UK General Election results February 1950

23rd February 1950

The region in which each constituency is situated is indicated in square brackets

Reigate — Rother Valley

Rowley Regis & Tipton — St Pancras North

Reigate
[E] Conservative win

JK Vaughan-Morgan	Conservative	23,027	53.66%
CJ Garnsworthy	Labour	13,931	32.46%
SS Batham	Liberal	5,953	13.87%

Electorate: 50,415; Turnout: 85.12%;
Majority: 9,096 (21.20%)

Renfrewshire East
[S] Conservative win

G Lloyd	Conservative	31,650	65.44%
WL Taylor	Labour	16,716	34.56%

Electorate: 61,325; Turnout: 78.87%;
Majority: 14,934 (30.88%)

Renfrewshire West
[S] National Liberal & Conservative win

JS Maclay	Nat Lib & Conservative	20,810	54.03%
T Scollan	Labour	17,708	45.97%

Electorate: 49,750; Turnout: 77.42%;
Majority: 3,102 (8.05%)

Rhondda East
[W] Labour win

WH Mainwaring	Labour	26,645	75.91%
H Pollitt	Communist	4,463	12.72%
G Nicholls	Conservative	2,634	7.50%
D Davies	Welsh Nationalist	1,357	3.87%

Electorate: 40,124; Turnout: 87.48%;
Majority: 22,182 (63.20%)

Rhondda West
[W] Labour win

IR Thomas	Labour	27,150	82.36%
J Driscoll	Conservative	3,632	11.02%
JK Davies	Welsh Nationalist	2,183	6.62%

Electorate: 37,484; Turnout: 87.94%;
Majority: 23,518 (71.34%)

Richmond (Surrey)
[E] Conservative win

G Harvie Watt	Conservative	30,907	57.47%
K Westwood	Labour	17,238	32.05%
DH Ennals	Liberal	5,634	10.48%

Electorate: 62,367; Turnout: 86.23%;
Majority: 13,669 (25.42%)

Richmond (Yorks)
[E] Conservative win

TL Dugdale	Conservative	22,999	59.20%
FW Beaton	Labour	8,694	22.38%
DE Moore	Liberal	7,157	18.42%

Electorate: 48,723; Turnout: 79.74%;
Majority: 14,305 (36.82%)

Ripon
[E] Conservative win

M Stoddart-Scott	Conservative	22,292	66.33%
WS Hill	Labour	11,317	33.67%

Electorate: 40,000; Turnout: 84.02%;
Majority: 10,975 (32.65%)

Rochdale
[E] Labour win

J Hale	Labour	25,484	44.92%
W Schofield	Conservative	21,208	37.38%
R Fulford	Liberal	10,042	17.70%

Electorate: 64,544; Turnout: 87.90%;
Majority: 4,276 (7.54%)

Rochester & Chatham
[E] Labour win

AG Bottomley	Labour	24,855	50.48%
R Mathew	Conservative	24,378	49.52%

Electorate: 58,492; Turnout: 84.17%;
Majority: 477 (0.97%)

Romford
[E] Conservative win

JC Lockwood	Conservative	27,656	46.05%
T Macpherson	Labour	26,387	43.94%
N Clarke	Liberal	6,014	10.01%

Electorate: 70,204; Turnout: 85.55%;
Majority: 1,269 (2.11%)

Ross & Cromarty
[S] unchanged:

J MacLeod	Lib & Conservative	10,912	62.59%
AC Reid	Labour	6,521	37.41%

Electorate: 27,620; Turnout: 63.12%;
Majority: 4,391 (25.19%)

Rossendale
[E] Labour win

AWJ Greenwood	Labour	21,596	45.15%
TM Backhouse	Conservative	19,483	40.73%
LM Tomlinson	Liberal	6,757	14.13%

Electorate: 53,785; Turnout: 88.94%;
Majority: 2,113 (4.42%)

Rotherham
[E] Labour win

J Jones	Labour	31,211	64.47%
R Body	Conservative	14,744	30.45%
M Foster	Liberal	2,458	5.08%

Electorate: 55,469; Turnout: 87.28%;
Majority: 16,467 (34.01%)

Rother Valley
[E] Labour win

D Griffiths	Labour	42,222	76.62%
WRA Breare	Conservative	12,887	23.38%

Electorate: 63,057; Turnout: 87.40%;
Majority: 29,335 (53.23%)

