1956 Labour Party deputy leadership election

British political party election August 2019 January 2017 1956 Labour Party deputy leadership election presidential no 1953 Labour Party deputy leadership election 1953 1959 Labour Party deputy leadership election 1959 1956 2 2 yes 3x4.svg 160x160px Jim Griffiths 141 56.0% Aneurin Bevan (3x4).jpg 160x160px Aneurin Bevan 111 44.0% Deputy Leader Herbert Morrison Jim Griffiths The 1956 Labour Party deputy leadership election took place on 2 February 1956, following the resignation of sitting deputy leader Herbert Morrison. Morrison resigned after his heavy defeat in the leadership election in December 1955, but the party decided not to hold a deputy leadership election until the new year.Mr Gaitskell elected Labour leader 15 December 1955 The Times Candidates Herbert Morrison resigned as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party after a humiliating third-place defeat behind the winner Hugh Gaitskell and the runner-up Aneurin Bevan in the 1955 Labour Party leadership election. During this contest the Labour Party was divided between Bevanite and Gaitskellite wings.1955-12-14 1955: Gaitskell elected Labour leader en-GB http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/14/newsid_3254000/3254118.stm 2022-06-17Campbell John https://archive.org/details/pistolsatdawntwo0000camp/13960/t6wx5mm07 Pistols at Dawn: Two Hundred Years of Political Rivalry from Pitt and Fox to Blair and Brown 2010 Vintage 978-1-84595-091-0 London 216–228 489636152 Aneurin Bevan, Shadow Minister of Labour and National Service, Member of Parliament for Ebbw Vale Jim Griffiths, Shadow Secretary of State for the Colonies, Member of Parliament for Llanelli Results Only ballot: 2 February 1956CandidateVotes% Jim Griffiths 141 56.0 Aneurin Bevan 111 44.0 Jim Griffiths elected The day after the result was announced, the political correspondent of The Glasgow Herald reported that "Mr Griffiths's success was a foregone conclusion", but Bevan attracted a much higher vote than had been expected. He speculated that if Bevan could "keep his personal animosities under control, and restrain his tendency to quarrel with colleagues in public" he would be "a formidable contender" for the post of deputy leader if he were to challenge Griffiths the following year.Mr Griffiths as Labour's New Deputy Leader - Good Support for Mr Bevan https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=19560203&printsec=frontpage&hl=en 13 March 2022 The Glasgow Herald 3 February 1956 8 As a result of Bevan's performance, his rival Gaitskell appointed him to his Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Colonial Secretary. He also won the election as party treasurer over George Brown in October 1956. One month later, he was promoted to Shadow Foreign Secretary for his fierce denunciation of the Suez Crisis. Afterwards the Bevanites and the Gaitskellites would increasingly reconcile, and Bevan was elected unopposed in the next deputy leadership election after Griffiths' retirement in 1959.Thorpe Andrew http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-1-349-25305-0 A History of the British Labour Party 1997 Macmillan Education UK 978-0-333-56081-5 London 133 en 10.1007/978-1-349-25305-0 none Notes and references Quinn Thomas Labour Party Deputy Leadership Elections 1952-2007 http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~tquinn/labour_party_deputy.htm University of Essex https://web.archive.org/web/20140417101550/http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~tquinn/labour_party_deputy.htm 17 April 2014 2013 Mr J Griffiths's majority of 30 3 February 1956 The Times New deputy leader 3 February 1956 Manchester Guardian Category:Deputy leaders of the Labour Party (UK) 1956 Labour Party deputy leadership election Labour Party deputy leadership election Labour Party deputy leadership election