British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Norfolk South West Constituency – Biography of Dye

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Norfolk South West

CANDIDATE : Dye

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. Dye had a majority of only 53 when he won this constituency in 1945. A local farmer, he has been a member of the Norfolk County Council since 1934 and is an alderman. He was a Labour Party agent in Cambridgeshire for six years until 1932. Born in 1900, and educated at Ruskin College, Oxford, he is branch secretary of the National Union of Agricultural Workers.


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