Barnsley by-election, 1953

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The Barnsley by-election, 1953 was a by-election held on 31 March 1953 for the British House of Commons constituency of Barnsley in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

By-elections, also spelled bye-elections, are used to fill elected offices that have become vacant between general elections.

United Kingdom constituencies electoral area in the UK (do not use in P31; use subclasses of this instead)

In the United Kingdom (UK), each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elect one member to a parliament or assembly, with the exception of European Parliament and Northern Ireland Assembly constituencies which are multi member constituencies.

Barnsley was a Parliamentary constituency covering the town of Barnsley in England. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.

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The seat had become vacant on the resignation of the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) Sidney Schofield, who had represented the constituency since the 1951 general election. [1]

Members of Parliament (MPs) sitting in the House of Commons in the United Kingdom are technically not permitted to resign their seats. To circumvent this prohibition, MPs who wish to resign can ask to be appointed to an "office of profit under the Crown", disqualifying them from sitting as MPs. While offices of profit are no longer disqualifying in general, various offices that no longer have duties associated with them still cause disqualification from and vacation of the seat.

The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom which has been described as an alliance of social democrats, democratic socialists and trade unionists. The party's platform emphasises greater state intervention, social justice and strengthening workers' rights.

Sidney Schofield was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for little over a year.

The Labour candidate, Roy Mason, held the seat for his party with a slightly reduced majority. He went on to hold a series of Cabinet posts in the Labour governments of the 1960s and 1970s.

Roy Mason British politician

Roy Mason, Baron Mason of Barnsley, was a British Labour politician and Cabinet minister who was Secretary of State for Defence and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in the late 1970s.

Cabinet of the United Kingdom collective decision-making body of the British government

The Cabinet of the United Kingdom is the collective decision-making body of Her Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom, composed of the Prime Minister and 21 cabinet ministers, the most senior of the government ministers.

Votes

Barnsley by-election, 1953 [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labour Roy Mason 29,283 72.9 +3.2
Conservative Geoffrey Whittaker 10,905 27.1 +9.8
Majority 18,378 45.7−6.6
Turnout 40,188
Labour hold Swing −3.3

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References

  1. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 1)
  2. ↑ "1953 By Election Results". Archived from the original on 2012-10-10. Retrieved 2015-08-13.
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