The 1953 Barnsley by-election was a

by-election A by-election, also known as a special election in the United States and the Philippines, a bye-election in Ireland, a bypoll in India, or a Zimni election (Urdu: ضمنی انتخاب, supplementary election) in Pakistan, is an election used to f ...

held on 31 March 1953 for the

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Barnsley Barnsley () is a market town in South Yorkshire, England. As the main settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley and the fourth largest settlement in South Yorkshire. In Barnsley, the population was 96,888 while the wider Borough has ...

in the

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. The seat had become vacant on the resignation of the

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(MP)

Sidney Schofield Sidney Schofield (22 March 1911 – 4 December 1992) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for little over a year. Born in Pontefract, Schofield was elected MP for Barnsley at the 1951 g ...

, who had represented the constituency since the 1951 general election. The Labour candidate, Roy Mason, held the seat for his party with a slightly reduced majority. He went on to hold a series of

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posts in the Labour governments of the 1960s and 1970s.

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