Tom Smith (24 April 1886 – 27 February 1953) was a Labour Party politician in England. At the 1922 general election, he was elected as

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(MP) for the previously

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-held seat of

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. He was re-elected at the 1923 election, but at the 1924 general election he lost his seat by 701 votes to the

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candidate

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. He was re-elected at the 1929 general election, but was defeated again at the 1931 general election. He returned to the

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at an uncontested

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in August 1933, in the neighbouring Normanton constituency, following the death of the Labour MP

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. He held the seat until he resigned his seat in 1946 to take up the post of Labour Director of the North-Eastern Divisional Coal Board. At the resulting

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, the seat was held for Labour by

George Sylvester George Oscar Sylvester (14 September 1898 – 26 October 1961) was a Labour Party politician in England. He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Normanton in West Yorkshire at a by-election in 1947 following the resignation of the Labo ...

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* 1886 births 1953 deaths Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Miners' Federation of Great Britain-sponsored MPs Ministers in the Churchill wartime government, 1940–1945 National Union of Mineworkers-sponsored MPs UK MPs 1922–1923 UK MPs 1923–1924 UK MPs 1929–1931 UK MPs 1931–1935 UK MPs 1935–1945 UK MPs 1945–1950 {{England-Labour-UK-MP-stub