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United Kingdom general election records
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United Kingdom general election records is an annotated list of notable records from United Kingdom general elections.
Prior to 1945, electoral competition in the United Kingdom exhibited features which make meaningful comparisons with modern results difficult.
Among the most significant were:-
Frequent interventions and withdrawals of parties in different seats.
Frequent Coalitions between parties, splits within parties and floor-crossing by members.
Uncontested elections and truces between parties, in particular during both World Wars.
Generally more significant competition from independent candidates and minor parties.
Multi-member seats and University seats.
Higher frequency of general elections, although parliaments were extended during both World Wars.
Generally higher turnouts.
Generally higher variation in size of constituency electorates.
Since 1945, the evolution of a stable 3-party system has tended to negate each of the above features so that, broadly speaking, elections are more comparable.
In Northern Ireland, as ever, the pattern of party competition is completely different from that in Great Britain and comparisons remain problematic.
Hence, unless otherwise stated records are based on results since the 1945 General Election, and earlier exceptional results are listed separately.
Contents
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1 Glossary
2 Numerical records
2.1 Largest swings
2.1.1 National two-party swings
2.1.1.1 National swings since 1945
2.1.2 From Conservative to Labour
2.1.3 From Labour to Conservative
2.1.4 From Labour to SNP
2.2 Largest fall in percentage share of vote
2.2.1 National
2.2.2 Constituency
2.2.3 Other parties
2.3 Largest increase in percentage share of vote
2.3.1 Other parties
2.4 Largest winning share of the vote
2.4.1 Largest number of votes
2.4.2 Largest majority
2.5 Lowest winning share of the vote
2.6 Lowest share of the vote
2.6.1 Major parties less than 1% of the vote
2.6.2 Candidates winning fewer than ten votes
2.7 Smallest majorities
2.7.1 Most recounts
2.8 Highest turnout
2.9 Lowest turnout
2.10 Most candidates
2.11 Fewest candidates
3 Candidate records
3.1 Durable general election candidates
3.2 MPs defeated at consecutive general elections
3.3 Former MPs unsuccessful at subsequent general elections
3.3.1 Attempts
3.3.2 Interval
3.4 Future MPs unsuccessful at previous general elections
3.5 Former MPs making a comeback at a general election
3.6 Shortest-serving general election victors
3.6.1 Since 1945
3.6.2 Pre-1945
3.7 Youngest general election victors
3.7.1 Babies of the House elected at general elections
3.8 Youngest to leave the House
3.9 Oldest to lose their seats
3.10 Oldest general election victors
3.10.1 At first election
3.10.2 At last election
3.10.3 Returning to the house after a gap
3.11 First women general election victors
3.12 First ethnic minority general election victors
3.13 First general election victors from specific religions
3.14 General elections losers awarded seats on disqualification of winner
3.15 Two or more sitting MPs contest general election
4 Frequency and duration records
4.1 Longest period without a general election
4.2 Shortest period between general elections
4.3 Longest period without a change in government
4.4 Election days
4.4.1 Suspended Elections
5 Causes of general elections
5.1 Loss of a vote of confidence
5.2 New Prime Minister seeks a mandate
5.3 Prime Minister without a working majority seeks to gain one
5.4 Prime Minister's choice of date
5.5 Parliament had run its course
5.6 Collapse of cooperation within Government
5.7 End of World War
6 Miscellaneous records
6.1 Incumbents fall directly from first place to fourth place
6.2 Incumbents fall directly from first place to third place
6.3 Outgoing Government gains seats
6.3.1 Conservative
6.3.1.1 1997
6.3.1.1.1 By-election losses regained
6.3.1.2 February 1974
6.3.1.2.1 Gains
6.3.1.2.2 By-election losses regained
6.3.1.3 1964
6.3.1.3.1 Gains
6.3.1.3.2 By-election losses regained
6.3.1.4 1945
6.3.1.4.1 Gains
6.3.1.4.2 By-election losses regained
6.3.1.5 1929
6.3.1.5.1 Gains
6.3.1.5.2 By-election losses regained
6.3.2 Labour
6.3.2.1 2010
6.3.2.1.1 Gains
6.3.2.1.2 By-election losses regained
6.3.2.2 1979
6.3.2.2.1 Gains
6.3.2.2.2 By-election losses regained
6.3.2.3 1970
6.3.2.3.1 Gains
6.3.2.3.2 By-election losses regained
6.3.2.4 1951
6.3.2.4.1 Gains
6.4 Incoming Government loses seats
6.4.1 Conservative
6.4.2 Labour
6.4.3 Liberal Democrats
6.4.4 Liberal Party (pre-Liberal Democrats)
6.5 Seats gained from fourth place*
6.6 Seats gained from third place*
6.7 General election victors had not contested previous election
6.8 Incumbent party did not contest
6.9 Major party did not run
6.9.1 Conservative
6.9.2 Labour
6.9.3 Liberal Democrats
6.9.4 Liberal Party (pre-Liberal Democrats)
6.10 Victories by minor parties
6.11 Independent candidates winning 10% or more
6.12 Minor parties other strong performance
6.13 Miscellaneous notable results
6.13.1 Party Leaders or Deputy Leaders losing their seats
7 General elections having historic significance
8 First general elections for a new political party
9 Last general elections for defunct political parties
10 General elections following electoral developments
11 See also
12 References
Glossary[edit]
For comparison purposes the following definitions have been adopted.
Gain - victory by a party which was not victorious at the immediate previous election.
Loss - defeat of a party which was victorious at the immediate previous election.
Hold - victory by a party which was victorious at the immediate previous election.
Win - victory by a party. Ambiguous term that could mean either a gain or a hold.
Incumbent - the party which held the seat at the immediate previous election, irrespective of any intervening change of candidate or candidate's change of party.
Third Party - In England, since 1922, the "third party" has been the Liberal party through its Alliance with the SDP and their successors up to the present day Liberal Democrats. Additionally, in Scotland and Wales the Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru are also considered to be Third Parties. Prior to 1922, the third party was the Labour party.
Minor Party - parties smaller than the Third Party
Uncontested - an election where only one candidate is put forward. No votes are actually cast and the candidate is by definition the victor.
Notional - boundary changes occur about every 10–15 years. Invariably the political composition of many seats is changed as a result, sometimes decisively. Professors Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher have compiled notional results for the last few sets of boundary changes, predicting what the result would have been at the previous election under the new boundaries. While accurate overall, the results in a few seats indicate that they may have been mistaken.
Numerical records[edit]
For more information about what is meant by the term "swing", see Swing (politics)
Largest swings[edit]
National two-party swings[edit]
1945 General Election - 11.8% swing from Conservative/National Liberal to Labour[1]
1931 General Election - 14.4% swing from Labour to National Government[1]
1997 General Election - 10.2% swing from Conservative to Labour
1906 General Election - 5.4% swing from Conservative to Liberal
National swings since 1945[edit]
1997 General Election - 10.2% swing from Conservative to Labour
1979 General Election - 5.3% swing from Labour to Conservative
2010 General Election - 5.1% swing from Labour to Conservative
From Conservative to Labour[edit]
Brent North, 1997 - 18.8%
From Labour to Conservative[edit]
Ochil and South Perthshire, 2017 - 14.6% (Conservative gain from SNP)
Hemel Hempstead, 2010 - 14.4% (Conservative hold) [2]
Cannock Chase, 2010 - 14.0% (Conservative gain; swing based on estimated previous vote share)
From Labour to SNP[edit]
Glasgow North East, 2015 - 39.3% [3]
Largest fall in percentage share of vote[edit]
A party's share of the vote at a general election is not always matched at subsequent general elections, but given the five-year maximum term of a Parliament, reductions of 20% or more are unusual.
National[edit]
1945 General Election - Conservatives: -11.6%
1997 General Election - Conservatives: -11.2%
2017 General Election - UKIP: -10.8%
1983 General Election - Labour: -9.3%
1929 General Election - Conservatives: -8.7%
February 1974 General Election - Conservatives: -8.5%
Constituency[edit]
Decrease
Party
Constituency
Election
60.6 Ind. Labour Party Glasgow Bridgeton 1950
53.1 UUP North Down 1979
45.8 Labour Merthyr Tydfil 1970
45.7 Labour Blyth 1974 Feb
41.5 UUP North Antrim 1970
39.8 UUP Belfast North 2001
39.7 Labour Blaenau Gwent 2005
37.4 Ind. Labour Party Merthyr 1935
36.8 UKIP Clacton 2017
35.8 Liberal Democrat Brent Central 2015[4]
34.7 Respect Bradford West 2015
34.7 Labour Glasgow North East 2015[4]
33.0 Ind. Labour Party Glasgow Shettleston 1950
32.7 Labour Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill 2015[4]
31.7 Labour Glenrothes 2015[4]
31.6 Sinn Féin Fermanagh and South Tyrone 1959
31.2 Labour Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath 2015[4]
31.2 Liberal Democrat Sheffield Central 2015[4]
31.1 Liberal Democrat Dunfermline and West Fife 2015[4]
30.5 Liberal Democrat Hereford and South Herefordshire 2015[4]
30.5 Democratic Labour Lincoln 1979
30.3 Liberal Democrat Edinburgh South 2015[4]
30.0 UUP North Down 2010
30.0 Labour West Dunbartonshire 2015[4]
Other parties[edit]
Decrease
Party
Constituency
Election
27.0 Conservative North Down 1997
26.0 SNP Western Isles 1987
25.3 DUP Belfast West 1979
24.7 Conservative Tatton 1997
Largest increase in percentage share of vote[edit]
These records detail the change in the share of the vote by parties when compared to the same constituency in the previous General Election. In some cases, such as Brent East in 2005 for the Liberal Democrats, the figures should be framed by the context of a by-election in that constituency between the two Elections.
Increase
Party
Constituency
Election
74.1 Labour Glasgow Gorbals 1945
43.9 SNP Glasgow North East 2015[4]
41.3 DUP Lagan Valley 2005
41.2 SNP Glasgow North 2015[4]
40.8 SNP Glasgow South West 2015[4]
39.8 SNP Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill 2015[4]
39.6 SNP Dunfermline and West Fife 2015[4]
39.3 SNP Glasgow North West 2015[4]
38.9 SNP West Dunbartonshire 2015[4]
38.3 SNP Motherwell and Wishaw 2015[4]
38.2 SNP Glenrothes 2015[4]
37.9 SNP Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath 2015[4]
37.6 SNP Inverclyde 2015
36.9 Liberal Democrat Brent East 2005
36.5 SNP Rutherglen and Hamilton West 2015
36.1 SNP Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East 2015
36.1 Labour Glasgow Shettleston 1950
35.0 SNP Glasgow Central 2015
34.7 SNP Glasgow South 2015
34.2 SNP Aberdeen North 2015
34.1 SNP Central Ayrshire 2015
33.0 SNP Dundee West 2015
33.0 SNP Ross, Skye and Lochaber 2015
32.8 SNP Paisley and Renfrewshire South 2015
32.6 SNP East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow 2015
32.2 SNP Glasgow East 2015
31.7 SNP East Renfrewshire 2015
31.7 SNP Paisley and Renfrewshire North 2015
31.6 UUP Fermanagh and South Tyrone 1959
31.4 SNP Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey 2015
31.3 SNP Edinburgh North and Leith 2015
31.0 SNP Livingston 2015
30.8 SNP Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock 2015
30.8 SNP Edinburgh South West 2015
30.6 SNP Dundee East 1974 Feb
30.4 SNP Airdrie and Shotts 2015
30.3 Labour Bristol West 2017
30.0 SNP Midlothian 2015
Other parties[edit]
Increase
Party
Constituency
Election
29.6 UKIP Heywood and Middleton 2015
29.0 Conservative Gordon 2017
24.2 Unity Fermanagh and South Tyrone 1970
23.7 Republican Labour Belfast West 1966
