Howel Samuel

Howel Walter Samuel (1881 – 5 April 1953)^[1] was a British Labour Party politician.

He was elected as the member of parliament (MP) for Swansea West at the 1923 general election,^[2] winning a 3-way contest by a majority of only 115 votes (0.6% of the total),^[3] having contested the seat unsuccessfully in 1922. He was defeated at the 1924 general election by the Liberal Party candidate Walter Runciman,^[2] but at the 1929 general election Ruciman stood instead in St Ives and Samuel regained the seat.^[2]

In 1931, when Labour had split over its leader Ramsay MacDonald's decision to leave the party and form a Conservative Party-dominated National Government, he faced only one opponent, the Liberal National candidate Lewis Jones, who took the seat. Samuel did not stand for Parliament again.^[2]

References

^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 6)
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