1953 Barnsley by-election

UK parliamentary by-election April 2022 The 1953 Barnsley by-election was a by-election held on 31 March 1953 for the British House of Commons constituency of Barnsley in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The seat had become vacant on the resignation of the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) Sidney Schofield, who had represented the constituency since the 1951 general election.b 1 March 2012 The Labour candidate, Roy Mason, held the seat for his party with a reduced majority. He went on to hold a series of cabinet posts in the Labour governments of the 1960s and 1970s. Result Barnsley by-election, 1953http://by-elections.co.uk/53.html https://web.archive.org/web/20121010071919/http://by-elections.co.uk/53.html 1953 By Election Results 2012-10-10 dead 2015-08-13 Labour Party (UK) Roy Mason 29,283 72.9 +3.2 Conservative Party (UK) Geoffrey Whittaker 10,905 27.1 +9.8 18,378 45.8 −6.5 40,188 Labour Party (UK) −3.3 See also Barnsley (UK Parliament constituency) 1897 Barnsley by-election 1938 Barnsley by-election 2011 Barnsley Central by-election List of United Kingdom by-elections References Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in South Yorkshire constituencies Category:1953 in England Category:1953 elections in the United Kingdom Category:Elections in Barnsley Category:1950s in Yorkshire