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Election

Great Britain · Politics / Independent Labour Party. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

2Records
1895–1918Date range
2Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1895

James Keir Hardie1895

Politics / Independent Labour Party

The Independent Labour Party puts up 28 candidates but wins only 44,325 votes

1918

Philip Snowden Snowden, 1st1918

Blackburn · Politics / Independent Labour Party

Snowden keeps to his pacifist principles offering his support to conscientious objectors & loses his seat in the general election

Names involved

James Keir HardiePhilip Snowden Snowden, 1st

Provenance

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