Charles Butt Stanton (7 April 1873 – 6 December 1946) was a British politician, who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1915 to 1922.

He entered Parliament by winning one of the two seats for Merthyr Tydfil at a by-election on 25 November 1915 caused by the death of Labour Party founder, Keir Hardie.

The mob was surrounded and searched and a revolver was found on Charles Stanton of Aberaman, who was 21 and recently married.

[2] Stanton began his political career as a miners' agent at Aberdare where he was a member of the Independent Labour Party.

At the December 1910 general election, Stanton unsuccessfully fought the East Glamorganshire seat as a Labour candidate.

[2] In February 1910, Stanton comfortably won a poll organised by the South Wales Miners' Federation to select a candidate for East Glamorganshire should Alfred Thomas retire (C. B. Stanton 6,297; Alfred Onions 3,214; Thomas Andrews 3,156; T. I. Mardy Jones 2,257).

at first refused to place Stanton's name on the Federation Parliamentary List for East Glamorgan, a decision which was reversed the following day.

In his speech at the declaration, Stanton said that "Although defeated, he was by no means downhearted, as he realised that he was preaching a new gospel for which the electors were evidently not prepared, but the day would come when his views would be much more acceptable.

Hardie's death, on 2 September 1915, a year after the outbreak of the war, caused a vacancy in one of the two Merthyr Tydfil parliamentary seats.

Stanton presented himself as a 'National' candidate "standing on a National platform, and respecting, as I am, the political truce, I am considering not only the opinion of Labour men but of all sections of the community.

On 23 November, the Western Mail carried a letter to Stanton's election agent from T. Artemus Jones, who had been adopted as the prospective Liberal candidate before the outbreak of war, stating that there "was no foundation [for] the rumour ... that the 'official' candidate [i.e. Winstone] must receive the support of all the great parties ...

Jones added that members of the Liberal and Conservative parties were free to support Stanton: "There is only one issue, one duty before the people.

In their capacity as citizens, however, they have the right to form their own judgement at this supreme hour in the fortunes of the country with regard to the support they must give the government."

Stanton again fought the Aberdare division at the general election of November 1922, this time as a Lloyd George National Liberal candidate.