For the American David Ginsburg see David Ginsburg (lawyer)

David Ginsburg (lawyer)

Charles David Ginsburg was an American political advisor and lawyer who was among the founders of Americans for Democratic Action and served as executive director of the Kerner Commission, which warned that the U.S...

David Ginsburg (18 March 1921 – 18 March 1994) was a British

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 politician.

Ginsburg was educated at University College School

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, Hampstead

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, and Balliol College, Oxford

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. During his time at Oxford University, he was Chair of the Oxford University Democratic Socialist Club

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. He was an economist and market research

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 expert and was secretary of the Labour Party

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's research department.

At the 1959 general election

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, he was elected Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Dewsbury

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 in West Yorkshire

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.

In 1981, Ginsburg was among the Labour MPs who defected to the new Social Democratic Party

Social Democratic Party (UK)

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. In 1983, he polled 25% of the vote in Dewsbury, coming third and possibly having the effect of splitting the Labour vote and helping the Conservative

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 candidate John Whitfield

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 win.

Ginsburg died in 1994 on his 73rd birthday.

Sources

• Times Guide to the House of Commons, 1966 & 1983