Percy Collick

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Percy Henry Collick (16 November 1897 – 24 July 1984) was a British Labour Party politician.

He was an unsuccessful candidate at the 1929 general election in the safe Conservative constituency of Reigate in Surrey, coming third with 20.9% of the votes. He stood again in Reigate at the 1931 general election, when there was no Liberal candidate, and he came second with only 17.3% of the vote, a Conservative majority of over 65%. He did not contest the 1935 general election.

In the Labour landslide at the at the 1945 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament for the Merseyside constituency of Birkenhead West, overturning the previous Conservative majority of 3,753 with a swing of 13.2%.

His constituency was abolished in boundary changes for the 1950 general election, and he was returned for the new Birkenhead constituency. He held the seat until he retired from the House of Commons at the 1964 general election.

In Clement Attlee's post-war Labour government, he served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries from 1945 to 1947.

[edit] References

• 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. 

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by John Sandeman Allen	Member of Parliament for Birkenhead West 1945–1950	Succeeded by (constituency abolished)
Preceded by (new constituency)	Member of Parliament for Birkenhead 1950–1964	Succeeded by Edmund Dell