Frederick George Barton^[1] (8 April 1917 – 17 December 1963) was a British socialist politician.

Barton was born in Chorlton, Lancashire in April 1917. He joined the Independent Labour Party (ILP) and was elected chairman of the Stretford Trades Council.^[2] By 1944, he was the chairman of the Manchester Federation of the ILP, and was the party's second choice to contest the Manchester Rusholme by-election after Fenner Brockway, but neither accepted the opportunity, and Robert Edwards stood instead.^[3]

At the 1950 general election, Barton stood for the party in Newcastle upon Tyne.^[4] He then stood for the party at the 1951 Ormskirk by-election.^[2]

Barton was elected as chairman of the ILP in March 1951.^[5] While chairman, he campaigned against apartheid in South Africa^[6] and the Korean War.^[7]

In April 1954, Barton was succeeded as chairman by Annie Maxton.^[8] Later in the year, he resigned from the ILP and joined the Labour Party. At the 1955 general election, he was the unsuccessful Labour candidate in Stretford, taking 39.1% of the vote, and in 1959, he took 40.4% in Middleton and Prestwich. He became the Liverpool district organiser of the Tobacco Workers' Union. In the run-up to the 1964 general election, he was the Labour Party Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Liverpool Kirkdale, but he died suddenly in December 1963 from thrombosis.^[5]