The 1960 Labour Party deputy leadership election took place in November 1960, after the death of sitting deputy leader

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

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, former Minister of Works, Member of Parliament (MP) for

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James Callaghan Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, ( ; 27 March 191226 March 2005), commonly known as Jim Callaghan, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1976 to 1980. Callaghan is ...

, former Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, MP for

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* Frederick Lee, former Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour and National Service, MP for

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The ballot coincided with a leadership election, where leader

Hugh Gaitskell Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell (9 April 1906 – 18 January 1963) was a British politician who served as Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1955 until his death in 1963. An economics lecturer and wartime civil servant, h ...

saw off left-wing challenger

Harold Wilson James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, (11 March 1916 – 24 May 1995) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from October 1964 to June 1970, and again from March 1974 to April 1976. He ...

. In the deputy leadership election, Brown and Callaghan both supported Gaitskell, while Lee was aligned with the left wing of the party.

Results

As a result of the first round, Callaghan was eliminated. The remaining two candidates faced each other in a second round.

Sources

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

References

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