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1972 Sutton and Cheam by-election

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Constituency of Sutton and Cheam
Turnout	56.3% ( 11.3%)
First party Second party Third party   Lab Candidate Graham Tope Neil Macfarlane David Miller Party Liberal Conservative Labour Popular vote 18,328 10,911 2,937 Percentage 53.6% 31.9% 8.6% Swing 39.0% 26.2% 18.7%
MP before election Richard Sharples Conservative Elected MP Graham Tope Liberal

The Sutton and Cheam by-election of 7 December 1972 was held after Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Richard Sharples was appointed Governor of Bermuda. In a defeat for Edward Heath's government the seat was won by Liberal candidate Graham Tope, who defeated the Conservative candidate Neil Macfarlane. This was the second Liberal gain during the 1970–1974 Parliament, during which they gained five seats overall. Tope went on to lose the seat to Macfarlane at the February 1974 election.

Results

External links

1. Result with some Graham Tope campaign literature Archived 14 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
2. Michael McManus, Jo Grimond: Towards the Sound of Gunfire, Edinburgh, 2001, p. 317
3. "1972 By Election Results". Archived from the original on 14 March 2012. Retrieved 8 September 2015.

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