1972 Sutton and Cheam by-election

1972 UK Parliamentary by-election 1972 Sutton and Cheam by-election parliamentary United Kingdom Constituency of Sutton and Cheam no 1970 United Kingdom general election 1970 February 1974 United Kingdom general election 1974 7 December 1972 Graham Tope x160px Liberal Party (UK) 18,328 53.6% 39.0% Neil Macfarlane x160px Conservative Party (UK) 10,911 31.9% 26.2% David Miller Lab Labour Party (UK) 2,937 8.6% 18.7% 200px MP Richard Sharples Conservative Party (UK) Graham Tope Liberal Party (UK) 56.3% ( 11.3%)October 2020 April 2012 The 1972 Sutton and Cheam by-election of 7 December 1972 was held after Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Richard Sharples was appointed Governor of Bermuda. In a defeat for Edward Heath's government the seat was won by Liberal candidate Graham Tope, who defeated the Conservative candidate Neil Macfarlane.Result with some Graham Tope campaign literature https://web.archive.org/web/20120314034610/http://by-elections.co.uk/72.html 14 March 2012 This was the second Liberal gain during the 1970–1974 Parliament, during which they gained five seats overall.Michael McManus, Jo Grimond: Towards the Sound of Gunfire, Edinburgh, 2001, p. 317 Tope went on to lose the seat to Macfarlane at the February 1974 election. Result 1972 Sutton and Cheam by-electionhttp://by-elections.co.uk/72.html https://web.archive.org/web/20120314034610/http://by-elections.co.uk/72.html 1972 By Election Results 14 March 2012 dead 8 September 2015 Liberal Party (UK) Graham Tope 18,328 53.6 +39.0 Conservative Party (UK) Neil Macfarlane 10,911 31.9 -26.2 Labour Party (UK) David Miller 2,937 8.6 -18.7 Anti-Common Market Chris Frere-Smith 1,332 3.9 New National Independence Party (UK) Edgar Scruby 660 1.9 New 7,417 21.7 N/A 34,194 56.3 -11.3 Liberal Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) +32.6 External links Sutton and Cheam by-election Sutton and Cheam by-election Sutton and Cheam by-election Sutton and Cheam,1972 Sutton and Cheam,1972 Category:Sutton, London