East Midlands, 1955 vs 1959: seat-by-seat change

Every constituency in East Midlands compared between the 1955 and 1959 general elections: which seats changed hands and how far each swung.

Constituency	1955	1959	Majority	Con–Lab swing
Ashfield	Lab	Lab	41.4%	−1.3
Bassetlaw	Lab	Lab	16.1%	−0.1
Belper	Lab	Lab	7.4%	−1.9
Bolsover	Lab	Lab	56.4%	−0.7
Bosworth	Lab	Lab	2.6%	−2.7
Carlton	Con	Con	15.1%	−0.5
Chesterfield	Lab	Lab	24.9%	+4.8
Derby North	Lab	Lab	5.6%	−3.0
Derby South	Lab	Lab	8.0%	−3.6
Gainsborough	Con	Con	16.8%	−2.6
Grantham	Con	Con	13.7%	−4.3
Harborough	Con	Con	21.8%	−0.9
High Peak	Con	Con	12.1%	+0.9
Holland With Boston	Con	Con	20.6%	−1.8
Horncastle	Con	Con	33.2%	+0.2
Ilkeston	Lab	Lab	37.2%	−0.7
Kettering	Lab	Lab	5.6%	−2.4
Leicester North East	Lab	Lab	3.8%	−4.7
Leicester North West	Lab	Lab	4.3%	−2.0
Leicestersouth East	Con	Con	34.7%	−3.1
Leicestersouth West	Lab	Lab	7.3%	−2.2
Lincoln	Lab	Lab	10.2%	−1.1
Loughborough	Lab	Lab	8.2%	−0.8
Louth	Con	Con	22.2%	−2.3
Mansfield	Lab	Lab	35.8%	−0.7
Melton	Con	Con	22.4%	−0.3
Newark	Lab	Lab	3.8%	−0.5
North East Derbyshire	Lab	Lab	25.7%	−3.6
Northampton	Lab	Lab	4.5%	−0.5
Nottingham Central	Con	Con	4.7%	−1.4
Nottingham North	Lab	Lab	9.9%	−1.4
Nottingham South	Con	Con	14.2%	−0.2
Nottingham West	Lab	Con gain	0.4%	−4.3
Peterborough	Con	Con	9.1%	−1.3
Rushcliffe	Con	Con	8.8%	−2.6
Rutland and Stamford	Con	Con	14.9%	−3.1
South East Derbyshire	Lab	Con gain	0.0%	−1.6
South Northamptonshire	Con	Con	14.0%	−1.6
Wellingborough	Lab	Con gain	1.3%	−1.7
West Derbyshire	Con	Con	22.6%	−1.7

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