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The Uxbridge by-election was held on 7 December 1972 after Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Charles Curran had died on 16 September of the same year. The seat was retained by the Conservatives by Michael Shersby. Shersby would hold the seat until his sudden death just days after the 1997 general election.〔(Full result )〕〔(Result at previous election )〕 ==Candidates== The by-election was contested by seven candidates, with each of the three major parliamentary parties offering candidates, three others coming from extra-parliamentary right-wing groups and a final candidate who was effectively an independent. John Clifton was the candidate for the far-right National Front. He was the party's organiser for South-West London and was also close to the local branch of the Monday Club.〔Martin Walker, ''The National Front'', Fontana, 1977, pp. 125-126〕 Dennis Herbert Harmston ran for the Union Movement, a far-right pro-European unity party led by Oswald Mosley. Known as "Big Dan", Harmston, who worked in the management of Smithfield Market, was a long term supporter of Mosley.〔Graham Macklin, ''Very Deeply Dyed in Black: Sir Oswald Mosley and the Resurrection of British Fascism After 1945'', I.B.Tauris, 2007, p. 53〕 He later became known as a supporter of Enoch Powell, leading the Smithfield porters in a pro-Powell march following the Rivers of Blood speech.〔Camilla Schofield, ''Enoch Powell and the Making of Postcolonial Britain'', Cambridge University Press, 2013, p. 244〕 Another fringe rightist party, the National Independence Party, also stood with Clare Macdonald as their candidate. Macdonald had been a member of the National Front but had switched allegiance when former Front leader John O'Brien was forced out of the group.〔 Michael Shersby was the candidate for the Conservative Party. He had worked in industry for a number of years with the sugar company Tate & Lyle whilst also serving as a Conservative member of Westminster City Council.〔(Obituary: Sir Michael Shersby )〕 Reginald Simmerson ran under the title "Democratic Conservative against the Common Market". Simmerson was a regular by-election candidate who campaigned against British membership of the European Community.〔(Results of By-elections in the 1983-1987 Parliament )〕 Following his death in 1998 the Anti-Common Market League established a prize in his memory.〔(Anti Common Market League - Autumn 2001 )〕 Ian Stuart was the candidate for the Liberal Party. A cargo-handler by profession and the chairman of the Joint Shop Stewards Liaison Committee, he was educated at Lewes Old Grammar School.〔''The Times Guide to the House of Commons February 1974'', Times Newspapers Ltd., 1974, p. 157〕 Manuela Sykes was chosen as the candidate for the Labour Party. Sykes had been a long-standing member of the Liberal Party and had been a candidate for them in a number of parliamentary elections before defecting to Labour. She too served as a member of Westminster Council.〔(Former Liberal Democrat candidate Manuela Sykes wins landmark dementia case )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Uxbridge by-election, 1972」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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