1968 Sheffield Brightside by-election

UK Parliamentary by-election August 2019 August 2019 The 1968 Sheffield Brightside by-election of 13 June 1968 was held following the death of Labour MP Richard Winterbottom.Craig F.W.S. 1987 Chronology of British Parliamentary By-elections 1833–1987 Chichester Parliamentary Research Services 230 The seat was very safe, having been won by Labour at the 1966 general election by over 19,000 votes https://web.archive.org/web/20110811174244/http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge66/i18.htm 11 August 2011 PoliticsResources.net Candidates Labour chose Edward Griffiths to defend their seat, who was an industrial chemist and a worker director at the British Steel CorporationOBITUARY – Eddie Griffiths Independent.co.uk Colin Renfrew, for the Conservatives, was lecturer in the Department of Prehistory and Archaeology at the University of Sheffield Robert Wilkinson was chosen as the candidate for the Communists Ronald Guest, and Lt-Col H L Lambert, stood as independents. Result of the previous general election General election 1966: Sheffield Brightside Labour Party (UK) Richard Winterbottom 26,653 75.90 +5.2 Conservative Party (UK) Raymond Hadfield 7,476 21.29 -4.5 Communist Party of Great Britain Howard Hill 989 2.82 -0.7 19,177 54.61 +9.7 35,118 66.2 -4.1 Labour Party (UK) Result of the by-election The Labour Party held the seat with a much diminished majority. By-election 1968: Sheffield Brightsidehttp://www.by-elections.co.uk/68.html https://web.archive.org/web/20120325095551/http://www.by-elections.co.uk/68.html 1968 By Election Results 2012-03-25 dead British Elections Ephemera Archive 2015-08-21 Labour Party (UK) Edward Griffiths 14,179 55.21 -20.69 Conservative Party (UK) Colin Renfrew 8,931 34.77 +13.48 Communist Party of Great Britain Robert Wilkinson 1,069 4.16 +1.34 Independent (politician) Ronald Guest 918 3.60 New Independent (politician) H. L. Lambert 586 2.30 New 5,248 20.44 -34.17 25,683 Labour Party (UK) References Category:1968 in England Category:1968 elections in the United Kingdom Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Sheffield constituencies Category:1960s in Sheffield Category:June 1968 in the United Kingdom