Dundee East by-election, 1952

The Dundee East by-election was held on 17 July 1952 due to the death in a road accident of the incumbent Labour MP, Thomas Cook. It was won by the Labour candidate George Thomson.^[1] The Scottish National Party unsuccessful candidate, Donald James Stewart, would later be the SNP's first MP elected at a General Election.

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1952	February: Bournemouth East and Christchurch Southport Leeds South East July: Dundee East October: Cleveland Antrim North November: Belfast South Wycombe Birmingham Small Heath Farnworth

1953	February: Canterbury March: Isle of Thanet Barnsley Stoke-on-Trent North April: Hayes and Harlington Down North Sunderland South June: Abingdon July: Birmingham Edgbaston September: Broxtowe November: Crosby Ormskirk Holborn and St Pancras South December: Paddington North

1954	February: Ilford North Haltemprice Harwich Bournemouth West March: Arundel and Shoreham Harrogate April: Edinburgh East Motherwell September: Croydon East October: Shoreditch and Finsbury Wakefield Aberdare Aldershot November: Morpeth Sutton and Cheam Liverpool West Derby Armagh December: Inverness

1955	January: South Norfolk Orpington Twickenham Edinburgh North February: Stockport South March: Wrexham

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