Gloucester by-election, 1957

The Gloucester by-election was held on 12 September 1957. It was held due to the death of the incumbent Labour MP, Moss Turner-Samuels. The by-election was won by the Labour candidate Jack Diamond.^[1]

Gloucester by-election, 1957^[2] Electorate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Diamond	18,895
	Conservative	FJVH Dashwood	10,521
	Liberal	Patrick Herbert Lort-Phillips	7,393
Majority			8,374
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

References

↑ http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Gcommons1.htm
↑ "1957 By Election Results". Archived from the original on 2012-03-29. Retrieved 2015-08-14.

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1956	February: Blaydon Leeds North East Hereford Gainsborough Taunton March: Walthamstow West May: Mid Ulster June: Tonbridge July: Newport September: Chester-le-Street November: City of Chester December: Melton

1957	February: Lewisham North Wednesbury Carmarthen March: Bristol West Warwick and Leamington Beckenham Newcastle-upon-Tyne North May: Edinburgh South East Ham North Hornsey June: North Dorset September: Gloucester October: Ipswich November: Leicester South East December: Liverpool Garston

1958	February: Rochdale March: Glasgow Kelvingrove Torrington May: Islington North June: Argyll Ealing South St Helens Weston-super-Mare Wigan November: Morecambe and Lunesdale Chichester Pontypool East Aberdeenshire Shoreditch and Finsbury

1959	January: Southend West March: Belfast East Harrow East South West Norfolk April: Galloway June: Penistone Whitehaven

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