1955 Greenock by-election

UK parliamentary by-election April 2022 The 1955 Greenock by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 8 December 1955 for the British House of Commons constituency of Greenock in Renfrewshire, Scotland. The vacancy had been created by the death of the incumbent Labour MP Hector McNeil, and the seat was won by the future Labour Minister Dickson Mabon. Candidates Labour selected Mabon, who at only thirty would become the youngest Labour MP. He had served as a Bevin Boy and in the army. He had been chairman of the Labour Club (1948–50), then chairman of the National Association of Labour Students in 1949–1950, and finally president of Glasgow University Union in 1951–52, and of the Scottish Union of Students, 1954–55. The Unionist candidate was Ian MacArthur, who was also thirty, and who worked as an associate director of a marketing and advertising company; he had also contested the seat at the general election earlier that year. Previous result General election 1955: GreenockBritish parliamentary election results, 1950–1973 by FWS Craig Labour Party (UK) Hector McNeil 19,378 51.4 -5.7 Unionist Party (Scotland) Ian MacArthur 18,345 48.6 +5.7 1,033 2.8 -11.4 37,723 Labour Party (UK) By-election result Greenock by-election, 1955British parliamentary election results, 1950–1973 by FWS Craig Labour Party (UK) Dickson Mabon 19,698 53.7 +2.3 Unionist Party (Scotland) Ian MacArthur 17,004 46.3 -2.3 2,694 7.4 +4.6 36,702 Labour Party (UK) References Category:1955 elections in the United Kingdom Category:1955 in Scotland Category:1950s elections in Scotland Category:December 1955 in the United Kingdom Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Scottish constituencies