UK General Election results October 1959

8th October 1959

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 hold

JK Vaughan-Morgan	Conservative	26,966	54.33%
CJ Garnsworthy	Labour	14,465	29.14%
AH Scott	Liberal	8,205	16.53%

Electorate: 60,266; Turnout: 82.36%;
Majority: 12,501 (25.19%)

Renfrewshire East
[S] Conservative hold

MBH Anderson	Conservative	29,672	58.65%
AJ Houston	Labour	14,579	28.82%
DMH Starforth	Liberal	6,339	12.53%

Electorate: 61,060; Turnout: 82.85%;
Majority: 15,093 (29.83%)

Renfrewshire West
[S] Liberal & Conservative hold

JS Maclay	Lib & Conservative	20,959	53.51%
C Minihan	Labour	18,206	46.49%

Electorate: 47,395; Turnout: 82.64%;
Majority: 2,753 (7.03%)

Rhondda East
[W] Labour hold

GE Davies	Labour	20,565	65.18%
A Powell	Communist	4,580	14.52%
DH Peace	Conservative	3,629	11.50%
N Williams	Plaid Cymru	2,776	8.80%

Electorate: 37,908; Turnout: 83.23%;
Majority: 15,985 (50.67%)

Rhondda West
[W] Labour hold

IR Thomas	Labour	21,130	71.99%
GP James	Plaid Cymru	4,978	16.96%
FL Pym	Conservative	3,242	11.05%

Electorate: 34,450; Turnout: 85.20%;
Majority: 16,152 (55.03%)

Richmond (Surrey)
[E] Conservative hold

A Royle	Conservative	27,161	57.19%
CH Archibald	Labour	12,975	27.32%
JA Baker	Liberal	7,359	15.49%

Electorate: 59,852; Turnout: 79.35%;
Majority: 14,186 (29.87%)

Richmond (Yorks)
[E] Conservative hold

TPG Kitson	Conservative	28,270	75.44%
M McMillan	Labour	9,203	24.56%

Electorate: 52,416; Turnout: 71.49%;
Majority: 19,067 (50.88%)

Ripon
[E] Conservative hold

M Stoddart-Scott	Conservative	22,757	69.92%
JH Swann	Labour	9,791	30.08%

Electorate: 41,184; Turnout: 79.03%;
Majority: 12,966 (39.84%)

Rochdale
[E] Labour gain

J McCann	Labour	21,689	41.47%
LHC Kennedy	Liberal	18,949	36.23%
T Normanton	Conservative	11,665	22.30%

Electorate: 61,191; Turnout: 85.47%;
Majority: 2,740 (5.24%)

Rochester & Chatham
[E] Conservative gain

JMG Critchley	Conservative	26,510	50.98%
AG Bottomley	Labour	25,487	49.02%

Electorate: 64,386; Turnout: 80.76%;
Majority: 1,023 (1.97%)

Romford
[E] Labour hold

RJ Ledger	Labour	25,558	43.51%
RJS Harvey	Conservative	24,951	42.48%
D Geary	Liberal	8,228	14.01%

Electorate: 73,082; Turnout: 80.37%;
Majority: 607 (1.03%)

Ross & Cromarty
[S] National Liberal hold

J Macleod	Nat Liberal	7,813	47.22%
JB Saggar	Labour	4,815	29.10%
C Murchison	Liberal	3,918	23.68%

Electorate: 25,350; Turnout: 65.27%;
Majority: 2,998 (18.12%)

Rossendale
[E] Labour hold

AWJ Greenwood	Labour	20,743	47.52%
JRT Holt	Conservative	18,152	41.59%
A Cooper	Liberal	4,752	10.89%

Electorate: 50,577; Turnout: 86.30%;
Majority: 2,591 (5.94%)

Rotherham
[E] Labour hold

JH Jones	Labour	28,298	62.80%
R Hall	Conservative	16,759	37.20%

Electorate: 57,080; Turnout: 78.94%;
Majority: 11,539 (25.61%)

Rother Valley
[E] Labour hold

D Griffiths	Labour	43,962	74.10%
WAV Hoskins	Conservative	15,369	25.90%

Electorate: 71,652; Turnout: 82.80%;
Majority: 28,593 (48.19%)

Rowley Regis & Tipton
[E] Labour hold

A Henderson	Labour	27,151	61.25%
A Taylor	Conservative	17,174	38.75%

Electorate: 59,895; Turnout: 74.00%;
Majority: 9,977 (22.51%)

Roxburgh Selkirk & Peebles
[S] Conservative hold

CE McA Donaldson	Conservative	22,275	50.20%
JM MacCormick	Liberal	12,762	28.76%
T Dalyell	Labour	9,336	21.04%

Electorate: 55,459; Turnout: 80.01%;
Majority: 9,513 (21.44%)

Rugby
[E] Conservative gain

AR Wise	Conservative	17,429	42.57%
J Johnson	Labour	16,959	41.42%
S Goldblatt	Liberal	6,413	15.66%
AS Frost	Ind	142	0.35%

Electorate: 47,809; Turnout: 85.64%;
Majority: 470 (1.15%)

Ruislip Northwood
[E] Conservative hold

FP Crowder	Conservative	23,480	56.99%
JL King	Labour	10,424	25.30%
RA Walker	Liberal	7,295	17.71%

Electorate: 49,198; Turnout: 83.74%;
Majority: 13,056 (31.69%)

Runcorn
[E] Conservative hold

DF Vosper	Conservative	26,615	65.79%
J Barnett	Labour	13,837	34.21%

Electorate: 49,584; Turnout: 81.58%;
Majority: 12,778 (31.59%)

Rushcliffe
[E] Conservative hold

M Redmayne	Conservative	27,392	54.41%
ND Sandelson	Labour	22,952	45.59%

Electorate: 58,971; Turnout: 85.37%;
Majority: 4,440 (8.82%)

Rutherglen
[S] Conservative hold

RC Brooman-White	Conservative	19,146	52.07%
EJ Milne	Labour	17,624	47.93%

Electorate: 42,833; Turnout: 85.85%;
Majority: 1,522 (4.14%)

Rutland & Stamford
[E] Conservative hold

K Lewis	Conservative	19,078	57.44%
CSB Atlee	Labour	14,137	42.56%

Electorate: 41,061; Turnout: 80.89%;
Majority: 4,941 (14.88%)

Rye
[E] Conservative hold

BG Irvine	Conservative	27,465	64.82%
JR Murray	Liberal	7,549	17.82%
DS Tilbé	Labour	7,359	17.37%

Electorate: 54,599; Turnout: 77.61%;
Majority: 19,916 (47.00%)

Saffron Walden
[E] Conservative hold

RA Butler	Conservative	20,955	53.22%
HN Horne	Labour	14,173	36.00%
DJ Ridley	Liberal	4,245	10.78%

Electorate: 48,454; Turnout: 81.26%;
Majority: 6,782 (17.23%)

St Albans
[E] Conservative hold

VH Goodhew	Conservative	23,157	52.92%
LW Carroll	Labour	14,650	33.48%
WAN Jones	Liberal	5,948	13.59%

Electorate: 52,823; Turnout: 82.83%;
Majority: 8,507 (19.44%)

St Helens
[E] Labour hold

L Spriggs	Labour	35,961	62.09%
M Carlisle	Conservative	21,956	37.91%

Electorate: 75,280; Turnout: 76.94%;
Majority: 14,005 (24.18%)

St Ives
[E] National Liberal & Conservative hold

GR Howard	Nat Lib & Conservative	15,700	47.92%
D Longden	Labour	8,802	26.87%
GEL Whitmarsh	Liberal	8,258	25.21%

Electorate: 44,010; Turnout: 74.44%;
Majority: 6,898 (21.06%)

St Marylebone
[E] Conservative hold

WW Wakefield	Conservative	23,278	64.50%
B Hooberman	Labour	8,507	23.57%
EM Wheeler	Liberal	4,304	11.93%

Electorate: 55,080; Turnout: 65.52%;
Majority: 14,771 (40.93%)

St Pancras North
[E] Labour hold

K Robinson	Labour	22,256	54.12%
DB Mitchell	Conservative	15,949	38.79%
W Webster	National Labour	1,685	4.10%
J Nicolson	Communist	1,230	2.99%

Electorate: 59,194; Turnout: 69.47%;
Majority: 6,307 (15.34%)

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