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1925 Stockport by-election

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On a high turnout, the vote split three ways, and Townend won the seat for Labour with only 36.5% of the votes. He was re-elected at the
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had died on 19 August 1925, aged 50. He had held the seat since his election as a
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on 17 September 1925. The by-election was won by the
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Index

by-election
British House of Commons
constituency
Stockport
Cheshire
Labour Party
Arnold Townend
Conservative
William Greenwood
Coalition Conservative
by-election in 1920
Liberal Party
Henry Fildes
1923 general election
1924 general election
Labour Party
Arnold Townend
Manchester Blackley
1918
1922 general elections
1929 general election
1931 general election
Ramsay MacDonald
National Government

Labour
Arnold Townend
Conservative
Liberal
Henry Fildes

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