1967 Nuneaton by-election

UK Parliamentary by-election August 2019 August 2019 The 1967 Nuneaton by-election of 9 March 1967 was held after the resignation of Labour MP (MP) Frank Cousins. The seat was safe, having been won by Labour at the 1966 United Kingdom general election by over 11,000 votes https://web.archive.org/web/20110811174635/http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge66/i15.htm 11 August 2011 PoliticsResources.net Labour held the seat. Candidates Les Huckfield for Labour was selected at a time when he was a lecturer at the University of Birmingham David Knox was selected for the Conservatives. He later became an MP for Staffordshire Moorlands The local Liberal Party association nominated Alan Meredith who had stood in the seat previously John Creasey nominated himself as candidate for the All Party Alliance, which he had founded Air Vice-Marshal Don Bennett, a former MP, was the nominee for the National Party Result of the previous general election General election 1966: Nuneaton Labour Party (UK) Frank Cousins 27,452 53.98 +1.20 Conservative Party (UK) David S Marland 16,049 31.56 +2.48 Liberal Party (UK) Alan Meredith 7,356 14.46 -3.67 11,403 22.42 -1.26 50,857 79.68 -0.43 Labour Party (UK) +4.22 Result of the by-election Nuneaton by-election, 9 March 1967http://by-elections.co.uk/67.html https://web.archive.org/web/20120329035318/http://by-elections.co.uk/67.html 1967 By Election Results 2012-03-29 dead 2015-08-20 Labour Party (UK) Les Huckfield 18,239 42.08 -11.10 Conservative Party (UK) David Knox 14,185 32.73 +1.17 Liberal Party (UK) Alan Meredith 7,644 17.64 +3.18 All Party Alliance John Creasey 2,755 6.36 New National Party Don Bennett 517 1.19 New 4,054 9.35 -13.07 43,340 67.90 -11.78 Labour Party (UK) -5.37 References Category:1967 elections in the United Kingdom Category:1967 in England Category:20th century in Warwickshire Category:Nuneaton and Bedworth By-election, 1966