Liverpool Garston by-election, 1957

The Liverpool Garston by-election of 5 December 1957 was held after the resignation of Conservative Party MP Sir Victor Raikes.

The seat was safe for the Conservatives, having been won at the United Kingdom general election, 1955 by nearly 12,000 votes.^[1]

Result of the previous general election

General Election 1955: Liverpool Garston
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sir Victor Raikes	28,130	63.51
	Labour	TE Nixon	16,161	36.49
Majority			11,969	27.02	-

Result of the by-election

By-election 1957: Liverpool Garston^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Martin Bingham	15,521	49.20	-14.31
	Labour	I Levin	11,217	35.56	-0.93
	Liberal	Arthur Donald Dennis	4,807	15.24	N/A
Majority			3,131
	Conservative hold		Swing

References

↑ PoliticsResources.net
↑ "1957 By Election Results". Archived from the original on 2012-03-29. Retrieved 2015-08-14.

By-elections in Liverpool

1832–1885	Liverpool, 1842 Liverpool, 1853 Liverpool, 1855 Liverpool, 1873 Liverpool, 1874 Liverpool February 1880 Liverpool, August 1880 Liverpool, 1882

1885–1900	Walton, 1886 Exchange, 1887 West Derby, 1888 Everton, 1892 West Derby, 1893 East Toxteth, 1895 Exchange, 1897 Kirkdale, 1898

1900–1918	East Toxteth, 1902 West Derby, 1903 Everton, 1905 Kirkdale, 1907 Kirkdale, 1910 Kirkdale, 1915 East Toxteth, 1916 Abercromby, 1917

1918–1945	West Derby, 1919 Exchange, 1922 Edge Hill, 1923 West Toxteth, 1924 Scotland, 1929 East Toxteth, 1929 Wavertree, 1931 East Toxteth, 1931 Exchange, 1933 West Derby, 1935 Wavertree, 1935 West Toxteth, 1935

1945–present	Edge Hill, 1947 West Derby, 1954 Garston, 1957 Scotland, 1964 Scotland, 1971 Edge Hill, 1979 Walton, 1991

Lists of UK by-elections 1868–1885 1885–1900 1900–1918 1918–1931 1931–1950 1950–1979 1979–present

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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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