Dumfriesshire by-election, 1963

There was a by-election for Dumfriesshire in 1963, after the MP, Niall Macpherson, was made a lord.

It was won by David Colville Anderson who retained it for the Conservatives, by only 971 votes, a sign that the Conservative government was losing support. Anderson stood down at the 1964 general election, only serving as an MP for less than a year.

By-election 1963: Dumfriesshire ^[1]^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Colville Anderson	16,762
	Labour	Iain Jordan	15,791
	Liberal	Charles Abernethy	4,491
	SNP	John HD Gair	4,001
Majority			971
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

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1964	May: Bury St Edmunds Devizes Faversham Rutherglen Winchester June: Liverpool Scotland

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References

↑ The Times, 13 Dec 1963
↑ "1963 By Election Results". Archived from the original on 2012-02-25. Retrieved 2015-08-17.

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