Paddington North by-election, 1953

The 1953 Paddington North by-election was held on 3 December 1953 following the resignation of the incumbent Labour MP William J. Field after failing to overturn a conviction for "importuning for immoral purposes". It was retained by the Labour candidate Ben Parkin ^[1] a left wing former MP for Stroud.

By-election on 3 December 1953: Paddington North^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ben Parkin	14,274	53.8	-1.9
	Conservative	John Eden	12,014	45.3	+1.0
	Socialist (GB)	W.E. Waters	242	0.9
Majority			2,260	8.5
Turnout			26,530	60.3	-20.7

References

↑ http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Pcommons1.htm
↑ "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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