1930 Sheffield Brightside by-election

The Sheffield Brightside by-election of 1930 was held on 6 February 1930. The by-election was held due to the elevated to the peerage of the incumbent Labour MP, Arthur Ponsonby. It was won by the Labour candidate Fred Marshall.^[1]

Previous result

General Election 1929^[2] Electorate 47,521
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Arthur Augustus William Harry Ponsonby	20,277	55.2
	Conservative	R. I. Money	9,828	26.8
	Liberal	W. A. Lambert	6,621	18.0
Majority			10,449	28.4
Turnout				77.3
	Labour hold		Swing

Candidates

The Liberal Party ran W.A. Lambert, a Sheffield solicitor and City Councillor. He had been Liberal candidate here at the last general election^[3]
Fred Marshall (Labour Party), an Alderman and wagon builder.
J. T. Murphy (Communist Party)
F. Hamer Russell (Conservative Party), a builders merchant.

Result

Sheffield Brightside by-election, 1930 Electorate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Fred Marshall	11.543^[4]	46.37	-8.85%
	Conservative	F. H. Russell	8.612^[4]	34.6	+7.84%
	Liberal	W. A. Lambert	3,650^[4]	14.66	-3.34%
	Communist	J. T. Murphy	1,084^[4]	4.35	+4.35%
Turnout			24889	52%	-25%
	Labour hold		Swing

References

^ http://www.leighrayment.com/commons.htm
^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
^ The Times House of Commons, 1929
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Sheffield Election." Times [London, England] 7 Feb. 1930: 14. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 29 Dec. 2013.

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[2] British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig

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