23.0 Green Bristol West 2015
Largest winning share of the vote[edit]
Largest share of the vote won by any candidate, since 1918:
George Currie, Ulster Unionist, North Down, 1959: 98.0%[5]
George Currie, Ulster Unionist, North Down, 1955: 96.9%
Knox Cunningham, Ulster Unionist, South Antrim, 1959: 95.1%
Phelim O'Neill, Ulster Unionist, North Antrim, 1959: 94.9%
Will Thorne, Labour, Plaistow, 1918: 94.9%
Largest number of votes[edit]
The most votes received by a single individual in a general election was Sir Cooper Rawson who polled 75,205 votes when being reelected as MP for Brighton in 1931. Brighton was a two-member constituency with a larger than average electorate. The most votes received by an individual in a single-seat constituency was 69,762 for Reginald Blair in Hendon in 1935.[6]
Largest majority[edit]
The largest majority received by an individual is also Sir Cooper Rawson, reelected with a majority of 62,253 at Brighton in 1931.[6] The largest majority received by a woman is 38,823 by the Countess of Iveagh elected MP for Southend in 1931.
Lowest winning share of the vote[edit]
All general election victors receiving less than 33.33% of the vote are listed. The list is complete from 1945 onwards. Seats with more than one member are omitted.
Name
Party
Constituency
Election
% Share
McDonnell, AlasdairAlasdair McDonnell SDLP Belfast South 2015 24.5[4]
Johnston, RussellRussell Johnston Liberal Democrat Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber 1992 26.0
Privett, FrankFrank Privett Conservative Portsmouth Central 1922 26.8[7]
McQuade, JohnJohn McQuade DUP Belfast North 1979 27.6
Lake, BenBen Lake Plaid Cymru Ceredigion 2017 29.2
Wright, SimonSimon Wright Liberal Democrat Norwich South 2010 29.4
Crook, C. W.C. W. Crook Conservative East Ham North 1922 29.7
Ewing, AnnabelleAnnabelle Ewing SNP Perth 2001 29.7
Reid, AlanAlan Reid Liberal Democrat Argyll and Bute 2001 29.9
McCrea, WilliamWilliam McCrea DUP Mid Ulster 1983 30.0
Robertson, AngusAngus Robertson SNP Moray 2001 30.3
Pengelly, EmmaEmma Pengelly DUP Belfast South 2017 30.4
Pugh, JohnJohn Pugh Liberal Democrat Southport 2015 31.0[4]
Owen, AlbertAlbert Owen Labour Ynys Môn 2015 31.1[4]
Bain, MargaretMargaret Bain SNP East Dunbartonshire 1974 October 31.2
Moore, MichaelMichael Moore Liberal Democrat Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale 1997 31.2
Dafis, CynogCynog Dafis Plaid Cymru Ceredigion and Pembroke North 1992 31.3
Lucas, CarolineCaroline Lucas Green Brighton Pavilion 2010 31.3
Robinson, PeterPeter Robinson DUP Belfast East 1979 31.4
Banks, GordonGordon Banks Labour Ochil and South Perthshire 2005 31.4
Thomas, RogerRoger Thomas Labour Carmarthen 1983 31.6
Reid, AlanAlan Reid Liberal Democrat Argyll and Bute 2010 31.6
Woolas, PhilPhil Woolas Labour Oldham East and Saddleworth 2010 31.9
Campbell, GregoryGregory Campbell DUP East Londonderry 2001 32.1
McDonnell, AlasdairAlasdair McDonnell SDLP Belfast South 2005 32.3
Johnston, RussellRussell Johnston Liberal Inverness 1974 October 32.4
Cunningham, JimJim Cunningham Labour Coventry South East 1992 32.6
Crawley, AngelaAngela Crawley SNP Lanark and Hamilton East 2017 32.6
McCurley, AnnaAnna McCurley Conservative Renfrew West and Inverclyde 1983 32.7
Simpson, DavidDavid Simpson DUP Upper Bann 2015 32.7[4]
Kinahan, DannyDanny Kinahan UUP South Antrim 2015 32.7[4]
Mitchell, AustinAustin Mitchell Labour Great Grimsby 2010 32.7
Jackson, GlendaGlenda Jackson Labour Hampstead and Kilburn 2010 32.8
Godsiff, RogerRoger Godsiff Labour Birmingham Hall Green 2010 32.9
Price-White, DavidDavid Price-White Conservative Caernarfon 1945 32.9
Williamson, ChrisChris Williamson Labour Derby North 2010 33.0
Gray, HamishHamish Gray Conservative Ross and Cromarty 1970 33.2
Griffiths, NigelNigel Griffiths Labour Edinburgh South 2005 33.2
Lowest share of the vote[edit]
Major parties less than 1% of the vote[edit]
Since 1918:
% share
Candidate
Party
Constituency
Election
0.1 Paul Shea Conservative Belfast West 2015
0.3 Lucille Nicholson Conservative Mid Ulster 2015
0.4 Claire-Louise Leyland Conservative Tyrone West 2015
0.4 Hamish Badenoch Conservative Foyle 2015
0.4 Robert Rigby Conservative Newry and Armagh 2015
0.4 Amandeep Singh Bhogal Conservative Upper Bann 2015
0.6 Clare Salier Conservative Belfast South 2017
0.7 Felicity Buchan Conservative South Down 2015
0.7 Gary McLelland Liberal Democrat Glasgow East 2015[4]
0.8 Eileen Baxendale Liberal Democrat Glasgow North East 2015[4]
0.8 Karen Roberts Liberal Democrat Rhondda 2017
0.8 Liz St Clair-Legge Conservative East Londonderry 2017
0.9 Flo Clucas Liberal Democrat West Bromwich West 2017
0.9 Ben France Liberal Democrat Dudley North 2017
0.9 Carol Freeman Conservative Antrim North 2015
0.9 Brian Price Conservative Upper Bann 1997
0.9 Rodney Smith Liberal South Antrim 1970
0.9 Cameron Sullivan Liberal Democrat Blaenau Gwent 2017
The Conservatives' worst vote outside Northern Ireland was 1.1% for A. Seaton in Pontypridd in 1918.
Labour's worst vote was 2.2% for S. P. Gordon in Glasgow Bridgeton in 1935 and in 2010 for Jonathan Todd in Westmorland and Lonsdale.
Candidates winning fewer than ten votes[edit]
Candidates in general elections since 1918 who won fewer than ten votes:
Votes
Candidate
Party
Constituency
Election
1 Catherine Taylor-Dawson Vote For Yourself Rainbow Dream Ticket Cardiff North 2005[8]
3 Bobby Smith Give Me Back Elmo Maidenhead 2017[9]
5 Martin Kyslun Independent West Derbyshire 2005[8]
7 Dorian Vanbraam Renaissance Democrat Putney 1997[10]
7 Andres Mendoza Communist League Islington North 2017[11]
Both W. M. Somerville in Bewdley at the 1874 UK general election and F. R. Lees in Drogheda at the 1852 UK general election received no votes.[12]
Smallest majorities[edit]
0 votes: John Edmund Wentworth Addison, Conservative, Ashton-under-Lyne, 1886 1
1 vote: Henry Duke, Conservative, Exeter, December 1910 2
2 votes: Abraham Flint, National Labour, Ilkeston, 1931[6]
Since 1945
2 votes: Stephen Gethins, SNP, North East Fife, 2017
2 votes: Mark Oaten, Liberal Democrat, Winchester, 1997 3
3 votes: Gwynoro Jones, Labour, Carmarthen, February 1974
3 votes: Harmar Nicholls, Conservative, Peterborough, 1966[6]
4 votes: Michelle Gildernew, Sinn Féin, Fermanagh and South Tyrone, 2010
4 votes: George Ward, Conservative, Worcester, 1945[6]
6 votes: Eric Gandar Dower, Conservative, Caithness and Sutherland, 1945[6]
7 votes: Derek Spencer, Conservative, Leicester South, 1983
7 votes: Dennis Hobden, Labour, Brighton Kemptown, 1964[6]
9 votes: Paul Tyler, Liberal, Bodmin, February 1974
10 votes: Peter Emery, Conservative, Reading, 1964
10 votes: Lester Hutchinson, Labour, Manchester Rusholme, 1945
11 votes: Anthony Meyer, Conservative, Eton and Slough, 1964
12 votes: Adrian Sanders, Liberal Democrat, Torbay, 1997
12 votes: John Jackson, Conservative, South East Derbyshire, 1959
13 votes: Ernle Money, Conservative, Ipswich, 1970
14 votes: Julian Amery, Conservative, Preston North, 1964
15 votes: John Foster, Conservative, Northwich, 1945
16 votes: Edward Shackleton, Preston South, 1951
19 votes: Walter Sweeney, Conservative, Vale of Glamorgan, 1992
20 votes: Emma Dent Coad, Labour, Kensington, 2017
20 votes: John Hollingworth, Conservative, Birmingham All Saints, 1959
21 votes: Ken Hargreaves, Conservative, Hyndburn, 1983
21 votes: Pete Wishart, SNP, Perth and North Perthshire, 2017.
22 votes: Ian Austin, Labour, Dudley North, 2017
22 votes: Harmar Nicholls, Conservative, Peterborough, February 1974
22 votes: Margaret Bain, SNP, East Dunbartonshire, October 19744
25 votes: Jack Beattie, Irish Labour, Belfast West, 1951
27 votes: William Molloy, Labour, Ealing North, 1964
27 votes: Byron Davies, Conservative, Gower, 2015
28 votes: Walter Robert Dempster Perkins, Conservative, Stroud and Thornbury, 1950
29 votes: Robert Atkins, Conservative, Preston North, 1979
30 votes: Paul Farrelly, Labour, Newcastle-under-Lyme, 2017
30 votes: George Thompson, SNP, Galloway, October 1974
Notes:
1 At the election, the sitting Conservative Member, John Wentworth Addison, tied with his Liberal opponent, A.B. Rowley, on 3,049 votes each. The returning officer, acting under the law at the time, gave a casting vote to Addison, giving him an effective majority of one.[7]
2 At the election, the Liberal candidate, Harold St. Maur was declared elected by a majority of 4 votes, but on petition, after a lengthy hearing and several recounts at the High Court, the previous Conservative Member Henry Duke was declared elected by a single vote.[7]
3 The 1997 general election result was declared void, and at the subsequent by-election the Liberal Democrat majority swelled to over 20,000 votes.
4 As well as being the smallest majority at this election only 429 votes separated the top three candidates.
Most recounts[edit]
7: Peterborough, 1966[12]
7: Brighton Kemptown, 1964
6: Hyndburn, 1983
5: Carmarthen, February 1974
5: Ilkeston, 1931
Highest turnout[edit]
Highest turnouts in any general election since 1918:
Fermanagh and South Tyrone, 1951: 93.4%[8]
Darwen, 1924: 92.7%[8]
Lowest turnout[edit]
All turnouts below 35% from 1918:
Lambeth Kennington, 1918: 29.7%[8]
Birmingham Deritend, 1918: 30.7%
Bethnal Green North East, 1918: 31.2%
Birmingham Duddeston, 1918: 32.4%
Limehouse, 1918: 33.4%
Liverpool Riverside, 2001: 34.1%
Aberdeenshire and East Kincardineshire, 1918: 34.2%
Until 2001, the lowest turnout after 1918 was 37.4% in Orkney and Shetland in 1922.
Most candidates[edit]
Any number of candidates can be nominated for election under current UK electoral law. The only restrictions are that a candidate must be a Commonwealth or Irish citizen, not legally disqualified, with the valid nomination of ten electors from the constituency. Candidates must pay a £500 deposit which is only refunded if the candidate wins 5% or more of the votes cast.
Fourteen constituencies have seen more than ten candidates stand in a general election:
Candidates
Constituency
Election
Incumbent
15 Sedgefield 2005 Tony Blair[8]
13 Maidenhead 2017 Theresa May
13 Uxbridge and South Ruislip 2015 None
12 Hackney South and Shoreditch 2010 Meg Hillier
12 Luton South 2010 None
12 Witney 2015 David Cameron
11 Finchley 1983 Margaret Thatcher[13]
11 Isle of Wight 2010 Andrew Turner
11 Bethnal Green and Bow 2010 None
11 Camberwell and Peckham 2010 Harriet Harman
11 Bethnal Green and Bow 2015 Rushanara Ali
11 Camberwell and Peckham 2015 Harriet Harman
11 Hackney South and Shoreditch 2015 Meg Hillier
11 Thanet South 2015 None
The two cases from before 2010 were both the constituency of the Prime Minister. Before 1983, the consecutive records were 6 candidates in Paddington North in 1918,[14] 7 in Tottenham in February 1974 and 9 in Devon North in 1979.
Fewest candidates[edit]
The last four seats to be uncontested at a general election were Armagh, Londonderry, North Antrim and South Antrim, at the 1951 general election. The last mainland seats to be uncontested were Liverpool Scotland and Rhondda West, at the 1945 general election.
Three seats were contested only by Labour and Conservative candidates at the 1979 general election: Birmingham Handsworth, Dudley West and Salford East.
Buckingham was the only seat contested by only three candidates at the 2015 general election. Traditionally, the Speaker of the House of Commons is not opposed by major parties, so the only opposition to John Bercow was candidates from the Green Party and from UKIP. However, in the 2017 UK general election, there were 21 seats with only three candidates, all in England.
Candidate records[edit]
Durable general election candidates[edit]
A selection of politicians who have contested seats in at least thirteen general elections are listed:
Name
Parties
Contests
Successful
First
Last
Notes
Winston Churchill Liberal, Conservative, Constitutionalist 16 14 1900 1959 Stood in five by-elections, first in 1899
Charles Pelham Villiers Liberal, Liberal Unionist 15 15 1835 1895
