By-election_21_October_1954:_Wakefield

1954 Wakefield by-election

1954 Wakefield by-election

UK Parliamentary by-election

The 1954 Wakefield by-election was held on 21 October 1954 after the death of the incumbent Labour MP, Arthur Greenwood. It was retained by the Labour candidate Arthur Creech Jones.[1]

The Conservative candidate, Maurice Macmillan, was the son of then-Minister of Defence and future Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. He would subsequently be a Cabinet Minister himself.

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References

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    "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 31 December 2010. Retrieved 13 September 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. [2]
    "1954 By Election Results". Archived from the original on 4 February 2012. Retrieved 14 August 2015.


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