East Aberdeenshire by-election, 1958

The 1958 East Aberdeenshire by-election was held on 20 November 1958 when the incumbent Conservative MP, Sir Robert Boothby was elevated to a life peerage. The by-election was retained by the Conservative candidate Patrick Wolrige-Gordon. Wolrige-Gordon was still an undergraduate at Oxford and at the time of his election the youngest MP.

Aberdeenshire East by-election, 1958^[1]^[2] Electorate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Patrick Wolrige-Gordon	14,314	48.5
	Labour	John B Urquhart	7,986	27.1
	Liberal	Maitland Mackie	7,153	24.3
Majority			6,328	21.5
Turnout			29,485
	Unionist hold		Swing

References

↑ British parliamentary election results, 1950-1973 by FWS Craig
↑ "1958 By Election Results". Archived from the original on 2012-06-25. Retrieved 2015-08-15.

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