Member of Parliament
Linfield does not seem to have stood for election at the United Kingdom general election, 1918 but in 1922 he was the Liberal candidate in Mid Bedfordshire. He won the seat with a majority of 2,737 over the sitting Unionist MP Max Townley. In the 1923 general election, Linfield faced a three-cornered contest with a Labour candidate also standing. Linfield had his majority cut to 2,023 but he described the Labour candidate, R L Widgell, as a Free Trader like himself and claimed that Widgell had just taken votes which would otherwise have gone to him.
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