Harry Barnes was a United Kingdom

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 Liberal Party

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 politician.

At the 1918 general election

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, he was elected as Member of Parliament

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 for the new constituency of Newcastle upon Tyne East

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, standing as a Coalition Liberal. At the 1922 election

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, he lost his seat to the Labour Party

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 candidate Joseph Bell. After Bell's death in December 1922, Barnes contested the resulting by-election

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 in January 1923, but lost to Labour's Arthur Henderson

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.

He stood in Tynemouth

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 at the 1923 general election

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, losing by 604 votes to the Conservative

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 Sir Alexander Russell. He contested Tynemouth again at the 1924 election

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, when Russell increased his majority to over 4,000.

In 1928, Barnes contested a July by-election

Halifax by-election, 1928

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 in the West Yorkshire

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 seat of Halifax

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, following the resignation of the Speaker of the House of Commons

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, John Henry Whitley

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, who had represented the seat as Liberal since 1900. Barnes lost by nearly 5,000 votes to Labour's Arthur Longbottom

Arthur Longbottom (politician)

Arthur William Longbottom was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.He was elected as Member of Parliament for Halifax at a by-election in July 1928 in the West Yorkshire seat of Halifax, following the resignation of the Speaker of the House of Commons, John Henry Whitley, who had...

, and did not stand for Parliament

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 again.

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