1958 St Helens by-election

UK Parliamentary by-election August 2019 August 2019 The 1958 St Helens by-election to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom was held on 12 June 1958. It was held due to the vacation of the seat by the incumbent Labour Member of Parliament, Sir Hartley Shawcross. It was retained by the Labour candidate Leslie Spriggs.http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Scommons1.htm Archived copy 4 September 2014 usurped https://web.archive.org/web/20091220043003/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Scommons1.htm 20 December 2009 Background St Helens had been represented in Parliament by Sir Hartley Shawcross since the 1945 general election. However he had become increasingly disillusioned with the Labour Party to the point where he was called by the journalist Bernard Levin "Sir Shortly Floorcross". Hartley stated he wished to vacate his seat citing disillusionment with party politics.https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1435769/Lord-Shawcross.html Lord Shawcross Telegraph 2003-07-11 2020-03-25 Shawcross asked to be appointed as the Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead, an office of profit under the Crown which disqualifies people from being MPs as resignation is not allowed.https://www.parliament.uk/documents/foi/foi-discqualified-MPs-Response-F11-468.pdf Disqualified MPs Parliament of the United Kingdom 2020-03-25 Shawcross was later elevated to the House of Lords as a Crossbench life peer.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1218017.stm Nazi war crimes prosecutor dies BBC News 2003-07-10 2020-03-25 Election Carlisle was contesting his first election for the Conservative Party.Andrew Roth https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/jul/21/guardianobituaries.conservatives Obituary: Lord Carlisle of Bucklow The Guardian 2020-03-25 Spriggs was contesting his second election after unsuccessfully standing for North Fylde three years earlier.Obituary: Leslie Spriggs St Helens Reporter 25 May 1990 He was selected as the Labour Party candidate following Tom Driberg bringing media attention to the selections by alleging religious discrimination in the shortlist of candidates and Spriggs was seen as the "safe" option.Francis Wheen Tom Driberg: His life and indiscretion Chatto and Windus 1990 325 9780330318976 As St Helens is considered a safe Labour seat,Utley Tom https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/4262155/Pity-the-poor-Labour-voters-of-St-Helens.html Pity the poor Labour voters of St Helens Telegraph 2001-05-16 2020-03-25 Spriggs won the election and would represent St Helens until 1983.https://members.parliament.uk/member/1358/career Leslie Spriggs career Parliament of the United Kingdom 2020-03-25 Carlisle would later get elected as the MP for Runcorn. St Helens by-election, 1958http://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 2015-08-15 Labour Party (UK) Leslie Spriggs 26,405 64.7 +0.4 Conservative Party (UK) Mark Carlisle 14,411 35.3 -0.4 11,994 29.4 +0.8 40,816 Labour Party (UK) References Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Lancashire constituencies Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Merseyside constituencies St Helens by-election St Helens by-election Category:1950s in Lancashire St Helens by-election Category:Politics of the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens