1953 Barnsley by-election

The Barnsley by-election, 1953 was a by-election held on 31 March 1953 for the British House of Commons constituency of Barnsley in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

The seat had become vacant on the resignation of the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) Sidney Schofield, who had represented the constituency since the 1951 general election.[1]

The Labour candidate, Roy Mason, held the seat for his party with a slightly reduced majority. He went on to hold a series of cabinet posts in the Labour governments of the 1960s and 1970s.

Votes
Barnsley by-election, 1953[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Roy Mason 29,283 72.9 +3.2
Conservative Geoffrey Whittaker 10,905 27.1 +9.8
Majority 18,378 45.7 −6.6
Turnout 40,188
Labour hold Swing −3.3
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See also

References
  1. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 1)
  2. "1953 By Election Results". Archived from the original on 2012-10-10. Retrieved 2015-08-13.
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