379 votes in the 1924 general election, and comfortably in the 1929 general election, but was defeated by the Conservative Clyde Tabor Wilson in the landslide defeat of 1931. He had also become a Justice of the Peace in Liverpool in 1924. However, West Toxteth and Joseph Gibbins were not yet finished with each other. In early 1935, Wilson resigned to take up a position as Metropolitan Police Magistrate. Joseph Gibbins was again selected as by-election candidate, and on Tuesday 16 July 1935 he easily regained the seat on a swing of 19%. Gibbins thus went into the record books for a second time, as the only person to gain the same seat twice in two different by-elections. Joseph Gibbins easily held the seat in the 1935 general election -against Randolph Churchill- and in the 1945 general election. However, boundary changes merged the seat into a new Toxteth constituency for the 1950 general election. Gibbins gamely contested the new seat, but lost by 2,620 votes to the Conservative Reginald Bevins. He had fought 10 parliamentary elections, a record for the City of Liverpool. He died in 1965, aged 77. Notes 1 During the second Labour government in 1929 two seats, Preston and Liverpool Scotland, were gained by Labour without contest. See also UK by-election records References External links 1888 births 1965 deaths English justices of the peace GMB (trade union)-sponsored MPs Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Liverpool constituencies Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1923–1924 UK MPs 1924–1929 UK MPs 1929–1931 UK MPs 1931–1935 UK MPs 1935–1945 UK MPs 1945–1950 United Society of Boilermakers-sponsored MPs Politicians from Liverpool Councillors in Liverpool