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Battersea North (UK Parliament Constituency)
Battersea North was a United Kingdom constituencies, parliamentary constituency in the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea, and then the London Borough of Wandsworth, in South London. It returned one Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system. It was created for the 1918 United Kingdom general election, 1918 general election, when the former Battersea (UK Parliament constituency), Battersea constituency was divided in two. It was abolished for the 1983 United Kingdom general election, 1983 general election, when it was reunited with most of Battersea South (UK Parliament constituency), Battersea South to form the new Battersea (UK Parliament constituency), Battersea constituency. Boundaries The constituency was created by the Representation of the People Act 1918. When seats were redistributed by the Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battersea (UK Parliament Constituency)
Battersea is a United Kingdom constituencies, constituency in the London Borough of Wandsworth. It has been represented since 2017 by Marsha de Cordova of the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party. The seat has had two periods of existence (1885–1918 and 1983 to date). In the first Parliament after the seat's re-creation it was Labour-represented, bucking the national result, thereafter from 1987 until 2017 the affiliation of the winning candidate was that of the winning party nationally – a 30-year bellwether. In the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, 2016 referendum to leave the European Union, the Results of the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum by constituency, constituency voted remain by an estimated 77%, the highest by a constituency with a Conservative MP at the time. Boundaries The seat covers the north-eastern third of the London Borough of Wandsworth. As drawn and redrawn since 1983, it includes central Wandsworth and in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Hogbin
Henry Cairn Hogbin (16 November 1880 – 13 June 1966) was an English businessman and Liberal later Conservative politician. Family and education Henry Cairn Hogbin was the son of Thomas Parker Hogbin of Tilmanstone, Eastry in Kent. He attended Montague House School and received the rest of his education privately. He married his first wife, Winfred, in 1905 and they had two sons and four daughters. Winifred Hogbin died in 1940 and in 1955 Hogbin married Jessie McKenzie Sutherland.''Who was Who'', OUP 2007 Career In business, Hogbin had interests in the agricultural chemical industry. He worked for Lawe's Chemical Company and was later Chairman of the Allied Guano and Chemical Company. During the First World War he held a position in the Ministry of Food. He organised agricultural production and was Chairman of the Home Counties Claims Commission. Politics 1922 Hogbin first stood for Parliament at the 1922 general election in Battersea North as a National Liberal i.e. a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Prime Minister 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 won over 100 seats (158 for the Liberals) and the most narrow gap (100 seats) between the first and third parties since. The Liberals' percentage of the vote, 29.7%, trailed Labour's by only one percentage point and has not been exceeded by a third party at any general election since. MacDonald formed the First MacDonald ministry, first 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 quick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communist Party Of Great Britain
The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was the largest communist organisation in Britain and was founded in 1920 through a merger of several smaller Marxist groups. Many miners joined the CPGB in the 1926 general strike. In 1930, the CPGB founded the ''Daily Worker'' (renamed the Morning Star (British newspaper), ''Morning Star'' in 1966). In 1936, members of the party were present at the Battle of Cable Street, helping organise resistance against the British Union of Fascists. In the Spanish Civil War, the CPGB worked with the USSR to create the British Battalion of the International Brigades, which party activist Bill Alexander (British politician), Bill Alexander commanded. In World War II, the CPGB followed the Comintern position, opposing or supporting the war in line with the involvement of the USSR. By the end of World War II, CPGB membership had nearly tripled and the party reached the height of its popularity. Many key CPGB members served as leaders of Britain's tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shapurji Saklatvala
Shapurji Dorabji Saklatvala (28 March 1874 – 16 January 1936) was a communist militant and British politician of Indian Parsi heritage. He was the first person of Indian heritage to become a British Member of Parliament (MP) for the Labour Party and was also among the few members of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) to serve as an MP. Early years Shapurji Saklatvala was born on 28 March 1874 in Bombay (now Mumbai), India, the son of a merchant, Dorabji Saklatvala, and his wife Jerbai, a sister of Jamsetji (aka J.N.) Tata, the owner of India's largest commercial and industrial empire.Article by Mike Squires. He was educated at St. Xavier's School in Bombay before moving to St. Xavier's College for his collegiate education.Colin Holmes, "Shapurgi Dorabji Saklatvala," in A. Thomas Lane (ed.), ''Biographical Dictionary of European Labor Leaders: M-Z.'' Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995; p. 835. He worked briefly as an iron and coal prospector for Tata successfully ... [...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 Prime Minister Andrew 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 f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coalition Liberal
