British General Election 1906
The British general election in 1906 was between 12 January and 10 February 1906 instead of the deputies of the lower house to determine new (House of Commons). The result was a clear victory for the Liberal Party .
background
Arthur Balfour headed a coalition government made up of conservatives and liberal unionists from 1902 . As a result of a coalition dispute over British customs policy, he resigned in December 1905, whereupon King Edward VII appointed the leader of the Liberal Party , Henry Campbell-Bannerman , as leader of a minority government . Campbell-Bannerman immediately scheduled new elections for the following January.
Electoral system and parties
Voting was based on the majority voting system, there was no threshold clause . A total of 1,273 candidates ran, 114 of which were unopposed. Most of them, 73, ran for the Irish Parliamentary Party , 13 for the Conservatives and Liberal Unionists and 27 candidates for the Liberals. Herbert Gladstone , Chief Whip of the Liberals and Ramsay MacDonald , Secretary of the Labor Representation Committee had already agreed in a secret electoral agreement in 1903 that the Liberals would forego their own candidates in some constituencies in favor of Labor. 31 of the 50 Labor candidates ran so in constituencies in which the Liberals had not nominated a candidate.
Outcome of the election
The Campbell-Bannerman government was confirmed with a large majority of the seats. The great losses of the conservatives meant that even in supposedly safe conservative constituencies, top politicians, including Balfour himself, could no longer move into the lower house. The Labor Representation Committee (LRC) also made big gains in its second general election, with 24 of the 29 seats won in constituencies in which the Liberals had not nominated a candidate. Shortly after the election, the LRC gave itself what it is known today as the Labor Party.
Election result
A total of 7,264,608 people were eligible to vote; the turnout was 83.2%.
| Political party | be right | Seats | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| number | % | +/- | number | +/- | ||
| Liberal party | 2,565,644 | 48.9 | +3.9 | 397 | +214 | |
| Conservative Party and Liberal Unionists | 2,278,076 | 43.4 | −6.8 | 156 | −246 | |
| Labor Representation Committee | 254.202 | 4.8 | +3.6 | 29 | +27 | |
| Independent conservatives | 42,155 | 0.8 | +0.4 | 3 | +3 | |
| Irish Parliamentary Party | 33,231 | 0.6 | −1.2 | 82 | +5 | |
| Independent Labor | 18,886 | 0.4 | +0.4 | 1 | +1 | |
| Social Democratic Federation | 18,446 | 0.4 | 0 | |||
| Scottish Workers' Representation Committee | 14,877 | 0.3 | +0.2 | 0 | ± 0 | |
| Free traders | 8,974 | 0.2 | 0 | |||
| Independent lib lab | 4,841 | 0.1 | 1 | |||
| Independent | 3,806 | 0.1 | −0.1 | 1 | +1 | |
| Independent nationalists | 1,800 | 0.0 | −0.1 | 1 | ± 0 | |
| Independent Labor | 1,581 | 0.0 | −0.2 | 0 | −1 | |
| Independent Liberal Unionists | 153 | 0.0 | −0.1 | 0 | ± 0 | |
| total | 5,246,672 | 100.0 | 670 | |||
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See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c General Election Results 1885-1979 United Kingdom Election Results (English)
- ^ A b Martin Pugh : The Making of Modern British Politics, 1867-1945 (Blackwell, 2002), p. 117.
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