 | |
Labour Party | 16,532 | 41.92 | |
Liberal Party | 5,791 | 14.68 | |
Majority | 583 | 1.48 | |
Coventry East | |||
51,545/60,115 | 85.74 | ||
Labour Party | 32,108 | 62.29 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,437 | 37.71 | |
Majority | 12,671 | 24.58 | |
Coventry North | |||
50,064/57,957 | 86.38 | ||
Labour Party | 29,826 | 59.58 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,238 | 40.42 | |
Majority | 9,588 | 19.15 | |
Coventry South | |||
53,074/61,590 | 86.17 | ||
Labour Party | 29,271 | 55.15 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,803 | 44.85 | |
Majority | 5,468 | 10.30 | |
Crewe | |||
54,533/63,011 | 86.55 | ||
Labour Party | 28,488 | 52.24 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,045 | 47.76 | |
Majority | 2,443 | 4.48 | |
Crosby | |||
35,285/44,232 | 79.77 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,034 | 70.95 | |
Labour Party | 10,251 | 29.05 | |
Majority | 14,783 | 41.90 | |
14 October 1953 Resignation of Malcolm Bullock. | |||
12 November 1953 | 27,339/43,720 | 62.53 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,614 | 68.09 | |
Labour Party | 7,545 | 27.60 | |
Independent Conservative | 1,180 | 4.32 | |
Majority | 11,069 | 40.49 | |
Croydon East | |||
54,897/65,204 | 84.19 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 32,282 | 58.80 | |
Labour Party | 22,615 | 41.20 | |
Majority | 9,667 | 17.61 | |
25 July 1954 Death of Sir Herbert Williams, Bt. | |||
30 September 1954 | 38,246/66,483 | 57.53 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,640 | 56.58 | |
Labour Party | 13,546 | 35.42 | |
Liberal Party | 3,060 | 8.00 | |
Majority | 8,094 | 21.16 | |
Croydon North | |||
53,994/64,522 | 83.68 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,984 | 55.53 | |
Labour Party | 19,738 | 36.56 | |
Liberal Party | 4,272 | 7.91 | |
Majority | 10,246 | 18.98 | |
Croydon West | |||
45,018/54,496 | 82.61 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,484 | 52.17 | |
Labour Party | 21,534 | 47.83 | |
Majority | 1,950 | 4.33 | |
Dagenham | |||
59,020/75,939 | 77.72 | ||
Labour Party | 44,908 | 76.09 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,112 | 23.91 | |
Majority | 30,796 | 52.18 | |
Darlington | |||
52,903/60,728 | 87.11 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,858 | 50.77 | |
Labour Party | 26,045 | 49.23 | |
Majority | 813 | 1.54 | |
Dartford | |||
67,854/79,620 | 85.22 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 40,094 | 59.09 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,760 | 40.91 | |
Majority | 12,334 | 18.18 | |
Darwen | |||
36,626/41,321 | 88.64 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,785 | 48.56 | |
Labour Party | 14,605 | 39.88 | |
Liberal Party | 4,236 | 11.57 | |
Majority | 3,180 | 8.68 | |
Dearne Valley | |||
49,979/58,204 | 85.87 | ||
Labour Party | 39,782 | 79.60 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 10,197 | 20.40 | |
Majority | 29,585 | 59.19 | |
Denbigh | |||
44,381/54,011 | 82.17 | ||
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 20,269 | 45.67 | |
Labour Party | 12,354 | 27.84 | |
Liberal Party | 11,758 | 26.49 | |
Majority | 7,915 | 17.83 | |
Deptford | |||
44,309/55,200 | 80.27 | ||
Labour Party | 28,878 | 65.17 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,431 | 34.83 | |
Majority | 13,447 | 30.35 | |
Derby North | |||
39,218/47,541 | 82.49 | ||
Labour Party | 22,390 | 57.09 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,828 | 42.91 | |
Majority | 5,562 | 14.18 | |
Derby South | |||
43,677/51,681 | 84.51 | ||
Labour Party | 27,333 | 62.58 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,344 | 37.42 | |
Majority | 10,989 | 25.16 | |
Devizes | |||
39,061/47,981 | 81.41 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,319 | 52.02 | |
Labour Party | 18,742 | 47.98 | |
Majority | 1,577 | 4.04 | |
Dewsbury | |||
53,796/62,680 | 85.83 | ||
Labour Party | 28,650 | 53.26 | |
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 19,562 | 36.36 | |
Liberal Party | 5,584 | 10.38 | |
Majority | 9,088 | 16.89 | |
Don Valley | |||
53,549/62,345 | 85.89 | ||
Labour Party | 39,687 | 74.11 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,862 | 25.89 | |
Majority | 25,825 | 48.23 | |
Doncaster | |||
49,626/57,581 | 86.18 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,005 | 50.39 | |
Labour Party | 24,621 | 49.61 | |
Majority | 384 | 0.77 | |
Dorking | |||
37,080/45,969 | 80.66 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,416 | 65.85 | |
Labour Party | 12,664 | 34.15 | |
Majority | 11,752 | 31.69 | |
Dover | |||
53,506/62,402 | 85.74 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,511 | 53.29 | |
Labour and Co-operative Party | 24,995 | 46.71 | |
Majority | 3,516 | 6.57 | |
Droylsden | |||
51,788/59,772 | 86.64 | ||
Labour Party | 26,829 | 51.81 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,959 | 48.19 | |
Majority | 1,870 | 3.61 | |
Dudley | |||
58,901/70,413 | 83.65 | ||
Labour Party | 34,376 | 58.36 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,525 | 41.64 | |
Majority | 9,851 | 16.72 | |
Dulwich | |||
55,769/66,473 | 83.90 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,579 | 47.66 | |
Labour Party | 25,888 | 46.42 | |
Liberal Party | 3,302 | 5.92 | |
Majority | 691 | 1.24 | |
Dumfriesshire | |||
43,055/53,706 | 80.17 | ||
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 26,386 | 61.28 | |
Labour Party | 16,669 | 38.72 | |
Majority | 9,717 | 22.57 | |
Dundee East | |||
49,531/56,784 | 87.23 | ||
Labour Party | 26,668 | 53.84 | |
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 22,863 | 46.16 | |
Majority | 3,805 | 7.68 | |
31 May 1952 Death of Thomas Cook. | |||
7 July 1952 | 39,417/55,149 | 71.47 | |
Labour Party | 22,161 | 56.22 | |
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 14,035 | 35.61 | |
Scottish National Party | 2,931 | 7.44 | |
WPP | 290 | 0.74 | |
Majority | 8,126 | 20.62 | |
Dundee West | |||
56,242/64,797 | 86.80 | ||
Labour Party | 29,020 | 51.60 | |
Liberal Party | 25,714 | 45.72 | |
Communist Party | 1,508 | 2.68 | |
Majority | 3,306 | 5.88 | |
Dunfermline Burghs | |||
40,204/46,999 | 85.54 | ||
Labour Party | 24,547 | 61.06 | |
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 15,657 | 38.94 | |
Majority | 8,890 | 22.11 | |
Durham | |||
53,044/61,611 | 86.10 | ||
Labour Party | 35,597 | 67.11 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,447 | 32.89 | |
Majority | 18,150 | 34.22 | |
Ealing North | |||
51,276/58,401 | 87.80 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 25,698 | 50.12 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,578 | 49.88 | |
Majority | 120 | 0.23 | |
Ealing South | |||
48,465/58,952 | 82.21 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 30,261 | 62.44 | |
Labour Party | 18,204 | 37.56 | |
Majority | 12,057 | 24.88 | |
Easington | |||
46,924/54,096 | 86.74 | ||
Labour Party | 37,899 | 80.77 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,025 | 19.23 | |
Majority | 28,874 | 61.53 | |
East Aberdeenshire | |||
36,715/52,475 | 69.97 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,985 | 68.05 | |
Labour Party | 11,730 | 31.95 | |
Majority | 13,255 | 36.10 | |
East Dunbartonshire | |||
52,088/60,136 | 86.62 | ||
Labour Party | 26,678 | 51.22 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,252 | 44.64 | |
Communist Party | 2,158 | 4.14 | |
Majority | 3,426 | 6.58 | |
East Fife | |||
40,290/51,162 | 78.75 | ||
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 28,446 | 70.60 | |
Labour Party | 11,844 | 29.40 | |
Majority | 16,602 | 41.21 | |
East Flintshire | |||
44,539/51,575 | 86.36 | ||
Labour Party | 23,959 | 53.79 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,580 | 46.21 | |
Majority | 3,379 | 7.59 | |
East Grinstead | |||
54,449/67,771 | 80.34 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 32,803 | 60.25 | |
Labour Party | 14,271 | 26.21 | |
Liberal Party | 7,375 | 13.54 | |
Majority | 18,532 | 34.04 | |
East Ham North | |||
35,529/42,662 | 83.28 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 21,444 | 60.36 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,085 | 39.64 | |
Majority | 7,359 | 20.71 | |
East Ham South | |||
36,517/44,274 | 82.48 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 23,704 | 64.91 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,813 | 35.09 | |
Majority | 10,891 | 29.82 | |
East Renfrewshire | |||
48,496/59,330 | 81.74 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 31,908 | 65.80 | |
Labour Party | 16,588 | 34.20 | |
Majority | 15,320 | 31.59 | |
East Surrey | |||
52,022/63,986 | 81.30 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 37,966 | 72.98 | |
Labour Party | 14,056 | 27.02 | |
Majority | 23,910 | 45.96 | |
Eastbourne | |||
58,495/71,398 | 81.93 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 39,278 | 67.15 | |
Labour Party | 19,217 | 32.85 | |
Majority | 20,061 | 34.30 | |
Ebbw Vale | |||
35,037/40,293 | 86.96 | ||
Labour Party | 28,283 | 80.72 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 6,754 | 19.28 | |
Majority | 21,529 | 61.45 | |
16 March 1955 Labour Whip withdrawn from Rt Hon Aneurin Bevan. | |||
April 1955 Labour Whip restored to Rt Hon Aneurin Bevan. | |||
Eccles | |||
53,271/61,385 | 86.78 | ||
Labour Party | 27,941 | 52.45 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,330 | 47.55 | |
Majority | 2,611 | 4.90 | |
Edinburgh Central | |||
35,276/45,993 | 76.70 | ||
Labour Party | 18,429 | 52.24 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,847 | 47.76 | |
Majority | 1,582 | 4.48 | |
Edinburgh East | |||
46,601/55,595 | 83.82 | ||
Labour Party | 25,201 | 54.08 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,400 | 45.92 | |
Majority | 3,801 | 8.16 | |
January 1954 Resignation of Rt Hon John Wheatley on appointment as a Judge of the Court of Session - Lord Wheatley. | |||
8 April 1954 | 32,872/53,159 | 61.84 | |
Labour Party | 18,950 | 57.65 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,922 | 42.35 | |
Majority | 5,028 | 15.30 | |
Edinburgh Leith | |||
38,544/45,859 | 84.05 | ||
Labour Party | 19,308 | 50.09 | |
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 19,236 | 49.91 | |
Majority | 72 | 0.19 | |
Edinburgh North | |||
35,440/44,294 | 80.01 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,836 | 58.79 | |
Labour Party | 14,604 | 41.21 | |
Majority | 6,232 | 17.58 | |
December 1954 Resignation of Rt Hon James Clyde on appointment as Lord President of the Court of Session -Lord Clyde. | |||
27 January 1955 | 19,212/41,446 | 46.35 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,413 | 59.41 | |
Labour Party | 7,799 | 40.59 | |
Majority | 3,614 | 18.81 | |
Edinburgh Pentlands | |||
48,209/57,843 | 83.34 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,804 | 57.67 | |
Labour Party | 20,405 | 42.33 | |
Majority | 7,399 | 15.35 | |
Edinburgh South | |||
36,575/44,914 | 81.43 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,545 | 72.58 | |
Labour Party | 10,030 | 27.42 | |
Majority | 16,515 | 45.15 | |
Edinburgh West | |||
45,839/55,147 | 83.12 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 30,232 | 65.95 | |
Labour Party | 15,607 | 34.05 | |
Majority | 14,625 | 31.91 | |
Edmonton | |||
61,654/74,707 | 82.53 | ||
Labour Party | 36,023 | 58.43 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,631 | 41.57 | |
Majority | 10,392 | 16.86 | |
Enfield East | |||
39,892/48,309 | 82.58 | ||
Labour Party | 25,298 | 63.42 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,594 | 36.58 | |
Majority | 10,704 | 26.83 | |
Enfield West | |||
34,477/41,770 | 82.54 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,351 | 64.83 | |
Labour Party | 12,126 | 35.17 | |
Majority | 10,225 | 29.66 | |
Epping | |||
49,990/58,764 | 85.07 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,392 | 54.79 | |
Labour Party | 22,598 | 45.21 | |
Majority | 4,794 | 9.59 | |
Epsom | |||
52,917/64,594 | 81.92 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 36,333 | 68.66 | |
Labour Party | 16,584 | 31.34 | |
Majority | 19,749 | 37.32 | |
Esher | |||
53,701/64,479 | 83.28 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 33,755 | 62.86 | |
Labour Party | 15,334 | 28.55 | |
Liberal Party | 4,612 | 8.59 | |
Majority | 18,421 | 34.30 | |
Eton & Slough | |||
