1960 Bolton East by-election

UK parliamentary by-election April 2022 The 1960 Bolton East by-election was a by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Bolton East in Lancashire on 16 November 1960. It was won by the Conservative Party candidate Edwin Taylor. Vacancy The seat became vacant when the sitting Conservative Member of Parliament Philip Bell, QC, was appointed as a County Court Judge. He had held the seat since the 1951 general election. The by-election saw the decision of the Liberal Party to field a candidate, which broke a local pact which had held for 10 years whereby the Liberals left the Bolton East seat alone, and in return the Conservatives did not stand in Bolton West; the pact had achieved its objective of preventing the Labour Party from winning either. Result Taylor was elected by a margin of 641 votes over Labour candidate Robert Howarth, with the Liberal candidate Frank Byers securing a quarter of the vote. Dissension within the Labour Party over nuclear disarmament was thought to have helped Taylor win. At the 1964 general election, a more organised Labour campaign in Bolton East saw Taylor voted out by a margin of more than 3,000 votes. A Conservative stood in Bolton West for the first time since 1950, resulting in a Labour gain from the Liberal Arthur Holt by roughly the same margin. Bolton East by-election, 1960http://www.by-elections.co.uk/60.html https://web.archive.org/web/20131016154925/http://www.by-elections.co.uk/60.html 1960 By Election Results 2013-10-16 dead 2015-08-15 Conservative Party (UK) Edwin Taylor 15,499 37.8 -15.0 Labour Party (UK) Robert Howarth 14,858 36.2 -11.0 Liberal Party (UK) Frank Byers 10,173 24.8 New New Conservative John E. Dayton 493 1.2 New 641 1.6 -4.0 41,023 Conservative Party (UK) -2.0 Previous result 1959 general election: Bolton East Conservative Party (UK) Philip Bell 25,885 52.8 -0.8 Labour Party (UK) R. Hains 23,153 47.2 +0.8 2,732 5.6 -1.6 49,038 80.1 Conservative Party (UK) -0.8 References British Parliamentary by-elections: Bolton East 1960 1959 general election results at Richard Kimber's political science resources March 2012 Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Greater Manchester constituencies Category:1960 elections in the United Kingdom Category:1960 in England Category:1960s in Lancashire Category:Elections in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Lancashire constituencies