Frederick Hall was a Liberal Party

Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...

 then Labour Party

Labour Party (UK)

The 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...

 politician in England

England

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He was elected to the House of Commons

British House of Commons

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 at a by-election

By-election

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 in 1905 as a Liberal, following the death of the sitting Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 (MP), William Parrott

William Parrott

William Parrott was a British coalminer, trade union official and Liberal–Labour politician.-Early life:...

. In 1909 his trade union instructed him to take the Labour Party whip and from then on he sat as a Labour MP. He represented the constituency for 28 years, until his death in 1933, aged 78.

At the 1933 Normanton by-election

Normanton by-election, 1933

The Normanton by-election, 1933 was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Normanton on 8 May 1933. The seat had become vacant on the death of the Labour Member of Parliament Frederick Hall, who had held the seat since a previous by-election in 1905.The...

 held after his death, the Labour candidate Tom Smith

Tom Smith (Labour politician)

Tom Smith was a Labour Party politician in England.At the 1922 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament for the previously Liberal-held seat of Pontefract in West Yorkshire. He was re-elected at the 1923 election, but at the 1924 general election he lost his seat by 701 votes to...

 was returned unopposed.

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