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The UK general election of 1906 was from 12th January – 8th February 1906. The UK general election of 1900 was from 25th September - 24th October 1900. ...
The UK general election of January 1910 was held from 15th January – 10th February 1910. ...
(Redirected from 12th January) January 12 is the 12th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
February 8 is the 39th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
1906 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
The Liberals, led by Henry Campbell-Bannerman, gained an overall majority in parliament. The Conservatives under Arthur Balfour lost more than half their seats, while the newly-formed Labour Party were far more successful than the Labour Representation Committee had been in the 1900 general election. The Irish Nationalists achieved their seats on a low number of votes as 74 of their members were elected in uncontested seats. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (September 7, 1836 – April 22, 1908) was a British Liberal statesman who served as Prime Minister from February 5, 1906 until resigning due to ill health on April 3, 1908. ...
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour (25 July 1848 - March 19, 1930) was a British statesman and the thirty-third Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. ...
The Labour Representation Committee (LRC) was formed on February 27, 1900, at a conference at which representatives of the main socialist groupings in the United Kingdom were present. ...
The UK general election of 1900 was from 25th September - 24th October 1900. ...
| Party | Votes | Seats | Loss/Gain | Share of Vote (%) | | Liberal | 2,565,644 | 397 | + 214 | 48.9 | | Conservative & Liberal Unionists | 2,278,076 | 156 | - 246 | 43.4 | | Labour | 254,202 | 29 | + 27 | 4.8 | | Independent Conservative | 42,155 | 3 | + 3 | 0.8 | | Irish Nationalist | 33,231 | 82 | | 0.6 | | Independent Labour | 18,886 | 1 | + 1 | 0.4 | | SDF | 18,446 | 0 | | 0.4 | | Scottish Workers | 14,877 | 0 | | 0.3 | | Free Trader | 8,974 | 0 | | 0.2 | | Independent Lib-Lab | 4,841 | 1 | + 1 | 0.1 | | Independent | 3,806 | 0 | | 0.1 | | Independent Nationalist | 1,800 | 1 | + 1 | 0.0 | | Independent Liberal | 1,581 | 0 | - 1 | 0.0 | Total votes cast: 5,246,672. All parties with more than 1,000 votes shown. The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the early 19th century until the 1920s, and a third party of varying strength and importance up to 1988, when it merged with the Social Democratic Party to form a new party which would become known as...
The Conservative Party is the largest political party on the centre-right in the United Kingdom. ...
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The Labour Representation Committee (LRC) was formed on February 27, 1900, at a conference at which representatives of the main socialist groupings in the United Kingdom were present. ...
In 1882 Charles Stewart Parnell, the leader of the Nationalist Party, formed the Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP), replacing the Home Rule League, as a parliamentary party with strict rules. ...
This article is about the British political party. ...
External links
- 1906 Conservative manifesto (http://www.conservativemanifesto.com/1906/1906-conservative-manifesto.shtml)
- 1906 Labour manifesto (http://www.labour-party.org.uk/manifestos/1906/1906-labour-manifesto.shtml)
- 1906 Liberal manifesto (http://www.libdemmanifesto.com/1906/1906-liberal-manifesto.shtml)
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