Holborn and St Pancras South by-election, 1953

The 1953 Holborn and St Pancras South by-election was held on 19 November 1953. It was held due to the death of the incumbent Labour MP, Santo Jeger. The seat was retained by his wife, Lena Jeger, the Labour candidate and a Guardian journalist and councillor on St Pancras Borough Council and the London County Council.

Jeger retained the seat at the 1955 general election by 931 votes, but lost it by 656 votes to Geoffrey Johnson Smith of the Conservatives in the 1959 general election. She regained the seat in the 1964 general election.

Holborn and St Pancras South by-election, 1953^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Lena May Jeger	15,784
	Conservative	Mr W T Donovan	13,808
	Liberal	Mr I J Hyam	695
Majority			1,976
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

References

↑ "1953 By Election Results". Archived from the original on 2012-10-10. Retrieved 2015-08-14.

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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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