Gateshead West by-election, 1955
Encyclopedia
The Gateshead West
by-election
of 7 December 1955 was held after the death of Labour
MP
(MP) John Hall
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The seat was safe, having been won by Labour at the United Kingdom general election, 1955
by over 10,000 votes
Gateshead West (UK Parliament constituency)
Gateshead West was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Gateshead in what is now Tyne and Wear. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom....
by-election
By-election
A by-election is an election held to fill a political office that has become vacant between regularly scheduled elections....
of 7 December 1955 was held after the death of Labour
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
MP
Member of Parliament
A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...
(MP) John Hall
John Hall (British Labour politician)
John Thomas Hall was a British Labour Party politician.Hall began working in a colliery in 1910, then served in the 1st Life Guards during World War I. After the war, he worked on the railways...
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The seat was safe, having been won by Labour at the United Kingdom general election, 1955
United Kingdom general election, 1955
The 1955 United Kingdom general election was held on 26 May 1955, four years after the previous general election. It resulted in a substantially increased majority of 60 for the Conservative government under new leader and prime minister Sir Anthony Eden against Labour Party, now in their 20th year...
by over 10,000 votes