1954 Wakefield by-election

UK Parliamentary by-election August 2019 August 2019 The 1954 Wakefield by-election was held on 21 October 1954 after the death of the incumbent Labour MP, Arthur Greenwood. It was retained by the Labour candidate Arthur Creech Jones.http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Wcommons1.htm The House of Commons constituencies beginning with "W" 13 July 2025 usurped https://web.archive.org/web/20101231174248/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Wcommons1.htm 31 December 2010 The Conservative candidate, Maurice Macmillan, was the son of then-Minister of Defence and future Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. He would subsequently be a Cabinet Minister himself. By-election 21 October 1954: Wakefieldhttp://by-elections.co.uk/54.html https://web.archive.org/web/20120204032418/http://by-elections.co.uk/54.html 1954 By Election Results 2012-02-04 dead 2015-08-14 Labour Party (UK) Arthur Creech Jones 21,822 58.14 -0.14 Conservative Party (UK) Maurice Macmillan 15,714 41.86 +0.14 6,108 16.28 -0.28 37,536 Labour Party (UK) References Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in West Yorkshire constituencies Category:Elections in Wakefield Wakefield by-election Wakefield by-election Wakefield by-election Category:1950s in Yorkshire