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Encyclopedia > Scottish Prohibition Party

The Scottish Prohibition Party was a minor Scottish political party, represented in the House of Commons by Edwin Scrymgeour from 1922-1931. The party consisted of little beyond the one man, and in general supported the Labour Party.


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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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