UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Born: 26 January 1878, India

Died: 18 December 1941

Member of Privy Council - 1931

son of H Lees-Smith

husband of Joyce Holman

Aldenham

Royal Military Academy, Woolwich

Queen's College, Oxford

Postmaster-General	1929	1931
President of the Board of Education	1931	1931
Leader of HM Opposition	22 May 1940	21 January 1942

18 January 1910	Northampton	Liberal Party	5,398	46.28
8 December 1910	Northampton	Liberal Party	6,025	54.63
14 December 1918	Don Valley	Liberal Party	3,868	29.33
Hastings Lees-Smith contested the election as an "Independent Radical" but he was a member of the Liberal Party.
15 November 1922	Keighley	Labour Party	13,978	46.29
6 December 1923	Keighley	Labour Party	14,083	49.08
29 October 1924	Keighley	Labour Party	14,105	44.97
30 May 1929	Keighley	Labour Party	18,412	44.72
27 October 1931	Keighley	Labour Party	13,192	31.93
14 November 1935	Keighley	Labour Party	20,124	50.46
18 December 1941 Death of Rt Hon Hastings Lees-Smith.