1963 West Bromwich by-election

UK parliamentary by-election April 2022 The 1963 West Bromwich by-election was a by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of West Bromwich in Staffordshire on 4 July 1963.Labour retain two seats https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=19630705&printsec=frontpage&hl=en 16 July 2020 The Glasgow Herald 5 July 1963 1 It was won by the Labour Party candidate Maurice Foley. Vacancy The seat had become vacant when the sitting Labour Member of Parliament (MP), John Dugdale had died at the age of 58 on 23 March 1963. He had held the seat since a by-election in 1941. Candidates The Labour Party candidate was 37-year-old Maurice Foley. The Conservative candidate was Mr G. Hawkins, and the Liberal Party — which had not contested the seat since 1929*Craig F. W. S. F. W. S. Craig British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 1969 3rd 1983 Parliamentary Research Services Chichester 0-900178-06-X — fielded N. R. W. Mawle. Result The result was a victory for the Labour candidate, Maurice Foley, who took the seat with a slightly increased share of the vote. He held the seat until his resignation in 1973. West Bromwich by-election, 1963http://www.by-elections.co.uk/63.html https://web.archive.org/web/20120225141806/http://www.by-elections.co.uk/63.html 1963 By Election Results 2012-02-25 dead 2015-08-17 Labour Party (UK) Maurice Foley 20,510 58.7 +1.3 Conservative Party (UK) George Hawkins 8,246 26.5 −16.1 Liberal Party (UK) N. R. W. Mawle 6,161 17.6 New 12,264 35.2 +20.4 34,917 Labour Party (UK) Last result General election 1959: West Bromwich Labour Party (UK) John Dugdale 26,702 57.4 −4.2 Conservative Party (UK) Anthony Hubert Windrum 19,809 42.6 +4.4 6,893 14.8 −8.8 46,511 72.6 +2.4 Labour Party (UK) −4.2 See also West Bromwich (UK Parliament constituency) West Bromwich 1941 West Bromwich by-election 1973 West Bromwich by-election List of United Kingdom by-elections Notes Sources British Parliamentary by-elections: West Bromwich 1963 1959 general election results https://web.archive.org/web/20070929121111/http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/area/uk/ge59/i20.htm 29 September 2007 at Richard Kimber's political science resources March 2012 Category:Politics of Sandwell Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in West Midlands (county) constituencies Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Staffordshire constituencies Category:1963 in England Category:1963 elections in the United Kingdom Category:20th century in Staffordshire Category:July 1963 in the United Kingdom