Date:14th of December 1918
Description:Poll notice for the 1918 General Election held on December 14th. This election was contested by three candidates for Handsworth: Ernest Claude Meysey-Thompson (Coalition Unionist) Norman Tiptaft (Coalition Independent) Henry Joseph Odell (Labour) The seat was retained by the sitting MP Ernest Claude Meysey Thompson
The timeline shows resources around this location over a number of years.
Meysey-Thompson (1859-1944) was a Justice of the Peace and also MP for Handsworth ...
Francis Edmund Spencer ran a bakery opposite the Library. He also had premises at ...
The totals as listed in this cutting from the Birmingham Gazette of Monday 30th ...
Barbara Lewis contested the 1945 General Election as a Liberal. Her biography here ...
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Donor ref:LSH/ B'ham Parliamentary Elections 1918-22 LFF76.8 (14/5460)
Source: Local Studies & History Department , Birmingham Central Library
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