1970 St Marylebone by-election

22 October 1970

Feb. 1974 →

A map of parliamentary constituencies within the County of London at the time of the by-election, with St Marylebone highlighted in red.

MP before election

Quintin Hogg
Conservative

Subsequent MP

Kenneth Baker
Conservative

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.

Results

St Marylebone by-Election, 1970
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Kenneth Baker	10,684	63.49	+1.40
	Labour	Keith Morrell	4,542	26.99	−2.32
	Liberal	Michael Vann	1,038	6.19	−2.41
	National Front	Malcolm Skeggs	401	2.38	New
	Fourth World Group	John Papworth	163	0.97	New
Majority			6,142	36.5	+3.7
Turnout			16,828
	Conservative hold		Swing

"1970 -71 By Election Results". Archived from the original on 29 March 2012. Retrieved 8 September 2015.

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