Complex sentence: Grantham Journal, 21 March 1914 At the 1918 general election he unsuccessfully contested the Grantham division for the party, but was elected for the same constituency at the 1922 general election, defeating the sitting Conservative MP Colonel Edmund Royds with a majority of 425 votes.
Split into simpler sentences: Grantham Journal, 21 March 1914 At the 1918 general election he unsuccessfully contested the Grantham division for the party. He was elected for Grantham at the 1922 general election, defeating the sitting Conservative MP, Edmund Royds by a majority of 425 votes.