British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bedfordshire Mid Constituency – Biography of Howell

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bedfordshire Mid

CANDIDATE : Howell

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. Howell contested Mid-Bedfordshire in 1945, polling only 1,881 votes fewer than Mr. Lennox-Boyd. An active trade unionist in Dunstable, he is a bookbinder and chairman of Luton Trades Council. He was one of the founders of the Dunstable Labour Party. During the war he served with S.E.A.C.


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