Ernest Gates

Major Ernest Everard Gates was a British Conservative Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament for the Middleton and Prestwich constituency in Lancashire from 1940 until he stood down at the 1951 general election.
Gates was educated at Repton and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and before entering parliament was a company director. He won the Middleton and Prestwich seat at a by-election in May 1940, at which his only opponent was a member of the British Union of Fascists. Gates's 98.7% share of the votes remains an all-time record for any parliamentary by-election in the United Kingdom.