title: 1970 St Marylebone by-election
text: # 1970 St Marylebone by-election
  
  The St Marylebone by-election of 22 October 1970 was held after Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Quintin Hogg became a life peer. The seat was retained for the Conservatives by Kenneth Baker, who had lost his previous seat of Acton at the general election four months earlier; Baker would go on to represent the Mole Valley seat in Surrey and become a long-serving Cabinet minister.
  
  ## Results
  
  St Marylebone by-Election, 1970 :
  
  | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Conservative | Kenneth Baker | 10,684 | 63.49 | +1.40 |
  | | Labour | Keith Morrell | 4,542 | 26.99 | -2.32 |
  | | Liberal | Michael Vann | 1,038 | 6.19 | -2.41 |
  | | National Front | Malcolm Skeggs | 401 | 2.38 | New |
  | | Fourth World Group | John Papworth | 163 | 0.97 | New |
  | Majority | Majority | Majority | 6,142 | 36.5 | +3.7 |
  | Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 16,828 | | |
  | | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | | |
  