1965 Leyton by-election
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Constituency of Leyton |
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Turnout | 57.7% |
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The 1965 Leyton by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 21 January 1965 for the House of Commons constituency of Leyton in east London.
The seat had become vacant when the constituency's long-serving Labour Member of Parliament (MP), Reginald Sorensen, was made a life peer on 15 December 1964. An MP for over thirty years, his elevation to the peerage was intended to create a vacancy in a safe seat for the Foreign Secretary, Patrick Gordon Walker, who had been defeated in a shock result in the 1964 general election in his Smethwick constituency.
The result of the contest was not as planned: the Conservative Party candidate, Ronald Buxton, won with a majority of 205 votes, a swing from Labour of 8.7%. Gordon-Walker resigned as Foreign Secretary but regained the seat for Labour at the 1966 general election.
Votes
Leyton by-election, 1965 Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Conservative | Ronald Buxton | 16,544 | 42.9 | +9.4 |
| Labour | Patrick Gordon Walker | 16,339 | 42.4 | −8.0 |
| Liberal | Alistair H Mackay | 5,382 | 14.0 | −2.2 |
| UK & Commonwealth Party | Jeremiah Lynch | 157 | 0.4 | New |
| Disarmament | George Delf | 156 | 0.4 | New |
Majority | 205 | 0.5 | N/A |
Turnout | 38,578 | 57.7 | −12.5 |
| Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +8.7 | |
See also
- Leyton (UK Parliament constituency)
- Leyton
- List of United Kingdom by-elections (1950–1979)
References
- British Parliamentary by-elections: Leyton
- UK General Elections since 1832 Archived 2 July 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [self-published source] [better source needed]
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