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Manchester Platting (UK Parliament Constituency)
Manchester Platting was a parliamentary constituency in Manchester. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system. History The constituency was created as a result of the Report of the Boundary Commission in 1917, when it was recommended to be called "Manchester Collyhurst"."Parliamentary Borough of Manchester" in Schedule part II of "Report of the Boundary Commission (England and Wales), 1917", Cd. 8756. However, when the Representation of the People Bill to give effect to the commission's recommendations was debated in Parliament, the Government accepted an amendment to change the name to Platting."Parliament", ''The Times'', 30 November 1917, p. 12. The new constituency came into effect at the 1918 general election. It was abolished for the 1950 general election. Boundaries Although Parliament changed the name proposed by the Boundary Commission, they kept the boundar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manchester North (UK Parliament Constituency)
Manchester North was one of six single-member Parliamentary constituencies created in 1885 by the division of the existing three-member Parliamentary Borough of Manchester. It was abolished in 1918. Boundaries The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, and was defined as consisting of the following areas: *St. Michael's Ward, *The Parish of Harpurhey, *and ''"so much of the Parish of Newton as lies to the north-west of a line drawn along the centre of the Oldham Road"''. The next redistribution took place under the terms of the Representation of the People Act 1918. The bulk of the seat became part of the new constituency of Manchester Platting, with parts passing to Manchester Exchange and Manchester Clayton.F A Youngs Jr., ''Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England'', Vol. II: Northern England, London, 1991 Members of Parliament Elections Elections in the 1880s Elections in the 1890s Electi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom that has been described as an alliance of social democrats, democratic socialists and trade unionists. The Labour Party sits on the centre-left of the political spectrum. In all general elections since 1922, Labour has been either the governing party or the Official Opposition. There have been six Labour prime ministers and thirteen Labour ministries. The party holds the annual Labour Party Conference, at which party policy is formulated. The party was founded in 1900, having grown out of the trade union movement and socialist parties of the 19th century. It overtook the Liberal Party to become the main opposition to the Conservative Party in the early 1920s, forming two minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in the 1920s and early 1930s. Labour served in the wartime coalition of 1940–1945, after which Clement Attlee's Labour government established the National Health Service and expanded the welfa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilfrid Sugden
Sir Wilfrid Hart Sugden (8 December 1879 – 27 April 1960) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. A Member of Parliament (MP) for fourteen years, he represented three different constituencies, losing his seat twice and losing in three other elections which he contested. Early life and career Sugden was born in Bolton, Lancashire, the son of William Arthur and Isabella Sugden.''England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975'' He was educated at London University and abroad. He became a constructional engineer and served in the Royal Engineers during the First World War. Sugden changed course later in life, being called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1928, when he was nearing 50. Political life He was elected at the 1918 general election as MP for Royton in Lancashire. He was returned with a reduced majority at the 1922 election, but was defeated at the 1923 general election by the Liberal Party candidate William Gorman. Sugden returned to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Warden Stansfield
James Warden Stansfield (7 April 1906 – 30 September 1991) was a British barrister and judge. Career Stansfield was born in Cheshire on 7 April 1906 and was the son of James Hampson Stansfield. He was educated in Macclesfield and read Law at the University of Cambridge before being Call to the bar, called to the Bar in 1929 and practicing on the Northern Circuit. He was unsuccessful when he stood for election as the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party candidate in the Manchester Platting (UK Parliament constituency), Manchester Platting constituency at the 1935 United Kingdom general election, 1935 General Election. During World War II, he joined the Royal Air Force, rising to Squadron leader, Squadron Leader and joining the staff of the Judge Advocate General (United Kingdom), Judge Advocate-General. After the war, he served as Chairman of the Manchester Licensing Planning Committee from 1955 to 1963 amongst other Committees. He served as a County Court Judge and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Vaughan (politician)
