Albert William Goodman was a Conservative

Conservative Party (UK)

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 politician in the United Kingdom

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At the 1929 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1929

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, he unsuccessfully contested the safe Labour

Labour Party (UK)

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 seat of Bow and Bromley

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 in east London, losing by a wide margin to George Lansbury

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As Labour's vote collapsed at the 1931 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1931

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, he won the Islington North

Islington North (UK Parliament constituency)

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 from the constituency's Labour Member of Parliament

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 (MP) Robert Young, who had won it from the Conservatives in 1929.

Goodman held his seat at the 1935 election

United Kingdom general election, 1935

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, and died in 1937, aged 57 (the first of three 20th century MPs from that constituency to die in office). The resulting by-election

Islington North by-election, 1937

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 was won by Labour's Leslie Haden Guest

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