1959 South West Norfolk by-election

UK parliamentary by-election August 2021 July 2012 The 1959 South West Norfolk by-election of 25 March 1959 was held after Labour Member of Parliament (MP) Sidney Dye died on 9 December 1958. The seat was retained by Labour. Candidates Labour chose Albert Hilton as their candidate for the by-election. A leading member of the National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers, Hilton was a longstanding party activist who held the seat until he was defeated in the 1964 general election. He would go on to sit in the House of Lords. Barrister Elaine Kellett ran for the Conservative Party in one of a number of unsuccessful candidacies for the party. She went on to serve as MP for Lancaster and MEP for North West England. The third candidate, Andrew Fountaine, ran as an Independent Nationalist, adopting a far right platform immediately before being appointed President of the National Labour Party.John Bean, Many Shades of Black – Inside Britain's Far Right, London: New Millennium, 1999, pp. 119–121 He would become a leading figure in the National Front as well as briefly leading his own party, the Constitutional Movement. Result South West Norfolk, by-election 1959http://by-elections.co.uk/59.html https://web.archive.org/web/20121010071857/http://by-elections.co.uk/59.html 1959 By Election Results 2012-10-10 dead 2015-08-15 Labour Party (UK) Albert Hilton 15,314 50.95 +0.66 Conservative Party (UK) Elaine Kellett 13,960 46.44 -3.27 Independent Nationalist Andrew Fountaine 785 2.61 New 1,354 4.51 +3.93 30,059 Labour Party (UK) References Category:1959 elections in the United Kingdom Category:1959 in England Category:March 1959 in the United Kingdom Category:20th century in Norfolk South West