1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Leeds North East Constituency – Biography of Bacon

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Leeds North East

CANDIDATE : Bacon

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss Alice Bacon won the seat from the Conservatives in 1945. She is a school teacher, and the daughter of a miner. She is vice-chairman of the national executive of the Labour Party. Previously she had been secretary of the West Riding Federation of the Labour Party’s League of Youth. She has been on Labour Party delegations to Russia—where she had an interview with Marshal Stalin—Poland, Canada, the United States, Vienna and Israel.

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