City of Chester by-election, 1956
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The City of Chester by-election
of 15 November 1956 was held after the appointment of Conservative
Member of Parliament
(MP) Basil Nield
as Recorder of Manchester.
The seat was safe, having been won at the United Kingdom general election, 1955
by over 11,000 votes
By-election
A by-election is an election held to fill a political office that has become vacant between regularly scheduled elections....
of 15 November 1956 was held after the appointment of Conservative
Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
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) Basil Nield
Basil Nield
Sir Basil Edward Nield was a British Conservative Party politician.After the death in 1940 of Sir Charles Cayzer, the Member of Parliament for the City of Chester, Nield was elected in a by-election to take his seat in the House of Commons...
as Recorder of Manchester.
The seat was safe, having been won at the United Kingdom general election, 1955
United Kingdom general election, 1955
The 1955 United Kingdom general election was held on 26 May 1955, four years after the previous general election. It resulted in a substantially increased majority of 60 for the Conservative government under new leader and prime minister Sir Anthony Eden against Labour Party, now in their 20th year...
by over 11,000 votes