1972_Sutton_and_Cheam_by-election

1972 Sutton and Cheam by-election

1972 Sutton and Cheam by-election

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The Sutton and Cheam by-election of 7 December 1972 was held after Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Richard Sharples was appointed Governor of Bermuda. In a defeat for Edward Heath's government the seat was won by Liberal candidate Graham Tope, who defeated the Conservative candidate Neil Macfarlane.[1] This was the second Liberal gain during the 1970–1974 Parliament, during which they gained five seats overall.[2] Tope went on to lose the seat to Macfarlane at the February 1974 election.

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  1. [1]
    Result with some Graham Tope campaign literature Archived 14 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  2. [2]
    Michael McManus, Jo Grimond: Towards the Sound of Gunfire, Edinburgh, 2001, p. 317
  3. [3]
    "1972 By Election Results". Archived from the original on 14 March 2012. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
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