41,380/49,071 | 84.33 | ||
Labour Party | 22,732 | 54.93 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,648 | 45.07 | |
Majority | 4,084 | 9.87 | |
Exeter | |||
45,702/54,325 | 84.13 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,218 | 50.80 | |
Labour Party | 18,576 | 40.65 | |
Liberal Party | 3,908 | 8.55 | |
Majority | 4,642 | 10.16 | |
Eye | |||
48,739/58,518 | 83.29 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,791 | 40.61 | |
Liberal Party | 17,608 | 36.13 | |
Labour Party | 11,340 | 23.27 | |
Majority | 2,183 | 4.48 | |
Falmouth & Camborne | |||
45,040/53,870 | 83.61 | ||
Labour Party | 20,850 | 46.29 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,847 | 44.07 | |
Liberal Party | 4,343 | 9.64 | |
Majority | 1,003 | 2.23 | |
Farnham | |||
38,280/47,586 | 80.44 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,239 | 63.32 | |
Labour Party | 14,041 | 36.68 | |
Majority | 10,198 | 26.64 | |
Farnworth | |||
44,409/51,189 | 86.75 | ||
Labour Party | 26,297 | 59.22 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,112 | 40.78 | |
Majority | 8,185 | 18.43 | |
22 September 1952 Death of Rt Hon George Tomlinson. | |||
27 November 1952 | 36,449/51,340 | 71.00 | |
Labour Party | 21,834 | 59.90 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,615 | 40.10 | |
Majority | 7,219 | 19.81 | |
Faversham | |||
49,206/57,193 | 86.04 | ||
Labour Party | 24,884 | 50.57 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,322 | 49.43 | |
Majority | 562 | 1.14 | |
Fermanagh & South Tyrone | |||
62,799/67,219 | 93.42 | ||
Nationalist | 32,717 | 52.10 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 30,082 | 47.90 | |
Majority | 2,635 | 4.20 | |
Finchley | |||
60,681/72,249 | 83.99 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 33,308 | 54.89 | |
Labour Party | 20,520 | 33.82 | |
Liberal Party | 6,853 | 11.29 | |
Majority | 12,788 | 21.07 | |
Folkestone & Hythe | |||
39,490/50,358 | 78.42 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,792 | 65.31 | |
Labour Party | 13,698 | 34.69 | |
Majority | 12,094 | 30.63 | |
Fulham East | |||
38,085/45,068 | 84.51 | ||
Labour Party | 20,279 | 53.25 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,806 | 46.75 | |
Majority | 2,473 | 6.49 | |
Fulham West | |||
39,244/45,320 | 86.59 | ||
Labour Party | 20,290 | 51.70 | |
Independent Conservative | 17,707 | 45.12 | |
Liberal Party | 1,247 | 3.18 | |
Majority | 2,583 | 6.58 | |
Gainsborough | |||
40,569/50,672 | 80.06 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,915 | 49.09 | |
Labour Party | 16,074 | 39.62 | |
Liberal Party | 4,580 | 11.29 | |
Majority | 3,841 | 9.47 | |
Galloway | |||
26,384/34,896 | 75.61 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,261 | 61.63 | |
Labour Party | 6,949 | 26.34 | |
Liberal Party | 3,174 | 12.03 | |
Majority | 9,312 | 35.29 | |
Gateshead East | |||
33,869/39,536 | 85.67 | ||
Labour Party | 19,525 | 57.65 | |
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 14,344 | 42.35 | |
Majority | 5,181 | 15.30 | |
Gateshead West | |||
32,601/38,899 | 83.81 | ||
Labour Party | 20,790 | 63.77 | |
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 11,811 | 36.23 | |
Majority | 8,979 | 27.54 | |
Gillingham | |||
39,942/46,731 | 85.47 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,453 | 53.71 | |
Labour Party | 18,489 | 46.29 | |
Majority | 2,964 | 7.42 | |
Glasgow Bridgeton | |||
33,485/43,570 | 76.85 | ||
Labour Party | 21,307 | 63.63 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 10,382 | 31.00 | |
Liberal Party | 1,796 | 5.36 | |
Majority | 10,925 | 32.63 | |
Glasgow Camlachie | |||
40,963/50,515 | 81.09 | ||
Labour Party | 20,994 | 51.25 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,969 | 48.75 | |
Majority | 1,025 | 2.50 | |
Glasgow Cathcart | |||
37,037/44,881 | 82.52 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,125 | 70.54 | |
Labour Party | 10,912 | 29.46 | |
Majority | 15,213 | 41.08 | |
Glasgow Central | |||
27,043/36,379 | 74.34 | ||
Labour Party | 15,757 | 58.27 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 10,875 | 40.21 | |
Independent Socialist | 411 | 1.52 | |
Majority | 4,882 | 18.05 | |
Glasgow Gorbals | |||
40,910/53,795 | 76.05 | ||
Labour Party | 25,288 | 61.81 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,069 | 31.95 | |
Communist Party | 2,553 | 6.24 | |
Majority | 12,219 | 29.87 | |
Glasgow Govan | |||
41,631/49,025 | 84.92 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,936 | 50.29 | |
Labour Party | 20,695 | 49.71 | |
Majority | 241 | 0.58 | |
Glasgow Hillhead | |||
38,013/46,238 | 82.21 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,654 | 64.86 | |
Labour Party | 13,359 | 35.14 | |
Majority | 11,295 | 29.71 | |
Glasgow Kelvingrove | |||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,837 | 52.37 | |
Labour Party | 14,406 | 47.63 | |
Majority | 1,431 | 4.73 | |
Glasgow Maryhill | |||
36,344/45,032 | 80.71 | ||
Labour Party | 22,912 | 63.04 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,076 | 35.98 | |
Independent | 356 | 0.98 | |
Majority | 9,836 | 27.06 | |
Albert Pickard sought election as an Independent Millionaire. | |||
Glasgow Pollok | |||
51,923/62,961 | 82.47 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,787 | 55.44 | |
Labour Party | 23,136 | 44.56 | |
Majority | 5,651 | 10.88 | |
4 May 1955 Elevation of Rt Hon Thomas Galbraith to Peerage - Baron Strathclyde. | |||
Glasgow Scotstoun | |||
42,369/49,814 | 85.05 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,497 | 50.74 | |
Labour Party | 20,872 | 49.26 | |
Majority | 625 | 1.48 | |
Glasgow Shettleston | |||
42,430/52,267 | 81.18 | ||
Labour Party | 25,359 | 59.77 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,876 | 37.42 | |
Independent Labour Party | 1,195 | 2.82 | |
Majority | 9,483 | 22.35 | |
23 November 1954 The Labour whip was withdrawn from John McGovern. | |||
Glasgow Springburn | |||
44,497/57,019 | 78.04 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 27,749 | 62.36 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,748 | 37.64 | |
Majority | 11,001 | 24.72 | |
Glasgow Tradeston | |||
42,737/53,404 | 80.03 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 26,966 | 63.10 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,771 | 36.90 | |
Majority | 11,195 | 26.20 | |
Glasgow Woodside | |||
34,763/42,950 | 80.94 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,553 | 53.37 | |
Labour and Co-operative Party | 16,210 | 46.63 | |
Majority | 2,343 | 6.74 | |
Gloucester | |||
43,225/50,554 | 85.50 | ||
Labour Party | 21,097 | 48.81 | |
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 18,836 | 43.58 | |
Liberal Party | 3,292 | 7.62 | |
Majority | 2,261 | 5.23 | |
Goole | |||
43,161/51,280 | 84.17 | ||
Labour Party | 26,088 | 60.44 | |
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 17,073 | 39.56 | |
Majority | 9,015 | 20.89 | |
Gosport & Fareham | |||
51,030/63,068 | 80.91 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 30,727 | 60.21 | |
Labour Party | 20,303 | 39.79 | |
Majority | 10,424 | 20.43 | |
Gower | |||
43,012/51,016 | 84.31 | ||
Labour Party | 32,661 | 75.93 | |
National Liberal Party | 10,351 | 24.07 | |
Majority | 22,310 | 51.87 | |
Grantham | |||
47,648/56,671 | 84.08 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,712 | 43.47 | |
Labour Party | 18,540 | 38.91 | |
Liberal Party | 8,396 | 17.62 | |
Majority | 2,172 | 4.56 | |
Gravesend | |||
54,355/63,393 | 85.74 | ||
Labour Party | 30,055 | 55.29 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,300 | 44.71 | |
Majority | 5,755 | 10.59 | |
10 March 1955 Sir Richard Acland, Bt resigns the Labour whip in protest at the party's stand on nuclear weapons. | |||
22 March 1955 Resignation of Sir Richard Acland, Bt. | |||
Greenock | |||
41,067/49,494 | 82.97 | ||
Labour Party | 23,452 | 57.11 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,615 | 42.89 | |
Majority | 5,837 | 14.21 | |
Greenwich | |||
50,224/62,041 | 80.95 | ||
Labour Party | 30,326 | 60.38 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,898 | 39.62 | |
Majority | 10,428 | 20.76 | |
Grimsby | |||
52,073/63,498 | 82.01 | ||
Labour Party | 29,462 | 56.58 | |
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 22,611 | 43.42 | |
Majority | 6,851 | 13.16 | |
Guildford | |||
43,672/54,858 | 79.61 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,604 | 63.21 | |
Labour Party | 16,068 | 36.79 | |
Majority | 11,536 | 26.42 | |
Hackney South | |||
59,018/76,552 | 77.10 | ||
Labour Party | 39,271 | 66.54 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,003 | 30.50 | |
Communist Party | 1,744 | 2.96 | |
Majority | 21,268 | 36.04 | |
Halifax | |||
60,103/71,343 | 84.25 | ||
Labour Party | 30,433 | 50.63 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,670 | 49.37 | |
Majority | 763 | 1.27 | |
Hamilton | |||
41,606/51,606 | 80.62 | ||
Labour Party | 28,591 | 68.72 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,015 | 31.28 | |
Majority | 15,576 | 37.44 | |
Hammersmith North | |||
34,338/42,302 | 81.17 | ||
Labour Party | 22,709 | 66.13 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,629 | 33.87 | |
Majority | 11,080 | 32.27 | |
Hammersmith South | |||
35,311/44,030 | 80.20 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 19,273 | 54.58 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,038 | 45.42 | |
Majority | 3,235 | 9.16 | |
Hampstead | |||
56,888/72,946 | 77.99 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 31,346 | 55.10 | |
Labour Party | 19,240 | 33.82 | |
Liberal Party | 6,302 | 11.08 | |
Majority | 12,106 | 21.28 | |
Harborough | |||
56,301/64,285 | 87.58 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,395 | 52.21 | |
Labour Party | 21,648 | 38.45 | |
Liberal Party | 5,258 | 9.34 | |
Majority | 7,747 | 13.76 | |
Harrogate | |||
40,827/51,852 | 78.74 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,806 | 70.56 | |
Labour Party | 12,021 | 29.44 | |
Majority | 16,785 | 41.11 | |
12 February 1954 Resignation of Christopher York. | |||
11 March 1954 | 28,630/51,743 | 55.33 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,263 | 70.78 | |
Labour Party | 8,367 | 29.22 | |
Majority | 11,896 | 41.55 | |
Harrow Central | |||
43,104/50,688 | 85.04 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,564 | 59.31 | |
Labour Party | 17,540 | 40.69 | |
Majority | 8,024 | 18.62 | |
Harrow East | |||
53,950/61,408 | 87.86 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,896 | 49.85 | |
Labour Party | 23,725 | 43.98 | |
Liberal Party | 3,329 | 6.17 | |
Majority | 3,171 | 5.88 | |
Harrow West | |||
39,351/46,979 | 83.76 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,549 | 67.47 | |
Labour Party | 12,802 | 32.53 | |
Majority | 13,747 | 34.93 | |
Harwich | |||
44,413/56,381 | 78.77 | ||
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 26,169 | 58.92 | |
Labour Party | 18,244 | 41.08 | |
Majority | 7,925 | 17.84 | |
18 January 1954 Elevation of Sir Joseph Holmes to the Peerage - Baron Dovercourt. | |||
11 February 1954 | 33,067/56,225 | 58.81 | |
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 19,532 | 59.07 | |
Labour Party | 13,535 | 40.93 | |
Majority | 5,997 | 18.14 | |
Hastings | |||
54,116/69,956 | 77.36 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 34,495 | 63.74 | |
Labour Party | 19,621 | 36.26 | |
Majority | 14,874 | 27.49 | |
Hayes & Harlington | |||
36,772/44,737 | 82.20 | ||
Labour Party | 23,823 | 64.79 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,949 | 35.21 | |
Majority | 10,874 | 29.57 | |
31 January 1953 Resignation of Walter Ayles. | |||
1 April 1953 | 20,018/44,525 | 44.96 | |
Labour Party | 12,797 | 63.93 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 7,221 | 36.07 | |
Majority | 5,576 | 27.85 | |
Hemel Hempstead | |||
43,840/52,313 | 83.80 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,620 | 58.44 | |
Labour Party | 18,220 | 41.56 | |
Majority | 7,400 | 16.88 | |
Hemsworth | |||
57,313/67,370 | 85.07 | ||
Labour Party | 47,402 | 82.71 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,911 | 17.29 | |
Majority | 37,491 | 65.41 | |
Hendon North | |||
47,386/54,913 | 86.29 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,329 | 49.23 | |
Labour Party | 20,738 | 43.76 | |
Liberal Party | 3,319 | 7.00 | |
