Constance Alice "Connie" Birchfield (27 July 1898 – 9 May 1994) was a New Zealand housekeeper, trade unionist, hotel maid, communist, bookseller and political activist. She was born in

Haydock Haydock is a village within the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, in Merseyside, England. At the 2011 Census, it had a population of 11,416 Haydock's historic area covers the Haydock electoral ward and a section of the Blackbrook ward. Haydoc ...

, Lancashire, England on 27 July 1898. Birchfield stood for the House of Representatives four times in safe

Labour Labour or labor may refer to: * Childbirth, the delivery of a baby * Labour (human activity), or work ** Manual labour, physical work ** Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer ** Organized labour and the labour ...

seats; in general elections for in the , for in the , and for in the ; and receiving 241, 99 and 120 votes respectively. She also stood for Brooklyn in the

1951 Brooklyn by-election The Brooklyn by-election 1951 was a by-election held in the electorate in Wellington during the 29th New Zealand Parliament, on 17 February 1951. Background The by-election was caused by the death of incumbent MP Peter Fraser, who had been Pri ...

, getting 129 votes.

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