The City of London and Westminster South by-election on 24 February 1977 was held after Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Christopher Tugendhat resigned the seat upon his appointment to the European Commission. A safe Conservative seat, it was won by their candidate, Peter Brooke. [1]
The election was contested by a record ten candidates, beating the nine who had contested the 1976 Walsall North by-election. This total was topped at the 1978 Lambeth Central by-election. The candidates were:
Brooke would retain the seat at the 1979 general election, and hold it until his retirement at the 2001 general election (it reverted to its former name of Cities of London and Westminster in 1997). He held a number of front-bench Government posts during his tenure, including Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Peter Brooke | 11,962 | 59.07 | +7.35 | |
Labour | Malcolm Noble | 3,997 | 19.74 | -11.21 | |
Liberal | Angus Scrimgeour | 1,981 | 9.78 | -5.07 | |
National Front | Paul Kavanagh | 1,051 | 5.19 | +2.72 | |
Pro-Homosexual Civil Rights | Peter Mitchel | 449 | 2.22 | New | |
National Party | Michael Lobb | 364 | 1.80 | New | |
New Britain | Dennis Delderfield | 306 | 1.51 | New | |
Air, Road, Public Safety, White Resident | Bill Boaks | 61 | 0.30 | New | |
Christian Outreach to Britain, Anti-Pornography | William Thompson | 43 | 0.21 | New | |
Christ, Crown, Country, Commonwealth, Christian Constitution | Ralph Herbert | 37 | 0.18 | New | |
Majority | 7,965 | 39.33 | +18.56 | ||
Turnout | 20,251 | 39.60 | -13.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +9.28 | |||
The results for the previous election were: [7]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Christopher Tugendhat | 14,350 | 51.7 | -1.5 | |
Labour | Phil Turner | 8,589 | 30.9 | +3.5 | |
Liberal | T. G. Underwood | 4,122 | 14.9 | -4.0 | |
National Front | D. Baxter | 686 | 2.5 | New | |
Majority | 5,761 | 20.8 | -5.1 | ||
Turnout | 27,747 | 53.2 | -8.2 | ||
Registered electors | 52,170 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | -2.5 | |||
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