Barnsley by-election, 1953
Encyclopedia
The Barnsley by-election, 1953 was a by-election
held on 31st 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
.
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.
By-election
A by-election is an election held to fill a political office that has become vacant between regularly scheduled elections....
held on 31st March 1953 for the British House of Commons
British House of Commons
The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the Sovereign and the House of Lords . Both Commons and Lords meet in the Palace of Westminster. The Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 650 members , who are known as Members...
constituency
United Kingdom constituencies
In the United Kingdom , each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one or more members to a parliament or assembly.Within the United Kingdom there are now five bodies with members elected by constituencies:...
of Barnsley
Barnsley (UK Parliament constituency)
Barnsley was a Parliamentary constituency covering the town of Barnsley in England. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.-History:...
in the West Riding of Yorkshire
West Riding of Yorkshire
The West Riding of Yorkshire is one of the three historic subdivisions of Yorkshire, England. From 1889 to 1974 the administrative county, County of York, West Riding , was based closely on the historic boundaries...
.
The seat had become vacant on the resignation
Resignation from the British House of Commons
Members of Parliament sitting in the House of Commons in the United Kingdom are technically forbidden to resign. To circumvent this prohibition, a legal fiction is used...
of the Labour
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
Member of Parliament
Member of Parliament
A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...
(MP) Sidney Schofield
Sidney Schofield
Sidney Schofield was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom who served as a Member of Parliament for little over a year.Born in Pontefract, Schofield was elected MP for Barnsley at the 1951 general election...
, who had represented the constituency since the 1951 general election
United Kingdom general election, 1951
The 1951 United Kingdom general election was held eighteen months after the 1950 general election, which the Labour Party had won with a slim majority of just five seats...
.
The Labour candidate, Roy Mason
Roy Mason
Roy Mason, Baron Mason of Barnsley, PC is a British Labour politician and former Cabinet minister.He was born in Royston, and grew up in Carlton, Barnsley in South Yorkshire...
, held the seat for his party with a slightly reduced majority. He went on to hold a series of Cabinet
Cabinet of the United Kingdom
The Cabinet of the United Kingdom is the collective decision-making body of Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, composed of the Prime Minister and some 22 Cabinet Ministers, the most senior of the government ministers....
posts in the Labour governments of the 1960s and 1970s.
Votes
See also
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- List of United Kingdom by-elections