The 1945 Bournemouth by-election was held on 15 November 1945.
The by-election was held due to the elevation to hereditary peerage of the incumbent Conservative MP, Sir Leonard Lyle.
It was won by the Conservative candidate Brendan Bracken,[1] who was a prominent supporter of Winston Churchill and Conservative parliamentarian who had lost his Paddington North seat to Labour in the 1945 Labour landslide.
This election had the biggest swing for an incumbent governing party in a by-election until the 2021 Hartlepool by-election.
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