1969 Louth by-election

UK Parliamentary by-election

The 1969 Louth by-election was a by-election held on 4 December 1969 for the British House of Commons constituency of Louth in Lincolnshire.

The seat had become vacant on the death on 31 August of the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Sir Cyril Osborne. He had held the seat since the 1945 general election.

The result was a victory for the Conservative candidate Jeffrey Archer. Archer held the seat until the October 1974 general election, when he stepped down due to financial difficulties and began writing popular novels.

Result and votes

Louth by-election, 1969^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jeffrey Archer	16,317	58.00	+11.63
	Labour	Bruce Briggs	5,590	19.87	−17.00
	Liberal	John Adams	5,003	17.78	+1.02
	Democratic Party	George Fitzgerald	1,225	4.35	New
Majority			10,727	38.13	+28.63
Turnout			28,135
	Conservative hold		Swing	+14.3

Last General election

General election 1966: Louth, Lincolnshire^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Cyril Osborne	19,977	46.37
	Labour	Robin Brumby	15,885	36.87
	Liberal	Edmund Marshall	7,222	16.76
Majority			4,092	9.50
Turnout			43,084	74.35
	Conservative hold		Swing

References

^ "1969 By Election Results". British Elections Ephemera Archive. Archived from the original on 14 March 2012. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
^ "UK General Election results March 1966". Politics Science Resources. Archived from the original on 1 July 2017.

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