1961 Cambridgeshire by-election

UK Parliamentary by-election

The 1961 Cambridgeshire by-election was held on 16 March 1961. The by-election was triggered by the appointment of the incumbent Conservative, Gerald Howard, as a High Court Judge on the Queen's Bench Division. It was won by the Conservative candidate Francis Pym.

Candidates

The local Liberal association selected Richard Gillachrist Moore, a former journalist on the News Chronicle. He was born on 20 February 1931. He was a son of Sir Alan Hilary Moore and Hilda Mary Burrows. He was educated at Highfield School, Liphook and Radley College, Berkshire, gaining an exhibition to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1949. In 1955 he was President of Cambridge Union. He was also Chairman of the Union of University Liberal Societies. He was a member of the Liberal Party Council and the executive and the Colonial Affairs committee. He contested Tavistock at the general elections of 1955 and 1959.

Cambridgeshire by-election, 1961
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Francis Pym	17,643	45.9	−12.0
	Labour	Robert M D Davies	11,566	30.1	−12.0
	Liberal	Richard Moore	9,219	24.0	New
Majority			6,077	15.8	0.0
Turnout			38,428	62.4	−15.6
	Conservative hold		Swing	0.0

The Times House of Commons, 1959
The Times House of Commons, 1955
The Times House of Commons, 1959
F. W. S. Craig (1971), British Parliamentary Election Results, 1950-1970. Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services.
"1961 By Election Results". Archived from the original on 25 March 2012. Retrieved 15 August 2015.

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