1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Smethwick Constituency – Biography of Gordon-Walker

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Smethwick

CANDIDATE : Gordon-Walker

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. Gordon-Walker, Under-Secre-tary for Commonwealth Relations in the last Parliament, has the distinction of beginning the list of successful by-elections for the Labour Party in the last Parliament, for he contested Smethwick in October, 1945, and not only retained the seat (which had been won from the Conservatives at the General Election) but increased the majority by 717 votes. He was an Oxford tutor, and was educated at Wellington and Christ Church, Oxford. During the war he was a member of the B.B.C. European service staff. He is 42.

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