1933 Normanton by-election

UK parliamentary by-election November 2019 January 2017 1933 Normanton by-election By-election United Kingdom The Normanton seat in the House of Commons.Triggered by death of incumbent no 1929 United Kingdom general election 1933 1935 United Kingdom general election 1935 1933 05 08 y Tom Smith Labour Party (UK) MP Subsequent MP Frederick Hall Labour Party (UK) Tom Smith Labour Party (UK) The 1933 Normanton by-election was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Normanton on 8 May 1933. The seat had become vacant on the death of the Labour Member of Parliament Frederick Hall, who had held the seat since a previous by-election in 1905. Following Labour's declaration of former Pontefract MP Tom Smith as their candidate, the Communist Party of Great Britain declared unemployed Castleford engineer John William Malkin as their competing candidate. However, as the Communist Party was at the time opposed to the requirement of a £150 deposit, their candidate was declared to be invalid and Labour's candidate was returned unopposed.Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, Tuesday 9 May 1933, "NO CONTEST Socialist Returned for Normanton". Smith represented the constituency until he resigned his seat in 1947, triggering another by-election. References See also Normanton (UK Parliament constituency) 1947 Normanton by-election List of United Kingdom by-elections Category:1933 elections in the United Kingdom Category:1933 in England Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in West Yorkshire constituencies 1933 Category:Elections in Wakefield Category:1930s in Yorkshire