1950 Bristol South East by-election

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Bristol South East constituency

Turnout

61.2% (

23.9 pp)

	First party	Second party	Third party
		Con	LIB
Candidate	Tony Benn	James Lindsay	Doreen Gorsky
Party	Labour	Conservative	Liberal
Popular vote	19,367	12,018	2,752
Percentage	54.6%	35.2	8.1%
Swing	5.9 pp	8.4 pp	1.4 pp

MP before election

Stafford Cripps
Labour

Elected MP

Tony Benn
Labour

The 1950 Bristol South East by-election was a by-election held on 30 November 1950 for the British House of Commons constituency of Bristol South East in the city of Bristol. The seat had become vacant when the constituency's Labour Member of Parliament (MP) Sir Stafford Cripps had resigntion from Parliament due to ill-health.

The Labour candidate Tony Benn held the seat for his party.^[1] It was the first of four by-election victories for Benn in the course of his 45-year career in Parliament, the others being Bristol South East in 1961, the same seat in 1963 and Chesterfield in 1984.

Result

Bristol South East by-election, 30th November 1950^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Tony Benn	19,367	56.7	−5.9
	Conservative	James Lindsay	12,018	35.2	+8.4
	Liberal	Doreen Gorsky	2,752	8.1	−1.4
Majority			7,349	21.5	−14.3
Turnout			34,137	61.1	−23.9
	Labour hold		Swing	−7.2

References

^ Benn, Tony (2012). Years Of Hope: Diaries,Letters and Papers 1940–1962. Random House. ISBN 9781446493366.
^ "1950 By Election Results". Archived from the original on 25 March 2012. Retrieved 12 August 2015.

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