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Scottish Prohibition Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (90 words) |
 | The Scottish Prohibition Party was a minor Scottish political party founded in 1901. |
| It was represented in the House of Commons by Edwin Scrymgeour from 1922-1931, after he defeated Winston Churchill. |
| The party consisted of little beyond the one man, and in general supported the Labour Party. |
| Edwin Scrymgeour - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (238 words) |
| He is the only person ever elected to the House of Commons on a prohibitionist ticket as the candidate of the Scottish Prohibition Party. |
| Because of his popularity, general left-wing sympathies and history with the labour movement, from 1922 the Labour Party came to an arrangement whereby they nominated only one candidate for the two-member Dundee constituency and ran what was in effect a joint campaign. |
| Scrymgeour was a leader of the unsuccessful opponents of disbanding the Scottish Prohibition Party in January 1935. |
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