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1965 Leyton by-election

UK parliamentary by-election

Field	Value
election_name	1965 Leyton by-election
type	parliamentary
country	United Kingdom
seats_for_election	Constituency of Leyton
ongoing	no
previous_election	1964 United Kingdom general election
previous_year	1964
next_election	1966 United Kingdom general election
next_year	1966
election_date	21 January 1965
candidate1	Ronald Buxton
party1	Conservative Party (UK)
popular_vote1	16,544
percentage1	42.9%
swing1	9.4%
candidate2	Patrick Gordon Walker
party2	Labour Party (UK)
popular_vote2	16,339
percentage2	42.4%
swing2	8.0%
candidate3	Alistair H. Mackay
image3	Lib
party3	Liberal Party (UK)
popular_vote3	5,382
percentage3	14.0%
swing3	2.2%
title	MP
before_election	Reginald Sorensen
before_party	Labour Party (UK)
after_election	Ronald Buxton
after_party	Conservative Party (UK)
turnout	57.7%

The 1965 Leyton by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 21 January 1965 for the UK House of Commons constituency of Leyton in east London.

The seat had become vacant when the constituency's long-serving Labour Member of Parliament (MP), Reginald Sorensen, was made a life peer on 15 December 1964. An MP for over thirty years, his elevation to the peerage was intended to create a vacancy in a safe seat for the Foreign Secretary, Patrick Gordon Walker, who had been defeated in a shock result in the 1964 general election in his Smethwick constituency.

The result of the contest was not as planned: the Conservative Party candidate, Ronald Buxton, won with a majority of 205 votes, a swing from Labour of 8.7%. Gordon Walker resigned as Foreign Secretary but regained the seat for Labour at the 1966 general election.

Result

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