Majority | 2,591 | 5.47 | |
Hendon South | |||
47,256/57,843 | 81.70 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,180 | 55.40 | |
Labour Party | 16,124 | 34.12 | |
Liberal Party | 4,952 | 10.48 | |
Majority | 10,056 | 21.28 | |
Henley | |||
40,711/51,997 | 78.29 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,621 | 58.02 | |
Labour Party | 17,090 | 41.98 | |
Majority | 6,531 | 16.04 | |
Hereford | |||
34,600/44,579 | 77.62 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,204 | 61.28 | |
Labour Party | 13,396 | 38.72 | |
Majority | 7,808 | 22.57 | |
Hertford | |||
54,227/67,110 | 80.80 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 30,519 | 56.28 | |
Labour and Co-operative Party | 23,708 | 43.72 | |
Majority | 6,811 | 12.56 | |
Heston & Isleworth | |||
65,412/78,048 | 83.81 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 35,468 | 54.22 | |
Labour Party | 29,944 | 45.78 | |
Majority | 5,524 | 8.44 | |
Hexham | |||
39,035/47,363 | 82.42 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,267 | 59.61 | |
Labour Party | 15,768 | 40.39 | |
Majority | 7,499 | 19.21 | |
Heywood & Royton | |||
52,169/61,320 | 85.08 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,086 | 53.84 | |
Labour Party | 24,083 | 46.16 | |
Majority | 4,003 | 7.67 | |
High Peak | |||
43,502/50,624 | 85.93 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,305 | 48.97 | |
Labour Party | 18,127 | 41.67 | |
Liberal Party | 4,070 | 9.36 | |
Majority | 3,178 | 7.31 | |
Hitchin | |||
52,660/61,967 | 84.98 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,719 | 52.64 | |
Labour Party | 24,941 | 47.36 | |
Majority | 2,778 | 5.28 | |
Holborn & St Pancras South | |||
40,521/54,978 | 73.70 | ||
Labour Party | 20,332 | 50.18 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,573 | 45.84 | |
Liberal Party | 1,616 | 3.99 | |
Majority | 1,759 | 4.34 | |
24 September 1953 Death of Dr Santo Jeger. | |||
19 November 1953 | 30,287/53,856 | 56.24 | |
Labour Party | 15,784 | 52.11 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,808 | 45.59 | |
Independent Liberal | 695 | 2.29 | |
Majority | 1,976 | 6.52 | |
I Hyam was the nominee of the local Liberal Association but his candidacy was not supported by the Liberal Party. | |||
Holland with Boston | |||
54,677/69,453 | 78.73 | ||
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 31,683 | 57.95 | |
Labour Party | 22,994 | 42.05 | |
Majority | 8,689 | 15.89 | |
Honiton | |||
46,242/56,022 | 82.54 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,015 | 58.42 | |
Liberal Party | 9,858 | 21.32 | |
Labour Party | 9,369 | 20.26 | |
Majority | 17,157 | 37.10 | |
Horncastle | |||
33,186/43,285 | 76.67 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,043 | 66.42 | |
Labour Party | 11,143 | 33.58 | |
Majority | 10,900 | 32.85 | |
Hornchurch | |||
63,457/73,680 | 86.13 | ||
Labour Party | 30,010 | 47.29 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,976 | 45.66 | |
Liberal Party | 4,471 | 7.05 | |
Majority | 1,034 | 1.63 | |
Hornsey | |||
62,060/75,131 | 82.60 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 36,417 | 58.68 | |
Labour Party | 25,643 | 41.32 | |
Majority | 10,774 | 17.36 | |
Horsham | |||
38,007/48,910 | 77.71 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,204 | 66.31 | |
Labour Party | 12,803 | 33.69 | |
Majority | 12,401 | 32.63 | |
Houghton-le-Spring | |||
49,760/57,454 | 86.61 | ||
Labour Party | 37,718 | 75.80 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,042 | 24.20 | |
Majority | 25,676 | 51.60 | |
Hove | |||
50,164/64,813 | 77.40 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 37,230 | 74.22 | |
Labour Party | 12,934 | 25.78 | |
Majority | 24,296 | 48.43 | |
Huddersfield East | |||
40,167/46,384 | 86.60 | ||
Labour Party | 22,368 | 55.69 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,799 | 44.31 | |
Majority | 4,569 | 11.38 | |
The Conservative and Liberal Associations made an electoral pact that the Conservatives would contest Huddersfield East and the Liberals Huddersfield West in an attempt to defeat the Labour candidates in both constituencies. | |||
Huddersfield West | |||
41,120/47,851 | 85.93 | ||
Liberal Party | 24,054 | 58.50 | |
Labour Party | 17,066 | 41.50 | |
Majority | 6,988 | 16.99 | |
The Conservative and Liberal Associations made an electoral pact that the Conservatives would contest Huddersfield East and the Liberals Huddersfield West in an attempt to defeat the Labour candidates in both constituencies. | |||
Huntingdonshire | |||
36,332/44,982 | 80.77 | ||
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 20,845 | 57.37 | |
Labour Party | 15,487 | 42.63 | |
Majority | 5,358 | 14.75 | |
Huyton | |||
45,971/54,230 | 84.77 | ||
Labour Party | 23,582 | 51.30 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,389 | 48.70 | |
Majority | 1,193 | 2.60 | |
Ilford North | |||
57,479/67,796 | 84.78 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 31,905 | 55.51 | |
Labour and Co-operative Party | 21,865 | 38.04 | |
Liberal Party | 3,709 | 6.45 | |
Majority | 10,040 | 17.47 | |
1953 Resignation of Geoffrey Hutchinson on appointment as Chairman of the National Assistance Board. | |||
3 February 1954 | 30,711/67,689 | 45.37 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,354 | 59.76 | |
Labour and Co-operative Party | 9,927 | 32.32 | |
Liberal Party | 2,430 | 7.91 | |
Majority | 8,427 | 27.44 | |
Ilford South | |||
55,115/66,678 | 82.66 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 30,177 | 54.75 | |
Labour Party | 24,938 | 45.25 | |
Majority | 5,239 | 9.51 | |
Ilkeston | |||
60,331/69,773 | 86.47 | ||
Labour Party | 40,671 | 67.41 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 10,273 | 17.03 | |
Liberal Party | 9,387 | 15.56 | |
Majority | 30,398 | 50.39 | |
Ince | |||
44,453/51,121 | 86.96 | ||
Labour Party | 32,148 | 72.32 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,305 | 27.68 | |
Majority | 19,843 | 44.64 | |
Inverness | |||
34,858/50,302 | 69.30 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,497 | 64.54 | |
Labour Party | 12,361 | 35.46 | |
Majority | 10,136 | 29.08 | |
28 November 1954 Resignation of Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton. | |||
21 December 1954 | 24,969/50,755 | 49.20 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 10,329 | 41.37 | |
Liberal Party | 8,998 | 36.04 | |
Labour Party | 5,642 | 22.60 | |
Majority | 1,331 | 5.33 | |
Ipswich | |||
62,690/73,622 | 85.15 | ||
Labour Party | 33,463 | 53.38 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,227 | 46.62 | |
Majority | 4,236 | 6.76 | |
Isle of Ely | |||
46,234/60,918 | 75.90 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,319 | 56.93 | |
Labour Party | 19,915 | 43.07 | |
Majority | 6,404 | 13.85 | |
14 July 1954 Harry Legge-Bourke resigns the Conservative whip. | |||
18 October 1954 The Conservative whip is restored to Harry Legge-Bourke. | |||
Isle of Thanet | |||
54,443/69,782 | 78.02 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 33,551 | 61.63 | |
Labour Party | 20,892 | 38.37 | |
Majority | 12,659 | 23.25 | |
14 February 1953 Resignation of Hon Edward Carson. | |||
12 March 1953 | 41,196/70,177 | 58.70 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,261 | 61.32 | |
Labour Party | 15,935 | 38.68 | |
Majority | 9,326 | 22.64 | |
Isle of Wight | |||
54,213/67,501 | 80.31 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 33,501 | 61.80 | |
Labour Party | 20,712 | 38.20 | |
Majority | 12,789 | 23.59 | |
Islington East | |||
39,896/50,997 | 78.23 | ||
Labour Party | 23,896 | 59.90 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,000 | 40.10 | |
Majority | 7,896 | 19.79 | |
Islington North | |||
45,947/59,039 | 77.82 | ||
Labour Party | 27,406 | 59.65 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,541 | 40.35 | |
Majority | 8,865 | 19.29 | |
Islington South West | |||
46,387/61,707 | 75.17 | ||
Labour Party | 31,637 | 68.20 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,750 | 31.80 | |
Majority | 16,887 | 36.40 | |
Jarrow | |||
55,180/65,252 | 84.56 | ||
Labour Party | 35,963 | 65.17 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,217 | 34.83 | |
Majority | 16,746 | 30.35 | |
23 November 1954 The Labour whip is withdrawn from Ernest Fernyhough. | |||
Keighley | |||
45,038/51,468 | 87.51 | ||
Labour Party | 23,743 | 52.72 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,295 | 47.28 | |
Majority | 2,448 | 5.44 | |
Kensington North | |||
42,812/54,083 | 79.16 | ||
Labour Party | 22,686 | 52.99 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,543 | 43.31 | |
Liberal Party | 1,583 | 3.70 | |
Majority | 4,143 | 9.68 | |
Kensington South | |||
43,486/63,419 | 68.57 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 34,592 | 79.55 | |
Labour Party | 8,894 | 20.45 | |
Majority | 25,698 | 59.09 | |
Kettering | |||
58,381/66,985 | 87.16 | ||
Labour Party | 32,604 | 55.85 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,777 | 44.15 | |
Majority | 6,827 | 11.69 | |
Kidderminster | |||
45,808/55,179 | 83.02 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,483 | 55.63 | |
Labour Party | 20,325 | 44.37 | |
Majority | 5,158 | 11.26 | |
Kilmarnock | |||
40,619/46,869 | 86.66 | ||
Labour Party | 24,664 | 60.72 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,955 | 39.28 | |
Majority | 8,709 | 21.44 | |
King's Lynn | |||
42,971/51,914 | 82.77 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,954 | 51.09 | |
Labour Party | 21,017 | 48.91 | |
Majority | 937 | 2.18 | |
Kingston upon Thames | |||
60,633/74,803 | 81.06 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 38,516 | 63.52 | |
Labour Party | 22,117 | 36.48 | |
Majority | 16,399 | 27.05 | |
Kingston-upon-Hull Central | |||
48,087/62,996 | 76.33 | ||
Labour Party | 29,674 | 61.71 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,413 | 38.29 | |
Majority | 11,261 | 23.42 | |
Kingston-upon-Hull East | |||
48,871/58,028 | 84.22 | ||
Labour Party | 27,892 | 57.07 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,368 | 33.49 | |
Liberal Party | 4,611 | 9.44 | |
Majority | 11,524 | 23.58 | |
Kingston-upon-Hull Haltemprice | |||
46,752/56,485 | 82.77 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,168 | 58.11 | |
Labour Party | 19,584 | 41.89 | |
Majority | 7,584 | 16.22 | |
15 January 1954 Resignation of Rt Hon Richard Law. | |||
11 February 1954 | 26,081/57,036 | 45.73 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,107 | 61.76 | |
Labour Party | 9,974 | 38.24 | |
Majority | 6,133 | 23.52 | |
Kingston-upon-Hull North | |||
42,570/50,262 | 84.70 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,545 | 52.96 | |
Labour Party | 20,025 | 47.04 | |
Majority | 2,520 | 5.92 | |
Kinross & West Perthshire | |||
25,749/35,176 | 73.20 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,625 | 76.22 | |
Labour Party | 6,124 | 23.78 | |
Majority | 13,501 | 52.43 | |
Kirkcaldy Burghs | |||
44,369/52,473 | 84.56 | ||
Labour Party | 26,885 | 60.59 | |
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 17,484 | 39.41 | |
Majority | 9,401 | 21.19 | |
Knutsford | |||
48,754/58,725 | 83.02 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 34,114 | 69.97 | |
Labour Party | 14,640 | 30.03 | |
Majority | 19,474 | 39.94 | |
Lanark | |||
41,141/47,281 | 87.01 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,467 | 52.18 | |
Labour Party | 19,674 | 47.82 | |
Majority | 1,793 | 4.36 | |
Lancaster | |||
38,654/44,917 | 86.06 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,555 | 53.18 | |
Labour Party | 18,099 | 46.82 | |
Majority | 2,456 | 6.35 | |
Leeds Central | |||
38,442/49,858 | 77.10 | ||
Labour Party | 23,967 | 62.35 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,475 | 37.65 | |
Majority | 9,492 | 24.69 | |
Leeds North | |||
47,539/58,219 | 81.66 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 30,290 | 63.72 | |
Labour Party | 17,249 | 36.28 | |
Majority | 13,041 | 27.43 | |
Leeds North East | |||
38,393/47,461 | 80.89 | ||
Labour Party | 22,402 | 58.35 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,991 | 41.65 | |
Majority | 6,411 | 16.70 | |
Leeds North West | |||
41,363/50,184 | 82.42 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,873 | 62.55 | |
Labour Party | 15,490 | 37.45 | |
Majority | 10,383 | 25.10 | |
Leeds South | |||
