Glasgow Pollok by-election, 1967
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The Glasgow Pollok
by-election
of 16 December 1966 was held after the death of Labour
MP
(MP) Alex Carrow:
The seat was marginal, having been won by Labour at the United Kingdom general election, 1966
by under 2,000 votes
Glasgow Pollok (UK Parliament constituency)
Glasgow Pollok was a burgh constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until 2005, when it was replaced by Glasgow South West...
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 16 December 1966 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) Alex Carrow:
The seat was marginal, having been won by Labour at the United Kingdom general election, 1966
United Kingdom general election, 1966
The 1966 United Kingdom general election on 31 March 1966 was called by sitting Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Wilson's decision to call an election turned on the fact that his government, elected a mere 17 months previously in 1964 had an unworkably small majority of only 4 MPs...
by under 2,000 votes
Candidates
- Esmond WrightEsmond WrightEsmond Wright was an English historian of the United States, Director of the Institute of United States Studies at the University of London from 1971 to 1983, a television personality, and a Conservative politician.Wright had a grammar school education in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, before winning an open...
for the Conservatives was an historian and author - Labour nominated local councillor and campaigner Richard DouglasDick DouglasRichard Giles "Dick" Douglas is a former Scottish politician, having been a member of the British House of Commons firstly as a Labour Co-operative candidate, then latterly as a Scottish National Party member....
- The Scottish National Party nominated George LeslieGeorge Leslie (politician)George Leslie is a Scottish nationalist politician.Leslie studied at Hillhead High School and Glasgow University before becoming a vet. He joined the Scottish National Party in the early 1960s, and was selected to stand for the party at the Glasgow Pollok by-election, 1967...
, who had trained as a vet after studying at Glasgow University. - The local Liberal Party association nominated Ian Miller
- The Commmunists chose Alex MurrayAlex MurrayAlex Murray was the Scottish Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain between 1970 and 1975....
, their Scottish Secretary