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Revision as of 22:39, 24 November 2015

United Kingdom general election, 1923
← 1922 6 December 1923 1924 →
Constituency results
308 seats needed for a majority
Turnout71.1%
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Stanley Baldwin Ramsay MacDonald H. H. Asquith
Party Conservative Labour Liberal
Leader since 23 May 1923 21 November 1922 30 April 1908
Leader's seat Bewdley Aberavon Paisley
Last election 344 seats, 38.5% 142 seats, 29.7% 62 seats, 18.9%
Seats won 258 191 158
Seat change Decrease 86 Increase 49 Increase 96
Popular vote 5,286,159 4,267,831 4,129,922
Percentage 38.0% 30.7% 29.7%
Swing Decrease 0.5% Increase 1.0% Increase 10.8%
PM before election

Stanley Baldwin
Conservative

Subsequent PM

Ramsay MacDonald
Labour

1922 election • MPs
1923 election • MPs
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The United Kingdom general election of 1923 was held on Thursday 6 December 1923. The Conservatives, led by Stanley Baldwin, won the most seats, but Labour, led by Ramsay MacDonald, and H. H. Asquith's reunited Liberal Party gained enough to produce a hung parliament. It was the last election in which a third party (the Liberals) won more than 100 seats, or received more than 26% of the vote.

As the election had been fought on the Conservative proposals for tariff reform, it was inevitable that they could not retain office. As a result, MacDonald formed the first ever Labour government with tacit support from the Liberals. Asquith's motivation for permitting Labour to enter power, rather than trying to bring the Liberals back into government, was that he hoped they would prove to be incompetent and quickly lose support. Being in a minority, MacDonald's government only lasted 10 months and another election was held in October 1924.

Overview

During 1923 the Ruhr crisis led to a growing feeling of German sympathy in Britain, with people increasingly fed up of international crises in Europe. By May 1923 the then-Prime Minister Bonar Law fell ill and resigned on 22 May,[1] after just 209 days in office. He was replaced by Baldwin. Having only had an election just the year before, Baldwin's party had a comfortable majority in the Commons and could have waited another four years, but the government was concerned with unemployment and protectionism. He felt the need to receive a mandate from the people,which, if successful, would strengthen his grip on the Conservative party leadership.[2]

The result however backfired on Baldwin, who lost a host of seats to Labour and the Liberals. For the first time in history, Labour would be in government.

Results

↓
258 191 158 8
Conservative Labour Liberal O
UK General Election 1923
Candidates Votes
Party Leader Stood Elected Gained Unseated Net % of total % No. Net %
  Conservative Stanley Baldwin 536 258 − 86 41.951 38.0 5,286,159 −0.5
  Labour Ramsay MacDonald 427 191 + 49 31.056 30.7 4,267,831 +1.0
  Liberal H. H. Asquith 457 158 + 96 25.691 29.7 4,129,922 +10.8
  Nationalist Joseph Devlin 4 3 0 0 0 0.487 0.4 54,157 N/A
  Independent N/A 6 2 0 1 − 1 0.325 0.3 36,802 −0.5
  Communist Albert Inkpin 4 0 0 1 − 1 0.2 34,258 0.0
  Belfast Labour David Robb Campbell 1 0 0 0 0 0.2 22,255 N/A
  Independent Labour N/A 4 0 0 1 − 1 0.2 17,331 0.0
  Independent Liberal N/A 3 1 1 1 0 0.1 16,184 0.0
  Constitutionalist N/A 1 0 0 1 − 1 0.1 15,500 0.0
  Ind. Conservative N/A 1 0 0 3 − 3 0.1 15,171 −0.8
  Scottish Prohibition Edwin Scrymgeour 1 1 0 0 0 0.1 12,877 0.0
  Christian Pacifist N/A 1 1 0 0 0 0.0 570 N/A

Total number of votes cast: 13,909,017. Turnout 71.1%[3] All parties shown. Conservatives include Ulster Unionists.

Votes summary

Popular vote
Conservative
 
 38.01%
Labour
 
 30.68%
Liberal
 
 29.69%
Nationalist
 
 0.39%
Independent
 
 0.61%
Others
 
 0.60%

Seats summary

Parliamentary seats
Conservative
 
 41.95%
Labour
 
 31.06%
Liberal
 
 25.69%
Nationalist
 
 0.5%
Independent
 
 0.49%
Others
 
 0.31%

Constituency results

For a full list of the results by constituency, see Constituency election results in the United Kingdom general election, 1923.

See also

References

  1. ^ http://www.number10.gov.uk/history-and-tour/prime-ministers-in-history/andrew-bonar-law
  2. ^ Paul W. Doerr, British foreign policy 1919-1939 p.75-76
  3. ^ http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons/lib/research/rp2008/rp08-012.pdf
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