Candidates
Four candidates were nominated. The list below is set out in descending order of the number of votes received at the by-election.
1. The Liberal Party candidate, was (Hugh) Emlyn Hooson. He was a barrister, born 26 March 1925. Hooson had contested the seat of Conway at the general elections in 1950 and 1951
Hooson won the by-election, in a seat which had been represented by some sort of Liberal continuously since 1880. He retained the seat until he was defeated in the United Kingdom general election, 1979. Hooson was a candidate for the Liberal leadership in 1967. In 1979 he was given a Life Peerage as Baron Hooson.
2. The Conservative candidate was Robert H. Dawson. This was the only Parliamentary election he contested.
3. Representing the Labour Party was Tudor Davies, who also contested no other Parliamentary election.
4. The Rev. Islwyn Ffowc Elis stood for Plaid Cymru, the Welsh nationalist party, which in 1962 had never won a Parliamentary election. He contested the seat for a second time in the United Kingdom general election, 1964.
Read more about this topic: Montgomeryshire By-election, 1962
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