1958 Rochdale by-election

UK Parliamentary by-election August 2019 August 2019 The 1958 Rochdale by-election held on 13 February was a by-election for the constituency of Rochdale, in Lancashire, England, in the House of Commons. It was called following the death on 16 December 1957 of the sitting Conservative Member of Parliament, Wentworth Schofield.http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/rcommons1.htm Archived copy 29 August 2008 usurped https://web.archive.org/web/20111203104151/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Rcommons1.htm 3 December 2011 This was the first British by-election to be televisedGranada Goes to Rochdale and Liberal candidate Ludovic Kennedy used his media experience to increase coverage of his campaign. Granada Television broadcast two debates between the candidates as well as the election count, and the BBC conducted many interviews with voters.Rochdale in the 1950s: TV election – yet another first for pioneering town (archived) The by-election was won by the Labour candidate, Jack McCann, with 22,000 votes, but Kennedy polled 17,603, the highest Liberal vote since the 1920s. The Conservative candidate, John Parkinson, was squeezed into third place with fewer than 10,000 votes. Result By-election 1958: Rochdalehttp://by-elections.co.uk/58.html https://web.archive.org/web/20120625073118/http://by-elections.co.uk/58.html 1958 By Election Results 2012-06-25 dead 2015-08-14 Labour Party (UK) Jack McCann 22,133 44.66 −3.79 Liberal Party (UK) Ludovic Kennedy 17,603 35.52 New Conservative Party (UK) John E. Parkinson 9,827 19.83 −31.72 4,530 9.14 N/A 49,563 Labour Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) +14.0 Previous election General election 1955: Rochdale Conservative Party (UK) Wentworth Schofield 26,518 51.55 +1.14 Labour Party (UK) Jack McCann 24,928 48.45 −1.14 1,590 3.10 +2.28 51,446 82.80 -2.9 Conservative Party (UK) +1.1 See also 1940 Rochdale by-election, an unopposed war-time election 1972 Rochdale by-election Rochdale List of United Kingdom by-elections References External links British Parliamentary By Elections: Campaign literature from the by-election Rochdale by-election Rochdale by-election Category:1950s in Lancashire Rochdale by-election Category:Elections in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Greater Manchester constituencies Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Lancashire constituencies