1930 Sheffield Brightside by-election

Arthur Ponsonby

The 1930 Sheffield Brightside 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, Arthur Ponsonby. It was won by the Labour candidate Fred Marshall.[1]

Previous result and background

General election 1929[2] Electorate 47,521
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Arthur Ponsonby 20,277 55.2 −0.2
Conservative R. I. Money 9,828 26.8 −17.8
Liberal William Ashcroft Lambert 6,621 18.0 New
Majority 10,449 28.4 +17.6
Turnout 36,726 77.3 −1.6
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 −25.3
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. ^ a b The Times House of Commons 1931. London: The Times Office. 1931. p. 55.
  6. ^ a b c d "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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