British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Darwen Constituency – Biography of Haines

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Darwen

CANDIDATE : Haines

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Haines, a 39-year-old Manchester journalist, contested Darwen in 1945. During the war he had a special assignment with the political intelligence division of the Foreign Office in the Mediterranean and the Middle East, and was demobilized with the rank of major.


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