1950 Sheffield Neepsend by-election

UK parliamentary by-election December 2020 March 2014 1950 Sheffield Neepsend by-election parliamentary Sheffield Neepsend constituency no 55.1% (9.3 pp) 1950 United Kingdom general election 1950 1951 United Kingdom general election 1951 5 April 1950 Frank Soskice Frank Soskice 1951.jpeg Labour Party (UK) 22,080 70.8% 2.0 pp John Philip Hunt Conservative Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) 8,365 26.8% 0.4 pp The 1950 Sheffield Neepsend by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 5 April 1950 for the British House of Commons constituency of Sheffield Neepsend in Neepsend, an industrial suburb of the city of Sheffield. The seat had become vacant when the constituency's Labour Member of Parliament (MP), Harry Morris, was elevated to the peerage as the first Baron Morris of Kenwood. Morris, who had held the seat since its creation for the 1950 general election, had been offered a peerage to trigger a by-election in a safe seat which could be easily won by Frank Soskice. Soskice had been Solicitor General since Clement Attlee's Labour Government had taken office in 1945. His Birkenhead East constituency had been abolished in boundary changes for the 1950 general election, and he had not been selected for another seat. Soskice won the by-election comfortably, with over 70% of the votes. He represented Sheffield Neepsend until the constituency was abolished for the 1955 general election,February 2012 when he again found himself without a seat. He returned to Parliament the following year at the by-election on 6 July 1956 for the Newport constituency in Monmouthshire. Result By-election 1950: Sheffield Neepsendhttp://www.by-elections.co.uk/50.html https://web.archive.org/web/20120325095636/http://www.by-elections.co.uk/50.html 1950 By Election Results 2012-03-25 dead 2015-08-12 Labour Party (UK) Frank Soskice 22,080 70.8 −2.0 Conservative Party (UK) John Philip Hunt 8,365 26.8 −0.4 Communist Party of Great Britain Bill Moore 729 2.4 New 13,715 44.0 -1.6 31,174 55.1 -28.7 Labour Party (UK) −0.8 See also Sheffield Neepsend (UK Parliament constituency) Sheffield Lists of United Kingdom by-elections References Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Sheffield constituencies Category:1950 elections in the United Kingdom Category:1950 in England Category:1950s in Sheffield