47,205/57,436 | 82.19 | ||
Labour Party | 30,712 | 65.06 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,493 | 34.94 | |
Majority | 14,219 | 30.12 | |
Leeds South East | |||
41,206/48,826 | 84.39 | ||
Labour Party | 24,929 | 60.50 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,277 | 39.50 | |
Majority | 8,652 | 21.00 | |
20 December 1951 Elevation of Rt Hon James Milner to the Peerage - Baron Milner of Leeds. | |||
7 February 1952 | 27,189/48,826 | 55.69 | |
Labour Party | 17,194 | 63.24 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,995 | 36.76 | |
Majority | 7,199 | 26.48 | |
Leeds West | |||
41,314/48,082 | 85.92 | ||
Labour Party | 22,357 | 54.11 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,957 | 45.89 | |
Majority | 3,400 | 8.23 | |
Leek | |||
57,094/66,253 | 86.18 | ||
Labour Party | 29,502 | 51.67 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,592 | 48.33 | |
Majority | 1,910 | 3.35 | |
Leicester North East | |||
43,687/51,771 | 84.39 | ||
Labour Party | 26,209 | 59.99 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,478 | 40.01 | |
Majority | 8,731 | 19.99 | |
Leicester North West | |||
44,309/52,532 | 84.35 | ||
Labour Party | 25,184 | 56.84 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,125 | 43.16 | |
Majority | 6,059 | 13.67 | |
Leicester South East | |||
40,078/47,841 | 83.77 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,853 | 59.52 | |
Labour and Co-operative Party | 16,225 | 40.48 | |
Majority | 7,628 | 19.03 | |
Leicester South West | |||
41,687/50,507 | 82.54 | ||
Labour Party | 24,340 | 58.39 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,347 | 41.61 | |
Majority | 6,993 | 16.78 | |
Leigh | |||
53,466/62,182 | 85.98 | ||
Labour Party | 33,881 | 63.37 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,585 | 36.63 | |
Majority | 14,296 | 26.74 | |
Leominster | |||
29,891/40,306 | 74.16 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,952 | 66.75 | |
Labour Party | 9,939 | 33.25 | |
Majority | 10,013 | 33.50 | |
Lewes | |||
51,427/65,712 | 78.26 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 34,345 | 66.78 | |
Labour Party | 17,082 | 33.22 | |
Majority | 17,263 | 33.57 | |
Lewisham North | |||
45,649/54,331 | 84.02 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,406 | 53.46 | |
Labour Party | 21,243 | 46.54 | |
Majority | 3,163 | 6.93 | |
Lewisham South | |||
48,685/57,132 | 85.21 | ||
Labour Party | 27,559 | 56.61 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,548 | 42.21 | |
Communist Party | 578 | 1.19 | |
Majority | 7,011 | 14.40 | |
Lewisham West | |||
48,262/56,214 | 85.85 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,449 | 52.73 | |
Labour Party | 22,813 | 47.27 | |
Majority | 2,636 | 5.46 | |
Leyton | |||
65,291/79,445 | 82.18 | ||
Labour Party | 37,728 | 57.78 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,563 | 42.22 | |
Majority | 10,165 | 15.57 | |
Lichfield & Tamworth | |||
54,767/64,045 | 85.51 | ||
Labour Party | 28,826 | 52.63 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,941 | 47.37 | |
Majority | 2,885 | 5.27 | |
Lincoln | |||
43,240/49,279 | 87.75 | ||
Labour Party | 23,400 | 54.12 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,840 | 45.88 | |
Majority | 3,560 | 8.23 | |
Liverpool Edge Hill | |||
42,475/55,570 | 76.44 | ||
Labour Party | 22,906 | 53.93 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,569 | 46.07 | |
Majority | 3,337 | 7.86 | |
Liverpool Exchange | |||
32,939/47,612 | 69.18 | ||
Labour Party | 19,887 | 60.38 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,052 | 39.62 | |
Majority | 6,835 | 20.75 | |
Liverpool Garston | |||
54,675/68,336 | 80.01 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 35,650 | 65.20 | |
Labour Party | 19,025 | 34.80 | |
Majority | 16,625 | 30.41 | |
Liverpool Kirkdale | |||
38,516/49,466 | 77.86 | ||
Labour Party | 19,637 | 50.98 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,879 | 49.02 | |
Majority | 758 | 1.97 | |
Liverpool Scotland | |||
41,902/58,929 | 71.11 | ||
Labour Party | 28,558 | 68.15 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,344 | 31.85 | |
Majority | 15,214 | 36.31 | |
Liverpool Toxteth | |||
42,874/55,336 | 77.48 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,254 | 54.24 | |
Labour and Co-operative Party | 19,620 | 45.76 | |
Majority | 3,634 | 8.48 | |
Liverpool Walton | |||
52,276/64,502 | 81.05 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,014 | 53.59 | |
Labour Party | 24,262 | 46.41 | |
Majority | 3,752 | 7.18 | |
Liverpool Wavertree | |||
47,881/61,133 | 78.32 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,179 | 58.85 | |
Labour Party | 19,702 | 41.15 | |
Majority | 8,477 | 17.70 | |
Liverpool West Derby | |||
53,175/66,208 | 80.32 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,441 | 51.61 | |
Labour Party | 25,734 | 48.39 | |
Majority | 1,707 | 3.21 | |
19 October 1954 Elevation of Rt Hon Sir David Maxwell Fyfe to the Peerage - Viscount Kilmuir - and appointment as Lord Chancellor. | |||
18 November 1954 | 39,808/67,570 | 58.91 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,158 | 53.15 | |
Labour and Co-operative Party | 18,650 | 46.85 | |
Majority | 2,508 | 6.30 | |
Llanelly | |||
54,811/67,157 | 81.62 | ||
Labour Party | 39,731 | 72.49 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,315 | 20.64 | |
Plaid Cymru | 3,765 | 6.87 | |
Majority | 28,416 | 51.84 | |
Londonderry | |||
Conservative & Unionist Party | Unopposed |   | |
Loughborough | |||
45,465/52,914 | 85.92 | ||
Labour Party | 25,894 | 56.95 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,571 | 43.05 | |
Majority | 6,323 | 13.91 | |
Louth | |||
40,228/49,995 | 80.46 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,587 | 53.66 | |
Labour Party | 15,819 | 39.32 | |
Liberal Party | 2,822 | 7.02 | |
Majority | 5,768 | 14.34 | |
Lowestoft | |||
46,335/56,582 | 81.89 | ||
Labour Party | 23,591 | 50.91 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,744 | 49.09 | |
Majority | 847 | 1.83 | |
Ludlow | |||
36,669/47,168 | 77.74 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,073 | 60.20 | |
Labour Party | 14,596 | 39.80 | |
Majority | 7,477 | 20.39 | |
Luton | |||
50,396/57,535 | 87.59 | ||
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 26,554 | 52.69 | |
Labour Party | 23,842 | 47.31 | |
Majority | 2,712 | 5.38 | |
Macclesfield | |||
49,862/57,134 | 87.27 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,434 | 59.03 | |
Labour Party | 20,428 | 40.97 | |
Majority | 9,006 | 18.06 | |
Maidstone | |||
48,765/60,549 | 80.54 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,606 | 56.61 | |
Labour Party | 21,159 | 43.39 | |
Majority | 6,447 | 13.22 | |
Maldon | |||
44,808/51,282 | 87.38 | ||
Labour Party | 22,756 | 50.79 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,052 | 49.21 | |
Majority | 704 | 1.57 | |
Manchester Ardwick | |||
39,882/50,821 | 78.48 | ||
Labour Party | 22,150 | 55.54 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,732 | 44.46 | |
Majority | 4,418 | 11.08 | |
Manchester Blackley | |||
51,167/60,180 | 85.02 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,076 | 49.01 | |
Labour Party | 22,804 | 44.57 | |
Liberal Party | 3,287 | 6.42 | |
Majority | 2,272 | 4.44 | |
Manchester Cheetham | |||
36,612/48,652 | 75.25 | ||
Labour Party | 22,810 | 62.30 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,802 | 37.70 | |
Majority | 9,008 | 24.60 | |
Manchester Clayton | |||
44,107/56,126 | 78.59 | ||
Labour Party | 27,985 | 63.45 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,122 | 36.55 | |
Majority | 11,863 | 26.90 | |
Manchester Exchange | |||
33,356/46,448 | 71.81 | ||
Labour Party | 18,475 | 55.39 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,881 | 44.61 | |
Majority | 3,594 | 10.77 | |
Manchester Gorton | |||
49,578/60,722 | 81.65 | ||
Labour Party | 28,763 | 58.02 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,815 | 41.98 | |
Majority | 7,948 | 16.03 | |
Manchester Moss Side | |||
44,516/57,794 | 77.03 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,697 | 62.22 | |
Labour Party | 16,819 | 37.78 | |
Majority | 10,878 | 24.44 | |
Manchester Withington | |||
41,408/52,017 | 79.60 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,804 | 64.73 | |
Labour Party | 14,604 | 35.27 | |
Majority | 12,200 | 29.46 | |
Manchester Wythenshawe | |||
50,656/63,017 | 80.38 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,611 | 56.48 | |
Labour Party | 22,045 | 43.52 | |
Majority | 6,566 | 12.96 | |
Mansfield | |||
53,058/63,662 | 83.34 | ||
Labour Party | 37,097 | 69.92 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,961 | 30.08 | |
Majority | 21,136 | 39.84 | |
Melton | |||
50,997/59,671 | 85.46 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,689 | 56.26 | |
Labour Party | 22,308 | 43.74 | |
Majority | 6,381 | 12.51 | |
Merionethshire | |||
24,467/28,019 | 87.32 | ||
Labour Party | 10,505 | 42.94 | |
Liberal Party | 9,457 | 38.65 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 4,505 | 18.41 | |
Majority | 1,048 | 4.28 | |
Merthyr Tydfil | |||
36,246/42,937 | 84.42 | ||
Labour Party | 28,841 | 79.57 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 7,405 | 20.43 | |
Majority | 21,436 | 59.14 | |
23 November 1954 Labour whip was withdrawn from Stephen Davies. | |||
April 1955 Labour whip was restored to Stephen Davies. | |||
Merton & Morden | |||
48,574/56,049 | 86.66 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,488 | 54.53 | |
Labour and Co-operative Party | 22,086 | 45.47 | |
Majority | 4,402 | 9.06 | |
Mid Bedfordshire | |||
43,362/50,813 | 85.34 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,681 | 45.39 | |
Labour Party | 17,818 | 41.09 | |
Liberal Party | 5,863 | 13.52 | |
Majority | 1,863 | 4.30 | |
Mid Ulster | |||
62,795/68,412 | 91.79 | ||
Nationalist | 33,094 | 52.70 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,701 | 47.30 | |
Majority | 3,393 | 5.40 | |
Middlesbrough East | |||
47,026/58,110 | 80.93 | ||
Labour Party | 31,277 | 66.51 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,749 | 33.49 | |
Majority | 15,528 | 33.02 | |
Middlesbrough West | |||
47,147/54,640 | 86.29 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,622 | 52.22 | |
Labour and Co-operative Party | 22,525 | 47.78 | |
Majority | 2,097 | 4.45 | |
Middleton & Prestwich | |||
48,153/56,657 | 84.99 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,073 | 54.15 | |
Labour Party | 16,323 | 33.90 | |
Liberal Party | 5,757 | 11.96 | |
Majority | 9,750 | 20.25 | |
Midlothian & Peeblesshire | |||
52,952/63,213 | 83.77 | ||
Labour Party | 29,271 | 55.28 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,681 | 44.72 | |
Majority | 5,590 | 10.56 | |
Mitcham | |||
62,243/73,575 | 84.60 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 34,056 | 54.71 | |
Labour Party | 28,187 | 45.29 | |
Majority | 5,869 | 9.43 | |
Monmouth | |||
40,427/48,314 | 83.68 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,475 | 55.59 | |
Labour Party | 17,952 | 44.41 | |
Majority | 4,523 | 11.19 | |
Montgomeryshire | |||
24,659/32,387 | 76.14 | ||
Liberal Party | 17,075 | 69.24 | |
Labour Party | 7,584 | 30.76 | |
Majority | 9,491 | 38.49 | |
Moray & Nairnshire | |||
26,368/35,370 | 74.55 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,881 | 60.23 | |
Labour Party | 10,487 | 39.77 | |
Majority | 5,394 | 20.46 | |
Morecambe & Lonsdale | |||
44,943/55,913 | 80.38 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 31,211 | 69.45 | |
Labour Party | 13,732 | 30.55 | |
Majority | 17,479 | 38.89 | |
Morpeth | |||
38,561/45,117 | 85.47 | ||
Labour Party | 27,718 | 71.88 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 10,843 | 28.12 | |
Majority | 16,875 | 43.76 | |
19 July 1954 Death of Rt Hon Robert Taylor. | |||
4 November 1954 | 32,960/45,177 | 72.96 | |
Labour and Co-operative Party | 23,491 | 71.27 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,469 | 28.73 | |
Majority | 14,022 | 42.54 | |
Motherwell | |||
41,291/48,732 | 84.73 | ||
Labour Party | 23,641 | 57.25 | |
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 17,650 | 42.75 | |
Majority | 5,991 | 14.51 | |
11 February 1954 Death of Alexander Anderson. | |||
14 April 1954 | 33,954/48,193 | 70.45 | |
Labour Party | 19,163 | 56.44 | |
