The Halifax by-election, 1928 was a parliamentary by-election held on 13 July 1928 for the British House of Commons constituency of Halifax in the West Riding of Yorkshire. [1]
The seat had become vacant when the constituency's Member of Parliament (MP), John Henry Whitley, the Speaker of the House of Commons since 1921, had resigned his seat [2] due to ill-health.[ citation needed ] He had been elected as a Liberal Party MP at the 1900 general election, [2] and as speaker had been returned unopposed at the general elections in 1922, 1923 [ citation needed ] and 1924. [3] The last time that there had been a contested election for the seat was at the 1918 general election, when Whitley had been opposed only by a Socialist Labour Party candidate.[ citation needed ]
The result of the three-way contest was a victory for the Labour candidate, Arthur Longbottom, who won with a majority of 4,951 over the Liberal Harry Barnes, [1] who had previously been MP for Newcastle upon Tyne East. [4] Longbottom had previously been a councillor in Halifax and served as its mayor in 1923. [5]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Arthur Longbottom | 17,536 | 42.8 | New | |
Liberal | Harry Barnes | 12,585 | 30.8 | N/A | |
Unionist | Francis Savile Crossley | 10,804 | 26.4 | New | |
Majority | 4,951 | 12.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 40,925 | 78.7 | N/A | ||
Labour gain from Speaker | Swing | N/A | |||
At the following year's general election Longbottom held the seat with an increased majority of 7,063 votes. That contest also saw a new Conservative candidate, Gilbert Gledhill overtake the Liberals and move into second place. [5] In 1931, Gledhill took the seat for the Conservatives, defeating Longbottom by over 20,000 votes. [6]
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