Cleveland by-election, 1952

The 1952 Cleveland by-election was held on 23 October 1952. It was held due to the death of the incumbent Labour MP, George Willey. It was retained by the Labour candidate, Arthur Palmer.

Cleveland by-election, 1952^[1]^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Arthur Montague Frank Palmer	25,985	54.09	-0.72
	Conservative	Patrick Henry Bligh Wall	22,064	45.92	+0.72
Majority			3,921	8.16	-1.46
Turnout			48,049
	Labour hold		Swing

References

↑ The Times House of Commons, 1955
↑ "1952 By Election Results". Archived from the original on 2012-02-25. Retrieved 2015-08-13.

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1952	February: Bournemouth East and Christchurch Southport Leeds South East July: Dundee East October: Cleveland Antrim North November: Belfast South Wycombe Birmingham Small Heath Farnworth

1953	February: Canterbury March: Isle of Thanet Barnsley Stoke-on-Trent North April: Hayes and Harlington Down North Sunderland South June: Abingdon July: Birmingham Edgbaston September: Broxtowe November: Crosby Ormskirk Holborn and St Pancras South December: Paddington North

1954	February: Ilford North Haltemprice Harwich Bournemouth West March: Arundel and Shoreham Harrogate April: Edinburgh East Motherwell September: Croydon East October: Shoreditch and Finsbury Wakefield Aberdare Aldershot November: Morpeth Sutton and Cheam Liverpool West Derby Armagh December: Inverness

1955	January: South Norfolk Orpington Twickenham Edinburgh North February: Stockport South March: Wrexham

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