Career
However in a three-way contest, Goldie was defeated by Charles Dukes, the borough"s former Labour Party Member of Parliament who regained the seat with over 50% of the votes. At the next general election, in 1931, the governing Labour Party was split, and its leader Ramsay Macdonald (Prime Minister since 1929) having broken with his party to form a First National Government 1931 with Conservative support. Labour lost most of its seats, including Warrington, where Goldie took 56.2% of the votes in a two-contest with Dukes.
Goldie was returned again to the House of Commons at the 1935 general election, and held the seat until his defeat in the Labour landslide at the 1945 general election.
He was the last Conservative Member of Parliament for the Warrington constituency, which thereafter returned Labour MPs until its abolition in 1983. He was knighted in the King"s Birthday Honours in June 1945.
