Wins Nelson and Colne for Labour and enters the House of Commons.
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Wins Nelson and Colne for Labour and enters the House of Commons.
Retains Nelson and Colne for Labour in the general election.
Retains Nelson and Colne for Labour after the fall of the first Labour government.
Retains Wakefield for Labour in the general election.
Retains Ebbw Vale as Labour wins nationally.
Retains Wakefield for Labour in the general election that brings Clement Attlee to power.
Retains Coventry East at the 1950 general election.
Retains Wakefield for Labour with a substantial majority in the general election.
Healey again contests Pudsey and Otley but remains outside the House of Commons.
Retains Coventry East despite Labour losing the general election.
Retains Wakefield for Labour in his final general election.
Retains Birmingham Stechford for Labour at the general election.
Retains Coventry East at the 1955 general election.
Retains Birmingham Stechford for Labour as the Conservatives win nationally.
Retains Coventry East at the 1959 general election.
Retains Birmingham Stechford for Labour during another Conservative general election victory.
Retains Coventry East as Labour returns to government.
Retains Birmingham Stechford as Labour returns to government under Harold Wilson.
Retains Coventry East when Labour increases its parliamentary majority.
Retains Coventry East as Labour loses the general election.
Brown leads Labour into the general election that produces a hung Parliament.
Leads Labour to defeat in the general election.
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