The 1954 Wakefield by-election was held on 21 October 1954 after the death of the incumbent Labour MP, Arthur Greenwood.
It was retained by the Labour candidate Arthur Creech Jones.
[1] The Conservative candidate, Maurice Macmillan, was the son of then-Minister of Defence and future Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.
He would subsequently be a Cabinet Minister himself.
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