James Keir Hardie1900
Elected Member of Parliament for Merthyr Tydfil
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Elected Member of Parliament for Merthyr Tydfil
Elected Member of Parliament for Clitheroe
Elected Member of Parliament for Leicester
Elected Member of Parliament, 1st time
Snowden keeps to his pacifist principles offering his support to conscientious objectors & loses his seat in the general election
Elected Member of Parliament for Limehouse in Stepney
Elected Member of Parliament for Aberavon
Elected Member of Parliament for Colne Valley
Clynes is one of Labours casualties in the 1931 election, losing his Manchester Platting seat
Elected Member of Parliament & regains his seat of Manchester Platting
Elected Member of Parliament for Smethwick in a by-election after Labour's Alfred Dobbs was killed in a car accident one day after winning the seat at the 1945 general election
Elected Member of Parliament for Lanark, defeating Lord Dunglass (Alec Douglas-Home)
First elected to Parliament as Member of Parliament for Ormskirk
Elected Member of Parliament for Dunbartonshire West
Challenges unsuccessfully for the leadership of the Labour Party, wins 70 votes
Unsuccessfully stands for the Party leadership, defeated in the first round
Healey begins representing Leeds East, a constituency he retains until his Commons retirement in 1992.
Unsuccessfull for the leadership of the Labour Party, defeated in the 1st round
Decemberides not to stand for the leadership of the Labour Party but to support Gaitskell. At the General Election doubles his majority in Huyton to 2,558
At the General Election doubles his majority in Huyton to 5,927
Helps Harold Wilson run his leadership election campaign
Unsuccessfully challenges for the Deputy Leadership of the Labour Party
Selected as candidate for Sedgfield
Elected Member of Parliament for Sedgefield
Declares he is opposed to unilateral nuclear disarmament, against Labours policy
Elected Member of Parliament for Dagenham
Elected Member of Parliament for Monklands East
Elected Member of Parliament for Derby
Elected Member of Parliament for Livingstone
Elected Member of Parliament for Copeland
Elected Member of Parliament for Ladywood.
Elected Member of Parliament for Sheffield Brightside
Elected Member of Parliament for Bristol South
Elected Member of Parliament for Mid-Staffordshire, overturns Tory majority of 14,654
Wins the nomination to stand as the Labour candidate for Hampstead & Highgate
Loses the election for the Leadership of the Labour Party. Loses the election for the Deputy Leadership of the Labour Party
Elected Member of Parliament for Ashfield
Elected Member of Parliament for Darlington
Elected Member of Parliament for Birmingham Yardley.
Elected Member of Parliament for Barking
Labour win the election by a landslide ending 18 yrs of Tory rule
Wins the Sedgfield election with a majority of 25,143
Elected Member of Parliament for Dulwich & West Norwood
Elected Member of Parliament for Sedgefield, majority of 17,713
BNP leader Nick Griffin finishes in third place after a heavy loss in Barking to Labour Member of Parliament Margaret Hodge
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