The 1953 Labour Party deputy leadership election took place on 29 October 1953, after sitting deputy leader Herbert Morrison was challenged by

Aneurin Bevan Aneurin "Nye" Bevan PC (; 15 November 1897 – 6 July 1960) was a Welsh Labour Party politician, noted for tenure as Minister of Health in Clement Attlee's government in which he spearheaded the creation of the British National Health ...

Candidates

* Herbert Morrison, incumbent Deputy Leader, Member of Parliament for Lewisham South *

, former Minister of Labour and National Service, Member of Parliament for

Ebbw Vale Ebbw Vale (; cy, Glynebwy) is a town at the head of the valley formed by the Ebbw Fawr tributary of the Ebbw River in Wales. It is the largest town and the administrative centre of Blaenau Gwent county borough. The Ebbw Vale and Brynmawr con ...

Results

Sources

*http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~tquinn/labour_party_deputy.htm

1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito i ...

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