At the 1950 general election, George Daggar held his seat for the Labour Party.
[1] By September that year, Dagger was too ill to attend votes at the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, including one on the steel debate opened by Winston Churchill; the largest opposition vote since 1924.
Dagger was one of only two MPs not to be present, alongside Harold Roberts for the Conservative Party.
[1] Williams resigned his ministry of the Welsh Congregational Church at Abertillery in order to contest the seat.
Body did not have any local links, and had contested the Rotherham constituency at the 1950 general election.