Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
At the 1918 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament for the new Smethwick constituency on the outskirts of Birmingham. He was re-elected by more comfortable margins at the 1923 general election and at the 1924 general election, but resigned his seat in 1926. Davison died in March 1927, aged 56.
Davison won the seat with a majority of only 775 votes, and was returned to the House of Commons at the 1922 general election with a margin of only 382 votes over his only opponent, a Conservative. The resulting by-election on 21 December 1926, was won by the Labour candidate Oswald Mosley, who went on to found the New Party and the British Union of Fascists.
31st United Kingdom Parliament. 32nd United Kingdom Parliament. 33rd United Kingdom Parliament.
34th United Kingdom Parliament.
