1950 Bristol South East by-election

UK parliamentary by-election December 2020 September 2013 1950 Bristol South East by-election parliamentary 61.2% ( 23.9 pp) Bristol South East constituency no 1950 United Kingdom general election 1950 1951 United Kingdom General Election 1951 30 November 1950 Tony Benn Tony Benn in 1953.jpg Labour Party (UK) 19,367 54.6% 5.9 pp Conservative Party (UK) James Lindsay Conservative Party (UK) 12,018 35.2% 8.4 pp Liberal Party (UK) LIB Doreen Gorsky Liberal Party (UK) 2,752 8.1% 1.4 pp MP Stafford Cripps Labour Party (UK) Tony Benn Labour Party (UK) The 1950 Bristol South East by-election was a by-election held on 30 November 1950 for the UK House of Commons constituency of Bristol South East in the city of Bristol. The seat had become vacant when the constituency's Labour Member of Parliament (MP) Sir Stafford Cripps had resigned from Parliament due to ill-health. The Labour candidate Tony Benn held the seat for his party.Benn Tony Years Of Hope: Diaries, Letters and Papers 1940–1962 2012 Random House 9781446493366 https://books.google.com/books?id=-7D78PRN7PUC&q=Bristol+South+East+by-election%2C+30th+November+1950+Tony+Benn+reduced+majority&pg=PT14 It was the first of four by-election victories for Benn in the course of his 45-year career in Parliament, the others being Bristol South East in 1961, the same seat in 1963 and Chesterfield in 1984. Result Bristol South East by-election, 30th November 1950http://www.by-elections.co.uk/50.html https://web.archive.org/web/20120325095636/http://www.by-elections.co.uk/50.html 1950 By Election Results 2012-03-25 dead 2015-08-12 Labour Party (UK) Tony Benn 19,367 56.7 −5.9 Conservative Party (UK) James Lindsay 12,018 35.2 +8.4 Liberal Party (UK) Doreen Gorsky 2,752 8.1 −1.4 7,349 21.5 −14.3 34,137 61.1 −23.9 Labour Party (UK) −7.2 See also Tony Benn Bristol South East constituency 1961 Bristol South East by-election 1963 Bristol South East by-election Lists of United Kingdom by-elections References South East Category:1950 in England Category:1950 elections in the United Kingdom Category:Tony Benn Category:1950s in Bristol