1956 Labour Party Shadow Cabinet election

Elections to the

A. V. Alexander

) were automatically members.

The results of the election are listed below:^[1]

Colour key	Retained in the Shadow Cabinet
	Joined the Shadow Cabinet
	Voted out of the Shadow Cabinet

Rank	Candidate	Constituency	Votes
1	Harold Wilson	Huyton	185
2	Alfred Robens	Blyth	149
3	Aneurin Bevan	Ebbw Vale	148
4	Dick Mitchison	Kettering	146
5	James Callaghan	Cardiff South-East	140
6†	Tony Greenwood	Rossendale	137
6†	Frank Soskice	Sheffield, Neepsend	137
8	Philip Noel-Baker	Derby South	133
9	Edith Summerskill	Fulham West	112
10	George Brown	Belper	110
11	Kenneth Younger	Grimsby	106
12	Tom Fraser	Hamilton	98
13	Arthur Bottomley	Rochester and Chatham	91
14	Lynn Ungoed-Thomas	Leicester North East	90
15	Richard Stokes	Ipswich	69

† Multiple candidates tied for position.

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