1968 Meriden by-election

UK parliamentary by-election November 2019 The 1968 Meriden by-election was a by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Meriden in Warwickshire on 28 March 1968. It was won by the Conservative Party candidate Keith Speed. Vacancy The seat had become vacant when the 38-year-old Labour incumbent Member of Parliament (MP), Christopher Rowland died on 5 November 1967 of pneumonia following a brief illness. He had held the seat since the 1964 general election. Result The result was a clear victory for Speed in what had been a Labour marginal seat. It was one of three Conservative by-election gains from Labour on the same day, the others being at Acton and Dudley. Speed held the seat until the February 1974 general election, when he lost the seat back to Labour. He went on to be MP for Ashford. Meriden by-election, 1968http://www.by-elections.co.uk/68.html https://web.archive.org/web/20120325095551/http://www.by-elections.co.uk/68.html 1968 By Election Results 2012-03-25 dead 2015-08-21 Conservative Party (UK) Keith Speed 33,344 64.8 +18.4 Labour Party (UK) Roderick MacFarquhar 18,081 35.2 −18.4 15,263 29.6 N/A 51,425 66.0 -19.7 Conservative Party (UK) Labour Party (UK) +18.4 Previous result General election 1966: Meriden1966 general election results at Richard Kimber's political science resources Labour Party (UK) Christopher Rowland 33,831 53.6 +3.3 Conservative Party (UK) Jonathan Aitken 29,250 46.4 -3.3 4,581 7.2 +6.6 63,081 85.7 +2.3 Labour Party (UK) See also Meriden constituency List of United Kingdom by-elections References Meriden by-election Meriden by-election Category:20th century in Warwickshire Category:Politics of Solihull Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Warwickshire constituencies Meriden by-election