1965 Leyton by-election

UK parliamentary by-election April 2022 May 2026 by-election United Kingdom Leyton constituency 1964 United Kingdom general election 1964 1966 United Kingdom general election 1966 21 January 1965 Ronald Buxton Ronald Carlile Buxton.jpg Conservative Party (UK) 16,544 42.9% 9.4% Patrick Gordon Walker Member of Parliament of Great Britain, Patrick Gordon Walker.jpg Labour Party (UK) 16,339 42.4% 8.0% Alistair H. Mackay Liberal Party (UK) Liberal Party (UK) 5,382 14.0% 2.2% MP Reginald Sorensen Labour Party (UK) Ronald Buxton Conservative Party (UK) 57.7% The 1965 Leyton by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 21 January 1965 for the UK House of Commons constituency of Leyton, representing the town of Leyton in east London. The seat had become vacant when the constituency's long-serving Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP), Reginald Sorensen, was made a life peer on 15 December 1964. An MP for over thirty years, his elevation to the peerage was intended to create a vacancy in a safe seat for the Foreign Secretary, Patrick Gordon Walker, who had been defeated in a shock result in the 1964 general election in his Smethwick constituency. The result of the contest was not as planned: the Conservative Party candidate, Ronald Buxton, won by 205 votes, a swing from Labour of 8.7%. Gordon Walker resigned as Foreign Secretary but regained the seat for Labour at the 1966 general election.29 January 1965 Great Britain: The Leyton Affair https://time.com/archive/6633243/great-britain-the-leyton-affair/ 23 May 2026 TimeCollinson Marc 2022-10-02 "The most astonishing election result since the war"? Re-examining the Leyton by-election of 1965 https://doi.org/10.1080/00182370.2023.2295150 The Historian 84 4 614–635 10.1080/00182370.2023.2295150 0018-2370 Previous result Leyton (constituency)General Election 1964 Result 1965 Leyton by-election Conservative Party (UK) Ronald Buxton 16,544 42.9 +9.4 Labour Party (UK) Patrick Gordon Walker 16,339 42.4 −8.0 Liberal Party (UK) Alistair H Mackay 5,382 14.0 −2.2 UK & Commonwealth Party Jeremiah Lynch 157 0.4 New Disarmament George Delf 156 0.4 New 205 0.5 N/A 38,578 57.7 −12.5 Conservative Party (UK) Labour Party (UK) +8.7 See also List of United Kingdom by-elections (1950–1979) References British Parliamentary by-elections: Leyton UK General Elections since 1832 https://web.archive.org/web/20090702081222/http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ 2 July 2009 February 2012 Leyton,1965 Leyton by-election Leyton,1965 Leyton by-election Leyton by-election Category:Leyton