Liverpool Scotland by-election, 1971
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The Liverpool Scotland
by-election
of 1 April 1971 was held after Labour
Member of Parliament
(MP) Walter Alldritt
resigned from the House of Commons
. The seat was retained by Labour.
Liverpool Scotland (UK Parliament constituency)
Liverpool Scotland was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election....
by-election
By-election
A by-election is an election held to fill a political office that has become vacant between regularly scheduled elections....
of 1 April 1971 was held after 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) Walter Alldritt
Walter Alldritt
Walter Harold Alldritt was a British Labour politician. He was elected as Member of Parliament for Liverpool Scotland at a by-election in 1964, and held the seat until his resignation from the House of Commons in 1971....
resigned from the House of Commons
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...
. The seat was retained by Labour.