Kenneth Clarke Conservative 15 13 1964 2017
Edward Heath Conservative 14 14 1950 1997
T. P. O'Connor Nationalist 14 14 1885 1929
Peter Tapsell Conservative 14 13 1959 2010 Also stood in 1957 by-election
Gerald Kaufman Labour 14 12 1955 2015 Did not stand 1964 or 1966
Manny Shinwell Labour 14 12 1918 1966 Also stood in 1928 by-election
Michael Foot Labour 14 11 1935 1987 Also stood in 1960 by-election
David Winnick Labour Party 14 10 1964 2017 Did not stand February 1974
David Lloyd George Liberal 13 13 1892 1935 Also stood in 1890 by-election
Edward Turnour Conservative 13 13 1906 1950 Also stood in 1904 by-election
Tony Benn Labour 13 12 1951 1997 Stood in four by-elections, first in 1950
Dennis Skinner Labour Party 13 13 1970 2017
MPs defeated at consecutive general elections[edit]
On rare occasions an MP has been defeated at a general election, returned at a by-election, only to be defeated again at the subsequent general election. Shirley Williams is distinguished by achieving this while in two different parties.
George Galloway, 2010b and 2015
William McCrea, 1997b and 2001a
Shirley Williams, 1979 and 1983
Christopher Addison, 1931 and 1935
Arthur Henderson, 1918, 1922 and 1923b
Notes:
a returned to Parliament at a subsequent general election
b returned to Parliament at a subsequent by-election
Former MPs unsuccessful at subsequent general elections[edit]
Attempts[edit]
It is unusual for a defeated MP to pursue more than a couple of attempts at re-election.
Robert McIntyre, 1950, 1951, 1955, 1959, 1964, 1966, 1970, Feb 1974 and Oct 1974a
George Nicholls, Dec 1910, 1918, 1922, 1923, 1924 and 1929 (and by-elections in 1913 and 1925)a
Fred Maddison, Dec 1910, 1918, 1922 and 1923a
Dave Nellist, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2010 and 2015a
Mike Carr, 1997, 2001 and 2005a
Tom Mitchell, 1959, 1964 and 1966b
Sydney Walter Robinson, 1929, 1931 and 1945 (and a by-election in 1926)a
Maurice Alexander, 1923, 1924, 1931e
Thomas Edward Wing, 1922, 1924 and 1929 (and a by-election in 1920)c
Alexander Boulton, Dec 1910, 1923 and 1924d
Notes:
a in various seats
b in the same seat
c two previous seats and another
d one previous seat and another
e one previous seat and others
Interval[edit]
Attempts at a comeback usually occur almost immediately
Joseph Jackson Cleary, 1955: 20 years after his defeat
Jonathan Evans, 2010: 13 years after his defeat
Future MPs unsuccessful at previous general elections[edit]
It is unusual for a candidate who has been unsuccessful on more than a couple of occasions to finally win a seat.
Roger Mullin, elected for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath in 2015, after standing in South Ayrshire in February 1974 and October 1974, Kirkcaldy in 1987, Paisley North in a byelection in 1990 and in 1992.
David Ward, elected for Bradford East in 2010, after standing in Bradford North in 1992, 2001 and 2005 (and a by-election in 1990).
Alasdair McDonnell, elected for Belfast South in 2005, after standing in 1979, 1983, 1987, 1992, 1997 and 2001 (and a by-election in 1982), and previously in North Antrim in 1970.
Gregory Campbell, elected for East Londonderry in 2001, after standing in 1997, and previously in Foyle in 1983, 1987 and 1992.
Martin McGuinness, elected for Mid Ulster in 1997, after standing in Foyle in 1983, 1987 and 1992.
Michael Ward, elected for Peterborough in October 1974, after standing in February 1974, 1970 and 1966.
Tommy Lewis, elected for Southampton in 1929, after standing in 1918, 1922, 1923 and 1924.
Frank Smith, elected for Nuneaton in 1929, after standing in 1924, and in various other constituencies in 1923, 1922, 1918, 1910, 1895 and 1892 (and also two by-elections in 1909 and one in 1894).
Edwin Scrymgeour, elected for Dundee in 1922, after standing in January 1910, December 1910 and 1918 (and also in the 1908 and 1917 by-elections).
Daniel Zeichner, elected for Cambridge in 2015, after standing in 2010, and previously in Mid Norfolk in 2005, 2001 and 1997.
Former MPs making a comeback at a general election[edit]
2017: Vince Cable, Ed Davey, David Drew, Michelle Gildernew, Zac Goldsmith, John Grogan, Stephen Lloyd, Tony Lloyd, Esther McVey, Chris Ruane, Jo Swinson, Chris Williamson
2015: Boris Johnson, Joan Ryan, Dawn Butler, Rob Marris, Alex Salmond
2010: John Cryer, Geraint Davies, Jonathan Evans, Chris Leslie, Stephen Twigg
2005: David Evennett, Christopher Fraser, William McCrea, Malcolm Rifkind
2001: Henry Bellingham, Alistair Burt, Derek Conway, Charles Hendry, Greg Knight, Andrew Mitchell, Bob Spink
1997: Gerry Adams, Christopher Chope, Alan Clark, Frank Doran, Huw Edwards, Michael Fallon, Ronnie Fearn, Mike Hancock, Sylvia Heal, Gerald Howarth, Ashok Kumar, Richard Livsey, Humfrey Malins, John Maples, Francis Maude, Jonathan Sayeed, John Smith
1992: Michael Ancram, Bryan Davies, Warren Hawksley, John Horam, Gerry Malone, Piers Merchant, Richard Ottaway, Nick Raynsford, John Spellar, Derek Spencer, Iain Sproat, Mark Robinson, Paul Tyler
1987: Bob Cryer, Margaret Ewing, John Garrett, Bruce Grocott, Joan Lestor, Jim Marshall, Ann Taylor, Andrew Welsh, Audrey Wise
1983: Margaret Beckett, Robin Corbett, Bryan Gould, Edward Loyden, Andrew MacKay, Max Madden, Brian Sedgemore
1979: Michael Ancram, Sydney Chapman, David Clark, Eric Cockeram, Ednyfed Hudson Davies, Terry Davis, Dick Douglas, Peggy Fenner, Peter Griffiths, John Gummer, Barry Henderson, James Hill, John Wilkinson, David Winnick
October 1974: Donald Anderson, Jeremy Bray, Gwynfor Evans, Robert Hicks, Evan Luard, John Mackintosh, Fergus Montgomery, Enoch Powell, Nicholas Scott, Keith Speed
February 1974 Ronald Atkins, Gwyneth Dunwoody, John Ellis, David Ennals, Ioan Evans, Winifred Ewing, Gerald Fowler, Frank Hooley, Sydney Irving, Colin Jackson, John Lee, Eric Moonman, Stanley Newens, Christopher Price, Gwilym Roberts, Arnold Shaw, Frederick Silvester, Richard Wainwright, Alan Lee Williams, Michael Winstanley
1970: William Clark, Albert Cooper, Julian Critchley, Charles Curran, Patrick Duffy, Anthony Fell, Edward Gardner, Alan Green, Patricia Hornsby-Smith, Geoffrey Howe, James Kilfedder, Martin McLaren, Anthony Meyer, Peter Thomas, Richard Thompson, David Walder, Montague Woodhouse
1966: Richard Body, Peter Tapsell
Shortest-serving general election victors[edit]
For a comprehensive list of MPs with total service of less than 365 days see List of United Kingdom MPs with the shortest service
Since 1945[edit]
Candidate
Party
Constituency
Year
Days
Alfred Dobbs Labour Smethwick 1945 11
John Sunderland Labour Preston 1945 1221
John Whittaker Labour Heywood and Radcliffe 1945 1371
Philip Clarke Sinn Féin Fermanagh and South Tyrone 1955 1523x
Thomas Mitchell Sinn Féin Mid-Ulster 1955 1523x
Harry West UUP Fermanagh and South Tyrone February 1974 2242
James Godfrey MacManaway UUP Belfast West 1950 2383
Judith Chaplin Conservative Newbury 1992 3161
Peter Law Independent Blaenau Gwent 2005 3551
Pre-1945[edit]
Candidate
Party
Constituency
Year
Days
Thomas Higgins Irish Parliamentary Galway North 1906 01
James Annand Liberal East Aberdeenshire 1906 161
Joseph Nicholas Bell Labour Newcastle East 1922 321
Harry Wrightson Conservative Leyton West 1918 321
Hugh Alfred Anderson Irish Unionist Londonderry North 1918 664
Pierce McCan Sinn Féin East Tipperary 1918 681
Alexander Theodore Gordon Conservative Aberdeen and Kincardine Central 1918 681
Charles James Mathew Labour Whitechapel and St. George's 1922 851
Robert Climie Labour Kilmarnock 1929 1261b
George Henry Williamson Conservative Worcester 1906 1283
Harold St. Maur Liberal Exeter December 1910 1293
John Gibb Thom Conservative Dunbartonshire 1931 1424b
Richard Mathias Liberal Cheltenham December 1910 1443
George Brown Hillman Conservative Wakefield 1931 1441
John Barker Liberal Maidstone 1900 1473a
Edward George Clarke Conservative City of London 1906 1504b
Frederick Guest Liberal East Dorset January 1910 1543a
Eugene O'Sullivan Irish Parliamentary East Kerry January 1910 1703
David Henderson MacDonald Conservative Bothwell 1918 1761
Thomas Agar-Robartes Liberal Bodmin 1906 1833a
Herbert Sparkes Conservative Tiverton 1922 1881
Hilton Philipson National Liberal Berwick-on-Tweed 1922 1973
Armine Wodehouse Conservative Saffron Walden 1900 2001
Frederick Rutherfoord Harris Conservative Monmouth 1900 2103a
Moreton Frewen All-for-Ireland Cork North-East December 1910 2204
Arthur Wellesley Willey Conservative Leeds Central 1922 2291
Ellis Ellis-Griffith Liberal Carmarthen 1923 2524b
William Ward Conservative Wednesbury 1931 2735b
Alfred Holland Labour Clay Cross 1935 2901
Charles Harvey Dixon Conservative Rutland and Stamford 1922 3111b
Arthur Henniker-Hughan Conservative Galloway 1924 3401
George Ernest Spero Labour Fulham West 1929 3414b
Martin Morris Conservative Galway Borough 1900 3425
Notes
1 died
2 defeated at next general election
3 disqualified
4 resigned
5 succeeded to the Peerage
a returned to Parliament at a subsequent election
b had served previously as an MP
x Since Clarke and Mitchell were elected on abstentionist tickets, and were serving jail sentences at the time, their calculated length of service is somewhat theoretical.
Youngest general election victors[edit]
Mhairi Black, Scottish National Party, elected in 2015 aged 20 years 237 days.[15]
Babies of the House elected at general elections[edit]
See Baby of the House of Commons
Youngest to leave the House[edit]
Thomas Leslie Teevan 1951, aged 24 1
Edward Stanley 1918, aged 24 2 (re-elected 1922)
Patrick Joseph Whitty 1918, aged 24 2
Henry Harrison 1892, aged 24 1
Joseph Sweeney 1922, aged 25 2x
Arthur Evans 1923, aged 25 1 (re-elected 1924)
Denis Shipwright 1923, aged 25 1
John Esmonde 1918, aged 25 3
Stuart Donaldson 2017, aged 25 1
Frank Owen 1931, aged 26 1
John Wodehouse Jan 1910, aged 26 3
Hugh Lucas-Tooth 1929, aged 26 1 (re-elected 1945)
Bryan Ricco Cooper Dec 1910, aged 26 1
Bernadette Devlin McAliskey February 1974, aged 26 1
Jennie Lee 1931, aged 26 1 (re-elected 1945)
Liam Mellows 1922, aged 27 2x
Christopher Ward 1970, aged 27 1
Hugh Lucas-Tooth 1929, aged 28 1 (re-elected 1945)
David Reed February 1974, aged 28 2
Michael Ancram October 1974, aged 29 1 (re-elected 1979)
Charles Rhys 1929, aged 29 1 (re-elected 1931)
Andrew Mackay 1979, aged 29 1 (re-elected 1983)
Margo MacDonald February 1974, aged 29 1
Pamela Nash 2015, aged 30 1
Helene Hayman 1979, aged 30 1
John Ryan 1970, aged 30 1
Graham Tope February 1974, aged 30 1
Owen Carron 1983, aged 30 1x
Arthur Evans 1929, aged 30 3 (re-elected 1931)
W.E.D. Allen 1931, aged 30 3
Stanley Henig 1970, aged 30 1
Esmond Harmsworth 1929, aged 30 3
Notes:
1 Defeated
2 Constituency abolished
3 Retired
x did not take his seat
Oldest to lose their seats[edit]
David Winnick 2017, aged 83
Charles William Bowerman 1931, aged 80
Sir Thomas Dyke Acland 1886, aged 77
Frank Smith 1931, aged 76
Edward Evans 1959, aged 76
Cecil Walker 2001, aged 76
James Sexton 1931, aged 75
Fenner Brockway 1964, aged 75
Syd Bidwell 1992, aged 75
Richard Taylor 2010, aged 75
George Edwards 1924, aged 74
Enoch Powell 1987, aged 74
Peggy Fenner 1997, aged 74
Tom Clarke 2015, age 74
Sir James Fergusson 1906, aged 73
Sir Robert Hobart Jan 1910, aged 73
James Hindle Hudson 1955, aged 73
George Edwards 1922, aged 72
Sir Robert Aske 1945, aged 72
Albert Stubbs 1950, aged 72
Caroline Ganley 1951, aged 72
James Hill 1997, aged 72
Ben Tillett 1931, aged 71
David Hardie 1931, aged about 711
Rhodes Boyson 1997, aged 71
Vince Cable 2015, aged 71
John Potts 1931, aged 70
Dryden Brook 1955, aged 70
Charles William Gibson 1959, aged 70
Hugh Jenkins 1979, aged 70
Dudley Smith 1997, aged 70
1Based on Hardie's earliest estimated birth year of "ca.1860", although some biographers cite a date as late as 27 January 1871, making him only 60 years old at time of that election.[16]
Oldest general election victors[edit]
At first election[edit]
