Election Name: | 1970 St Marylebone by-election |
Type: | parliamentary |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Seats For Election: | Constituency of St Marylebone (UK Parliament constituency) |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 1970 United Kingdom general election |
Previous Year: | June 1970 |
Election Date: | 22 October 1970 |
Candidate1: | Kenneth Baker |
Party1: | Conservative Party (UK) |
Popular Vote1: | 10,684 |
Percentage1: | 63.49% |
Swing1: | 1.40% |
Candidate2: | Keith Morrell |
Party2: | Labour Party (UK) |
Popular Vote2: | 4,542 |
Percentage2: | 26.99% |
Swing2: | 2.32% |
Candidate3: | Michael Vann |
Image3: | Lib |
Party3: | Liberal Party (UK) |
Popular Vote3: | 1,038 |
Percentage3: | 6.19% |
Swing3: | 2.41% |
MP | |
Posttitle: | Subsequent MP |
Before Election: | Quintin Hogg |
Before Party: | Conservative Party (UK) |
After Election: | Kenneth Baker |
After Party: | Conservative Party (UK) |
Next Election: | February 1974 United Kingdom general election |
Next Year: | Feb. 1974 |
The St Marylebone by-election of 22 October 1970 was held after Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Quintin Hogg became a life peer. The seat was retained for the Conservatives by Kenneth Baker, who had lost his previous seat of Acton at the general election four months earlier; Baker would go on to represent the Mole Valley seat in Surrey and become a long-serving Cabinet minister.