Edward Moeran | |
Office1: | Member of Parliament for South Bedfordshire |
Term1: | 1950-1951 |
Party: | Labour Party (after 1950) Common Wealth Party (before 1950) |
Birth Date: | 27 November 1903 |
Edward Warner Moeran (27 November 1903 – 12 December 1997) was a British Common Wealth Party politician who later joined the later Labour Party. He stood as a Parliamentary candidate on five occasions, but won only once.
Moeran first stood for Parliament as the Common Wealth candidate at the Newark by-election in July 1943, when he came a distant third.[1] At the 1945 general election he stood in Thirsk and Malton, again as a Common Wealth candidate. Labour did not contest the seat, and in a two-way contest with the Conservative party candidate, Moeran won 39.9% of the votes.[2]
He subsequently joined the Labour Party, and was elected at the 1950 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for South Bedfordshire,[3] but was narrowly defeated at the next election, in 1951.[4] He stood again in 1955, but did not regain the seat.[5]
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