Sir George Harrison, 1885: 741
Frank Smith, 1929: 74
Robert Williams, 1807: 71
John Fleming, 1818: 70-712
Samuel Young, 1892: 70
Robert Cameron, 1895, 703
George Walker, 1945: 704
Piara Khabra, 1992: 705
William Cobbett, 1832: 69
Sir Robert Hobart, 1906: 69
Sir George Andreas Berry, 1922: 69
Sir Alfred Waldron Smithers, 1918: 68
Ethel Bentham, 1929: 68
Marie Rimmer, 2015, 68
Sir Maurice Dockrell, 1918, 67
Andrew Gilzean, 1945: 67
Albert Stubbs, 1945: 67
John McQuade, 1979: 67
Ernest Roberts, 1979: 67
Roger Mullin, 2015, 67
Sir Benjamin Guinness, 1865: 66
Dadabhai Naoroji, 1892, 66
William Beale, 1906: 66
Richard Taylor, 2001: 66
Gordon Birtwistle, 2010: 66
Glyn Davies, 2010: 66
Marion Fellows, 2015: 66
Peter Rainier, 1807: 65
Hugh Law, 1874: 65
Alfred Lafone, 1886: 65
Caroline Ganley, 1945: 65
Mervyn Wheatley, 1945: 65
George Kerevan, 2015, 65
1 Exact birth date not known but Harrison was reportedly this age when he died 5 days after the general election closed and before he took his seat.
2 Exact birth date not known but Fleming, who was brought up as an adopted orphan, is usually stated to have been born in 1747.
3 Exact birthdate not known but Cameron is normally stated to have been born in 1825 and was reportedly this age at election.
4 Exact birthdate not known but Walker is normally stated to have born in 1874 and was reportedly this age at election.
5 Khabra's exact age has been the subject of some disagreement. He claimed a birth year of 1924, which would have made him 67 years old at first election, but his marriage certificate gives a birth year of 1921, and it is this figure which has been used above.
At last election[edit]
Charles Pelham Villiers, Wolverhampton South, 1895: 93
Samuel Young, East Cavan, 1910(D): 88
David Logan, Liverpool Scotland, 1959: 87
Dennis Skinner, Bolsover, 2017: 85
Isaac Holden, Keighley, 1892: 85
Robert Cameron, Houghton-le-Spring, 1910(D): 85
Walter Wilkins, Radnorshire, 1826: 84
Winston Churchill, Woodford, 1959: 84
Gerald Kaufman, Manchester Gorton, 2015: 84
William Plumer, Higham Ferrers, 1820: 83
Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot, Mid Glamorganshire, 1886, 83
S. O. Davies, Merthyr Tydfil, 1970: 83 1
Piara Khabra, Ealing Southall, 2005: 83
The Earl of Carhampton, Ludgershall, 1820: 82
William Ewart Gladstone, Midlothian, 1892: 82
Paul Flynn, Newport West, 2017: 82
Sir Thomas Miller, 1812: 81
Manny Shinwell, Easington, 1966: 81
John Rankin, Glasgow Govan, 1970, 81
David Winnick, Walsall North, 2015: 81
Sir John Aubrey, Horsham, 1820:80
Lord Palmerston, Tiverton, 1865: 80
Joseph Warner Henley, Oxfordshire, 1874: 80
James Patrick Mahon, Clare, 1880: 80
John Mowbray, Oxford University, 1895: 80
John Rankin, Glasgow Govan, 1970: 80
Edward Heath, Old Bexley and Sidcup, 1997: 80
Peter Tapsell, Louth and Horncastle, 2010: 80
Ann Clwyd, Cynon Valley, 2017: 80
Murdoch Macdonald, Inverness, 1945: 79
Ian Paisley, Antrim North, 2005: 79
Alice Cullen, Glasgow Gorbals, 1966: 75
Irene Ward, Tynemouth, 1970: 75
Gwyneth Dunwoody, Crewe and Nantwich, 2005: 74
Eleanor Rathbone, Combined English Universities, 1945: 73
Glenda Jackson, Hampstead and Kilburn, 2010: 73
Caroline Ganley, Battersea South, 1950: 70
Marie Rimmer, St Helens South and Whiston, 2017: 70
1 Davies was suspected of being considerably older than he claimed. There is evidence to suggest he was born in 1879, not 1886; if true, this would indicate he was 90 at his last election.
Note: All men aged 79 or over since 1945 and over 85 since 1900 are listed, as are all women aged 70 or over.
Returning to the house after a gap[edit]
A contender for the longest gap prior to returning at a general election was possibly Henry Drummond (1786-1860), who returned to the House of Commons in the 1847 general election as member for West Surrey, after a near 35-year absence, though aged only 60. He was previously MP for Plympton Erle from 1810-12.
Others, who returned at older ages than Drummond's:
Robert Carden was 78 when he returned to the house in 1880, after a 21-year absence, as the member for Barnstaple. He had sat for Gloucester from 1857-59.
Sir John Baker was 77 when he returned to the house in 1906, after a 5 year absence, as member for Portsmouth. He had previously sat for that seat in 1892-1900.
Alfred Lafone was 74 when he returned to the house in 1895, after a three year absence, as member for Bermondsey. He had previously sat for that seat in 1886-92.
John Potts was 74 when he returned to the house in 1935, after a four-year absence. He had sat for Barnsley from 1922-31.
Vince Cable was 74 when he returned to the house in 2017, after a 2 year absence, as member for Twickenham. He sat for the same constituency 1997-2015.
George Edwards was 73 when he returned to the house in 1923, after a year's absence, as member for South Norfolk. He had sat for the same constituency 1920-22.
Cahir Healy was 72 when he returned to the house in 1950, after a 15-year voluntary absence, as member for Fermanagh and South Tyrone. He had sat for the predecessor constituency between 1922–24 and 1931-35.
Tommy Lewis was 71 when he returned to the house after a 14-year absence in 1945, as member for Southampton. He had sat previously for the seat between 1929-31.
John Kinley was 67 when he returned after a 14-year absence in 1945, as member for Bootle. He had sat previously for the seat between 1929-31.
Sir Thomas Bramsdon was 66 when he returned after a year's absence in 1923, as member for Portsmouth Central. He had previously sat for the same seat between 1918-22.
First women general election victors[edit]
Constance Markievicz, Dublin St Patrick's, 1918x
Nancy Astor, Plymouth Sutton, 1919
Notes: x did not take her seat
First ethnic minority general election victors[edit]
Dadabhai Naoroji, Finsbury Central, 1892
Mancherjee Bhownagree, Bethnal Green, 1895 and 1900
Shapurji Saklatvala, Battersea North, 1922 and 1924
First general election victors from specific religions[edit]
When the UK Parliament was established in 1801, non-Anglicans were prevented from taking their seats as MPs under the Test Act 1672. However, Methodists took communion at Anglican churches until 1795, and some continued to do so, and many Presbyterians were prepared to accept Anglican communion, thus ensuring that members of these creeds were represented in the Parliament.[17] Some Unitarians were also elected.
The first Roman Catholic general election victors in the UK Parliament were at the 1830 general election. They included Daniel O'Connell and James Patrick Mahon in Clare.
The first Quaker general election victor was Edward Pease, at the 1832 general election.
The first Moravian general election victor was Charles Hindley, at the 1835 general election.
Lionel de Rothschild was the first Jewish general election victor, at the 1847 general election. He was not permitted to take his seat until the passage of the Jews Relief Act 1858.
The first declared atheist to win a general election was Charles Bradlaugh at the 1880 general election. He was not permitted to take his seat in that parliament, but was elected again at the 1885 general election and allowed to take the oath.
Dadabhai Naoroji was the first Parsi general election victor at the 1892 general election.
Piara Khabra became the first Sikh general election victor, at the 1992 general election.
Terry Rooney became the first Mormon general election victor at the 1992 general election (previously taking his seat at a by-election in 1990).
The first Muslim general election victor was Mohammed Sarwar at the 1997 general election.
The first Hindu general election victor was Shailesh Vara at the 2005 general election.
General elections losers awarded seats on disqualification of winner[edit]
Lord Robert Grosvenor: Fermanagh and South Tyrone, 1955
Two or more sitting MPs contest general election[edit]
It is of course common for former (defeated) MPs to seek re-election, often in their old constituencies, especially if they are marginal or bellwether seats. What is quite unusual is for two MPs both sitting in the same parliament to seek re-election in the same seat. This usually occurs by reason of boundary changes or party splits.
Poplar and Limehouse, 2010: Jim Fitzpatrick* and George Galloway
Brent Central, 2010: Dawn Butler and Sarah Teather*
Dumfries and Galloway, 2005: Russell Brown* and Peter Duncan
Bethnal Green and Bow, 2005: Oona King and George Galloway*
Brentwood and Ongar, 2001: Eric Pickles* and Martin Bell
Glasgow Garscadden, 1992: Donald Dewar* and Dick Douglas
South Hams, 1987: Anthony Steen* and Willie Hamilton1
Meriden, 1983: Iain Mills* and John Sever
Islington North, 1983: John Grant and Michael O'Halloran
Southwark and Bermondsey, 1983: Simon Hughes* and John Tilley
Crosby, 1983: Shirley Williams and Malcolm Thornton*
Glasgow Hillhead, 1983: Roy Jenkins* and Neil Carmichael
Bradford West, February 1974: John Wilkinson and Edward Lyons*
Blyth, February 1974: Eddie Milne* and Ivor Richard
Plymouth Devonport, February 1974: Joan Vickers and David Owen*
Brentford and Isleworth, February 1974: Michael Barnes and Barney Hayhoe*
Paddington, February 1974: Arthur Latham* and Nicholas Scott
Grantham, 1955: Joseph Godber* and Woodrow Wyatt
Reading, 1955: Ian Mikardo* and Frederic Bennett
Bradford North, 1955: William Taylor* and Maurice Webb
Carmarthen, 1950: Rhys Hopkin Morris* and Lynn Ungoed-Thomas
Renfrewshire West, 1950: John Maclay* and Thomas Scollan
Glasgow Kelvingrove, 1950: Walter Elliot* and John Lloyd Williams
Newport, 1950: Peter Freeman* and Ivor Thomas
Sudbury and Woodbridge, 1950: John Hare* and Roland Hamilton
Stafford and Stone, 1950: Hugh Fraser* and Stephen Swingler
Newark, 1950: George Deer* and Sidney Shephard
Carlton, 1950: Kenneth Pickthorn* and Florence Paton
Thurrock, 1950: Hugh Delargy* and Leslie Solley
Walthamstow West, 1950: Clement Attlee* and Lester Hutchinson
Walsall, 1950: William Wells* and John Barlow
Poole, 1950: Mervyn Wheatley* and Evelyn King
Middlesbrough East, 1950: Hilary Marquand* and Alfred Edwards
Liverpool West Derby, 1950: David Maxwell Fyfe* and Bertie Kirby
Gateshead East, 1950: Arthur Moody* and Konni Zilliacus
Exeter, 1950: John Maude* and Thomas Horabin
Blackburn West, 1950: Ralph Assheton* and John Edwards
Stepney, 1950: Walter Edwards* and Philip Piratin
Shoreditch and Finsbury, 1950: Ernest Thurtle* and John Platts-Mills
Lewisham East, 1945: Assheton Pownall and Herbert Morrison*
St. Marylebone, 1945: Alec Cunningham-Reid and Wavell Wakefield*
Putney, 1945: Hugh Linstead* and Richard Acland
Harrow West, 1945: Norman Bower* and Hugh Lawson
Stratford West Ham, 1945: Thomas Groves and Redvers Michael Prior
Mossley, 1945: Austin Hopkinson and George Woods*
Notes: 1after announcing his retirement as member for Central Fife, long-serving Scottish Labour MP Willie Hamilton obtained his party's nomination in the hopeless prospect of South Hams in southern England. Hamilton insisted that he knew local parties often found themselves without candidates shortly before nominations closed, and was offering because it would help them out of difficulty; however by standing again and being "defeated" he qualified for an additional allowance.
* Winner
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Frequency and duration records[edit]
Longest period without a general election[edit]
The longest possible duration of a Parliament is currently five years. All period of six years or more between general elections are listed:
10 years: 1935 - 1945
8 years: December 1910 - 1918
6 years: 1812 - 1818
6 years: 1820 - 1826
6 years: 1841 - 1847
6 years: 1859 - 1865
6 years: 1868 - 1874
6 years: 1874 - 1880
6 years: 1886 - 1892
6 years: 1900 - 1906
Shortest period between general elections[edit]
All period of less than a year between general elections are listed:
7 months: November 1806 - June 1807
7 months: November/December 1885 - July 1886
8 months: September 1830(?) - April/May/June 1831
