1945 Bournemouth by-election

UK Parliamentary by-election August 2019 August 2019 The 1945 Bournemouth by-election was held on 15 November 1945. The by-election was held due to the elevation to hereditary peerage of the incumbent Conservative MP, Sir Leonard Lyle. It was won by the Conservative candidate Brendan Bracken,May 2021 who was a prominent supporter of Winston Churchill and Conservative parliamentarian who had lost his Paddington North seat to Labour in the 1945 Labour landslide. Somewhat unusually, there was a significant swing to the governing party, with Labour achieving a swing of more than 10%. This election had the biggest swing for an incumbent governing party in a by-election until the 2021 Hartlepool by-election.How the Tories' Hartlepool by-election victory set a postwar record https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2021/05/how-tories-hartlepool-election-victory-set-postwar-record 2021-05-10 www.newstatesman.com en Bournemouth by-election, 1945http://by-elections.co.uk/45.html https://web.archive.org/web/20120206224812/http://by-elections.co.uk/45.html 1945 By Election Results 2012-02-06 dead 2015-08-11 Unionist Party (UK) Brendan Bracken 22,980 46.85 -8.60 Labour Party (UK) Edward Shackleton 16,526 33.69 +11.98 Liberal Party (UK) Basil Wigoder 9,548 19.46 -3.39 6,454 13.16 -19.44 49,054 56.5 -14.8 Conservative Party (UK) -10.3 References Bournemouth by-election Bournemouth by-election Bournemouth by-election Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Hampshire constituencies Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Dorset constituencies Category:1940s in Hampshire