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1950 Sheffield Neepsend by-election

UK parliamentary by-election


UK parliamentary by-election

FieldValue
election_name1950 Sheffield Neepsend by-election
typeparliamentary
seats_for_electionSheffield Neepsend constituency
ongoingno
turnout55.1% (9.3 pp)
previous_election1950 United Kingdom general election
previous_year1950
next_election1951 United Kingdom general election
next_year1951
election_date5 April 1950
candidate1Frank Soskice
image1Frank Soskice 1951.jpeg
party1Labour Party (UK)
popular_vote122,080
percentage170.8%
swing12.0 pp
candidate2John Philip Hunt
image2
party2Conservative Party (UK)
popular_vote28,365
percentage226.8%
swing20.4 pp

The 1950 Sheffield Neepsend by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 5 April 1950 for the British House of Commons constituency of Sheffield Neepsend in Neepsend, an industrial suburb of the city of Sheffield.

The seat had become vacant when the constituency's Labour Member of Parliament (MP), Harry Morris, was elevated to the peerage as the first Baron Morris of Kenwood. Morris, who had held the seat since its creation for the 1950 general election, had been offered a peerage to trigger a by-election in a safe seat which could be easily won by Frank Soskice.

Soskice had been Solicitor General since Clement Attlee's Labour Government had taken office in 1945. His Birkenhead East constituency had been abolished in boundary changes for the 1950 general election, and he had not been selected for another seat.

Soskice won the by-election comfortably, with over 70% of the votes. He represented Sheffield Neepsend until the constituency was abolished for the 1955 general election, when he again found himself without a seat. He returned to Parliament the following year at the by-election on 6 July 1956 for the Newport constituency in Monmouthshire.

Result

References

References

  1. {{Rayment. (February 2012)
  2. "1950 By Election Results".
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