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from 1922 to 1923 when he was defeated. He had stood there again at the last general election. In 1924 he was appointed as a Member of the East
African Parliamentary Commission. The report of the Parliamentary Commission was published in May 1925 and various proposals for development and reform were
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which meant that the party both locally and nationally were not caught unprepared about the vacancy and they were able to move swiftly to announce a polling day of 26 November, just 22 days after his resignation. Thus the campaign was very short, leaving little time for the opposition parties to
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put forward. Linfield also wrote a 13-page supplementary memorandum to the report in which he proposed the setting up of an
Imperial Development Board. He followed this up with an article in the
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and came second. Kneeshaw did not stand for parliament again and the Labour Party did not field a candidate at
Howdenshire again until 1935. The result at the following general election;
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On polling day it was reported that voting was interfered with by fog and early polling was very light. Carver held the seat for the
Unionists, while the Labour candidate losing his
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respond. A keen fight was anticipated, especially on land and agricultural issues in what was to be a three-cornered contest.
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had been the prearranged candidate of the
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was hurriedly chosen by the
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on 3 November 1926. He had been MP here since winning the seat in the
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since 1915. He was standing for parliament for the first time.
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403:1929 general election
320:John William Kneeshaw
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191:A Labour candidate,
20:was a parliamentary
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