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 13,334 | 39.27 | |
Communist Party | 1,457 | 4.29 | |
Majority | 5,829 | 17.17 | |
Neath | |||
44,863/52,203 | 85.94 | ||
Labour Party | 34,496 | 76.89 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 10,367 | 23.11 | |
Majority | 24,129 | 53.78 | |
Nelson & Colne | |||
46,822/52,614 | 88.99 | ||
Labour Party | 25,611 | 54.70 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,211 | 45.30 | |
Majority | 4,400 | 9.40 | |
23 November 1954 The Labour whip was withdrawn from Sidney Silverman. | |||
New Forest | |||
49,111/63,545 | 77.29 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 31,574 | 64.29 | |
Labour Party | 17,537 | 35.71 | |
Majority | 14,037 | 28.58 | |
Newark | |||
53,293/62,353 | 85.47 | ||
Labour Party | 30,476 | 57.19 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,817 | 42.81 | |
Majority | 7,659 | 14.37 | |
Newbury | |||
33,609/42,728 | 78.66 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,102 | 59.81 | |
Labour Party | 13,507 | 40.19 | |
Majority | 6,595 | 19.62 | |
Newcastle upon Tyne Central | |||
40,028/49,505 | 80.86 | ||
Labour Party | 25,637 | 64.05 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,325 | 33.29 | |
Independent Labour Party | 1,066 | 2.66 | |
Majority | 12,312 | 30.76 | |
Newcastle upon Tyne East | |||
48,471/55,965 | 86.61 | ||
Labour Party | 25,621 | 52.86 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,850 | 47.14 | |
Majority | 2,771 | 5.72 | |
Newcastle upon Tyne North | |||
46,839/55,370 | 84.59 | ||
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 23,930 | 51.09 | |
Labour Party | 17,005 | 36.31 | |
Independent Conservative | 5,904 | 12.60 | |
Majority | 6,925 | 14.78 | |
In May 1951 the local Conservative Association split into 2 organisations. The new association was formally recognised by the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations and the former Conservative Association was disaffiliated. C Gray was the nominee of the disaffiliated association. | |||
Newcastle upon Tyne West | |||
54,846/62,916 | 87.17 | ||
Labour Party | 31,765 | 57.92 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,081 | 42.08 | |
Majority | 8,684 | 15.83 | |
Newcastle-under-Lyme | |||
53,092/60,649 | 87.54 | ||
Labour Party | 30,814 | 58.04 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,278 | 41.96 | |
Majority | 8,536 | 16.08 | |
Newport | |||
62,296/72,185 | 86.30 | ||
Labour Party | 32,883 | 52.79 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,166 | 38.79 | |
Liberal Party | 5,247 | 8.42 | |
Majority | 8,717 | 13.99 | |
Newton | |||
53,850/61,727 | 87.24 | ||
Labour Party | 31,374 | 58.26 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,476 | 41.74 | |
Majority | 8,898 | 16.52 | |
Normanton | |||
42,251/49,426 | 85.48 | ||
Labour Party | 31,052 | 73.49 | |
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 11,199 | 26.51 | |
Majority | 19,853 | 46.99 | |
North Angus & Mearns | |||
28,871/37,836 | 76.31 | ||
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 18,515 | 64.13 | |
Labour Party | 10,356 | 35.87 | |
Majority | 8,159 | 28.26 | |
North Antrim | |||
68,448 | |||
Conservative & Unionist Party | Unopposed |   | |
8 October 1952 Resignation of Rt Hon Sir Hugh O'Neill. | |||
27 October 1952 | |||
Conservative & Unionist Party | Unopposed |   | |
North Cornwall | |||
36,927/43,084 | 85.71 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,009 | 48.77 | |
Liberal Party | 12,869 | 34.85 | |
Labour Party | 6,049 | 16.38 | |
Majority | 5,140 | 13.92 | |
North Devon | |||
37,738/44,975 | 83.91 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,780 | 52.41 | |
Labour Party | 10,632 | 28.17 | |
Liberal Party | 7,326 | 19.41 | |
Majority | 9,148 | 24.24 | |
North Dorset | |||
36,983/42,815 | 86.38 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,392 | 47.03 | |
Liberal Party | 16,645 | 45.01 | |
Labour Party | 2,946 | 7.97 | |
Majority | 747 | 2.02 | |
North Down | |||
53,199/80,921 | 65.74 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 43,285 | 81.36 | |
Labour Party | 9,914 | 18.64 | |
Majority | 33,371 | 62.73 | |
31 January 1953 Death of Sir Walter Smiles. Drowned in the Princess Victoria ferry accident in the Irish Sea. | |||
15 April 1953 | |||
Conservative & Unionist Party | Unopposed |   | |
North East Derbyshire | |||
50,031/59,284 | 84.39 | ||
Labour Party | 33,376 | 66.71 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,655 | 33.29 | |
Majority | 16,721 | 33.42 | |
North Fylde | |||
36,703/47,309 | 77.58 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,419 | 69.26 | |
Labour Party | 11,284 | 30.74 | |
Majority | 14,135 | 38.51 | |
North Lanarkshire | |||
38,304/44,855 | 85.40 | ||
Labour Party | 22,304 | 58.23 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,000 | 41.77 | |
Majority | 6,304 | 16.46 | |
North Norfolk | |||
41,855/50,032 | 83.66 | ||
Labour Party | 21,067 | 50.33 | |
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 20,788 | 49.67 | |
Majority | 279 | 0.67 | |
North Somerset | |||
52,382/59,167 | 88.53 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,465 | 52.43 | |
Labour Party | 24,917 | 47.57 | |
Majority | 2,548 | 4.86 | |
North West Durham | |||
44,302/52,084 | 85.06 | ||
Labour Party | 30,417 | 68.66 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,885 | 31.34 | |
Majority | 16,532 | 37.32 | |
Northampton | |||
65,282/75,551 | 86.41 | ||
Labour Party | 35,038 | 53.67 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 30,244 | 46.33 | |
Majority | 4,794 | 7.34 | |
Northwich | |||
51,675/61,750 | 83.68 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,375 | 56.85 | |
Labour Party | 22,300 | 43.15 | |
Majority | 7,075 | 13.69 | |
Norwich North | |||
36,467/43,363 | 84.10 | ||
Labour Party | 22,880 | 62.74 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,587 | 37.26 | |
Majority | 9,293 | 25.48 | |
Norwich South | |||
36,316/43,103 | 84.25 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,082 | 52.54 | |
Labour Party | 17,234 | 47.46 | |
Majority | 1,848 | 5.09 | |
12 May 1955 Elevation of Henry Strauss to the Peerage - Baron Conesford. | |||
Norwood | |||
51,451/62,231 | 82.68 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,200 | 52.87 | |
Labour Party | 24,251 | 47.13 | |
Majority | 2,949 | 5.73 | |
Nottingham Central | |||
40,895/50,260 | 81.37 | ||
Labour Party | 20,517 | 50.17 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,378 | 49.83 | |
Majority | 139 | 0.34 | |
Nottingham East | |||
43,675/52,406 | 83.34 | ||
Labour Party | 20,865 | 47.77 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,601 | 47.17 | |
Liberal Party | 2,209 | 5.06 | |
Majority | 264 | 0.60 | |
Nottingham North West | |||
50,344/60,392 | 83.36 | ||
Labour Party | 32,694 | 64.94 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,650 | 35.06 | |
Majority | 15,044 | 29.88 | |
Nottingham South | |||
39,206/46,413 | 84.47 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 19,844 | 50.61 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,362 | 49.39 | |
Majority | 482 | 1.23 | |
Nuneaton | |||
59,390/69,861 | 85.01 | ||
Labour Party | 35,651 | 60.03 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,356 | 29.22 | |
Liberal Party | 6,383 | 10.75 | |
Majority | 18,295 | 30.80 | |
Ogmore | |||
48,169/56,726 | 84.92 | ||
Labour Party | 37,022 | 76.86 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,504 | 19.73 | |
British Empire Party | 1,643 | 3.41 | |
Majority | 27,518 | 57.13 | |
Oldbury & Halesowen | |||
54,948/65,975 | 83.29 | ||
Labour Party | 30,610 | 55.71 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,338 | 44.29 | |
Majority | 6,272 | 11.41 | |
Oldham East | |||
47,185/56,967 | 82.83 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,621 | 52.18 | |
Labour Party | 22,564 | 47.82 | |
Majority | 2,057 | 4.36 | |
Oldham West | |||
47,052/56,324 | 83.54 | ||
Labour Party | 23,712 | 50.40 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,517 | 41.48 | |
Liberal Party | 3,823 | 8.13 | |
Majority | 4,195 | 8.92 | |
Orkney & Shetland | |||
20,434/29,603 | 69.03 | ||
Liberal Party | 11,745 | 57.48 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 5,354 | 26.20 | |
Labour Party | 3,335 | 16.32 | |
Majority | 6,391 | 31.28 | |
Ormskirk | |||
39,637/50,379 | 78.68 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,729 | 67.43 | |
Labour Party | 12,908 | 32.57 | |
Majority | 13,821 | 34.87 | |
16 October 1953 Elevation of Rt Hon Sir James Salter to the Peerage - Baron Salter. | |||
12 November 1953 | 27,496/50,784 | 54.14 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,984 | 65.41 | |
Labour Party | 9,512 | 34.59 | |
Majority | 8,472 | 30.81 | |
Orpington | |||
43,485/53,023 | 82.01 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,244 | 62.65 | |
Labour Party | 16,241 | 37.35 | |
Majority | 11,003 | 25.30 | |
9 December 1954 Death of Sir Waldron Smithers. | |||
20 January 1955 | 30,508/55,069 | 55.40 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,082 | 65.83 | |
Labour Party | 10,426 | 34.17 | |
Majority | 9,656 | 31.65 | |
Oswestry | |||
38,314/49,830 | 76.89 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,843 | 62.23 | |
Labour Party | 14,471 | 37.77 | |
Majority | 9,372 | 24.46 | |
Oxford | |||
57,794/70,494 | 81.98 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 32,367 | 56.00 | |
Labour Party | 25,427 | 44.00 | |
Majority | 6,940 | 12.01 | |
Paddington North | |||
35,797/44,215 | 80.96 | ||
Labour Party | 19,923 | 55.66 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,874 | 44.34 | |
Majority | 4,049 | 11.31 | |
27 October 1953 Resignation of Bill Field after his appeal against conviction for importuning men for immoral purposes was dismissed. | |||
3 December 1953 | 26,530/44,027 | 60.26 | |
Labour Party | 14,274 | 53.80 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,014 | 45.28 | |
Socialist Party of Great Britain | 242 | 0.91 | |
Majority | 2,260 | 8.52 | |
Paddington South | |||
34,673/48,356 | 71.70 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,741 | 59.82 | |
Labour Party | 13,932 | 40.18 | |
Majority | 6,809 | 19.64 | |
Paisley | |||
53,406/63,281 | 84.40 | ||
Labour Party | 29,570 | 55.37 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,545 | 30.98 | |
Liberal Party | 7,291 | 13.65 | |
Majority | 13,025 | 24.39 | |
Peckham | |||
48,260/63,815 | 75.62 | ||
Labour Party | 33,703 | 69.84 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,557 | 30.16 | |
Majority | 19,146 | 39.67 | |
Pembrokeshire | |||
53,650/62,381 | 86.00 | ||
Labour Party | 25,994 | 48.45 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,968 | 31.63 | |
Liberal Party | 10,688 | 19.92 | |
Majority | 9,026 | 16.82 | |
Penistone | |||
56,314/66,156 | 85.12 | ||
Labour Party | 36,169 | 64.23 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,145 | 35.77 | |
Majority | 16,024 | 28.45 | |
Penrith & The Border | |||
43,048/51,575 | 83.47 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,274 | 54.07 | |
Labour Party | 10,759 | 24.99 | |
Liberal Party | 8,857 | 20.57 | |
Independent | 158 | 0.37 | |
Majority | 12,515 | 29.07 | |
Perth & East Perthshire | |||
43,444/55,507 | 78.27 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,798 | 59.38 | |
Labour Party | 11,167 | 25.70 | |
Scottish National Party | 6,479 | 14.91 | |
Majority | 14,631 | 33.68 | |
Peterborough | |||
51,066/58,831 | 86.80 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,536 | 48.05 | |
Labour Party | 24,163 | 47.32 | |
Liberal Party | 2,367 | 4.64 | |
Majority | 373 | 0.73 | |
Petersfield | |||
50,797/65,259 | 77.84 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,845 | 58.75 | |
Labour Party | 15,770 | 31.05 | |
Liberal Party | 5,182 | 10.20 | |
Majority | 14,075 | 27.71 | |
Plymouth Devonport | |||
61,926/72,611 | 85.28 | ||
Labour Party | 32,158 | 51.93 | |
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 29,768 | 48.07 | |
Majority | 2,390 | 3.86 | |
Plymouth Sutton | |||
57,106/66,894 | 85.37 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,908 | 50.62 | |
Labour Party | 28,198 | 49.38 | |
Majority | 710 | 1.24 | |
Pontefract | |||
46,323/53,856 | 86.01 | ||
Labour Party | 35,280 | 76.16 | |
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 11,043 | 23.84 | |
