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1957 Liverpool Garston by-election
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UK Parliamentary by-election
August 2019
August 2019
The 1957 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 1955 United Kingdom general election by nearly 12,000 votes. https://web.archive.org/web/20110811165416/http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge55/i13.htm 11 August 2011 PoliticsResources.net
Result of the previous general election
General election 1955: Liverpool Garston
Conservative Party (UK)
Victor Raikes
28,130
63.51
-1.7
Labour Party (UK)
Thomas Edward Nixon
16,161
36.49
+1.7
11,969
27.02
-3.4
44,291
71.0
-1.7
Conservative Party (UK)
-1.7
Result of the by-election
The Conservative Party held the seat.
By-election 1957: Liverpool Garstonhttp://by-elections.co.uk/57.html https://web.archive.org/web/20120329041134/http://by-elections.co.uk/57.html 1957 By Election Results 2012-03-29 dead 2015-08-14
Conservative Party (UK)
Richard Bingham
15,521
49.20
-14.31
Labour Party (UK)
Ian Isidore Levin
11,217
35.56
-0.93
Liberal Party (UK)
Arthur Donald Dennis
4,807
15.24
New
3,131
13.64
-13.38
31,545
Conservative Party (UK)
-6.7
References
Category:1957 elections in the United Kingdom
Category:1957 in England
Category:1950s in Liverpool
Category:December 1957 in the United Kingdom
Garston, 1957