1948 Wigan by-election
Result of the by-election

1948 Wigan by-election

Section Title: Result of the by-election
Table Section Text: None

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±

Labour	Ronald Williams	28,941	59.1	9.1

Conservative	Harold Dowling	17,466	35.6	3.8

Communist	Thomas Rowlandson	1,647	3.7	N/A

King's Cavalier	Owen L Roberts	932	1.6	N/A

Majority	11,475	23.4	12.9

Labour hold	Swing	6.5

Sentence(s)

Labour Party´s Williams won the 1948 Wigan by-election by gaining 59.1% of the vote, in spite of a 6.5% swing to the Conservative party.

final_sentence: Labour Party´s Williams won the 1948 Wigan by-election by gaining 59.1% of the vote, in spite of a 6.5% swing to the Conservative party.