1959 Galloway by-election

UK by-election April 2025 November 2013 The 1959 Galloway by-election of 9 April 1959 was held after the death of Unionist member of parliament (MP) John Mackie:Full results https://web.archive.org/web/20121010071857/http://by-elections.co.uk/59.html 10 October 2012 The seat was safe, having been won by the Unionists at the 1955 general election by 8,014 votes https://web.archive.org/web/20110811165659/http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge55/i09.htm 11 August 2011 PoliticsResources.net Result of the previous general election General election 1955: Galloway Unionist Party (Scotland) John Mackie 15,893 66.86 +5.23 Labour Party (UK) W S Gray 7,879 33.14 +6.80 8,014 33.72 -1.43 23,772 Unionist Party (Scotland) Result of the by-election By-election 1959: Gallowayhttp://by-elections.co.uk/59.html https://web.archive.org/web/20121010071857/http://by-elections.co.uk/59.html 1959 By Election Results 2012-10-10 dead 2015-08-15 Unionist Party (Scotland) John Brewis 13,204 49.93 -16.93 Scottish Liberal Party Simon Mackay 6,721 25.42 New Labour Party (UK) W Cross 6,520 24.65 -8.49 6,483 24.51 -9.21 26,445 Unionist Party (Scotland) Aftermath The Glasgow Herald stated that the initial reaction to the result among the political parties was "Government satisfaction, Liberal jubilation, and Labour despondency."Government Satisfaction at Galloway Result https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=19590411&printsec=frontpage&hl=en 25 January 2019 The Glasgow Herald 11 April 1959 However, the same newspaper also noted that while Conservatives would be happy to have held the seat with a "substantial majority", the Liberal performance would worry them. The result indicated that the Liberals were maintaining their recent trend of polling well in by-elections. The Conservatives were reported to fear that if this trend in Liberal candidates taking votes from their party continued, it could allow Labour to win the next general election, if the Liberals fielded 200 candidates. References Category:1959 in Scotland Category:1950s elections in Scotland By-election, 1959 By-election, 1959 Category:1959 elections in the United Kingdom Category:April 1959 in the United Kingdom Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Scottish constituencies