The 1932

Wakefield Wakefield is a cathedral city in West Yorkshire, England located on the River Calder. The city had a population of 99,251 in the 2011 census.https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/census/2011/ks101ew Census 2011 table KS101EW Usual resident population, ...

by-election was held on 21 April 1932. The by-election was held due to the death of the incumbent Conservative MP,

George Brown Hillman George Brown Hillman MBE (5 July 1867 – 19 March 1932) was a surgeon and briefly the Conservative MP for Wakefield. Hillman was born in Halifax in 1867, the son of the Independent Minister Rev S.D. Hillman. After attending Ilkley High School, ...

. It was won by the Labour candidate

Arthur Greenwood Arthur Greenwood, (8 February 1880 – 9 June 1954) was a British politician. A prominent member of the Labour Party from the 1920s until the late 1940s, Greenwood rose to prominence within the party as secretary of its research department f ...

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