1968 Sheffield Brightside by-election

Candidates

• Labour chose Edward Griffiths to defend their seat, who was an industrial chemist and a worker director at the British Steel Corporation
• Colin Renfrew, for the Conservatives, was lecturer in the Department of Prehistory and Archaeology at the University of Sheffield
• Robert Wilkinson was chosen as the candidate for the Communists
• Ronald Guest, and Lt-Col H L Lambert, stood as independents.

  Result of the previous general election

Result of the by-election