1979 Manchester Central by-election

UK parliamentary by-election April 2022 1979 Manchester Central by-election parliamentary United Kingdom no 1979 United Kingdom general election May 1979 1983 United Kingdom general election 1983 27 September 1979 Manchester Central constituency 33.8% 29.9 pp Bob Litherland LAB Labour Party (UK) 7,494 70.7% 0.0 pp Anthony Parkinson LIB Liberal Party (UK) 1,502 14.2% 8.9 pp Stephen Lea CON Conservative Party (UK) 1,275 12.0% 10.1 pp MP Subsequent MP Harold Lever Labour Party (UK) Bob Litherland Labour Party (UK) The 1979 Manchester Central by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 27 September 1979 for the British House of Commons constituency of Manchester Central. The seat had become vacant when the constituency's Labour Member of Parliament (MP), Harold Lever had been made a life peer on 3 July 1979. He had held the seat since its creation for the February 1974 general election, having represented previous constituencies in Manchester since the 1945 general election. Being held less than five months after the 1979 general election (where the Tories had won power from Labour after five years), it was the first by-election of the 1979–1983 parliament. Result Manchester Central was a safe seat for Labour. On a heavily reduced turnout, the result of the contest was a victory for the Labour candidate, Bob Litherland, who won with the same 70.7% share of the vote which Lever had won at the general election in May 1979.Richard Kimber's political science resources: UK General Election results 1979 Syed Ala-Ud-Din stood in protest at not being selected as the Labour candidate.Anwar Mohammed Race and Politics: Ethnic Minorities and the British Political System 15 April 2013 Routledge 978-0415491112 57–58 https://books.google.com/books?id=daGK2h9XJgwC&dq=%22Syed+Ala-Ud-Din%22&pg=PA57 Litherland held the seat until he retired from the House of Commons at the 1997 general election. Manchester Central by-election, 1979http://www.election.demon.co.uk/by1979.html https://web.archive.org/web/20000609021725/http://www.election.demon.co.uk/by1979.html dead 9 June 2000 Results of Byelections in the 1979-83 Parliament Boothroyd David 2015-09-19 United Kingdom Election Results Labour Party (UK) Bob Litherland 7,494 70.7 0.0 Liberal Party (UK) Anthony Parkinson 1,502 14.2 +8.9 Conservative Party (UK) Stephen Lea 1,275 12.0 −10.1 Independent Labour Syed Ala-Ud-Din 187 1.8 New Ecology Party (UK) John Foster 129 1.2 New Democratic Monarchist, Public Safety, White Resident. Bill Boaks 12 0.1 New 5,992 56.5 +7.9 10,599 33.8 −29.9 Labour Party (UK) References See also Manchester Central (UK Parliament constituency) Manchester List of United Kingdom by-elections Central Manchester Central by-election Manchester Central by-election Manchester Central by-election Category:1970s in Manchester