George Dallas (6 August 1878 – 4 January 1961) was a British Labour Party politician. August 6 is the 218th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (219th in leap years), with 147 days remaining. ... 1878 (MDCCCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... January 4 is the 4th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ... The Labour Party has been, since its founding in the early 20th century, the principal political party of the left in the United Kingdom. ...

Born in Glasgow, Dallas worked as a coal miner in his youth. He joined the Socialist League in about 1894 before moving to London to work for a coal merchant. Returning to Glasgow, he participated in the trade union movement and a variety of jobs before becoming the Secretary of the Independent Labour Party in Scotland from 1908 until 1912. For other uses, see Glasgow (disambiguation). ... Wyoming coal mine Coal mining is the mining of coal. ... The Socialist League was an early revolutionary socialist organisation in the United Kingdom. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... The Independent Labour Party (ILP) was a former political party in the United Kingdom. ...

In 1912, Dallas moved back to London to work as the organiser of the National Federation of Women Workers, but soon moved to the Workers' Union. In 1917, he was appointed to the Agricultural Wages Board. In 1922, he moved to the newly built Welwyn Garden City. A union (labor union in American English; trade union in British English; either labour union or trade union in Canadian English) is a group of workers who act collectively to address common issues. ... Statistics Population: 55,000 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: TL245135 Administration District: Welwyn Hatfield Shire county: Hertfordshire Region: East of England Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: Hertfordshire Historic county: Hertfordshire Services Police force: {{{Police}}} Fire and rescue: {{{Fire}}} Ambulance: East of England Post office and...

At the 1918 and 1922 general elections, he was an unsuccssful candidate in the Maldon constituency in Essex, coming a distant second on ecah occasion, with 39.6% and 27.8% of the votes respectively. He was unsuccessful again at the 1923 general election in Scottish constituency of Roxburgh and Selkirk, coming third with 36% of the votes. The United Kingdom general election of 1918 held on 14th December 1918, after the Representation of the People Act 1918. ... The UK general election of 1922 was held on 15th November 1922. ... Maldon will be a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... Essex is a county in the East of England. ... The UK general election of 1923 was held on 5th December 1923. ...

Dallas did not contest the 1924 general election. However, at the 1929 general election, he was elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for the marginal seat of Wellingborough in Northamptonshire, after the sitting Labour MP William Cove moved to the safe Labour seat of Aberavon in Wales. The 1924 UK general election was held on 29th October 1924. ... The 1929 UK general election was held on 30th May 1929, and resulted in a hung parliament. ... The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ... Wellingborough is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... Northamptonshire (abbreviated Northants or Nhants) is a landlocked county in central England with a population of 629,676 (2001 census). ... William George Cove (21 May 1888 – 15 March 1963) was a British Labour Party politician. ... Aberavon is a parliamentary constituency of south Wales, on the right bank of the River Afan, near its mouth in Swansea Bay, the original village of Aberavon or Aberafan nowadays being a district of Port Talbot. ... This article is about the country. ...

When the Labour Party split at the 1931 general election, he lost his seat with a swing of 16.6% to the Conservative candidate Archibald James. The UK general election on Tuesday 27 October 1931 was the last in the United Kingdom not held on a Thursday. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Dallas stood again in Wellingborough at the 1935 general election again, cutting the Conservative majority to 372 votes, but never returned to Parliament. Stanley Baldwin Clement Attlee The UK general election held on 14th November 1935 resulted in a large, though reduced, majority for the National Government now led by Stanley Baldwin. ... The Houses of Parliament, seen over Westminster Bridge The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories. ...

References

• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.
• Craig, F. W. S. [1969] (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, 3rd edition, Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X. 
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography