The 1958 East Aberdeenshire by-election was held on 20 November 1958 when the incumbent

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MP, Sir

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was elevated to a life peerage. The by-election was retained by the Conservative candidate

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. Wolrige-Gordon was still an

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at Oxford and at the time of his election the youngest MP. In

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Boothby had won the seat with a majority of just over 10,000 votes. While that contest had been a straight fight between the Conservatives and

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, the by-election saw the

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also field a candidate.

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