The 1930

Sheffield Brightside Sheffield, Brightside was a Borough constituency, parliamentary constituency in the Sheffield, City of Sheffield. Created for the 1885 United Kingdom general election, 1885 general election, and replaced at the 2010 United Kingdom general elect ...

by-election was held on 6 February 1930. The by-election was held due to the elevation to the peerage of the incumbent Labour MP,

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. It was won by the Labour candidate Fred Marshall.

Previous result and background

Ponsonby had held the seat for Labour since

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. At the 1929 election he had increased his majority over the second-placed Conservatives from 3,345 votes to over 10,000.

Candidates

*The Liberal Party ran William Ashcroft Lambert, a Sheffield solicitor and City Councillor. He had been Liberal candidate here at the last general electionThe Times House of Commons, 1929 * Fred Marshall (Labour Party), an Alderman and wagon builder. *

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(Communist Party) * F. Hamer Russell (Conservative Party), a builders merchant. Russell had been a member of the

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for 25 years until 1928 when he defected to the Conservatives.

Result

Aftermath

While Marshall retained the seat for Labour, he would lose it to Russell at the following year's general election. Four years later the pair fought each other for a third time at the 1935 general election, and Marshall regained the seat.

References

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Previous result and background

Candidates

Result

Aftermath

See also

References