1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Fife West Constituency – Biography of Gallacher

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Fife West

CANDIDATE : Gallacher

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. Gallacher represented the constituency from 1935 to the dissolution. He was the only Communist M.P. until the General Election of 1945 made him the leader of a party of two. He was chairman of the Clyde Workers Committee from 1914 to 1918, and has been a leading member of the Communist Party and the Communist International since 1920.

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