Raymond Carter (British politician)

Raymond John Carter (born 17 September 1935) is a Labour Party politician.

Carter was educated at Mortlake Secondary School, Reading Technical College and Stafford College of Technology and became an electrical engineer. From 1953 to 1955, he undertook National Service, and then worked as a technical assistant at the Sperry Gyroscope Company. In 1965, he moved to work for the Central Electricity Generating Board.[1]

Carter joined the Labour Party and served as a councillor on Easthampstead Rural District Council from 1963. He unsuccessfully contested Wokingham at the 1966 United Kingdom general election, and was also unsuccessful in the 1968 Warwick and Leamington by-election. He was Member of Parliament for Birmingham Northfield from 1970 to 1979, and from 1974 to 1976 served on the Western European Union and the Council of Europe. He was then a junior minister for the Northern Ireland Office until 1979.[1]

Carter unexpectedly lost his seat to the Conservative Jocelyn Cadbury at the 1979 United Kingdom general election, losing by just 204 votes (a margin of 0.3%), on a swing of 10.2%.