1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Stepney Constituency – Biography of Piratin

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Stepney

CANDIDATE : Piratin

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. Piratin was the first Communist member of Stepney Borough Council, on which he became a ” one-man opposition,” but lost the seat in 1949. He entered Parliament in 1945 as member for Mile End, making, with Mr. W. Gallacher, a Communist Party of two. He is 43 years old.

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