UK General Election results October 1959

8th October 1959

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 hold

AM Bacon	Labour	21,795	64.21%
JB Womersley	Conservative	12,146	35.79%

Electorate: 48,457; Turnout: 70.04%;
Majority: 9,649 (28.43%)

Leeds West
[E] Labour hold

TC Pannell	Labour	25,878	54.87%
DL Crouch	Conservative	21,285	45.13%

Electorate: 60,269; Turnout: 78.25%;
Majority: 4,593 (9.74%)

Leek
[E] Labour hold

H Davies	Labour	31,096	50.94%
JH Wedgwood	Conservative	29,947	49.06%

Electorate: 72,777; Turnout: 83.88%;
Majority: 1,149 (1.88%)

Leicester North East
[E] Labour hold

AL Ungoed-Thomas	Labour	19,421	51.91%
AK Spokes	Conservative	17,990	48.09%

Electorate: 47,733; Turnout: 78.38%;
Majority: 1,431 (3.83%)

Leicester North West
[E] Labour hold

B Janner	Labour	21,515	52.15%
FA Tomlinson	Conservative	19,742	47.85%

Electorate: 51,922; Turnout: 79.46%;
Majority: 1,773 (4.30%)

Leicester South East
[E] Conservative hold

WJ Peel	Conservative	28,390	67.35%
DJ Williams	Labour	13,760	32.65%

Electorate: 53,810; Turnout: 78.33%;
Majority: 14,630 (34.71%)

Leicester South West
[E] Labour hold

HW Bowden	Labour	17,395	46.41%
AD Walder	Conservative	14,652	39.09%
JW Ward	Liberal	5,438	14.51%

Electorate: 47,762; Turnout: 78.48%;
Majority: 2,743 (7.32%)

Leigh
[E] Labour hold

H Boardman	Labour	31,672	65.21%
W Cameron	Conservative	16,897	34.79%

Electorate: 58,911; Turnout: 82.44%;
Majority: 14,775 (30.42%)

Leominster
[E] Conservative hold

C Bossom	Conservative	16,642	55.43%
TG Jones	Liberal	6,905	23.00%
FW Bowerman	Labour	6,475	21.57%

Electorate: 39,306; Turnout: 76.38%;
Majority: 9,737 (32.43%)

Lewes
[E] Conservative hold

TVH Beamish	Conservative	29,642	69.41%
W Reay	Labour	13,065	30.59%

Electorate: 56,338; Turnout: 75.80%;
Majority: 16,577 (38.82%)

Lewisham North
[E] Conservative hold

CJ Chataway	Conservative	22,125	51.99%
N MacDermot	Labour	17,512	41.15%
KJ Brookes	Liberal	2,921	6.86%

Electorate: 52,415; Turnout: 81.19%;
Majority: 4,613 (10.84%)

Lewisham South
[E] Labour hold

CA Johnson	Labour	22,354	52.70%
JL Hunt	Conservative	19,273	45.44%
G Forrester	Alert Party	788	1.86%

Electorate: 53,962; Turnout: 78.60%;
Majority: 3,081 (7.26%)

Lewisham West
[E] Conservative hold

HA Price	Conservative	22,466	51.74%
RC Edmonds	Labour	16,233	37.39%
TA Smith	Liberal	4,721	10.87%

Electorate: 54,069; Turnout: 80.30%;
Majority: 6,233 (14.36%)

Leyton
[E] Labour hold

RW Sorenson	Labour	28,367	53.71%
RC Buxton	Conservative	24,448	46.29%

Electorate: 70,996; Turnout: 74.39%;
Majority: 3,919 (7.42%)

Lichfield & Tamworth
[E] Labour hold

JW Snow	Labour	21,341	51.88%
FR Roberts	Conservative	19,791	48.12%

Electorate: 50,240; Turnout: 81.87%;
Majority: 1,550 (3.77%)

Lincoln
[E] Labour hold

GS de Freitas	Labour	23,629	55.12%
LH Priestly	Conservative	19,240	44.88%

Electorate: 50,973; Turnout: 84.10%;
Majority: 4,389 (10.24%)

Liverpool Edge Hill
[E] Labour hold

AJ Irvine	Labour	19,725	50.90%
J Norton	Conservative	19,026	49.10%

Electorate: 54,824; Turnout: 70.68%;
Majority: 699 (1.80%)

