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winning it back in 1923 before falling to third place in 1924. Bayliss lifted the
Liberal share of the vote to 34%, which was only good enough to recapture second place, falling 800 votes short of victory. He did not stand for parliament again. He was to move south to London where, after World War II, he had a long municipal career in the
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Election. He was not planning to contest the election, but the adopted Liberal candidate fell ill at the last minute and withdrew. Rossendale had been a Liberal seat until it was lost in 1918 to a coalition government backed Unionist. The Liberals had come within 2,000 votes of
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55:. He was educated at
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584:1971 deaths
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573:Categories
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108:Rossendale
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47:Background
387:Majority
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425:Unionist
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402:Turnout
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131:on the
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321:Labour
305:Votes
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226:2,600
203:9,495
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