8 months: February - October 1974
10 months: December 1923 - October 1924
11 months: January - December 1910
Longest period without a change in government[edit]
The longest continuous Conservative government was in office for almost 18 years, between 4 May 1979 and 2 May 1997.
The longest continuous Labour government was in office for over 13 years, between 2 May 1997 and 11 May 2010.
The longest continuous Liberal government was in office for over 9 years, between 5 December 1905 and 25 May 1915.
The longest continuous coalition government was in office for almost 14 years, between 24 August 1931 and 26 July 1945, although its components changed significantly during that period.
Election days[edit]
Currently, all British Parliamentary elections are invariably held on a Thursday. The last general election not held on a Thursday was the 1931 election, which was held on Tuesday 27 October. Prior to this, it was common to hold general elections on any day of the week (other than Sunday), and until the 1918 general election, polling (and the declaration of results) was held over a period of several weeks.
Suspended Elections[edit]
On rare occasions, polling in an individual constituency may be suspended, usually as a result of the death of a candidate. The last occasion was at Thirsk and Malton in 2010, where polling was delayed for three weeks owing to the death of the UKIP candidate.
Previous examples occurred at
South Staffordshire, 2005
Barnsley, 1951
Manchester Moss Side, 1950
Hull Central, 1945
Rugby, 1929
West Derbyshire, 1923
Kennington, 1918
Causes of general elections[edit]
Loss of a vote of confidence[edit]
1979
1924
New Prime Minister seeks a mandate[edit]
1955
1935
1931
1923
Prime Minister without a working majority seeks to gain one[edit]
October 1974
1966
1951
Prime Minister's choice of date[edit]
2017
2005
2001
1987
1983
February 1974
1970
1959
1950
1929
Parliament had run its course[edit]
2015
2010
1997
1992
1964
Collapse of cooperation within Government[edit]
1922
End of World War[edit]
1945
1918
Miscellaneous records[edit]
Incumbents fall directly from first place to fourth place[edit]
Norwich South, 2015 Lib Dem loss, gained by Labour
Belfast North, 2001 1 UUP loss, gained by the DUP
Plymouth Devonport, 1992 2 SDP loss, gained by Labour
Glasgow Shettleston, 1950 3 ILP loss, gained by Labour
1 UUP had been unopposed by DUP at previous elections.
2 SDP had been unopposed by the Liberals at previous elections.
3 The sitting Independent Labour Party MP had defected to Labour.
Incumbents fall directly from first place to third place[edit]
Clacton, 2017 UKIP loss, gained by the Conservatives
Southport, 2017 Lib Dem loss, gained by the Conservatives
Bristol West, 2015 Lib Dem loss, gained by Labour
Brent Central, 2015 Lib Dem loss, gained by Labour
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk, 2015 Lib Dem loss, gained by the SNP
Dumfries and Galloway, 2015 Labour loss, gained by the SNP
Aberdeenshire West and Kincardine, 2015 Lib Dem loss, gained by the SNP
Bristol North West, 2010 Labour loss, gained by the Conservatives
Colne Valley, 2010 Labour loss, gained by the Conservatives
Watford, 2010 Labour loss, gained by the Conservatives
Belfast South, 2005 Ulster Unionist loss, gained by the SDLP
Conwy, 1997 Conservative loss, gained by Labour
Aberdeen South, 1997 Conservative loss, gained by Labour
Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, 1997, Liberal Democrat loss, gained by Labour
Stockton South, 1983 1 Labour loss, gained by the SDP
Plymouth Devonport, 1983 1 Labour loss, gained by the SDP
Caithness and Sutherland, 1983 1 Labour loss, gained by the SDP
Erith and Crayford, 1983 1 Labour loss, gained by the Conservatives
Renfrew West and Inverclyde, 1983 1 Labour loss, gained by the Conservatives
Southampton Itchen, 1983 1 Labour loss, gained by the Conservatives
Clwyd South West, 1983 1 Labour loss, gained by the Conservatives
West Hertfordshire, 1983 Labour loss, gained by the Conservatives
Stevenage, 1983 Labour loss, gained by the Conservatives
East Dunbartonshire, 1979 SNP loss, gained by Labour
North Down, 1979 2 UUP loss, gained by Independent Unionist
Mid Ulster, February 1974 Unity loss, gained by Vanguard Progressive Unionist
Bolton West, 1964 Liberal loss, gained by Labour
Glasgow Bridgeton, 1950 3 ILP loss, gained by Labour
Rugby, 1950 Independent loss, gained by Labour
Hammersmith North, 1950 Independent Labour loss, gained by Labour
Grantham, 1950 Independent loss, gained by the Conservatives
Cheltenham, 1950 Independent loss, gained by the Conservatives
Stepney, 1950 Communist loss, gained by Labour
West Fife, 1950 Communist loss, gained by Labour
Caithness and Sutherland, 1945 Liberal loss, gained by the Conservatives
1 The sitting Labour MP had defected to the SDP in 1981.
2 The sitting Ulster Unionist Party MP had defected to sit as an Independent Unionist.
3 The sitting Independent Labour Party MP had defected to Labour.
Outgoing Government gains seats[edit]
When there is a decisive change in electoral sentiment, a tiny number of seats will not only buck the trend by not moving as expected, but may actually move in the opposite direction. Only elections that saw a change of government are listed, since it is fairly common for a few seats to move in divergent directions when an incumbent government is re-elected; 2005 was an exception to this case, when the Labour party scored no gains.
Conservative[edit]
1997[edit]
By-election losses regained[edit]
Christchurch, from the Liberal Democrats
February 1974[edit]
Gains[edit]
Berwick and East Lothian, from Labour
East Dunbartonshire, from Labour
Upminster, from Labour
Ipswich, from Labour
North West Norfolk, from Labour
By-election losses regained[edit]
Ripon, from the Liberals
Sutton and Cheam, from the Liberals
Bromsgrove and Redditch, from Labour
1964[edit]
Gains[edit]
Birmingham Perry Barr, from Labour
Eton and Slough, from Labour
Smethwick, from Labour
South West Norfolk, from Labour
By-election losses regained[edit]
South Dorset, from Labour
1945[edit]
Gains[edit]
Caithness and Sutherland, from the Liberals
Berwick upon Tweed, from the Liberals
Caernarvon, from the Liberals
Isle of Ely, from the Liberals
Barnstaple, from the Liberals
By-election losses regained[edit]
Wallasey, from Independent
Skipton, from Common Wealth
1929[edit]
Gains[edit]
Birmingham King's Norton, from Labour
By-election losses regained[edit]
Midlothian and Peebles Northern, from Labour
Lancaster, from the Liberals
Labour[edit]
2010[edit]
Gains[edit]
Bethnal Green and Bow, from Respect
Blaenau Gwent, from an independent
Chesterfield, from the Liberal Democrats
By-election losses regained[edit]
Dunfermline and West Fife, from the Liberal Democrats
Glasgow East, from the SNP
1979[edit]
Gains[edit]
Glasgow Cathcart, from the Conservatives
East Dunbartonshire, from the SNP
Clackmannan and East Stirlingshire, from the SNP
Carmarthen, from Plaid Cymru
By-election losses regained[edit]
Ashfield, from the Conservatives
Birmingham Stechford, from the Conservatives
Walsall North, from the Conservatives
Workington, from the Conservatives
1970[edit]
Gains[edit]
Colne Valley, from the Liberals
By-election losses regained[edit]
Birmingham Ladywood, from the Liberals
Swindon, from the Conservatives
Oldham West, from the Conservatives
Dudley, from the Conservatives
Acton, from the Conservatives
Hamilton, from the SNP
Walthamstow West, from the Conservatives
Glasgow Pollok, from the Conservatives
Carmarthen, from Plaid Cymru
1951[edit]
Gains[edit]
Anglesey, from the Liberals
Merioneth, from the Liberals
Incoming Government loses seats[edit]
Conservative[edit]
Enfield North, 2015 to Labour
Ealing Central and Acton, 2015 to Labour
Lancaster and Fleetwood, 2015 to Labour
Dewsbury, 2015 to Labour
Ilford North, 2015 to Labour
Wolverhampton South West, 2015 to Labour
Brentford and Isleworth, 2015 to Labour
City of Chester, 2015 to Labour
Wirral West, 2015 to Labour
Eastbourne, 2010 to the Liberal Democrats
Wells, 2010 to the Liberal Democrats
Solihull, 2010 to the Liberal Democrats
Glasgow Cathcart, 1979 to Labour
North Antrim, 1970 (from Ulster Unionist) to Protestant Unionist Party
Fermanagh and South Tyrone, 1970 (from Ulster Unionist) to Unity
Mid Ulster, 19701 (from Ulster Unionist) to Unity
Belfast West, 1951 (from Ulster Unionist) to Irish Labour
Motherwell, 1924 to Labour
Barrow-in-Furness, 1924 to Labour
Lincoln, 1924 to Labour
Liverpool West Toxteth, 1924 to Labour1
Birmingham King's Norton, 1924 to Labour
Bilston, 1924 to Labour
Peckham, 1924 to Labour
London University, 1924 to Independent
Note: In 2010 the Conservatives entered government as the largest party in a coalition and in 2015 they went from being part of a coalition to being a majority government in their own right.
Labour[edit]
Berwick and East Lothian, February 1974 to the Conservatives
East Dunbartonshire, February 1974 to the Conservatives
Clackmannan and East Stirlingshire, February 1974 to the SNP
Dundee East, February 1974 to the SNP
Blyth, February 1974 to Independent Labour
Lincoln, February 19741 to Lincoln Democratic Labour
Cardigan, February 1974 to the Liberals
Colne Valley, February 1974 to the Liberals
Rochdale, February 19741 to the Liberals
Birmingham Perry Barr, 1964 to the Conservatives
Eton and Slough, 1964 to the Conservatives
Smethwick, 1964 to the Conservatives
South West Norfolk, 1964 to the Conservatives
Carmarthen, 1945 to the Liberals
Mile End, 1945 to the Communists
Birmingham King's Norton, 1929 to the Conservatives
Bethnal Green North East, 1929 to the Liberals
Newcastle East, 1929 to the Liberals
Liberal Democrats[edit]
Dunfermline and West Fife, 2010 to Labour
Camborne and Redruth, 2010 to the Conservatives
Chesterfield, 2010 to the Labour Party
Cornwall South East, 2010 to the Conservatives
Harrogate and Knaresborough, 2010 to the Conservatives
Hereford and South Herefordshire, 2010 to the Conservatives
Montgomeryshire, 2010 to the Conservatives
Newton Abbot, 2010 to the Conservatives
Oxford West and Abingdon, 2010 to the Conservatives
Richmond Park, 2010 to the Conservatives
Romsey and Southampton North, 2010 to the Conservatives
Truro and Falmouth, 2010 to the Conservatives
Winchester, 2010 to the Conservatives
Note: In 2010 the Liberal Democrats entered government as a junior partner in a coalition.
Liberal Party (pre-Liberal Democrats)[edit]
Ayr Burghs, 1906 to the Conservatives
Barkston Ash, 1906 to the Conservatives
Govan, 1906 to the Conservatives
Hastings, 1906 to the Conservatives
Maidstone, 1906 to the Conservatives
North Lonsdale, 1906 to the Liberal Unionists
Oswestry, 1906 to the Conservatives
Rye, 1906 to the Conservatives
St Albans, 1906 to the Conservatives
St Andrews Burgh, 1906 to the Conservatives
Whitby, 1906 to the Conservatives
Notes: 1 by-election loss confirmed at the General Election
Seats gained from fourth place*[edit]
Argyll and Bute, 2015 gained by SNP from the Liberal Democrats
Edinburgh West, 2015 gained by SNP from the Liberal Democrats
Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, 1997 gained by Labour from the Liberal Democrats
Ceredigion and Pembroke North, 1992 gained by Plaid Cymru from the Liberals
Seats gained from third place*[edit]
Aberdeen South, 2017 gained by the Conservatives from the SNP
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock, 2017 gained by the Conservatives from the SNP
East Renfrewshire, 2017 gained by the Conservatives from the SNP
Gordon, 2017 gained by the Conservatives from the SNP
Ochil and South Perthshire, 2017 gained by the Conservatives from the SNP
Portsmouth South, 2017 gained by Labour from the Conservatives
Stirling, 2017 gained by the Conservatives from the SNP
Cambridge, 2015 gained by Labour from the Liberal Democrats
Belfast East, 2010 gained by Alliance from the DUP
Brighton Pavilion, 2010 gained by the Greens from Labour
Watford, 2010 gained by the Conservatives from Labour
Camborne and Redruth, 2010 gained by the Conservatives from the Liberal Democrats
Falmouth and Camborne, 2005 gained by the Liberal Democrats from Labour
Leeds North West, 2005 gained by the Liberal Democrats from Labour
Lagan Valley, 2005 gained by the DUP from the UUP 1
West Tyrone, 2001 gained by Sinn Féin from the UUP
Sittingbourne and Sheppey, 1997 gained by Labour from the Conservatives
Shrewsbury and Atcham, 1997 gained by Labour from the Conservatives
St. Albans, 1997 gained by Labour from the Conservatives
Oldham East and Saddleworth, 1997 gained by Labour from the Conservatives 2
Leeds North West, 1997 gained by Labour from the Conservatives
Hastings and Rye, 1997 gained by Labour from the Conservatives
Falmouth and Camborne, 1997 gained by Labour from the Conservatives
Conwy, 1997 gained by Labour from the Conservatives
Bristol West, 1997 gained by Labour from the Conservatives
Aberdeen South, 1997 gained by Labour from the Conservatives
Mid Ulster, 1997 gained by Sinn Féin from the DUP
Cambridge, 1992 gained by Labour from the Conservatives
Plymouth Devonport, 1992 gained by Labour from the SDP
Clwyd South West, 1987 gained by Labour from the Conservatives
Edinburgh South, 1987 gained by Labour from the Conservatives
Strathkelvin and Bearsden, 1987 gained by Labour from the Conservatives
Renfrew West and Inverclyde, 1987 gained by Labour from the Conservatives
Colne Valley, 1983 gained by the Liberals from Labour
Leeds West, 1983 gained by the Liberals from Labour
Southwark and Bermondsey, 1983 gained by the Liberals from Labour 3
Liverpool Mossley Hill, 1983 gained by the Liberals from the Conservatives
Ross, Cromarty and Skye, 1983 gained by the SDP from the Conservatives 4
East Dunbartonshire, 1979 gained by Labour from the SNP
Lincoln, 1979 gained by the Conservatives from Labour
East Dunbartonshire, October 1974 gained by the SNP from the Conservatives
Clackmannan and East Stirlingshire, February 1974 gained by the SNP from Labour
Isle of Wight, February 1974 gained by the Liberals from the Conservatives
Ross and Cromarty, 1970 gained by the Conservatives from the Liberals
Ross and Cromarty, 1964 gained by the Liberals from the National Liberals
Notes:
* only includes examples of genuine three-or-more party competition; does not include seats gained as a result of pacts
1 sitting member had defected from UUP to DUP
2 Liberal Democrats had won a by-election in predecessor constituency in which Labour finished second
3 by-election gain confirmed at General Election.
4 SDP candidate ran for the Alliance in seat with strong Liberal tradition.
General election victors had not contested previous election[edit]
It is unusual for a party that had not contested the seat at the previous election to win it. Since the major mainland parties now routinely contest all seats, except the Speaker's, such rare victories tend to come from independents or splinter-parties.
Fermanagh and South Tyrone, 2015, Ulster Unionist Tom Elliot
Blaenau Gwent, 2005: Independent Peter Law
Bethnal Green and Bow, 2005: Respect, George Galloway
Wyre Forest, 2001: IKHH, Richard Taylor
North Down, 19973: UKUP, Robert McCartney
Tatton, 1997: Independent Martin Bell
Caithness and Sutherland, 1983: SDP, Robert Maclennan
Belfast West, 1983: Sinn Féin, Gerry Adams
Mid Ulster, 1983: Democratic Unionist, William McCrea
Belfast East, 1979: Democratic Unionist, Peter Robinson
Belfast South, 1979:1 Ulster Unionist, Robert Bradford
Mid Ulster, 1979:2 United Ulster Unionist, John Dunlop
Lincoln, February 19743: Democratic Labour, Dick Taverne
North Antrim, February 19744: DUP, Ian Paisley
Belfast West, February 19745: SDLP, Gerry Fitt
Belfast East, February 1974: Vanguard, William Craig
Belfast South, February 1974: Vanguard, Robert Bradford
Mid Ulster, February 1974: Vanguard, John Dunlop
North Antrim, 1970: PUP, Ian Paisley
Mid Ulster, 1970: Unity, Bernadette Devlin
Western Isles, 1970: SNP, Donald Stewart
Caithness and Sutherland, 1964: Liberal, George Mackie
Notes:
1 Vanguard broke up in the late 1970s; the sitting MP joined the Ulster Unionists.
2 Vanguard broke up in the late 1970s; the sitting MP joined the United Ulster Unionists.
3 By-election gain confirmed at the General Election.
4 The Protestant Unionist Party merged into the Democratic Unionist Party in 1970.
5 Sitting MP Gerry Fitt had left the Republican Labour Party for the SDLP in 1970; by 1974 Republican Labour had disintegrated.
Incumbent party did not contest[edit]
The rare occasions where the party which won the previous election did not contest the seat. Independent candidates are not included, nor are Speakers of the House or Commons. Also excluded are occasions where the party had merged into an organisation which did contest the election, such as when the Social Democratic Party and Liberal Party formed the Liberal Democrats, or the Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party merged into the Ulster Unionist Party.
Election
Constituency
Incumbent party
Notes
1997 North Down Ulster Popular Unionist Sole UPUP MP had died and party had subsequently collapsed.
1983 Mid Ulster UUUP UUUP had dissolved and former MP stood down.
1974 February Belfast West Republican Labour MP had defected to the Social Democratic and Labour Party and RLP had dissolved.
1959 Caithness and Sutherland Conservative Stood aside for Independent Conservative David Robertson.
1955 Fermanagh and Tyrone Nationalist Stood aside for Sinn Féin candidate.
1950 Chelmsford Common Wealth MP had defected to Labour and party decided not to contest any further elections.
1950 Glasgow Camlachie Ind. Labour Party MP had defected to Labour, then the ILP had performed badly in the 1948 by-election.
Major party did not run[edit]
Conservative[edit]
Buckingham, 20151
Buckingham, 20101
Glasgow North East, 20051
Glasgow Springburn, 20011
West Bromwich West, 19971
Croydon North East, 19871
Cardiff West, 19791
Wirral, October 19741
Wirral, February 19741
Greenock, 1970
Huddersfield West, 1959
Pembrokeshire, 1955
Carmarthen, 1955
Huddersfield West, 1955
Carmarthen, 1951
Colne Valley, 1951
Huddersfield West, 1951
Carmarthen, 1950
Huddersfield West, 1950
Labour[edit]
Buckingham, 20101
Glasgow North East, 20051
Glasgow Springburn, 20011
West Bromwich West, 19971
Tatton, 1997
Cardiff West, 19791
Chelmsford, 1945
Woodford, 1945
Liberal Democrats[edit]
Buckingham, 20101
Glasgow North East, 20051
Wyre Forest, 2005
Glasgow Springburn, 20011
Wyre Forest, 2001
West Bromwich West, 19971
Tatton, 1997
Liberal Party (pre-Liberal Democrats)[edit]
Birmingham Handsworth, 1979
Cardiff West, 19791
Dudley West, 1979
Ormskirk, 1979
Salford East, 1979
1: An occasion where a major party stood aside against the Speaker of the British House of Commons.
Victories by minor parties[edit]
Victories by independent and minor party candidates since 1945. For a complete list, see the list of UK minor party and independent MPs elected.
Brighton Pavilion, 2017 (Green)
North Down, 2017 (Independent)
Brighton Pavilion, 2015 (Green)
North Down, 2015 (Independent)
Clacton, 2015 (UKIP)
Belfast East, 2010 (Alliance)
Brighton Pavilion, 2010 (Green)
Blaenau Gwent, 2005 (Independent)
Bethnal Green and Bow, 2005 (Respect)
Wyre Forest, 2005 (Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern)
Wyre Forest, 2001 (Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern)
Tatton, 1997 (Independent)
Lincoln, February 1974 (Democratic Labour)
Blyth, February 1974 (Independent Labour)
Merthyr Tydfil, 1970 (Independent)
Independent candidates winning 10% or more[edit]
Independent candidates who did not win, but took 10% or more of the vote in their constituency
Constituency
Election
Candidate
Votes
Percentage
Position
Notes
Bradford West 2017 Salma Yaqoob 6,345 13.9 3
Ealing Southall 2001 Avtar Lit 5,764 12.3 3
East Devon 2015 Claire Wright 13,140 24.0 2
East Devon 2017 Claire Wright 21,270 35.2 2
Fermanagh and South Tyrone 2001 Jim Dixon 6,843 13.2 4
Fermanagh and South Tyrone 2010 Rodney Connor 21,300 41.5 2 Supported by the DUP and UUP
Fylde 2015 Mike Hill 5,166 11.9 4
Hereford and South Herefordshire 2017 Jim Kenyon 5,560 11.0 3
Sedgefield 2005 Reg Keys 4,252 10.3 4 Standing against the then-Prime Minister Tony Blair
West Bromwich West 1997 Richard Silvester 8,546 23.3 2 Standing against the then Speaker of the House of Commons, Betty Boothroyd
West Tyrone 2005 Kieran Deeny 11,905 27.4 2
Minor parties other strong performance[edit]
Parties without representation in Parliament which won 10% or more of the votes cast:
Party
Constituency
Election
Candidate
Votes
Percentage
Position
Notes
Alliance Belfast East 1983 Oliver Napier 9,373 24.1 3
Alliance Belfast East 1987 John Alderdice 10,574 32.1 2
Alliance Belfast East 1992 John Alderdice 10,650 29.8 2
Alliance Belfast East 1997 Jim Hendron 9,288 23.8 3
Alliance Belfast East 2001 David Alderdice 5,832 15.8 3
Alliance Belfast East 2005 Naomi Long 15,443 36.0 2
Alliance Belfast East 2017 Naomi Long 3,746 12.2 3
Alliance Belfast South 1983 David Cook 8,945 23.9 2
Alliance Belfast South 1987 David Cook 6,963 21.3 2
Alliance Belfast South 1992 John Montgomery 5,054 15.0 3
Alliance Belfast South 1997 Steve McBride 5,112 12.9 4
Alliance Belfast South 2010 Anna Lo 5,114 15.0 4
Alliance Belfast South 2017 Paula Bradshaw 7,946 18.2 3
Alliance East Antrim 1983 Seán Neeson 7,620 20.0 3
Alliance East Antrim 1987 Seán Neeson 8,582 25.6 2
Alliance East Antrim 1992 Seán Neeson 9,132 23.3 3
Alliance East Antrim 1997 Seán Neeson 6,929 20.2 2
Alliance East Antrim 2001 John Matthews 4,483 12.5 3
Alliance East Antrim 2005 Seán Neeson 4,869 15.3 3
Alliance East Antrim 2010 Gerry Lynch 3,377 11.1 3
Alliance East Antrim 2017 Stewart Dickson 5,950 15.6 2
Alliance Lagan Valley 1983 Seamus Close 4,593 11.3 3
Alliance Lagan Valley 1987 Seamus Close 5,728 13.8 2
Alliance Lagan Valley 1992 Seamus Close 6,207 12.7 2
Alliance Lagan Valley 1997 Seamus Close 7,635 17.2 2
Alliance Lagan Valley 2001 Seamus Close 7,624 16.6 2
Alliance Lagan Valley 2005 Seamus Close 4,316 10.1 3
Alliance Lagan Valley 2010 Trevor Lunn 4,174 11.4 3
Alliance Lagan Valley 2017 Aaron McIntyre 4,996 11.1 3
Alliance North Antrim 1987 Gareth Williams 5,140 12.4 3
Alliance North Down 1983 John Cushnahan 9,015 22.1 2
Alliance North Down 1987 John Cushnahan 7,932 19.4 3
Alliance North Down 1992 Addie Morrow 6,611 14.7 3
Alliance North Down 1997 Oliver Napier 7,554 20.7 3
Alliance South Antrim 1983 Gordon Mawhinney 4,612 11.9 3
Alliance South Antrim 1987 Gordon Mawhinney 5,808 16.0 2
Alliance South Antrim 1992 John Blair 5,244 12.4 3
Alliance South Antrim 1997 David Ford 4,668 11.6 3
Alliance Strangford 1983 Addie Morrow 6,171 15.8 3
Alliance Strangford 1987 Addie Morrow 7,553 20.3 2
Alliance Strangford 1992 Kieran McCarthy 7,585 16.9 3
Alliance Strangford 1997 Kieran McCarthy 5,467 13.1 3
Alliance Strangford 2017 Kellie Armstrong 5,693 14.7 2
BNP Barking 2005 Richard Barnbrook 4,916 16.9 3
BNP Barking 2010 Nick Griffin 6,620 14.8 3
BNP Burnley 2001 Steve Smith 4,151 11.3 4
BNP Burnley 2005 Len Starr 4,003 10.1 5
BNP Dewsbury 2005 David Exley 5,066 13.1 4
BNP Oldham West and Royton 2001 Nick Griffin 6,552 16.4 3
BNP Rotherham 2010 Marlene Guest 3,906 10.4 4
Buckinghamshire Campaign for Democracy Buckingham 2010 John Stevens 10,331 21.4 2 Standing against the then Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow
Burnley First Burnley 2005 Harry Brooks 5,786 14.8 3
Green Brighton Pavilion 2005 Keith Taylor 9,571 22.0 3
Green Lewisham Deptford 2005 Darren Johnson 3,367 11.4 4
Green Norwich South 2010 Adrian Ramsay 7,095 14.9 4
Liberal Liverpool West Derby 2001 Steve Radford 4,601 14.9 2
Liberal Liverpool West Derby 2005 Steve Radford 3,606 11.8 3
National Democrats West Bromwich West 1997 Steve Edwards 4,181 11.4 3 Standing against the then Speaker of the House of Commons, Betty Boothroyd
National Health Action Wyre Forest 2015 Richard Taylor 7,221 14.6 4 Taylor had served as MP for the constituency from 2001 to 2010