Majority | 24,237 | 52.32 | |
Pontypool | |||
39,017/46,290 | 84.29 | ||
Labour Party | 29,553 | 75.74 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,464 | 24.26 | |
Majority | 20,089 | 51.49 | |
Pontypridd | |||
45,097/54,126 | 83.32 | ||
Labour Party | 32,586 | 72.26 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,511 | 27.74 | |
Majority | 20,075 | 44.52 | |
Poole | |||
50,373/59,286 | 84.97 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,998 | 53.60 | |
Labour Party | 18,346 | 36.42 | |
Liberal Party | 5,029 | 9.98 | |
Majority | 8,652 | 17.18 | |
Poplar | |||
38,252/50,509 | 75.73 | ||
Labour Party | 31,377 | 82.03 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 6,875 | 17.97 | |
Majority | 24,502 | 64.05 | |
Portsmouth Langstone | |||
50,349/61,641 | 81.68 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 31,702 | 62.96 | |
Labour Party | 18,647 | 37.04 | |
Majority | 13,055 | 25.93 | |
Portsmouth South | |||
47,898/59,306 | 80.76 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 30,548 | 63.78 | |
Labour Party | 17,350 | 36.22 | |
Majority | 13,198 | 27.55 | |
Portsmouth West | |||
49,478/59,262 | 83.49 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,363 | 51.26 | |
Labour Party | 24,115 | 48.74 | |
Majority | 1,248 | 2.52 | |
Preston North | |||
46,088/52,647 | 87.54 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,598 | 51.20 | |
Labour Party | 22,490 | 48.80 | |
Majority | 1,108 | 2.40 | |
Preston South | |||
45,504/52,610 | 86.49 | ||
Labour Party | 22,760 | 50.02 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,744 | 49.98 | |
Majority | 16 | 0.04 | |
Pudsey | |||
44,920/50,521 | 88.91 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,138 | 53.74 | |
Labour Party | 20,782 | 46.26 | |
Majority | 3,356 | 7.47 | |
Putney | |||
53,175/64,932 | 81.89 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,686 | 55.83 | |
Labour and Co-operative Party | 23,489 | 44.17 | |
Majority | 6,197 | 11.65 | |
Reading North | |||
34,454/39,681 | 86.83 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,378 | 50.44 | |
Labour Party | 17,076 | 49.56 | |
Majority | 302 | 0.88 | |
Reading South | |||
36,131/41,694 | 86.66 | ||
Labour Party | 18,570 | 51.40 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,561 | 48.60 | |
Majority | 1,009 | 2.79 | |
Reigate | |||
43,164/51,790 | 83.34 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,137 | 55.92 | |
Labour and Co-operative Party | 14,287 | 33.10 | |
Liberal Party | 4,740 | 10.98 | |
Majority | 9,850 | 22.82 | |
Rhondda East | |||
34,428/40,270 | 85.49 | ||
Labour Party | 27,958 | 81.21 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 3,522 | 10.23 | |
Communist Party | 2,948 | 8.56 | |
Majority | 24,436 | 70.98 | |
Rhondda West | |||
32,225/37,315 | 86.36 | ||
Labour Party | 26,123 | 81.06 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 3,635 | 11.28 | |
Plaid Cymru | 2,467 | 7.66 | |
Majority | 22,488 | 69.78 | |
Richmond (Surrey) | |||
52,383/63,267 | 82.80 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 30,743 | 58.69 | |
Labour Party | 16,707 | 31.89 | |
Liberal Party | 4,933 | 9.42 | |
Majority | 14,036 | 26.79 | |
Richmond (Yorks) | |||
37,146/49,954 | 74.36 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,231 | 70.62 | |
Labour Party | 10,915 | 29.38 | |
Majority | 15,316 | 41.23 | |
Ripon | |||
33,674/40,499 | 83.15 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,047 | 68.44 | |
Labour Party | 10,627 | 31.56 | |
Majority | 12,420 | 36.88 | |
Rochdale | |||
55,140/64,373 | 85.66 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,797 | 50.41 | |
Labour Party | 27,343 | 49.59 | |
Majority | 454 | 0.82 | |
Rochester & Chatham | |||
51,933/60,724 | 85.52 | ||
Labour Party | 26,390 | 50.82 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,543 | 49.18 | |
Majority | 847 | 1.63 | |
Romford | |||
64,942/77,483 | 83.81 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 33,120 | 51.00 | |
Labour Party | 31,822 | 49.00 | |
Majority | 1,298 | 2.00 | |
Ross & Cromarty | |||
17,073/29,206 | 58.46 | ||
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 10,969 | 64.25 | |
Labour Party | 6,104 | 35.75 | |
Majority | 4,865 | 28.50 | |
Rossendale | |||
47,958/54,134 | 88.59 | ||
Labour Party | 24,814 | 51.74 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,144 | 48.26 | |
Majority | 1,670 | 3.48 | |
Rother Valley | |||
55,460/64,243 | 86.33 | ||
Labour Party | 41,990 | 75.71 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,470 | 24.29 | |
Majority | 28,520 | 51.42 | |
Rotherham | |||
47,441/56,337 | 84.21 | ||
Labour Party | 31,124 | 65.61 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,317 | 34.39 | |
Majority | 14,807 | 31.21 | |
Rowley Regis & Tipton | |||
48,842/60,462 | 80.78 | ||
Labour Party | 32,579 | 66.70 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,263 | 33.30 | |
Majority | 16,316 | 33.41 | |
Roxburghshire & Selkirkshire | |||
40,442/47,614 | 84.94 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,438 | 40.65 | |
Liberal Party | 15,609 | 38.60 | |
Labour Party | 8,395 | 20.76 | |
Majority | 829 | 2.05 | |
Rugby | |||
39,791/45,392 | 87.66 | ||
Labour Party | 19,995 | 50.25 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,796 | 49.75 | |
Majority | 199 | 0.50 | |
Ruislip-Northwood | |||
39,786/47,016 | 84.62 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,295 | 63.58 | |
Labour and Co-operative Party | 14,491 | 36.42 | |
Majority | 10,804 | 27.16 | |
Runcorn | |||
39,801/46,699 | 85.23 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,821 | 62.36 | |
Labour Party | 14,980 | 37.64 | |
Majority | 9,841 | 24.73 | |
Rushcliffe | |||
53,478/62,218 | 85.95 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 30,972 | 57.92 | |
Labour Party | 22,506 | 42.08 | |
Majority | 8,466 | 15.83 | |
Rutherglen | |||
38,756/44,167 | 87.75 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,554 | 50.45 | |
Labour Party | 19,202 | 49.55 | |
Majority | 352 | 0.91 | |
Rutland & Stamford | |||
32,977/40,116 | 82.20 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,850 | 54.13 | |
Labour Party | 15,127 | 45.87 | |
Majority | 2,723 | 8.26 | |
Saffron Walden | |||
39,763/47,836 | 83.12 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,564 | 51.72 | |
Labour Party | 15,425 | 38.79 | |
Liberal Party | 3,774 | 9.49 | |
Majority | 5,139 | 12.92 | |
Salford East | |||
48,680/61,114 | 79.65 | ||
Labour Party | 27,729 | 56.96 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,951 | 43.04 | |
Majority | 6,778 | 13.92 | |
Salford West | |||
51,597/62,144 | 83.03 | ||
Labour Party | 27,542 | 53.38 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,055 | 46.62 | |
Majority | 3,487 | 6.76 | |
Salisbury | |||
38,184/47,589 | 80.24 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,798 | 57.09 | |
Labour Party | 16,386 | 42.91 | |
Majority | 5,412 | 14.17 | |
Scarborough & Whitby | |||
49,609/65,351 | 75.91 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 32,988 | 66.50 | |
Labour Party | 16,621 | 33.50 | |
Majority | 16,367 | 32.99 | |
Sedgefield | |||
45,314/52,426 | 86.43 | ||
Labour Party | 28,219 | 62.27 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,095 | 37.73 | |
Majority | 11,124 | 24.55 | |
Sevenoaks | |||
47,491/58,299 | 81.46 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,668 | 60.37 | |
Labour Party | 18,823 | 39.63 | |
Majority | 9,845 | 20.73 | |
Sheffield Attercliffe | |||
42,119/50,907 | 82.74 | ||
Labour Party | 29,958 | 71.13 | |
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 12,161 | 28.87 | |
Majority | 17,797 | 42.25 | |
Sheffield Brightside | |||
45,068/55,364 | 81.40 | ||
Labour Party | 31,519 | 69.94 | |
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 12,433 | 27.59 | |
Communist Party | 1,116 | 2.48 | |
Majority | 19,086 | 42.35 | |
Sheffield Hallam | |||
41,004/49,989 | 82.03 | ||
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 29,016 | 70.76 | |
Labour Party | 11,988 | 29.24 | |
Majority | 17,028 | 41.53 | |
Sheffield Heeley | |||
45,505/53,807 | 84.57 | ||
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 27,776 | 61.04 | |
Labour Party | 17,729 | 38.96 | |
Majority | 10,047 | 22.08 | |
Sheffield Hillsborough | |||
47,891/56,415 | 84.89 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 28,274 | 59.04 | |
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 19,617 | 40.96 | |
Majority | 8,657 | 18.08 | |
Sheffield Neepsend | |||
39,535/49,708 | 79.53 | ||
Labour Party | 28,880 | 73.05 | |
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 10,655 | 26.95 | |
Majority | 18,225 | 46.10 | |
Sheffield Park | |||
44,585/54,058 | 82.48 | ||
Labour Party | 30,842 | 69.18 | |
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 13,743 | 30.82 | |
Majority | 17,099 | 38.35 | |
Shipley | |||
42,688/47,178 | 90.48 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,396 | 47.78 | |
Labour Party | 18,893 | 44.26 | |
Liberal Party | 3,399 | 7.96 | |
Majority | 1,503 | 3.52 | |
Shoreditch & Finsbury | |||
41,561/56,780 | 73.20 | ||
Labour Party | 30,162 | 72.57 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,399 | 27.43 | |
Majority | 18,763 | 45.15 | |
22 August 1954 Death of Ernest Thurtle. | |||
21 October 1954 | 23,125/56,888 | 40.65 | |
Labour Party | 18,082 | 78.19 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 5,043 | 21.81 | |
Majority | 13,039 | 56.38 | |
Shrewsbury | |||
36,238/44,891 | 80.72 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,503 | 59.34 | |
Labour Party | 14,735 | 40.66 | |
Majority | 6,768 | 18.68 | |
Skipton | |||
44,088/51,207 | 86.10 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,024 | 59.03 | |
Labour Party | 18,064 | 40.97 | |
Majority | 7,960 | 18.05 | |
Smethwick | |||
45,751/54,793 | 83.50 | ||
Labour Party | 27,739 | 60.63 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,012 | 39.37 | |
Majority | 9,727 | 21.26 | |
Solihull | |||
39,618/47,627 | 83.18 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,871 | 70.35 | |
Labour Party | 11,747 | 29.65 | |
Majority | 16,124 | 40.70 | |
South Angus | |||
34,506/45,073 | 76.56 | ||
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 24,478 | 70.94 | |
Labour Party | 10,028 | 29.06 | |
Majority | 14,450 | 41.88 | |
South Antrim | |||
Conservative & Unionist Party | Unopposed |   | |
South Ayrshire | |||
37,316/44,999 | 82.93 | ||
Labour Party | 22,576 | 60.50 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,740 | 39.50 | |
Majority | 7,836 | 21.00 | |
23 November 1954 The Labour Whip was withdrawn from Emrys Hughes. | |||
April 1955 The Labour Whip was restored to Emrys Hughes. | |||
South Bedfordshire | |||
44,985/51,887 | 86.70 | ||
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 22,917 | 50.94 | |
Labour Party | 22,068 | 49.06 | |
Majority | 849 | 1.89 | |
South Buckinghamshire | |||
45,146/56,373 | 80.08 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 30,976 | 68.61 | |
Labour Party | 14,170 | 31.39 | |
Majority | 16,806 | 37.23 | |
South Dorset | |||
44,928/53,501 | 83.98 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,679 | 48.25 | |
Labour Party | 18,244 | 40.61 | |
Liberal Party | 5,005 | 11.14 | |
Majority | 3,435 | 7.65 | |
South Down | |||
64,765/79,001 | 81.98 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 37,789 | 58.35 | |
Independent Nationalist | 26,976 | 41.65 | |
Majority | 10,813 | 16.70 | |
South East Derbyshire | |||
62,683/72,538 | 86.41 | ||
Labour Party | 33,020 | 52.68 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,663 | 47.32 | |
Majority | 3,357 | 5.36 | |
South Fylde | |||
48,134/60,206 | 79.95 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 35,726 | 74.22 | |
Labour Party | 12,408 | 25.78 | |
Majority | 23,318 | 48.44 | |
South Gloucestershire | |||
50,278/58,296 | 86.25 | ||
Labour Party | 27,808 | 55.31 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,470 | 44.69 | |
Majority | 5,338 | 10.62 | |
South Norfolk | |||
35,981/43,668 | 82.40 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,610 | 54.50 | |
Labour Party | 16,371 | 45.50 | |
Majority | 3,239 | 9.00 | |
30 November 1954 Conviction of Peter Baker of issuing forged documents. He was found guilty of forging signatures on letters purporting to guarantee debts of over £100,000 owed by his companies, and sentenced to 7 years imprisonment. | |||
