1930 Sheffield Brightside by-election
# 1930 Sheffield Brightside by-election

The 1930 Sheffield Brightside by-election was held on 6 February 1930. The by-election was held due to the elevated to the peerage of the incumbent Labour MP, Arthur Ponsonby. It was won by the Labour candidate Fred Marshall.

## Previous result and background

General election 1929 Electorate 47,521 :

| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| | Labour | Arthur Ponsonby | 20,277 | 55.2 |
| | Conservative | R. I. Money | 9,828 | 26.8 |
| | Liberal | William Ashcroft Lambert | 6,621 | 18.0 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 10,449 | 28.4 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 37,226 | 77.3 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | |

Ponsonby had held the seat for Labour since 1922. At the 1929 election he had increased his majority over the second-placed Conservatives from 3,345 votes to over 10,000.

## Candidates

* The Liberal Party ran William Ashcroft Lambert, a Sheffield solicitor and City Councillor. He had been Liberal candidate here at the last general election
* Fred Marshall (Labour Party), an Alderman and wagon builder.
* J. T. Murphy (Communist Party)
* F. Hamer Russell (Conservative Party), a builders merchant. Russell had been a member of the Liberal Party for 25 years until 1928 when he defected to the Conservatives.

## Result

Sheffield Brightside by-election, 1930 :

| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | Labour | Fred Marshall | 11.543 | 46.37 | -8.85 |
| | Conservative | Hamer Russell | 8.612 | 34.60 | +7.84 |
| | Liberal | William Ashcroft Lambert | 3,650 | 14.66 | -3.34 |
| | Communist | J. T. Murphy | 1,084 | 4.35 | +4.35 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 2,931 | 11.77 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 24889 | 52.00 | -25.00 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | | |

## Aftermath

While Marshall retained the seat for Labour, he would lose it to Russell at the following year's general election. Four years later the pair fought each other for a third time at the 1935 general election, and Marshall regained the seat.

