Sheffield Neepsend by-election, 1950
- Sheffield Neepsend by-election, 1950
The Sheffield Neepsend by-election, 1950 was a parliamentary by-election held on 5th 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 is 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 abolsihed in boundary changes for the 1950 general election, and he had not been selected for another seat.
Soksice 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 6th July 1956 for the Newport constituency in Monmouthshire.
Votes
Election box begin
title=By-election 1950: Sheffield NeepsendElection box candidate with party link
party = Labour Party (UK)
candidate = Frank Soskice
votes = 22,080
percentage = 70.8
change = −2.0Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = J. P. Hunt
votes = 8,365
percentage = 26.8
change = −0.4Election box candidate with party link
party = Communist Party of Great Britain
candidate = E. L. Moore
votes = 729
percentage = 2.4
change = "N/A"Election box turnout
votes = 31,174
percentage = 55.1
change = +9.4Election box majority
votes = 13,715
percentage = 44.0
change = −1.6Election box hold with party link
winner = Labour Party (UK)
swing = −0.8
ee also
*Sheffield Neepsend (UK Parliament constituency)
*Sheffield
*List of United Kingdom by-elections
References
* [http://www.geocities.com/by_elections/50.html British Parliamentary by-elections: Sheffield Neepsend, 1950]
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