1930 Sheffield Brightside by-election

The 1930 Sheffield Brightside by-election was held on 6 February 1930. The by-election was held due to the elevated to the peerage of the incumbent Labour MP, Arthur Ponsonby. It was won by the Labour candidate Fred Marshall.[1]

Arthur Ponsonby

Previous result and background
General election 1929[2] Electorate 47,521
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Arthur Ponsonby 20,277 55.2
Conservative R. I. Money 9,828 26.8
Liberal William Ashcroft Lambert 6,621 18.0
Majority 10,449 28.4
Turnout 37,226 77.3
Labour hold Swing

Ponsonby had held the seat for Labour since 1922. At the 1929 election he had increased his majority over the second-placed Conservatives from 3,345 votes to over 10,000.[3]

Candidates
  • The Liberal Party ran William Ashcroft Lambert, a Sheffield solicitor and City Councillor. He had been Liberal candidate here at the last general election[4]
  • Fred Marshall (Labour Party), an Alderman and wagon builder.
  • J. T. Murphy (Communist Party)
  • F. Hamer Russell (Conservative Party), a builders merchant. Russell had been a member of the Liberal Party for 25 years until 1928 when he defected to the Conservatives.[5]

Result
Sheffield Brightside by-election, 1930
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Fred Marshall 11.543[6] 46.37 -8.85
Conservative Hamer Russell 8.612[6] 34.60 +7.84
Liberal William Ashcroft Lambert 3,650[6] 14.66 -3.34
Communist J. T. Murphy 1,084[6] 4.35 +4.35
Majority 2,931 11.77
Turnout 24889 52.00 -25.00
Labour hold Swing

Aftermath

While Marshall retained the seat for Labour, he would lose it to Russell at the following year's general election.[5] Four years later the pair fought each other for a third time at the 1935 general election, and Marshall regained the seat.[7]

See also

References
  1. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
  2. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
  3. The Times House of Commons 1929. London: The Times Office. 1929. p. 58.
  4. The Times House of Commons, 1929
  5. The Times House of Commons 1931. London: The Times Office. 1931. p. 55.
  6. "Sheffield Election." Times [London, England] 7 Feb. 1930: 14. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 29 Dec. 2013.
  7. The Times House of Commons 1935. London: The Times Office. 1935. p. 76.


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