Sir Arthur Marsden was a British Conservative Party

Conservative Party (UK)

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 politician who served as a Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 (MP) from 1931 to 1935 and from 1937 to 1950.

Marsden first stood for election to the House of Commons at the 1929 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1929

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, when he unsuccessfully contested the Communist

Communist Party of Great Britain

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-held Northern division of Battersea

Battersea North (UK Parliament constituency)

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. In a four-way contest, the seat was won by the William Sanders of the Labour Party

Labour Party (UK)

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, and when Labour's vote collapsed at the 1931 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1931

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, Marsden won the seat from Sanders.

Sanders regained the seat at the 1935 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1935

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, but Marsden returned to Parliament

Parliament of the United Kingdom

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 two years later when he won a by-election in July 1937 in the safely-Conservative Chertsey division of Surrey

Chertsey (UK Parliament constituency)

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. He held the seat until he retired from the Commons at the 1950 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1950

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