Kenneth Lindsay

Kenneth Martin Lindsay (16 September 1897 – 4 March 1991) was a Labour Party politician from the United Kingdom who joined the breakaway National Labour group. He was the final Member of Parliament to be elected by the single transferable vote.[1]

Kenneth Lindsay
Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education
In office 1937–1940
Preceded by	Geoffrey Shakespeare
Succeeded by	James Chuter Ede
Member of Parliament for Combined English Universities with Eleanor Rathbone 1945–1946 Henry Strauss 1946–1950
In office 5 July 1945 – 23 February 1950
Preceded by	Eleanor Rathbone and Edmund Harvey
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Member of Parliament for Kilmarnock
In office 2 November 1933 – 5 July 1945
Preceded by	Craigie Aitchison
Succeeded by	Clarice Shaw
Personal details
Born	(1897-09-16)16 September 1897
Died	4 March 1991(1991-03-04) (aged 93)
Political party	Labour, then National Labour

Standing as a Labour candidate, he unsuccessfully contested the Oxford constituency at the 1924 by-election, Harrow at the 1924 general election and Worcester in 1929. When the Labour Party split in 1931 and Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald formed a National Government with the Conservative Party, Lindsay followed MacDonald into the breakaway National Labour group.

In 1933, Craigie Aitchison, the National Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Kilmarnock, was appointed as a judge, vacating his seat. At the resulting by-election on 2 November, Lindsay defeated the Labour candidate, and was re-elected comfortably at the 1935 general election. He held the seat until 1945, later sitting as a National Independent.

He was Civil Lord of the Admiralty from 1935[2] to 1937, and then Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education from 1937 to 1940.

He did not contest Kilmarnock at the 1945 general election, but was elected as an independent member for the Combined English Universities, holding the seat until the university constituencies were abolished for the 1950 general election.