National Health Action South West Surrey 2017 Louise Irvine 12,093 20.0 2
NI Labour Belfast East 1974 Oct David Bleakley 8,122 14.1 3
Orkney and Shetland Movement Orkney and Shetland 1987 John Goodlad 3,095 14.5 4
People Before Profit Belfast West 2015 Gerry Carroll 6,798 19.2 2 Represented in the Dáil
People Before Profit Belfast West 2017 Gerry Carroll 4,132 10.2 3 Represented in the Northern Ireland Assembly and Dáil
People's Justice Birmingham Sparkbrook and Small Heath 2001 Shafaq Hussain 4,770 13.0 3
PUP Belfast East 2001 David Ervine 3,669 10.0 4
PUP Belfast South 1997 David Ervine 5,687 14.4 3
Protestant Unionist Belfast North 1987 George Seawright 5,671 15.4 3
Real Unionist North Down 1987 Bob McCartney 14,467 35.4 2
Respect Birmingham Sparkbrook and Small Heath 2005 Salma Yaqoob 10,498 27.5 2
Respect East Ham 2005 Abdul Khaliq Mian 8,171 20.7 2
Respect Poplar and Canning Town 2005 Oliur Rahman 6,573 17.2 3
Respect West Ham 2005 Lindsey German 6,039 19.5 2
Scottish Militant Labour Glasgow Pollok 1992 Tommy Sheridan 6,287 19.3 2
Scottish Socialist Glasgow Pollok 1997 Tommy Sheridan 3,639 11.1 3
Sinn Féin Belfast North 1997 Gerry Kelly 8,375 20.2 3
Sinn Féin Fermanagh and South Tyrone 1997 Gerry McHugh 11,174 23.1 2
Sinn Féin Foyle 1997 Mitchel McLaughlin 11,445 23.9 2
Sinn Féin Newry and Armagh 1997 Pat McNamee 11,218 21.1 3
Sinn Féin South Down 1997 Mick Murphy 5,127 10.4 3
Sinn Féin Upper Bann 1997 Bernadette O'Hagan 5,773 12.1 3
Sinn Féin West Tyrone 1997 Pat Doherty 14,280 30.9 3
Socialist Labour Glasgow North East 2005 Doris Kelly 4,036 14.2 3 Standing against the then Speaker of the House of Commons, Michael Martin
TUV North Antrim 2010 Jim Allister 7,114 16.8 2
UKIP Buckingham 2010 Nigel Farage 8,410 17.4 3 Standing against the then Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow
UKIP South Staffordshire 2005 Malcolm Hurst 2,675 10.4 4 Polling day delayed following death of Liberal Democrat candidate from original ballot.
Miscellaneous notable results[edit]
Party Leaders or Deputy Leaders losing their seats[edit]
Constituency
Election
MP
Position
Party
Moray 2017 Angus Robertson Deputy leader SNP
Belfast East 2015 Naomi Long Deputy leader Alliance
Bradford West 2015 George Galloway Leader Respect
Belfast East 2010 Peter Robinson Leader DUP
Upper Bann 2005 David Trimble Leader UUP
North Down 2001 Robert McCartney Leader UK Unionist
Belfast West 1992 Gerry Adams Leader Sinn Féin
Glasgow Govan 1992 Jim Sillars Deputy Leader SNP
Dundee East 1987 Gordon Wilson Leader SNP
Carmarthen 1979 Gwynfor Evans Leader Plaid Cymru
Cornwall North 1979 John Pardoe Deputy Leader Liberal
Fermanagh and South Tyrone 1974 October Harry West Leader UUP
Belper 1970 George Brown Deputy Leader Labour
Carmarthen 1970 Gwynfor Evans Leader Plaid Cymru
Huddersfield West 1964 Donald Wade Deputy Leader Liberal
Anglesey 1951 Megan Lloyd George Deputy Leader Liberal
Caithness and Sutherland 1945 Archibald Sinclair Leader Liberal
Edinburgh Leith 1945 Ernest Brown Leader Liberal National
Darwen 1935 Herbert Samuel Leader Liberal
Seaham 1935 Ramsay MacDonald Leader National Labour
Burnley 1931 Arthur Henderson Leader Labour
Manchester Platting 1931 John Robert Clynes Deputy Leader Labour
Paisley 1924 H. H. Asquith Leader Liberal
East Fife 1918 H. H. Asquith Leader Liberal
East Mayo 1918 John Dillon Leader Irish Parliamentary
Manchester East 1906 Arthur Balfour Leader Conservative
West Ham South 1895 Keir Hardie Leader Ind. Labour Party
Londonderry City 1892 Justin McCarthy1 Leader Irish National Federation
South West Lancashire 1868 William Ewart Gladstone2 Leader Liberal
1: McCarthy was defeated in Londonderry City, the seat for which he had sat in the previous Parliament. He also stood in North Longford, where he was elected.
2: Gladstone was defeated in South West Lancashire, the seat for which he had sat in the previous Parliament. He also stood in Greenwich, where he was elected.
General elections having historic significance[edit]
2017: The first general election following the vote to leave the European Union and the subsequent invocation of Article 50. The first early general election to be held under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act.
2010: The first Coalition government to arise from a general election result.
1997: Blair, New Labour
1979: Thatcher, end of the post-war consensus
1945: Labour, Welfare State
1931: National Government presides over the Great Depression and Appeasement
1923: First Labour government emerges
1910 (two Liberal general election victories) Establishment of supremacy of the Commons. The Parliament Act 1911.
1906: Liberal landslide
First general elections for a new political party[edit]
Listed below parties which have returned MPs, either at the listed election or a later one.
2005: Respect Party
2001: Independent Community and Health Concern
1997: UK Independence Party*
1992: Liberal Democrats
1992: Green Party of England and Wales*
1983: SDP
1983: Ulster Popular Unionist Party (in Northern Ireland)
1979: Scottish Labour Party (only time - formed 1976, dissolved 1981)
February 1974: Alliance Party (in Northern Ireland)*
February 1974: Democratic Labour Party
February 1974: Democratic Unionist Party (in Northern Ireland)
February 1974: SDLP (in Northern Ireland)
1945: Common Wealth Party (only time)
1935: Scottish National Party*
1931: National Labour Party
1931: Empire Free Trade Crusade (only time)
1931: National Liberal Party (dissolved 1968)
1929: Plaid Cymru (in Wales)*
1922: Communist Party
1922: National Liberal Party (only time - dissolved 1923)
1922: Ulster Unionist Party (in Northern Ireland)
1918: National Democratic and Labour Party (only time - dissolved 1922)
1918: National Party (only time - formed 1917, dissolved 1921)
1918: National Socialist Party (only time - became Social Democratic Federation 1919)
1918: Sinn Féin (in Ireland)
January 1910: All-for-Ireland League
January 1910: Scottish Prohibition Party*
1900: Labour Party
1892: Independent Labour Party
1892: Irish National Federation
1892: Irish Unionist Alliance
1886: Liberal Unionist Party
1885: Crofters Party (in Scotland)
1885: Irish Parliamentary Party (aka Irish Nationalist)
1874: Home Rule League (in Ireland)
1859: Liberal Party
1852: Independent Irish Party
1841: Chartist*
1835: Conservative Party
Asterisked - first election where party fielded candidates but MPs elected at later general election. Otherwise all parties listed returned MPs at first contested election.
Last general elections for defunct political parties[edit]
Listed below are parties which had returned MPs and which ceased to exist after the listed election:
2015: Respect Party
1992: Ulster Popular Unionist Party (in Northern Ireland)
1987: Communist Party
1987: Liberal Party *
1987: SDP *
1979: Democratic Labour Party
1966: National Liberal Party (formed 1931 - dissolved 1968)
1945: Common Wealth Party
1945: Independent Labour Party
1935: National Labour Party
1931: Scottish Prohibition Party
1918: Irish Parliamentary Party (aka Irish Nationalist)
1918: Irish Unionist Alliance
December 1910: All-for-Ireland League
December 1910: Liberal Unionist Party
1895: Crofters Party (in Scotland)
1895: Irish National Federation
1880: Home Rule League (in Ireland)
1859: Chartists
1857: Independent Irish Party
1857: Radicals (before amalgamation into Liberal Party which continued to be nicknamed "Radicals")
1857: Whig Party
1832: Tory Party (before reorganisation as Conservative Party which continued to be nicknamed "Tories")
* After the Liberal Party and SDP merged to form the Liberal Democrats, some members opposed to the merger formed new parties, the continuation Liberal Party and continuation Social Democratic Party. These parties are legally distinct from their predecessors and have never won a seat in Parliament.
General elections following electoral developments[edit]
Participation in, and outcome of, general elections can be influenced by changes in electoral law or practice.
2015:Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011
2010: first general election following lowering of age of candidacy to 18
2001: first general election in which hereditary peers could vote, and stand as MPs without disclaiming peerage
1970: first general election following reduction of adult voting age to 18
1955: first general election in which no seats were uncontested
1950: first general election following:
extension of postal voting to civilian population
abolition of university constituencies
abolition of plural voting
abolition of remaining two-member seat constituencies
1929: first general election where all adult women (aged 21 upwards) were enfranchised
1922: first general election following secession of Southern Ireland from the UK
1918: first general election in which:
women (aged 30 upwards) were enfranchised
all adult males (aged 21 upwards) were enfranchised
polling was held on single day
postal voting (for armed forces personnel) was allowed
1885: first general election held subject to the Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Act 1883
1874: first general election held with secret ballots
1868: first general election following enfranchisement of all male heads of household under the Second Reform Act
1832: first general election following Great Reform Act which:
established a unified householder franchise
comprehensively redistributed parliamentary seats, abolishing many rotten boroughs
established 21 years as the youngest age of candidacy (reduced to 18 in 2006)
1830: first general election in which Roman Catholics could stand as MPs (significant in Ireland)
1801: first general election in which Irish voters elected MPs to Westminster, following the Act of Union, on same footing to those in England, Scotland and Wales
See also[edit]
United Kingdom by-election records
Records of members of parliament of the United Kingdom
List of United Kingdom MPs with the shortest service
United Kingdom general elections
swing (politics)
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b Craig, F. W. S. (1968). British Parliamentary Election Statistics 1918-1968. Glasgow: Political Reference Publications. p. 20. ISBN 0900178000.
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^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa Tim Carr, The Politicos Guide to the New House of Commons 2015
Jump up ^ Craig, F. W. S. (1968). British Parliamentary Election Statistics 1918-1968. Glasgow: Political Reference Publications. p. 104. ISBN 0900178000.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Craig, F. W. S. (1968). British Parliamentary Election Statistics 1918-1968. Glasgow: Political Reference Publications. p. 101. ISBN 0900178000.
^ Jump up to: a b c Craig, F. W. S. (1968). British Parliamentary Election Statistics 1918-1968. Glasgow: Political Reference Publications. p. 103. ISBN 0900178000.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher, British electoral facts (Parliamentary Research Services)
Jump up ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies/E14000803
Jump up ^ http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/constit/073.htm
Jump up ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies/E14000763
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Jump up ^ Research Paper 05/33: General Election 2005 Archived 27 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine., House of Commons Library
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Who's Who of British MPs: Volume IV, 1945-1979 by Michael Stenton and Stephen Lees (Harvester, Brighton, 1979) ISBN 0-85527-335-6
British Parliamentary Constituencies - A Statistical Compendium by Ivor Crewe and Anthony Fox (Faber and Faber, London, 1984) ISBN 0-571-13236-7
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values: Glasgow North (UK Parliament constituency)

