1951 Westhoughton by-election

The Westhoughton by-election took place on 21 June 1951. The contest followed the resignation of the sitting Labour Party Member of Parliament, Rhys Davies.

In April 1951 Davies, who had held the Westhoughton constituency in south Lancashire for thirty years, announced that he would not be standing for parliament again. At the time he was Labour's longest serving MP.[1] He subsequently resigned from the Commons due to ill health, and the writ to hold a by-election to fill the vacancy was moved on 31 May.[2] At the time of Davies's resignation, the Labour Party held a slim majority of only five seats, following the 1950 general election. Davies had secured a majority of nearly 12,000 votes over the Conservatives in 1950.

Nominations for the by-election closed on 12 June, and there were only two candidates: Tom Price, the forty-eight-year-old chief legal officer of the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers for the Labour Party; and Frank J. Land, a thirty-eight-year-old master baker from Bolton for the Conservatives.[3]

Price belonged to the same trades union as Davies, and had strong connections with south Lancashire. Land was a member of the Bolton Chamber of Trade, and vice-chairman of Bolton Young Conservatives.[3] On 14 June, Winston Churchill, Conservative leader, issued a statement in support of Land and attacking the Labour government who he blamed for the fall in the value of the pound.[4] Price campaigned on the record of the Labour government, claiming it had done a great deal to improve the life of ordinary people. Land called for an end to nationalisation of industries, claiming this led to higher prices. Both candidates supported a programme of building large numbers of council houses.[5]

Results

Price retained the seat comfortably for the government, although with a reduced majority:[6]

Westhoughton by-election, 1951[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Tom Price 25,368 60.4 −1.8
Conservative Frank J. Land 16,614 39.6 +1.8
Majority 8,754 20.8 −3.7
Turnout 41,982
Labour hold Swing −1.8

References

  1. ^ "MP not to seek re-election", The Times, 10 April 1951, p. 7.
  2. ^ "House of Commons", The Times, 1 June 1951, p. 4.
  3. ^ a b "The Westhoughton By-Election, No Hint of Third Candidate", The Times, 5 June 1951, p. 3.
  4. ^ "Labour Blamed For Fall in Pound - Mr. Churchill's Message To Westhoughton", The Times, 15 June 1951, p. 7.
  5. ^ "Candidates' Claims at Westhoughton - By-Election Addresses", The Times, 16 June 1951, p. 3.
  6. ^ "Government Retain Westhoughton, Mr. J. T. Price Elected", The Times 22 June 1951, p. 6.
  7. ^ "1951 By Election Results". Archived from the original on 25 February 2012. Retrieved 12 August 2015.

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