Charles Stanton

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

Political career

Stanton began his political career as a miners' leader at Aberdare where he was a prominent ember of the Independent Labour Party. In 1904 he was elected to the Aberdare Urban District Council as a member for the Aberaman Ward. A militant, he was critical of the more moderate approach adopted by the local Labour MP, Keir Hardie, whom he would succeed in 1915 as MP for Merthyr Tydfil,^[1] where he stood in a by-election against the Labour Party candidate, James Winstone, and was backed by the British Workers League.^[2] He supported the Lloyd George Coalition Government and in 1918 was elected on a National Democratic and Labour Party candidate for the new constituency of Aberdare, but was defeated in 1922 by an official Labour candidate, George Hall.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Keir Hardie Edgar Rees Jones	Member of Parliament for Merthyr Tydfil 1915 – 1918 With: Edgar Rees Jones	Constituency abolished
New constituency	Member of Parliament for Aberdare 1918 – 1922	Succeeded by George Hall

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