British General Election 1923
The British general election in 1923 was held on December 6 1,923th The Conservatives won the majority of the seats, but suffered huge losses and lost their absolute majority in the House of Commons . The reunited Liberals received nearly 30% of the vote and more than 25% of the seats.
Results
Political party | Party leader | Candidates / seats in parliament | be right | ||||||||
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Candidates | Elected | Gain | loss | total | % | % | number | +/-% | |||
Conservative | Stanley Baldwin | 536 | 258 | - 86 | 41.95 | 38.0 | 5,286,159 | −0.5 | |||
Labor | Ramsay MacDonald | 427 | 191 | + 49 | 31.06 | 30.7 | 4,267,831 | +1.0 | |||
Liberal | Herbert Henry Asquith | 457 | 158 | + 96 | 25.69 | 29.7 | 4,129,922 | +10.8 | |||
Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland) | Joseph Devlin | 4th | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.49 | 0.4 | 54,157 | k. A. | |
Independent | k. A. | 6th | 2 | 0 | 1 | - 1 | 0.33 | 0.3 | 36,802 | −0.5 | |
Communist Party | Albert Inkpin | 4th | 0 | 0 | 1 | - 1 | 0.2 | 34,258 | 0.0 | ||
Belfast Labor Party | David Robb Campbell | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 22,255 | k. A. | ||
Independent Labor | k. A. | 4th | 0 | 0 | 1 | - 1 | 0.2 | 17,331 | 0.0 | ||
Independent liberals | k. A. | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.1 | 16,184 | 0.0 | ||
Constitutionalists | k. A. | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | - 1 | 0.1 | 15,500 | 0.0 | ||
Independent Conservatives | k. A. | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | - 3 | 0.1 | 15,171 | −0.8 | ||
Scottish Prohibition Party | Edwin Scrymgeour | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 12,877 | 0.0 | ||
Christian Pacifist | k. A. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 570 | k. A. | ||
Source: www.parliament.uk |
Election date
The previous election had taken place in November 1922. Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law resigned on May 22, 1923 for health reasons and Stanley Baldwin had succeeded him. Baldwin could have run the government without a new election; however, he wanted to strengthen the legitimacy of the conservatives as the ruling party. His party lost an absolute majority in the lower house (now 258 after 344 seats). Ramsay MacDonald (Labor) formed a minority government, which was possible thanks to the tolerance of the Liberals (158 MPs). It was the first time in British history that a Labor politician became Prime Minister .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ General Election Results 1885-1979 United Kingdom Election Results (English)
- ↑ Election Statistics: UK 1918-2007. www.parliament.uk, January 1, 2008, accessed January 9, 2016 .