Robert Spence (1879 – 1 February 1965) was a Labour Party politician in the

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. He was the

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(MP) for Berwick and Haddington in

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from 1923 to 1924. Spence unsuccessfully contested

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at the 1918 general election, and was unsuccessful again when he contested Berwick and Haddington in

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.Craig, page 619 He won the seat at the 1923 general election by a narrow margin of 68 votes (0.3% of the total), but was defeated at the next general election, in 1924, and did not stand for

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again.

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Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies 1879 births 1966 deaths Scottish Labour MPs UK MPs 1923–1924 Politics of East Lothian Politics of the Scottish Borders {{Scotland-Labour-UK-MP-stub