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Clay Cross (constituency)
Clay Cross was a county constituency centred on the village of Clay Cross in north-east Derbyshire. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post In a first-past-the-post electoral system (FPTP or FPP), formally called single-member plurality voting (SMP) when used in single-member districts or informally choose-one voting in contrast to ranked voting, or score voting, voters cast their ... system. The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election. Boundaries The Urban District of Clay Cross, the Rural District of Blackwell, and part of the Rural District of Chesterfield. Members of Parliament Election results Elections in the 1910s Elections in the 1920s Elections in the 1930s Elections in the 1940s References Bibliogra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chesterfield (UK Parliament Constituency)
Chesterfield is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Toby Perkins of the Labour Party. Constituency profile The seat covers Chesterfield itself and the villages to the east. 59% of residents voted to leave the EU in 2016. Residents are slightly less healthy and wealthy than the UK average. Boundaries The current boundaries include the town of Chesterfield, together with areas to the north towards Dronfield and to the east towards Bolsover, comprising the Borough of Chesterfield wards: Brimington North, Brimington South, Brockwell, Dunston, Hasland, Hollingwood and Inkersall, Holmebrook, Linacre, Loundsley Green, Middlecroft and Poolsbrook, Moor, Old Whittington, Rother, St Helen's, St Leonard's, Walton, and West. The other two Borough of Chesterfield wards (Barrow Hill and New Whittington; Lowgates and Woodthorpe) fall within the neighbouring North East Derbyshire seat. Boundary changes before the 2010 general election, when t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1933 Clay Cross By-election
The 1933 Clay Cross by-election was held on 1 September 1933. The by-election was held due to the death of the incumbent Labour MP, Charles Duncan. Unusually, the Constituency Labour Party asked for nominations for the vacancy, and published the list: Percy Barstow of the National Union of Railwaymen, former leader of the party Arthur Henderson, Samuel Sales of the Derbyshire Miners' Association, and Ben Smith, former Member of Parliament for Rotherhithe. Henderson was chosen as the party's candidate, and Herbert Drinkwater acted as his election agent An election agent in elections in the United Kingdom, as well as some other similar political systems such as elections in India, is the person legally responsible for the conduct of a candidate's political campaign and to whom election material is .... Henderson easily won the election. This was Henderson's fifth by-election victory, having previously won in Burnley in 1924, in Newcastle-upon-Tyne East in 1923, in Widnes i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Lyons
Abraham Montagu Lyons (10 February 1894 – 29 November 1961) was an English lawyer, judge, politician and author, who served as a Conservative member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Leicester East, and as Recorder of Great Grimsby. Background Lyons was the only son of Rabinovitch Lyons of West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire. He attended Clee Grammar School for Boys in Lincolnshire. He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the British Army on 23 October 1914, following the outbreak of World War I. Legal career Lyons was called to the Middle Temple on 28 June 1922, at which time he was a solicitor living in West Bridgford; became "leader" of the Midland circuit, and "took silk" in 1933. In 1936 he was appointed Recorder of Great Grimsby He was said to have been one of the few Jewish judges in 1930s England to take an active role in the Jewish community. Service in Parliament Lyons was elected in the 1931 general election, unseating Labour incumbent Edwar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1929 United Kingdom General Election
The 1929 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 30 May 1929 and resulted in a hung parliament. It stands as the fourth of six instances under the secret ballot, and the first of three under universal suffrage, in which a party has lost on the popular vote but won the highest number (known as "a plurality") of seats versus all other parties (the others are 1874, January 1910, December 1910, 1951 and February 1974). In 1929, Ramsay MacDonald's Labour Party won the most seats in the House of Commons for the first time. The Liberal Party led again by former Prime Minister David Lloyd George regained some ground lost in the 1924 general election and held the balance of power. Parliament was dissolved on 10 May. The election was often referred to as the "Flapper Election", because it was the first in which women aged 21–29 had the right to vote (owing to the Representation of the People Act 1928). (Women over 30 had been able to vote since the 1918 general ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1924 United Kingdom General Election
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1923 United Kingdom General Election
The 1923 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 6 December 1923. The Conservative Party (UK), Conservatives, led by Stanley Baldwin, won the most seats, but Labour Party (UK), Labour, led by Ramsay MacDonald, and H. H. Asquith's reunited Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party gained enough seats to produce a hung parliament. It is the most recent UK general election in which a third party (here, the Liberals) won over 100 seats. The Liberals' percentage of the vote, 29.7%, has not been exceeded by a third party at any general election since. MacDonald formed the First MacDonald ministry, first ever Labour government with tacit support from the Liberals. Rather than trying to bring the Liberals back into government, Asquith's motivation for permitting Labour to enter power was that he hoped they would prove to be incompetent and quickly lose support. Being a minority, MacDonald's government only lasted ten months and another general election was held in 1924 United Kingdo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Masterman
Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman PC (24 October 1873 – 17 November 1927) was a British radical Liberal Party politician, intellectual and man of letters. He worked closely with such Liberal leaders as David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill in designing social welfare projects, including the National Insurance Act 1911. During the First World War he played a central role in the main government propaganda agency. Early life Masterman was the third son of Thomas W. Masterman of Rotherfield Hall in Sussex. His older brothers were the future natural historian Arthur Masterman and the future bishop Howard Masterman. On his mother’s side, Masterman was a grandson of William Brodie Gurney and a distant relation of Elizabeth Fry. He was educated at Weymouth College and Christ's College, Cambridge, where he was President of the Union, and joint Secretary of the Cambridge University Liberal Club from 1895 to 1896. At the university, he had two primary interests: social refo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Hall (trade Unionist)
Frank Hall (1860 – 2 December 1927) was an English trade unionist. Hall began working at a coal mine at the age of ten, becoming a checkweighman sixteen years later. He became active in the Derbyshire Miners' Association, and was elected as its treasurer in 1907, then when W. E. Harvey died in 1914, he was elected as the new general secretary. He also served on the executive of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain from 1914.''Report of Proceedings at the Annual Trades Union Congress'', Vol.60 , p.294 Hall was shortlisted as the Derbyshire Miners' candidate for the 1914 North East Derbyshire by-election. He was selected by the union's executive, partly on the grounds that he was willing to run as a Labour Party candidate. However, a vote of all the union's members overturned the executive's decision, and the union's president James Martin was instead selected to stand."Grimsby Election." Times ondon, England5 May 1914: 9. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 2 Mar. 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Neal
Harold Neal (3 July 1897 – 24 August 1972) was a British Labour Party politician. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Clay Cross from a 1944 by-election to 1950, and after boundary changes, for Bolsover from 1950 until his retirement in 1970, preceding Dennis Skinner. Neal was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Fuel and Power, Philip Noel-Baker Philip John Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, (1 November 1889 – 8 October 1982), born Philip John Baker, was a British politician, diplomat, academic, athlete, and renowned campaigner for disarmament. He carried the British team flag and won a ..., in 1951. References * External links * 1897 births 1972 deaths Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for constituencies in Derbyshire Miners' Federation of Great Britain-sponsored MPs Ministers in the Attlee governments, 1945–1951 National Union of Mineworkers-sponsored MPs UK MPs 1935–19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1944 Clay Cross By-election
The 1944 Clay Cross Clay Cross is a town and a civil parish in the North East Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England. It is a former industrial and mining town, about south of Chesterfield. It is directly on the A61. Surrounding settlements include North W ... by-election was held on 14 April 1944. The byelection was held due to the death of the incumbent Labour MP, George Ridley. It was won by the Labour candidate Harold Neal. D. Craven Griffiths, a Liberal who worked for the civil service wanted to stand in the by-election. The President of the Board of Trade refused him permission for a leave of absence to fight a campaign.Nottingham Evening Post 18 Jan 1944 References 1944 elections in the United Kingdom 1944 in England 1940s in Derbyshire By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Derbyshire constituencies April 1944 events {{England-UK-Parl-by-election-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Ridley (Labour Politician)
George Ridley (29 November 1886 – 4 January 1944) was a Labour Party politician in England. He was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Clay Cross Clay Cross is a town and a civil parish in the North East Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England. It is a former industrial and mining town, about south of Chesterfield. It is directly on the A61. Surrounding settlements include North W ... at a by-election in September 1936, filling the vacancy caused by the death of Alfred Holland at the age of 36. Like his predecessor, Ridley did not live until the next general election but died in January 1944 at 57. He was survived by his wife, Ethel, and his children, Philip and Betty. References External links * 1886 births 1944 deaths Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1935–1945 Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for constituencies in Derbyshire Chairs of the Labour Party (UK) Transport Salaried Staffs' A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1936 Clay Cross By-election
The 1936 Clay Cross Clay Cross is a town and a civil parish in the North East Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England. It is a former industrial and mining town, about south of Chesterfield. It is directly on the A61. Surrounding settlements include North W ... by-election was held on 5 November 1936. The by-election was held due to the death of the incumbent Labour MP, Alfred Holland. It was retained by the Labour candidate George Ridley. References Clay Cross by-election Clay Cross by-election 1930s in Derbyshire Clay Cross by-election By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Derbyshire constituencies {{England-UK-Parl-by-election-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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