Alfred Bates
Alfred Bates (8 June 1944 – 17 December 2013) was a British Labour Party politician.[1]
Having unsuccessfully fought
House of Commons in the February 1974 general election, as Member of Parliament for Bebington and Ellesmere Port. He was re-elected at the October 1974 election, but lost his seat at the 1979 general election to the Conservative Barry Porter
by 486 votes (a margin of just 0.7%). Bates served as a government whip between 1976 and 1979.
Notes
- ^ "Remembrance of departed colleagues". Centrallobby.politicshome.com. Archived from the original on 1 November 2013. Retrieved 29 December 2013.
References
- Times Guide to the House of Commons 1979
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
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