1972 Labour Party Shadow Cabinet election

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Elections to the

Baron Champion.[1]

There was a tie for twelfth place, which required a run-off election between Peter Shore and John Silkin. However, Silkin withdrew, leaving Shore to take the final place in the cabinet, without an election.[1]

The 12 winners 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
 Prior
rank
 Candidate
 Constituency
 Votes
1= 13 Reg Prentice Daventry 154
1= 3 Shirley Williams Hitchin 154
3 8 Anthony Crosland Great Grimsby 148
4 2 Michael Foot Ebbw Vale 146
5 4
Jim Callaghan
Cardiff South East
 142
6 12 Denis Healey
Leeds East
 137
7 5 Willie Ross Kilmarnock 134
8 6
Fred Peart
 Workington 128
9 7
Harold Lever
 Manchester Cheetham 125
10 25 Merlyn Rees Leeds South 107
11 10 Tony Benn
Bristol South East
 106
12= 11 Peter Shore Stepney 102
12= 14 John Silkin Deptford 102
14 17
Cledwyn Hughes
Anglesey
 91
15 16 Eric Heffer
Liverpool Walton
 84
16 15 Barbara Castle Blackburn 78
17 26 George Thomas Cardiff West 73
18= 19
Dick Mabon
 Greenock 71
18= 20 Roy Mason Barnsley 71
18= 18 Bill Rodgers Stockton-on-Tees 71
21 N/A Roy Hattersley
Birmingham Sparkbrook
 68
22 24 Stan Orme Salford West 65
23 22 Willie Hamilton
West Fife
 57
24 N/A Norman Atkinson Tottenham 54
25 N/A Denis Howell
Birmingham Small Heath
 53
26 N/A Brian O'Malley Rotherham 46
27 N/A John Mendelson Penistone 45
28 N/A Alf Morris
Manchester Wythenshawe
 42
29 N/A Ivor Richard Barons Court 40
30 N/A Arthur Palmer
Bristol Central
 31
31 N/A John Morris Aberavon 18

References

  1. ^ a b c "Parliamentary Labour Party". The Political Companion (15): 71–72. Summer 1973.
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