1965 East Grinstead by-election
The East Grinstead by-election 1965 was a parliamentary by-election for the East Grinstead constituency of the British House of Commons held on 4 February 1965.
The by-election was held following conferment of a life peerage on Evelyn Emmet.
Previous result[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Evelyn Emmet | 29,094 | 53.18 | ||
Liberal | Richard Holme | 14,753 | 26.97 | ||
Labour | W Hill | 10,859 | 19.85 | ||
Majority | 14,341 | 26.21 | |||
Turnout | 54,706 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Result[]
It was a Conservative hold.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Geoffrey Johnson-Smith | 24,896 | 54.99 | +1.81 | |
Liberal | Richard Holme | 14,279 | 31.54 | +4.57 | |
Labour | Jon Evans | 6,101 | 13.48 | -6.37 | |
Majority | 10,617 | 23.44 | -2.77 | ||
Turnout | 45,276 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
References[]
- ^ "1965 By Election Results". Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
- UK General Elections since 1832
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [self-published source][better source needed]
Categories:
- By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in West Sussex constituencies
- 1965 elections in the United Kingdom
- 1965 in England
- East Grinstead
- 20th century in Sussex