1961 Manchester Moss Side by-election
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates The 1961 Manchester Moss Side by-election of 7 November 1961[1] was held after the death of Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) James Watts on 7 July that year. The seat was retained by the Conservatives.
Candidates
The local Liberals selected 37-year-old solicitor Ruslyn Hargreaves. He was born in August 1923 and educated at William Hulme's Grammar School and Manchester University. He was formerly secretary of the National League of Young Liberals. He had been Liberal candidate for Howden at the 1959 general election.[2] Max Mosley was an election agent for the Union Movement.[3]
Result
Template:Election box winning candidate with party link| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
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| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Ruslyn Hargreaves | 6,447 | 27.8 | Script error: No such module "String". | |
| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Gordon Oakes | 5,980 | 25.8 | Script error: No such module "String". | |
| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Walter Hesketh | 1,212 | 5.2 | Script error: No such module "String". | |
| Majority | 3,086 | 13.3 | Script error: No such module "String". | ||
| Turnout | 23,172 | Script error: No such module "String". | |||
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References
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