Joseph James Vaughan (1878 – 1938) was a British politician. Early life and career Born in East London, Vaughan began working at the age of eight, but remained at school part-time until he was thirteen. He worked a wide variety of jobs before he was apprenticed to a former Chartist. This encouraged him to become a radical and join the Liberal Party. However, he soon grew disillusioned with the party, and instead joined the British Socialist Party (BSP).Graham Stevenson,Vaughan Joseph, ''Compendium of Communist Biography'' Vaughan eventually settled into a career as an electrician, joined the Electrical Trades Union (ETU) and became president of Bethnal Green Trades Council. The BSP affiliated to the Labour Party, and it was under this party label that Vaughan was elected to Bethnal Green Borough Council in 1914.Ed. John Riddell, ''To the Masses: Proceedings of the Third Congress of the Communist International'', p.1247 He was the only Labour member of the council until ... [...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] |
1922 United Kingdom General Election
The 1922 United Kingdom general election was held on Wednesday 15 November 1922. It was won by the Conservative Party, led by Bonar Law, which gained an overall majority over the Labour Party, led by J. R. Clynes, and a divided Liberal Party. This election is considered one of political realignment, with the Liberal Party falling to third-party status. The Conservative Party went on to spend all but eight of the next forty-two years as the largest party in Parliament, and Labour emerged as the main competition to the Conservatives. The election was the first not to be held in Southern Ireland, due to the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty on 6 December 1921, under which Southern Ireland was to secede from the United Kingdom as a Dominion – the Irish Free State – on 6 December 1922. This reduced the size of the House of Commons by nearly one hundred seats, when compared to the previous election. Background The Liberal Party had divided into two factions following the o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Delargy
Hugh James Delargy (26 September 1908 – 4 May 1976) was a Labour Party politician and MP. He was born in Prestwich, Lancashire, of Irish parents. Delargy was educated in England, Paris and Rome and worked as a teacher, journalist, labourer and insurance official. He was a Manchester City Councillor from 1937 to 1946. Delargy was Member of Parliament for Manchester Platting from 1945 to 1950, and for Thurrock from 1950 until his death in 1976. He was a Labour whip from 1950 to 1952. His successor at the subsequent by-election was Oonagh McDonald. He was a member of the Anti-Partition of Ireland League, secretary of the Friends of Ireland,Bob Purdie, "The Friends of Ireland", in: Tom Gallagher, ''Contemporary Irish Studies'', pp.81-94 and participated in the Manchester Martyrs commemoration in Manchester in 1949 which was addressed by Éamon de Valera. He was a holder of the Grand Cross of the Polonia Restituta awarded by the Polish government-in-exile. Involvement i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1945 United Kingdom General Election
The 1945 United Kingdom general election was a national election held on 5 July 1945, but polling in some constituencies was delayed by some days, and the counting of votes was delayed until 26 July to provide time for Absentee voting in the United Kingdom, overseas votes to be brought to Britain. The governing Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party sought to maintain its position in Parliament of the United Kingdom, Parliament but faced challenges from public opinion about the future of the United Kingdom in the post-war period. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill proposed to call for a general election in Parliament, which passed with a majority vote less than two months after the conclusion of the Second World War in Europe. The election's campaigning was focused on leadership of the country and its postwar future. Churchill sought to use his wartime popularity as part of his campaign to keep the Conservatives in power after a C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1935 United Kingdom General Election
The 1935 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 14 November 1935 and resulted in a large, albeit reduced, majority for the National Government now led by Stanley Baldwin of the Conservative Party. The greatest number of members, as before, were Conservatives, while the National Liberal vote held steady. The much smaller National Labour vote also held steady but the resurgence in the main Labour vote caused over a third of their MPs, including National Labour leader Ramsay MacDonald, to lose their seats. Labour, under what was then regarded internally as the caretaker leadership of Clement Attlee following the resignation of George Lansbury slightly over a month before, made large gains over their very poor showing at the 1931 general election, and saw their highest share of the vote yet. They made a net gain of over a hundred seats, thus reversing much of the ground lost in 1931. The Liberals continued a slow political decline, with their leader, Sir Herbert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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