The Coalition Coupon was a letter sent to parliamentary candidates at the 1918 United Kingdom general election, endorsing them as official representatives of the Coalition Government. The 1918 election took place soon after British victory in the First World War. Receiving the coupon was interpreted by the electorate as a sign of patriotism that helped candidates gain election, while those who did not receive it had a more difficult time as they were sometimes seen as anti-war or pacifist. The letters were all dated 20 November 1918 and were signed by Prime Minister David Lloyd George for the Coalition Liberals and Bonar Law, the leader of the Conservative Party. As a result, the 1918 general election has become known as "the coupon election". The name "coupon" was coined by Liberal leader H. H. Asquith, disparagingly using the jargon of rationing with which people were familiar in the context of wartime shortages. Text of the letter The letters all contained the same simple te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Morris (UK Politician)
Richard Morris (1869 – 26 September 1956) was a British Liberal Party politician. He was elected at the 1918 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for Member of Parliament for the new Northern division of Battersea. Standing as a Coalition Liberal without a Conservative opponent, he won 66.6% of the votes. He did not contest the 1922 general election, when in a 3-way contest the seat was won by Shapurji Saklatvala Shapurji Dorabji Saklatvala (28 March 1874 – 16 January 1936) was a communist militant and British politician of Indian Parsi heritage. He was the first person of Indian heritage to become a British Member of Parliament (MP) for the Labour P ..., a Communist Party member standing with the endorsement of the Labour Party. References External links * 1869 births 1956 deaths Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1918–1922 {{England-Liberal-UK-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
February 1974 United Kingdom General Election
The February 1974 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 28 February 1974. The Labour Party (UK), Labour Party, led by former Prime Minister Harold Wilson, gained 14 seats (301 total) but was seventeen short of an overall majority. The Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party, led by Prime Minister Edward Heath, lost 28 seats (though it polled a higher share of the vote than Labour). That resulted in a hung parliament, the first since 1929 United Kingdom general election, 1929. Heath sought a coalition with the Liberal Party (UK), Liberals, but the two parties failed to come to an agreement and so Wilson became prime minister for a second time, his first with a minority government. Wilson called another early election in September, October 1974 United Kingdom general election, which was held in October and resulted in a Labour majority. The February election was also the first general election to be held with the United Kingdom as a member state of the European C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Commons (Redistribution Of Seats) Act 1949
The House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1949 ( 12, 13 & 14 Geo. 6. c. 66) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that provided for the periodic review of the number and boundaries of parliamentary constituencies. The act amended the rules for the distribution of seats to be followed by the boundary commissions for each of the constituent countries of the United Kingdom. The commissions had been created under the House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1944 ( 7 & 8 Geo. 6. c. 41), and their initial reviews of constituencies had been implemented by the Representation of the People Act 1948 ( 11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 65).The Boundary Commissions: redrawing the UK's map of Parliamentary constituencies; D J Rossiter, R J Johnston, C J Pattie; Manchester University Press, 1999. Under the act, each commission was to make its first periodic report within seven years of the passing of the Representation of the People Act 1948 ( 11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 65). Subseque ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1950 United Kingdom General Election
The 1950 United Kingdom general election was the first to be held after a full term of a majority Labour Party (UK), Labour government. The general election was held on Thursday 23 February 1950, and was also the first to be held following the abolition of plural voting and university constituencies. The government's majority over the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative opposition shrank dramatically, and Labour was returned to power but with an overall majority significantly reduced from 146 to just 5. There was a sizeable swing towards the Conservatives, who gained 90 seats. Labour called another 1951 United Kingdom general election, general election the following year, which the Conservative Party won, returning Churchill to government after six years in opposition. Turnout increased to 83.9%, the highest turnout in a UK general election under universal suffrage, and representing an increase of more than 11% in comparison to 1945 United Kingdom general election, 1945. It wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
