1969 Weston-super-Mare by-election

UK Parliamentary by-election August 2019 August 2019 The 1969 Weston-super-Mare by-election of 27 March 1969 was held after the death of Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) David Webster. The seat was retained by the Conservatives with an increased majority.http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge66/i21.htm Result from previous election 4 January 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20110811173827/http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge66/i21.htm 11 August 2011 dead Electoral history General election 1966: Weston-super-Mare Conservative Party (UK) David Webster 27,733 52.08 Labour Party (UK) Melvyn E. Butcher 15,340 28.81 Liberal Party (UK) Ian D. McDonald 10,173 19.11 12,393 23.27 53,246 79.06 Conservative Party (UK) Candidates The Conservative candidate was 32 year-old Alfred William (Jerry) Wiggin. Educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, he was a farmer with holdings in Worcestershire and Peeblesshire.'Register: Sir Jerry Wiggin', Times, 10 April 2015. He had previously stood as the party's candidate in Montgomeryshire in 1964 and 1966.Wiggin, Sir Alfred William, (Sir Jerry Wiggin) U39756 was 2020 online The Liberals selected a new candidate, 43 year-old Edward Deal. He was a local solicitor, who was a member of The Law Society and the British Legal Association. He had been educated at Uppingham School and Clare College, Cambridge. He was standing for Parliament for the first time.The Times Guide to the House of Commons, 1970 The Labour Party selected 27 year-old Nicholas Bosanquet, an economic adviser at the National Board of Prices and Incomes. He was educated at Winchester College and Clare College, Cambridge.Bosanquet, Prof. Nicholas U8151 2020 online Result Weston-super-Mare by-election, 1969http://by-elections.co.uk/69.html https://web.archive.org/web/20120314034618/http://by-elections.co.uk/69.html 1969 By Election Results 2012-03-14 dead British Elections Ephemera Archive 2015-08-26 Conservative Party (UK) Jerry Wiggin 29,211 65.71 +13.63 Liberal Party (UK) Edward Richard F. Deal 8,739 19.66 +0.55 Labour Party (UK) Nicholas Bosanquet 6,504 14.63 -14.18 20,472 46.05 +22.78 44,454 60.8 -17.7 Conservative Party (UK) Aftermath The result was one of three Conservative wins in by-elections held that day, with the party also retaining Brighton Pavilion and gaining Walthamstow East from Labour. Across the three contests there was an average swing of 16% from Labour to Conservative, which Conservative Shadow Home Secretary Quintin Hogg noted would give his party a comfortable majority in the House of Commons if repeated at the next general election.By-election treble for the Tories https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=19690328&printsec=frontpage&hl=en 7 February 2021 The Glasgow Herald 28 March 1969 1 The next day's Glasgow Herald reported that the "dispiriting performance" by Labour in these first by-elections of 1969 raised questions as to when the tide would turn for the party and noted that "some Labour MPS feel in their bones" that the party could not recover to win the general election which would come within the next two years.Labour still seeking turn of the tide https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=19690328&printsec=frontpage&hl=en 7 February 2021 The Glasgow Herald 28 March 1969 1 References Weston-super-Mare by-election Weston-super-Mare by-election Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Somerset constituencies Category:Weston-super-Mare Category:20th century in Somerset Weston-super-Mare by-election