St Marylebone by-election, 1970

The St Marylebone by-election of 22 October 1970 was held after Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Quintin Hogg became a life peer. The seat was retained for the Conservatives by Kenneth Baker, who had lost his previous seat of Acton at the general election four months earlier; Baker would go on to represent the Mole Valley seat in Surrey and become a long-serving Cabinet minister.

Results

St Marylebone, 1970^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Kenneth Baker	10,684	63.49	+1.40
	Labour	Keith Morrell	4,542	26.99	-2.32
	Liberal	Michael Vann	1,038	6.19	-2.41
	National Front	Malcolm Skeggs	401	2.38	N/A
	Fourth World Group	John Papworth	163	0.97	N/A
Turnout			16,828
Majority			6,142	36.5	+3.7
	Conservative hold		Swing

References

↑ "1970 -71 By Election Results". Archived from the original on 2012-03-29. Retrieved 2015-09-08.

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