1945 Bournemouth by-election

The Bournemouth by-election of 1945 was held on 15 November 1945. The byelection was held due to the elevation to hereditary peerage of the incumbent Conservative MP, Sir Leonard Lyle. It was won by the Conservative candidate Brendan Bracken,^[1] who was a prominent supporter of Winston Churchill and Conservative parliamentarian who had lost his Paddington North seat to Labour in the 1945 Labour landslide.

Bournemouth by-election, 1945^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Brendan Bracken	22,980	46.85	−8.60
	Labour	Edward Shackleton	16,526	33.69	+11.98
	Liberal	Basil Wigoder	9,548	19.46	−3.39
Majority			6,454	13.16	−19.44
Turnout			49,054
	Conservative hold		Swing

References

^ http://www.leighrayment.com/commons.htm
^ "1945 By Election Results". Archived from the original on 2012-02-06. Retrieved 2015-08-11. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

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