UK General Election results May 1955

26th May 1955

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

Leeds South East — Liverpool Edge Hill

Liverpool Garston — Luton

Leeds South East
[E] Labour win

AM Bacon	Labour	25,714	66.18%
WWJ Dunn	Conservative	13,142	33.82%

Electorate: 57,211; Turnout: 67.92%;
Majority: 12,572 (32.36%)

Leeds West
[E] Labour win

TC Pannell	Labour	24,576	52.75%
J Hiley	Conservative	18,312	39.31%
H Hudson	Liberal	3,699	7.94%

Electorate: 60,202; Turnout: 77.38%;
Majority: 6,264 (13.45%)

Leek
[E] Labour hold

H Davies	Labour	28,273	50.95%
M Pike	Conservative	27,214	49.05%

Electorate: 68,062; Turnout: 81.52%;
Majority: 1,059 (1.91%)

Leicester North East
[E] Labour hold

L Ungoed-Thomas	Labour	22,264	56.57%
T Street	Conservative	17,094	43.43%

Electorate: 50,121; Turnout: 78.53%;
Majority: 5,170 (13.14%)

Leicester North West
[E] Labour hold

B Janner	Labour	22,807	54.17%
FA Tomlinson	Conservative	19,297	45.83%

Electorate: 53,472; Turnout: 78.74%;
Majority: 3,510 (8.34%)

Leicester South East
[E] Conservative win

C Waterhouse	Conservative	26,070	64.21%
EJ Masters	Labour	14,529	35.79%

Electorate: 51,747; Turnout: 78.46%;
Majority: 11,541 (28.43%)

Leicester South West
[E] Labour hold

HW Bowden	Labour	21,487	55.83%
D Russell	Conservative	16,998	44.17%

Electorate: 50,602; Turnout: 76.05%;
Majority: 4,489 (11.66%)

Leigh
[E] Labour hold

H Boardman	Labour	30,098	62.39%
JB Leck	Conservative	18,142	37.61%

Electorate: 60,256; Turnout: 80.06%;
Majority: 11,956 (24.78%)

Leominster
[E] Conservative hold

AE Baldwin	Conservative	18,487	65.49%
AT Evans	Labour	9,740	34.51%

Electorate: 40,098; Turnout: 70.40%;
Majority: 8,747 (30.99%)

Lewes
[E] Conservative win

TVH Beamish	Conservative	24,938	66.80%
JL Eley	Labour	12,392	33.20%

Electorate: 49,885; Turnout: 74.83%;
Majority: 12,546 (33.61%)

Lewisham North
[E] Conservative hold

AUM Hudson	Conservative	22,070	53.96%
ST Williams	Labour	18,834	46.04%

Electorate: 52,485; Turnout: 77.93%;
Majority: 3,236 (7.91%)

Lewisham South
[E] Labour hold

HS Morrison	Labour	23,821	55.79%
JC Arnold	Conservative	17,478	40.93%
J Loverseed	Ind	1,400	3.28%

Electorate: 54,981; Turnout: 77.66%;
Majority: 6,343 (14.86%)

Lewisham West
[E] Conservative hold

HA Price	Conservative	24,066	54.94%
T Sargant	Labour	19,741	45.06%

Electorate: 55,056; Turnout: 79.57%;
Majority: 4,325 (9.87%)

Leyton
[E] Labour hold

RW Sorenson	Labour	29,747	53.40%
RC Buxton	Conservative	21,543	38.67%
ELF Richards	Liberal	4,421	7.94%

Electorate: 74,944; Turnout: 74.34%;
Majority: 8,204 (14.73%)

Lichfield & Tamworth
[E] Labour win

JW Snow	Labour	21,071	53.98%
JOT Blow	Conservative	17,966	46.02%

Electorate: 48,250; Turnout: 80.91%;
Majority: 3,105 (7.95%)

Lincoln
[E] Labour hold

GS de Freitas	Labour	23,773	56.17%
PFH Emery	Conservative	18,551	43.83%

Electorate: 49,279; Turnout: 85.89%;
Majority: 5,222 (12.34%)

Liverpool Edge Hill
[E] Labour win

AJ Irvine	Labour	20,060	51.44%
HSL Riggs	Conservative	18,940	48.56%

Electorate: 57,391; Turnout: 67.95%;
Majority: 1,120 (2.87%)

