Ormskirk by-election, 1953

The Ormskirk by-election of 12 November 1953 was held after the elevation to the Peerage of Conservative MP Arthur Salter.

The seat was safe, having been won at the United Kingdom general election, 1951 by almost 14,000 votes^[1]

Result of the previous general election

General Election 1951: Ormskirk
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Rt Hon. James Arthur Salter	26,759	67.24
	Labour	E Kavanagh	12,908	32.57
Majority			13,821	34.87	-

Result of the by-election

By-election 1953: Ormskirk^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Douglas Glover	17,984	65.41	-2.02
	Labour	M Ferguson	9,512	34.59	+2.02
Majority			8,472
	Conservative hold		Swing

References

↑ PoliticsResources.net
↑ "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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