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values: Ross, Skye and Lochaber (UK Parliament constituency)

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values: Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber (UK Parliament constituency)

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values: Lanark and Hamilton East (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Renfrew West and Inverclyde (UK Parliament constituency)

values: David Simpson (Northern Ireland politician)

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values: George Ward, 1st Viscount Ward of Witley

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values: Leicester South (UK Parliament constituency)

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values: Preston South (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Vale of Glamorgan (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Birmingham All Saints (UK Parliament constituency)

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values: Lambeth Kennington (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Birmingham Deritend (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Bethnal Green North East (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Birmingham Duddeston (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Liverpool Riverside (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Aberdeenshire and East Kincardineshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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values: Uxbridge and South Ruislip (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Hackney South and Shoreditch (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Luton South (UK Parliament constituency)

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values: Camberwell and Peckham (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Thanet South (UK Parliament constituency)

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values: Devon North (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Londonderry (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Liverpool Scotland (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Rhondda West (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Birmingham Handsworth (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Dudley West (UK Parliament constituency)

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Christopher Price (UK politician)

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Patricia Hornsby-Smith

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Irish Parliamentary Party

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values: Leyton West (UK Parliament constituency)

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Irish Unionist Alliance

values: Londonderry North (UK Parliament constituency)

values: East Tipperary (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Aberdeen and Kincardine Central (UK Parliament constituency)

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Edward George Clarke

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National Liberal Party (UK, 1922)

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All-for-Ireland League

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values: Leeds Central (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Rutland and Stamford (UK Parliament constituency)

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values: Fulham West (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Galway Borough (UK Parliament constituency)

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values: Edward Stanley, Lord Stanley (1894–1938)

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Henry Harrison (MP)

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Henry Arthur Evans

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Bryan Ricco Cooper

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Robert Cameron (UK politician)

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values: Wolverhampton South (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Houghton-le-Spring (UK Parliament constituency)

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values: Radnorshire (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Manchester Gorton (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Higham Ferrers (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Mid Glamorganshire (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Ealing Southall (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Ludgershall (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Newport West (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Glasgow Govan (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Walsall North (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

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values: Oxfordshire (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Oxford University (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Old Bexley and Sidcup (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Louth and Horncastle (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Cynon Valley (UK Parliament constituency)

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values: Crewe and Nantwich (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Combined English Universities (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Battersea South (UK Parliament constituency)

values: St Helens South and Whiston (UK Parliament constituency)

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values: West Surrey (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Plympton Erle (UK Parliament constituency)

values: South Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency)

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Nancy Astor

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Plymouth Sutton

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values: Finsbury Central (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Bethnal Green (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Battersea North (UK Parliament constituency)

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values: Poplar and Limehouse (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Dumfries and Galloway (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Brentwood and Ongar (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Glasgow Garscadden (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Southwark and Bermondsey (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Shirley Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby

values: Glasgow Hillhead (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Neil Carmichael, Baron Carmichael of Kelvingrove

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values: Plymouth Devonport (UK Parliament constituency)

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Joan Vickers

values: Brentford and Isleworth (UK Parliament constituency)

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Barney Hayhoe

values: Bradford North (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Renfrewshire West (UK Parliament constituency)

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John Maclay

values: Glasgow Kelvingrove (UK Parliament constituency)

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values: Newport (Monmouthshire) (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Sudbury and Woodbridge (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Stafford and Stone (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Walthamstow West (UK Parliament constituency)

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Evelyn King (UK politician)

values: Middlesbrough East (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Liverpool West Derby (UK Parliament constituency)

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David Maxwell Fyfe

values: Gateshead East (UK Parliament constituency)

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Thomas Horabin

values: Blackburn West (UK Parliament constituency)

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Philip Piratin

values: Shoreditch and Finsbury (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Lewisham East (UK Parliament constituency)

values: St. Marylebone (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Wavell Wakefield, 1st Baron Wakefield of Kendal

values: Harrow West (UK Parliament constituency)

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values: Stratford West Ham (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Redvers Michael Prior (page does not exist)

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values: Central Fife (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Edit section: Frequency and duration records

values: Edit section: Longest period without a general election

values: United Kingdom general election, December 1910

values: Edit section: Shortest period between general elections

values: United Kingdom general election, January 1910

values: Edit section: Longest period without a change in government

values: Thirsk and Malton (UK Parliament constituency)

values: South Staffordshire (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Manchester Moss Side (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Hull Central (UK Parliament constituency)

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values: Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Aberdeenshire West and Kincardine (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Bristol North West (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Colne Valley (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Aberdeen South (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Stockton South (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Erith and Crayford (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Southampton Itchen (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Clwyd South West (UK Parliament constituency)

values: West Hertfordshire (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Bolton West (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Hammersmith North (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Edit section: Outgoing Government gains seats

values: Edit section: By-election losses regained

values: Christchurch (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Berwick and East Lothian (UK Parliament constituency)

values: North West Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Sutton and Cheam (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Bromsgrove and Redditch (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Birmingham Perry Barr (UK Parliament constituency)

values: South West Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency)

values: South Dorset (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Berwick upon Tweed (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Isle of Ely (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Birmingham King's Norton (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Midlothian and Peebles Northern (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Chesterfield (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Glasgow Cathcart (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Birmingham Stechford (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Birmingham Ladywood (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Oldham West (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Glasgow Pollok (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Edit section: Incoming Government loses seats

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Ilford North

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Wolverhampton South West

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values: City of Chester (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Wirral West (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Barrow-in-Furness (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Liverpool West Toxteth (UK Parliament constituency)

values: London University (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Camborne and Redruth (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Cornwall South East (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Harrogate and Knaresborough (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Montgomeryshire (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Newton Abbot (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Oxford West and Abingdon (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Richmond Park (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Romsey and Southampton North (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Truro and Falmouth (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Edit section: Liberal Party (pre-Liberal Democrats)

values: Barkston Ash (UK Parliament constituency)

values: North Lonsdale (UK Parliament constituency)

values: St Andrews Burghs (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Edit section: Seats gained from fourth place*

values: Edinburgh West (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Edit section: Seats gained from third place*

values: Portsmouth South (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Falmouth and Camborne (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Leeds North West (UK Parliament constituency)

values: West Tyrone (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Sittingbourne and Sheppey (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Shrewsbury and Atcham (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Hastings and Rye (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Strathkelvin and Bearsden (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Liverpool Mossley Hill (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Ross, Cromarty and Skye (UK Parliament constituency)

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values: Edit section: General election victors had not contested previous election

values: Wyre Forest (UK Parliament constituency)

values: Robert McCartney (Northern Irish politician)

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values: Robert Bradford (Northern Irish politician)

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values: William Craig (Northern Ireland politician)

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