16 December 1954 Expulsion of Peter Baker from the House of Commons. | |||
13 January 1955 | 29,373/44,092 | 66.62 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,119 | 51.47 | |
Labour Party | 14,254 | 48.53 | |
Majority | 865 | 2.94 | |
South Northamptonshire | |||
39,716/46,234 | 85.90 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,282 | 53.59 | |
Labour Party | 18,434 | 46.41 | |
Majority | 2,848 | 7.17 | |
South Shields | |||
60,111/74,657 | 80.52 | ||
Labour Party | 33,633 | 55.95 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,208 | 33.62 | |
Liberal Party | 6,270 | 10.43 | |
Majority | 13,425 | 22.33 | |
South West Hertfordshire | |||
46,040/54,150 | 85.02 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,049 | 58.75 | |
Labour Party | 18,991 | 41.25 | |
Majority | 8,058 | 17.50 | |
South West Norfolk | |||
33,498/40,552 | 82.61 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,970 | 50.66 | |
Labour Party | 16,528 | 49.34 | |
Majority | 442 | 1.32 | |
South Worcestershire | |||
41,663/54,883 | 75.91 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,229 | 65.36 | |
Labour Party | 14,434 | 34.64 | |
Majority | 12,795 | 30.71 | |
Southall | |||
50,292/59,885 | 83.98 | ||
Labour Party | 29,123 | 57.91 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,169 | 42.09 | |
Majority | 7,954 | 15.82 | |
Southampton Itchen | |||
56,038/67,038 | 83.59 | ||
Labour Party | 30,330 | 54.12 | |
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 25,708 | 45.88 | |
Majority | 4,622 | 8.25 | |
Southampton Test | |||
52,395/62,733 | 83.52 | ||
Labour Party | 26,430 | 50.44 | |
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 25,965 | 49.56 | |
Majority | 465 | 0.89 | |
Southend East | |||
43,566/54,020 | 80.65 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,088 | 55.29 | |
Labour Party | 19,478 | 44.71 | |
Majority | 4,610 | 10.58 | |
Southend West | |||
56,819/71,957 | 78.96 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 39,287 | 69.14 | |
Labour Party | 17,532 | 30.86 | |
Majority | 21,755 | 38.29 | |
Southgate | |||
48,335/57,462 | 84.12 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 30,044 | 62.16 | |
Labour Party | 10,889 | 22.53 | |
Liberal Party | 7,402 | 15.31 | |
Majority | 19,155 | 39.63 | |
Southport | |||
50,499/65,018 | 77.67 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 30,388 | 60.18 | |
Labour Party | 12,535 | 24.82 | |
Liberal Party | 7,576 | 15.00 | |
Majority | 17,853 | 35.35 | |
1951 Elevation of Rt Hon Robert Hudson to the Peerage - Viscount Hudson. | |||
6 February 1952 | 39,675/65,018 | 61.02 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,589 | 61.98 | |
Labour Party | 11,310 | 28.51 | |
Liberal Party | 3,776 | 9.52 | |
Majority | 13,279 | 33.47 | |
Southwark | |||
50,618/69,991 | 72.32 | ||
Labour Party | 36,586 | 72.28 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,032 | 27.72 | |
Majority | 22,554 | 44.56 | |
Sowerby | |||
49,457/56,921 | 86.89 | ||
Labour Party | 22,766 | 46.03 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,118 | 42.70 | |
Liberal Party | 5,573 | 11.27 | |
Majority | 1,648 | 3.33 | |
Spelthorne | |||
60,939/72,599 | 83.94 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 31,031 | 50.92 | |
Labour Party | 29,908 | 49.08 | |
Majority | 1,123 | 1.84 | |
St Albans | |||
52,513/62,431 | 84.11 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,602 | 54.47 | |
Labour Party | 23,911 | 45.53 | |
Majority | 4,691 | 8.93 | |
St Helens | |||
59,518/74,659 | 79.72 | ||
Labour Party | 37,688 | 63.32 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,830 | 36.68 | |
Majority | 15,858 | 26.64 | |
St Ives | |||
35,317/44,885 | 78.68 | ||
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 18,828 | 53.31 | |
Labour and Co-operative Party | 11,216 | 31.76 | |
Liberal Party | 5,273 | 14.93 | |
Majority | 7,612 | 21.55 | |
St Marylebone | |||
42,747/60,932 | 70.16 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,783 | 67.33 | |
Labour Party | 13,964 | 32.67 | |
Majority | 14,819 | 34.67 | |
St Pancras North | |||
51,553/65,840 | 78.30 | ||
Labour Party | 31,191 | 60.50 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,362 | 39.50 | |
Majority | 10,829 | 21.01 | |
Stafford & Stone | |||
45,544/54,123 | 84.15 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,795 | 56.64 | |
Labour Party | 19,749 | 43.36 | |
Majority | 6,046 | 13.28 | |
Stalybridge & Hyde | |||
50,506/57,759 | 87.44 | ||
Labour Party | 25,402 | 50.30 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,104 | 49.70 | |
Majority | 298 | 0.59 | |
Stepney | |||
46,871/66,115 | 70.89 | ||
Labour Party | 35,849 | 76.48 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 7,586 | 16.18 | |
Communist Party | 3,436 | 7.33 | |
Majority | 28,263 | 60.30 | |
Stirling & Falkirk Burghs | |||
46,734/54,300 | 86.07 | ||
Labour Party | 24,421 | 52.26 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,313 | 47.74 | |
Majority | 2,108 | 4.51 | |
Stockport North | |||
46,584/54,576 | 85.36 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,691 | 55.15 | |
Labour Party | 20,893 | 44.85 | |
Majority | 4,798 | 10.30 | |
Stockport South | |||
40,750/48,413 | 84.17 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,075 | 54.17 | |
Labour Party | 18,675 | 45.83 | |
Majority | 3,400 | 8.34 | |
10 January 1955 Elevation of Sir Arnold Gridley to the Peerage - Baron Gridley. | |||
3 February 1955 | 30,079/46,559 | 64.60 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,321 | 54.26 | |
Labour Party | 13,758 | 45.74 | |
Majority | 2,563 | 8.52 | |
Stockton-on-Tees | |||
44,069/50,104 | 87.96 | ||
Labour Party | 24,558 | 55.73 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,511 | 44.27 | |
Majority | 5,047 | 11.45 | |
Stoke Newington & Hackney North | |||
63,299/80,221 | 78.91 | ||
Labour Party | 37,406 | 59.09 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,369 | 33.76 | |
Liberal Party | 4,524 | 7.15 | |
Majority | 16,037 | 25.34 | |
Stoke-on-Trent Central | |||
53,030/64,519 | 82.19 | ||
Labour Party | 34,260 | 64.60 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,770 | 35.40 | |
Majority | 15,490 | 29.21 | |
Stoke-on-Trent North | |||
51,360/61,282 | 83.81 | ||
Labour Party | 36,692 | 71.44 | |
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 14,668 | 28.56 | |
Majority | 22,024 | 42.88 | |
19 January 1953 Death of Albert Davies. | |||
31 March 1953 | 30,605/60,638 | 50.47 | |
Labour and Co-operative Party | 23,103 | 75.49 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 7,502 | 24.51 | |
Majority | 15,601 | 50.98 | |
Stoke-on-Trent South | |||
53,616/63,667 | 84.21 | ||
Labour Party | 35,261 | 65.77 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,355 | 34.23 | |
Majority | 16,906 | 31.53 | |
Stratford | |||
37,287/46,666 | 79.90 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,041 | 64.48 | |
Labour Party | 13,246 | 35.52 | |
Majority | 10,795 | 28.95 | |
Streatham | |||
45,207/55,451 | 81.53 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,084 | 59.91 | |
Labour Party | 14,804 | 32.75 | |
Liberal Party | 3,319 | 7.34 | |
Majority | 12,280 | 27.16 | |
Stretford | |||
61,113/73,318 | 83.35 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 35,419 | 57.96 | |
Labour Party | 25,694 | 42.04 | |
Majority | 9,725 | 15.91 | |
Stroud & Thornbury | |||
58,698/68,287 | 85.96 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 30,140 | 51.35 | |
Labour Party | 28,558 | 48.65 | |
Majority | 1,582 | 2.70 | |
Sudbury & Woodbridge | |||
48,572/59,163 | 82.10 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,262 | 56.13 | |
Labour and Co-operative Party | 21,310 | 43.87 | |
Majority | 5,952 | 12.25 | |
Sunderland North | |||
44,094/52,652 | 83.75 | ||
Labour Party | 23,792 | 53.96 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,302 | 46.04 | |
Majority | 3,490 | 7.91 | |
Sunderland South | |||
54,208/65,928 | 82.22 | ||
Labour Party | 27,257 | 50.28 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,951 | 49.72 | |
Majority | 306 | 0.56 | |
8 March 1953 Death of Richard Ewart. | |||
13 May 1953 | 47,577/65,453 | 72.69 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,114 | 48.58 | |
Labour Party | 21,939 | 46.11 | |
Liberal Party | 2,524 | 5.31 | |
Majority | 1,175 | 2.47 | |
Sutton & Cheam | |||
48,886/59,848 | 81.68 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 30,684 | 62.77 | |
Labour Party | 18,202 | 37.23 | |
Majority | 12,482 | 25.53 | |
3 October 1954 Resignation of Sir Sidney Marshall. | |||
4 November 1954 | 32,953/59,292 | 55.58 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,930 | 66.55 | |
Labour Party | 11,023 | 33.45 | |
Majority | 10,907 | 33.10 | |
Sutton Coldfield | |||
57,521/70,518 | 81.57 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 36,628 | 63.68 | |
Labour Party | 20,893 | 36.32 | |
Majority | 15,735 | 27.36 | |
2 June 1954 Sir John Mellor, Bt resigns the Conservative whip. | |||
14 July 1954 The Conservative whip is restored to Sir John Mellor, Bt. | |||
Swansea East | |||
44,558/53,790 | 82.84 | ||
Labour Party | 32,790 | 73.59 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,768 | 26.41 | |
Majority | 21,022 | 47.18 | |
Swansea West | |||
49,962/59,051 | 84.61 | ||
Labour Party | 26,061 | 52.16 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,901 | 47.84 | |
Majority | 2,160 | 4.32 | |
Swindon | |||
42,052/49,598 | 84.79 | ||
Labour Party | 23,980 | 57.02 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,072 | 42.98 | |
Majority | 5,908 | 14.05 | |
Taunton | |||
45,671/51,313 | 89.00 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,826 | 54.36 | |
Labour Party | 20,845 | 45.64 | |
Majority | 3,981 | 8.72 | |
Tavistock | |||
35,516/45,053 | 78.83 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,683 | 63.87 | |
Labour Party | 12,833 | 36.13 | |
Majority | 9,850 | 27.73 | |
The Hartlepools | |||
51,584/59,592 | 86.56 | ||
Labour Party | 27,147 | 52.63 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,437 | 47.37 | |
Majority | 2,710 | 5.25 | |
The Wrekin | |||
38,414/46,254 | 83.05 | ||
Labour Party | 20,109 | 52.35 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,305 | 47.65 | |
Majority | 1,804 | 4.70 | |
Thirsk & Malton | |||
38,546/49,797 | 77.41 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,854 | 72.26 | |
Labour Party | 10,692 | 27.74 | |
Majority | 17,162 | 44.52 | |
Thurrock | |||
44,017/53,157 | 82.81 | ||
Labour Party | 28,851 | 65.55 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,166 | 34.45 | |
Majority | 13,685 | 31.09 | |
Tiverton | |||
38,616/47,522 | 81.26 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,532 | 63.53 | |
Labour Party | 14,084 | 36.47 | |
Majority | 10,448 | 27.06 | |
Tonbridge | |||
52,486/65,097 | 80.63 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 31,377 | 59.78 | |
Labour Party | 21,109 | 40.22 | |
Majority | 10,268 | 19.56 | |
Torquay | |||
53,146/66,456 | 79.97 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 31,441 | 59.16 | |
Labour Party | 14,801 | 27.85 | |
Liberal Party | 6,904 | 12.99 | |
Majority | 16,640 | 31.31 | |
Torrington | |||
34,974/45,770 | 76.41 | ||
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 23,162 | 66.23 | |
Labour Party | 11,812 | 33.77 | |
Majority | 11,350 | 32.45 | |
Totnes | |||
52,249/63,066 | 82.85 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,005 | 53.60 | |
Labour Party | 16,409 | 31.41 | |
Liberal Party | 7,835 | 15.00 | |
Majority | 11,596 | 22.19 | |
Tottenham | |||
53,373/66,866 | 79.82 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 33,312 | 62.41 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,061 | 37.59 | |
Majority | 13,251 | 24.83 | |
Truro | |||
44,635/54,935 | 81.25 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,883 | 55.75 | |
Labour Party | 19,752 | 44.25 | |
Majority | 5,131 | 11.50 | |
Twickenham | |||
62,951/77,444 | 81.29 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 39,080 | 62.08 | |
Labour Party | 23,871 | 37.92 | |
Majority | 15,209 | 24.16 | |
23 November 1954 Death of Sir Edward Keeling. | |||
25 January 1955 | 36,028/76,147 | 47.31 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,075 | 64.05 | |
