Archibald James
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Sir Archibald William Henry James (September 1893 – 5 May 1980) was a British Conservative Party politician.
At the 1929 general election, he stood in the marginal constituency of Wellingborough in Northamptonshire, but lost to Labour's George Dallas.
He stood again in Wellingborough at the 1931 general election, when the Labour vote collapsed nationally after Labour Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald split his party by forming a National Government, and James won the seat on a swing of 16.6% of the vote.
He was narrowly re-elected at the 1935 general election, when Dallas cut his majority to only 372 votes, and held the seat until 1945. In the Labour landlide at the 1945 general election, he lost to Labour's George Lindgren, who took the seat with a majority of 5,990.
[edit] References
- This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.
- Craig, F. W. S. [1969] (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, 3rd edition, Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
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| Preceded by George Dallas |
Member of Parliament for Wellingborough 1931–1945 |
Succeeded by George Lindgren |
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