Liverpool Exchange
[E] Labour win

EM Braddock	Labour	19,457	56.14%
AE Papworth	Conservative	12,271	35.41%
L Murphy	Ind Labour	2,928	8.45%

Electorate: 55,458; Turnout: 62.49%;
Majority: 7,186 (20.74%)

Liverpool Garston
[E] Conservative win

V Raikes	Conservative	28,130	63.51%
TE Nixon	Labour	16,161	36.49%

Electorate: 62,373; Turnout: 71.01%;
Majority: 11,969 (27.02%)

Liverpool Kirkdale
[E] Conservative win

NA Pannell	Conservative	22,356	52.11%
W Keenan	Labour	20,542	47.89%

Electorate: 60,738; Turnout: 70.63%;
Majority: 1,814 (4.23%)

Liverpool Scotland
[E] Labour win

DG Logan	Labour	21,928	64.97%
GF Allanson	Conservative	11,821	35.03%

Electorate: 56,176; Turnout: 60.08%;
Majority: 10,107 (29.95%)

Liverpool Toxteth
[E] Conservative win

JR Bevins	Conservative	20,576	56.20%
WE Lawn	Labour	16,037	43.80%

Electorate: 52,575; Turnout: 69.64%;
Majority: 4,539 (12.40%)

Liverpool Walton
[E] Conservative win

KP Thompson	Conservative	23,851	53.19%
JJ Cleary	Labour	20,989	46.81%

Electorate: 59,522; Turnout: 75.33%;
Majority: 2,862 (6.38%)

Liverpool Wavertree
[E] Conservative win

JDRT Tilney	Conservative	28,172	69.18%
M Aspin	Labour	12,552	30.82%

Electorate: 57,489; Turnout: 70.84%;
Majority: 15,620 (38.36%)

Liverpool West Derby
[E] Conservative win

JV Woollam	Conservative	21,124	53.26%
CR Fenton	Labour	18,540	46.74%

Electorate: 54,100; Turnout: 73.32%;
Majority: 2,584 (6.51%)

Llanelly
[W] Labour win

J Griffiths	Labour	34,021	66.63%
THH Skeet	Conservative	10,640	20.84%
DE Morgan	Welsh Nationalist	6,398	12.53%

Electorate: 64,858; Turnout: 78.72%;
Majority: 23,381 (45.79%)

London & Westminster - Cities of
[E] Conservative hold

H Webbe	Conservative	31,314	70.24%
DJ Nisbet	Labour	13,270	29.76%

Electorate: 74,162; Turnout: 60.12%;
Majority: 18,044 (40.47%)

Londonderry
[N] Ulster Unionist hold

R Chichester-Clark	Ulster Unionist	35,673	64.49%
M Canning	Sinn Fein	19,640	35.51%

Electorate: 71,302; Turnout: 77.58%;
Majority: 16,033 (28.99%)

Loughborough
[E] Labour win

JD Cronin	Labour	24,044	54.86%
MV Argyle	Conservative	19,781	45.14%

Electorate: 53,183; Turnout: 82.40%;
Majority: 4,263 (9.73%)

Louth
[E] Conservative hold

C Osbourne	Conservative	21,796	58.79%
DRLM Poirier	Labour	15,276	41.21%

Electorate: 50,329; Turnout: 73.66%;
Majority: 6,520 (17.59%)

Lowestoft
[E] Labour hold

E Evans	Labour	23,587	52.12%
JT Griffiths	Conservative	21,672	47.88%

Electorate: 56,850; Turnout: 79.61%;
Majority: 1,915 (4.23%)

Ludlow
[E] Conservative hold

CJ Holland-Martin	Conservative	20,816	61.67%
RJ Barker	Labour	12,937	38.33%

Electorate: 47,040; Turnout: 71.75%;
Majority: 7,879 (23.34%)

Luton
[E] Liberal & Conservative hold

C Hill	Lib & Conservative	24,722	51.33%
M Janis	Labour	20,304	42.15%
J Henderson	Liberal	3,140	6.52%

Electorate: 57,933; Turnout: 83.14%;
Majority: 4,418 (9.17%)

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