The
Aberdare by-election, 1954 was a
parliamentary by-electionA by-election is an election held to fill a political office that has become vacant between regularly scheduled elections....
held on 28 October 1954 for the British House of Commons
constituencyIn the United Kingdom , each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one or more members to a parliament or assembly.Within the United Kingdom there are now five bodies with members elected by constituencies:...
of
AberdareAberdare was a constituency in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 1918 general election and returned one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system until it was abolished for the 1983 general election....
in
WalesWales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...
. The seat had become vacant when the
LabourThe Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
Member of ParliamentA Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...
(MP)
David ThomasDavid Emlyn Thomas was a British politician. He served as a Labour Member of Parliament from 1946 to 1954.-Early life:...
had died on 20 June 1954. Thomas had held the seat since a
1946 by-electionThe Aberdare by-election, 1946 was a parliamentary by-election held on 5 December 1946 for the British House of Commons constituency of Aberdare in Wales. The seat had become vacant when the Labour Member of Parliament George Hall had been created Viscount Hall on 28 October 1946. Hall had held...
. The Labour candidate,
Arthur ProbertArthur Reginald Probert was a British politician. He served as a Labour Member of Parliament from 1954 to 1974....
held the seat for the party. He remained the constituency's MP until his retirement at the
February 1974 general electionThe United Kingdom's general election of February 1974 was held on the 28th of that month. It was the first of two United Kingdom general elections held that year, and the first election since the Second World War not to produce an overall majority in the House of Commons for the winning party,...
.
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