The General Election: 22 Year Old Candidate "In Action" -- Mr. St. John-Stevas being questioned by members of the audience during an open-air meeting at Dagenham, near the great Ford Motor factories. The youngest Conservative candidate taking part in the General Election is Mr. Norman St. John-Stevas, a 22 year old student at Oxford University. He has taken on a tough fight in the Dagenham (Essex) constituency, where the Labour candidate had a majority of over 19,000 in the last election. October 17, 1951. (Photo by Sport & General Press Agency, Limited).