Harwich by-election, 1954

The Harwich by-election, 1954 was a parliamentary by-election held on 11 February 1954 for the British House of Commons constituency of Harwich in England. The seat had become vacant when the National Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) Stanley Holmes was elevated to the peerage as Baron Dovercourt, having held the seat since a 1935 General Election. The 'Conservative and Liberal' candidate, Julian Ridsdale held the seat for the government. He remained the constituency's MP until his retirement at the 1992 general election. The Labour candidate Shirley Catlin would later be elected as MP for Hitchin and would serve in the Cabinets of Harold Wilson and James Callaghan.^[1]

Result

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1952	February: Bournemouth East and Christchurch Southport Leeds South East July: Dundee East October: Cleveland Antrim North November: Belfast South Wycombe Birmingham Small Heath Farnworth

1953	February: Canterbury March: Isle of Thanet Barnsley Stoke-on-Trent North April: Hayes and Harlington Down North Sunderland South June: Abingdon July: Birmingham Edgbaston September: Broxtowe November: Crosby Ormskirk Holborn and St Pancras South December: Paddington North

1954	February: Ilford North Haltemprice Harwich Bournemouth West March: Arundel and Shoreham Harrogate April: Edinburgh East Motherwell September: Croydon East October: Shoreditch and Finsbury Wakefield Aberdare Aldershot November: Morpeth Sutton and Cheam Liverpool West Derby Armagh December: Inverness

1955	January: South Norfolk Orpington Twickenham Edinburgh North February: Stockport South March: Wrexham

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