title: 1930 Sheffield Brightside by-election
text: # 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.
  
  