British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Western Isles Constituency – Biography of Macmillan

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Western Isles

CANDIDATE : Macmillan

PARTY : Lab

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. M. K. Macmillan won this division in 1935 at the age of 22 and has represented it for 15 years. He is chairman of the Highlands and Islands Advisory Panel and chairman of the Scottish Parliamentary Labour Party. Born in 1913, he was educated in Stornoway and at Edinburgh University, and is a journalist and editor of a local Labour weekly journal.


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