Labour Party | 12,953 | 35.95 | |
Majority | 10,122 | 28.09 | |
Tynemouth | |||
59,944/70,904 | 84.54 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 33,800 | 56.39 | |
Labour Party | 26,144 | 43.61 | |
Majority | 7,656 | 12.77 | |
Uxbridge | |||
43,239/51,022 | 84.75 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 21,249 | 49.14 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,701 | 45.56 | |
Liberal Party | 2,289 | 5.29 | |
Majority | 1,548 | 3.58 | |
Vauxhall | |||
36,781/49,939 | 73.65 | ||
Labour Party | 24,217 | 65.84 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,564 | 34.16 | |
Majority | 11,653 | 31.68 | |
Wakefield | |||
46,498/54,529 | 85.27 | ||
Labour Party | 27,100 | 58.28 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,398 | 41.72 | |
Majority | 7,702 | 16.56 | |
9 June 1954 Death of Rt Hon Arthur Greenwood. | |||
21 October 1954 | 37,536/54,733 | 68.58 | |
Labour Party | 21,822 | 58.14 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,714 | 41.86 | |
Majority | 6,108 | 16.27 | |
Wallasey | |||
59,141/74,190 | 79.72 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 37,423 | 63.28 | |
Labour Party | 21,718 | 36.72 | |
Majority | 15,705 | 26.56 | |
Wallsend | |||
60,777/69,715 | 87.18 | ||
Labour Party | 35,678 | 58.70 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,099 | 41.30 | |
Majority | 10,579 | 17.41 | |
Walsall | |||
64,156/77,195 | 83.11 | ||
Labour Party | 33,556 | 52.30 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,083 | 35.98 | |
Liberal Party | 7,517 | 11.72 | |
Majority | 10,473 | 16.32 | |
Walthamstow East | |||
40,041/46,683 | 85.77 | ||
Labour Party | 19,036 | 47.54 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,016 | 44.99 | |
Liberal Party | 2,815 | 7.03 | |
Independent | 174 | 0.43 | |
Majority | 1,020 | 2.55 | |
Walthamstow West | |||
34,468/42,063 | 81.94 | ||
Labour Party | 23,021 | 66.79 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,447 | 33.21 | |
Majority | 11,574 | 33.58 | |
Wandsworth Central | |||
56,505/67,476 | 83.74 | ||
Labour Party | 28,844 | 51.05 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,661 | 48.95 | |
Majority | 1,183 | 2.09 | |
Warrington | |||
45,385/54,848 | 82.75 | ||
Labour Party | 26,225 | 57.78 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,623 | 38.83 | |
Liberal Party | 1,537 | 3.39 | |
Majority | 8,602 | 18.95 | |
Warwick & Leamington | |||
46,761/56,766 | 82.38 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,282 | 60.48 | |
Labour Party | 18,479 | 39.52 | |
Majority | 9,803 | 20.96 | |
6 April 1955 Rt Hon Anthony Eden appointed as Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury, as well as leader of the Conservative party. | |||
Watford | |||
46,701/53,568 | 87.18 | ||
Labour Party | 22,370 | 47.90 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,862 | 46.81 | |
Liberal Party | 2,469 | 5.29 | |
Majority | 508 | 1.09 | |
Wednesbury | |||
58,167/70,710 | 82.26 | ||
Labour Party | 35,196 | 60.51 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,971 | 39.49 | |
Majority | 12,225 | 21.02 | |
Wellingborough | |||
46,025/52,077 | 88.38 | ||
Labour Party | 24,113 | 52.39 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,912 | 47.61 | |
Majority | 2,201 | 4.78 | |
Wells | |||
48,005/57,028 | 84.18 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,524 | 55.25 | |
Labour Party | 21,481 | 44.75 | |
Majority | 5,043 | 10.51 | |
Wembley North | |||
43,113/49,481 | 87.13 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,112 | 55.93 | |
Labour and Co-operative Party | 15,394 | 35.71 | |
Liberal Party | 3,607 | 8.37 | |
Majority | 8,718 | 20.22 | |
Wembley South | |||
41,926/48,769 | 85.97 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,380 | 55.76 | |
Labour Party | 18,546 | 44.24 | |
Majority | 4,834 | 11.53 | |
West Aberdeenshire | |||
32,167/41,078 | 78.31 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,761 | 55.21 | |
Labour Party | 7,278 | 22.63 | |
Liberal Party | 7,128 | 22.16 | |
Majority | 10,483 | 32.59 | |
West Bromwich | |||
48,031/59,656 | 80.51 | ||
Labour Party | 30,845 | 64.22 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,186 | 35.78 | |
Majority | 13,659 | 28.44 | |
West Derbyshire | |||
37,801/44,786 | 84.40 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,223 | 58.79 | |
Labour Party | 15,578 | 41.21 | |
Majority | 6,645 | 17.58 | |
West Dorset | |||
36,047/43,900 | 82.11 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,739 | 60.31 | |
Labour Party | 14,308 | 39.69 | |
Majority | 7,431 | 20.61 | |
West Dunbartonshire | |||
42,506/49,058 | 86.64 | ||
Labour Party | 21,799 | 51.28 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,292 | 45.39 | |
Liberal Party | 1,415 | 3.33 | |
Majority | 2,507 | 5.90 | |
West Fife | |||
44,961/52,558 | 85.55 | ||
Labour Party | 29,195 | 64.93 | |
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 11,038 | 24.55 | |
Communist Party | 4,728 | 10.52 | |
Majority | 18,157 | 40.38 | |
West Flintshire | |||
38,551/46,322 | 83.22 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,433 | 60.78 | |
Labour Party | 15,118 | 39.22 | |
Majority | 8,315 | 21.57 | |
West Gloucestershire | |||
41,989/51,020 | 82.30 | ||
Labour Party | 24,334 | 57.95 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,655 | 42.05 | |
Majority | 6,679 | 15.91 | |
West Ham North | |||
48,484/63,318 | 76.57 | ||
Labour Party | 34,156 | 70.45 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,328 | 29.55 | |
Majority | 19,828 | 40.90 | |
West Ham South | |||
43,781/56,627 | 77.31 | ||
Labour Party | 37,195 | 84.96 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 6,586 | 15.04 | |
Majority | 30,609 | 69.91 | |
West Lothian | |||
47,760/56,259 | 84.89 | ||
Labour Party | 28,906 | 60.52 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,854 | 39.48 | |
Majority | 10,052 | 21.05 | |
West Renfrewshire | |||
40,039/47,187 | 84.85 | ||
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 21,546 | 53.81 | |
Labour Party | 18,493 | 46.19 | |
Majority | 3,053 | 7.63 | |
West Stirlingshire | |||
37,289/43,027 | 86.66 | ||
Labour Party | 20,893 | 56.03 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,396 | 43.97 | |
Majority | 4,497 | 12.06 | |
Westbury | |||
44,943/52,129 | 86.21 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,654 | 43.73 | |
Labour Party | 17,623 | 39.21 | |
Liberal Party | 7,666 | 17.06 | |
Majority | 2,031 | 4.52 | |
Western Isles | |||
16,484/27,263 | 60.46 | ||
Labour Party | 8,039 | 48.77 | |
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 6,709 | 40.70 | |
Liberal Party | 916 | 5.56 | |
Scottish National Party | 820 | 4.97 | |
Majority | 1,330 | 8.07 | |
Westhoughton | |||
47,963/55,375 | 86.61 | ||
Labour Party | 29,319 | 61.13 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,644 | 38.87 | |
Majority | 10,675 | 22.26 | |
Westmorland | |||
39,839/47,697 | 83.53 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,227 | 58.30 | |
Labour Party | 9,119 | 22.89 | |
Liberal Party | 7,493 | 18.81 | |
Majority | 14,108 | 35.41 | |
Weston-super-Mare | |||
46,427/58,241 | 79.72 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 30,485 | 65.66 | |
Labour Party | 15,942 | 34.34 | |
Majority | 14,543 | 31.32 | |
Whitehaven | |||
39,180/45,963 | 85.24 | ||
Labour Party | 23,190 | 59.19 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,990 | 40.81 | |
Majority | 7,200 | 18.38 | |
Widnes | |||
40,003/45,761 | 87.42 | ||
Labour Party | 21,688 | 54.22 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,315 | 45.78 | |
Majority | 3,373 | 8.43 | |
Wigan | |||
51,608/59,318 | 87.00 | ||
Labour Party | 34,530 | 66.91 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,078 | 33.09 | |
Majority | 17,452 | 33.82 | |
Willesden East | |||
51,522/62,962 | 81.83 | ||
Labour Party | 26,695 | 51.81 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,827 | 48.19 | |
Majority | 1,868 | 3.63 | |
Willesden West | |||
54,928/66,417 | 82.70 | ||
Labour Party | 35,296 | 64.26 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,632 | 35.74 | |
Majority | 15,664 | 28.52 | |
Wimbledon | |||
63,642/77,067 | 82.58 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 42,218 | 66.34 | |
Labour Party | 21,424 | 33.66 | |
Majority | 20,794 | 32.67 | |
Winchester | |||
56,118/67,080 | 83.66 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 31,700 | 56.49 | |
Labour Party | 24,418 | 43.51 | |
Majority | 7,282 | 12.98 | |
Windsor | |||
41,589/52,640 | 79.01 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,612 | 61.58 | |
Labour Party | 15,977 | 38.42 | |
Majority | 9,635 | 23.17 | |
Wirral | |||
50,023/61,197 | 81.74 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 32,631 | 65.23 | |
Labour Party | 17,392 | 34.77 | |
Majority | 15,239 | 30.46 | |
Woking | |||
40,835/51,867 | 78.73 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,522 | 64.95 | |
Labour Party | 14,313 | 35.05 | |
Majority | 12,209 | 29.90 | |
Wokingham | |||
35,491/45,239 | 78.45 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,652 | 61.01 | |
Labour Party | 10,606 | 29.88 | |
Liberal Party | 3,233 | 9.11 | |
Majority | 11,046 | 31.12 | |
Wolverhampton North East | |||
49,206/60,808 | 80.92 | ||
Labour Party | 30,643 | 62.27 | |
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 18,563 | 37.73 | |
Majority | 12,080 | 24.55 | |
Wolverhampton South West | |||
44,124/51,124 | 86.31 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,660 | 53.62 | |
Labour Party | 20,464 | 46.38 | |
Majority | 3,196 | 7.24 | |
Wood Green | |||
54,420/66,586 | 81.73 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 30,360 | 55.79 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,060 | 44.21 | |
Majority | 6,300 | 11.58 | |
Woodford | |||
65,019/77,975 | 83.38 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 40,938 | 62.96 | |
Labour Party | 22,359 | 34.39 | |
Communist Party | 871 | 1.34 | |
Independent | 851 | 1.31 | |
Majority | 18,579 | 28.57 | |
Woolwich East | |||
42,402/51,679 | 82.05 | ||
Labour Party | 26,982 | 63.63 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,420 | 36.37 | |
Majority | 11,562 | 27.27 | |
Woolwich West | |||
47,466/54,226 | 87.53 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,385 | 49.27 | |
Labour Party | 22,041 | 46.44 | |
Liberal Party | 2,040 | 4.30 | |
Majority | 1,344 | 2.83 | |
Worcester | |||
46,969/57,192 | 82.13 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,060 | 55.48 | |
Labour Party | 20,909 | 44.52 | |
Majority | 5,151 | 10.97 | |
Workington | |||
43,142/49,291 | 87.53 | ||
Labour Party | 25,893 | 60.02 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,249 | 39.98 | |
Majority | 8,644 | 20.04 | |
Worthing | |||
43,280/54,122 | 79.97 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 32,302 | 74.63 | |
Labour Party | 10,978 | 25.37 | |
Majority | 21,324 | 49.27 | |
Wrexham | |||
54,880/64,736 | 84.78 | ||
Labour Party | 33,759 | 61.51 | |
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 19,124 | 34.85 | |
Plaid Cymru | 1,997 | 3.64 | |
Majority | 14,635 | 26.67 | |
22 December 1954 Death of Robert Richards. | |||
17 March 1955 | 40,450/64,788 | 62.43 | |
Labour Party | 23,402 | 57.85 | |
National Liberal and Conservative Party | 12,476 | 30.84 | |
Plaid Cymru | 4,572 | 11.30 | |
Majority | 10,926 | 27.01 | |
Wycombe | |||
52,415/60,799 | 86.21 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,084 | 51.67 | |
Labour Party | 25,331 | 48.33 | |
Majority | 1,753 | 3.34 | |
30 September 1952 Succession of Hon William Astor to the Peerage - 3rd Viscount Astor. | |||
4 November 1952 | 51,400/61,273 | 83.89 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,750 | 52.04 | |
Labour Party | 24,650 | 47.96 | |
Majority | 2,100 | 4.09 | |
Yarmouth | |||
43,345/52,060 | 83.26 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,180 | 51.17 | |
Labour Party | 21,165 | 48.83 | |
Majority | 1,015 | 2.34 | |
Yeovil | |||
50,599/57,525 | 87.96 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,701 | 46.84 | |
Labour Party | 20,780 | 41.07 | |
Liberal Party | 6,118 | 12.09 | |
Majority | 2,921 | 5.77 | |
York | |||
64,633/74,829 | 86.37 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 32,777 | 50.71 | |
Labour Party | 31,856 | 49.29 | |
Majority | 921 | 1.42 |