page_title: Spen Valley (UK Parliament constituency)
section_title: Elections
hierarchical_section_title: Spen Valley (UK Parliament constituency) / Elections
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon
context_page_description: Spen Valley was a parliamentary constituency in the valley of the River Spen in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
context_section_description: Note: Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected:
  Liberal: Thomas Whittaker
  Note: Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected:
  Liberal National: William Woolley
  Labour: Ivor Thomas
caption: John Simon
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