Liverpool Exchange
[E] Labour hold

EM Braddock	Labour	18,916	61.29%
T Beattie-Edwards	Conservative	11,945	38.71%

Electorate: 51,052; Turnout: 60.45%;
Majority: 6,971 (22.59%)

Liverpool Garston
[E] Conservative hold

RM Bingham	Conservative	31,441	64.53%
B Crookes	Labour	17,284	35.47%

Electorate: 65,506; Turnout: 74.38%;
Majority: 14,157 (29.05%)

Liverpool Kirkdale
[E] Conservative hold

NA Pannell	Conservative	22,416	53.26%
TH Hockton	Labour	19,669	46.74%

Electorate: 57,102; Turnout: 73.70%;
Majority: 2,747 (6.53%)

Liverpool Scotland
[E] Labour hold

DG Logan	Labour	20,051	61.82%
JF Bradley	Conservative	12,384	38.18%

Electorate: 51,914; Turnout: 62.48%;
Majority: 7,667 (23.64%)

Liverpool Toxteth
[E] Conservative hold

JR Bevins	Conservative	19,575	55.56%
WH Sefton	Labour	15,660	44.44%

Electorate: 49,686; Turnout: 70.92%;
Majority: 3,915 (11.11%)

Liverpool Walton
[E] Conservative hold

KP Thompson	Conservative	24,288	54.53%
G McCartney	Labour	20,254	45.47%

Electorate: 57,312; Turnout: 77.72%;
Majority: 4,034 (9.06%)

Liverpool Wavertree
[E] Conservative hold

JDRT Tilney	Conservative	26,624	63.12%
M Aspin	Labour	10,392	24.64%
TS Rothwell	Liberal	5,161	12.24%

Electorate: 55,679; Turnout: 75.75%;
Majority: 16,232 (38.49%)

Liverpool West Derby
[E] Conservative hold

JV Woollam	Conservative	22,719	53.96%
ADG Paxton	Labour	19,386	46.04%

Electorate: 54,804; Turnout: 76.83%;
Majority: 3,333 (7.92%)

Llanelly
[W] Labour hold

J Griffiths	Labour	34,625	66.68%
H Gardner	Conservative	10,128	19.50%
DE Morgan	Plaid Cymru	7,176	13.82%

Electorate: 64,048; Turnout: 81.08%;
Majority: 24,497 (47.17%)

London & Westminster - Cities of
[E] Conservative hold

H Hylton-Foster	Conservative	27,489	65.14%
W Howie	Labour	10,301	24.41%
D Monsey	Liberal	4,409	10.45%

Electorate: 68,896; Turnout: 61.25%;
Majority: 17,188 (40.73%)

Londonderry
[N] Ulster Unionist hold

R Chichester-Clark	Ulster Unionist	37,529	73.01%
M Canning	Sinn Fein	13,872	26.99%

Electorate: 73,262; Turnout: 70.16%;
Majority: 23,657 (46.02%)

Loughborough
[E] Labour hold

JD Cronin	Labour	21,496	47.19%
CG Waite	Conservative	17,749	38.97%
RE Hancock	Liberal	6,303	13.84%

Electorate: 54,225; Turnout: 84.00%;
Majority: 3,747 (8.23%)

Louth
[E] Conservative hold

C Osborne	Conservative	24,211	61.11%
FR Macdonald	Labour	15,408	38.89%

Electorate: 51,773; Turnout: 76.52%;
Majority: 8,803 (22.22%)

Lowestoft
[E] Conservative gain

JLM Prior	Conservative	24,324	51.58%
E Evans	Labour	22,835	48.42%

Electorate: 57,814; Turnout: 81.57%;
Majority: 1,489 (3.16%)

Ludlow
[E] Conservative hold

CJ Holland-Martin	Conservative	21,464	60.29%
J Garwell	Labour	14,138	39.71%

Electorate: 46,735; Turnout: 76.18%;
Majority: 7,326 (20.58%)

Luton
[E] Liberal & Conservative hold

C Hill	Lib & Conservative	27,153	55.09%
CR Fenton	Labour	22,134	44.91%

Electorate: 59,769; Turnout: 82.46%;
Majority: 5,019 (10.18%)

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