Rowley Regis & Tipton
[E] Labour win

A Henderson	Labour	31,988	64.27%
RBJ Barnes	Conservative	13,092	26.30%
R Yates	Liberal	4,692	9.43%

Electorate: 59,552; Turnout: 83.58%;
Majority: 18,896 (37.97%)

Roxburgh & Selkirk
[S] unchanged:

AJF Macdonald	Liberal	15,347	39.40%
W Scott	Conservative	14,191	36.43%
LP Thomas	Labour	9,413	24.17%

Electorate: 47,430; Turnout: 82.12%;
Majority: 1,156 (2.97%)

Rugby
[E] Labour win

J Johnson	Labour	15,983	40.97%
J Dance	Conservative	14,947	38.32%
WJ Brown	Ind	8,080	20.71%

Electorate: 44,228; Turnout: 88.20%;
Majority: 1,036 (2.66%)

Ruislip Northwood
[E] Conservative win

P Crowder	Conservative	23,077	57.51%
AL Birk	Labour	13,568	33.81%
GRMcG Wood	Liberal	3,482	8.68%

Electorate: 45,574; Turnout: 88.05%;
Majority: 9,509 (23.70%)

Runcorn
[E] Conservative win

DF Vosper	Conservative	22,145	54.04%
LH Wharrad	Labour	14,063	34.32%
H Griffiths	Liberal	4,768	11.64%

Electorate: 46,253; Turnout: 88.59%;
Majority: 8,082 (19.72%)

Rushcliffe
[E] Conservative win

M Redmayne	Conservative	27,497	51.47%
H Lawson	Labour	20,860	39.05%
E Stallabrass	Liberal	5,064	9.48%

Electorate: 60,868; Turnout: 87.77%;
Majority: 6,637 (12.42%)

Rutherglen
[S] Labour win

G McAllister	Labour	18,779	49.53%
RC Brooman-White	Conservative	18,084	47.69%
CB Goodfellow	Liberal	1,055	2.78%

Electorate: 44,047; Turnout: 86.09%;
Majority: 695 (1.83%)

Rutland & Stamford
[E] Conservative win

RJE Conant	Conservative	16,498	49.64%
TG Bradley	Labour	13,712	41.26%
C Valentine	Liberal	3,024	9.10%

Electorate: 39,665; Turnout: 83.79%;
Majority: 2,786 (8.38%)

Saffron Walden
[E] Conservative win

RA Butler	Conservative	19,797	49.91%
SS Wilson	Labour	14,908	37.58%
O Smedley	Liberal	4,963	12.51%

Electorate: 46,998; Turnout: 84.40%;
Majority: 4,889 (12.32%)

St Albans
[E] Conservative win

J Grimston	Conservative	24,733	47.23%
CW Dumpleton	Labour	22,351	42.68%
D Abel	Liberal	5,280	10.08%

Electorate: 61,644; Turnout: 84.95%;
Majority: 2,382 (4.55%)

St Helens
[E] Labour win

H Shawcross	Labour	39,514	63.20%
AGF Hall-Davis	Conservative	20,741	33.18%
JH Winskill	Liberal	2,263	3.62%

Electorate: 73,640; Turnout: 84.90%;
Majority: 18,773 (30.03%)

St Ives
[E] Conservative & National Liberal win

GR Howard	Conservative & Nat Lib	16,653	46.01%
P Shore	Labour	11,118	30.72%
EF Allison	Liberal	8,421	23.27%

Electorate: 44,342; Turnout: 81.62%;
Majority: 5,535 (15.29%)

St Marylebone
[E] unchanged:

WW Wakefield	Conservative	26,310	60.69%
JE Silkin	Labour	12,890	29.74%
B Guy	Liberal	4,149	9.57%

Electorate: 57,680; Turnout: 75.15%;
Majority: 13,420 (30.96%)

St Pancras North
[E] Labour win

K Robinson	Labour	29,163	55.75%
JE Harvey	Conservative	19,028	36.38%
PWC Whitton	Liberal	3,148	6.02%
T Aherne	Communist	967	1.85%

Electorate: 65,675; Turnout: 79.64%;
Majority: 10,135 (19.38%)

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