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Encyclopedia > United Kingdom general election, 1910 (December)
January 1910 election
December 1910 election
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The UK general election of December 1910 was the last held over several days, from %20%20December%203%20is%20the%20337th%20(in%20leap%20years%20the%20338th)%20day%20of%20the%20year%20in%20the%20Gregorian%20calendar.%20... 3rd%20(Redirected%20from%2019th%20December)%20%20December%2019%20is%20the%20353rd%20day%20of%20the%20year%20(354th%20in%20leap%20years)%20in%20the%20Gregorian%20calendar.%20... 19th December %20%20%201910%20was%20a%20%20%20common%20year%20starting%20on%20Saturday%20(see%20link%20for%20calendar).%20%20%20... 1910.


The Conservatives, led by %20%20%20%20Arthur%20James%20Balfour%2C%201st%20Earl%20of%20Balfour%20(25%20July%201848%20-%20March%2019%2C%201930)%20was%20a%20British%20statesman%20and%20the%20thirty-third%20Prime%20Minister%20of%20the%20United%20Kingdom.%20%20%20... Arthur Balfour, and Liberals, led by %20%20%20The%20name%20Herbert%20Asquith%20normally%20refers%20to%3A%20%20Herbert%20Henry%20Asquith%2C%20Prime%20Minister%20of%20the%20United%20Kingdom%20(1908%26%238211%3B1916)%2C%20%20but%20may%20also%20refer%20to%20his%20son%3A%20%20Herbert%20Asquith%2C%20a%20poet.%20%20... Herbert Asquith, could not break the deadlock produced in the January general election, but the Liberals formed a government with the support of the %20%20%20In%201882%20Charles%20Stewart%20Parnell%2C%20the%20leader%20of%20the%20Nationalist%20Party%2C%20formed%20the%20Irish%20Parliamentary%20Party%20(IPP)%2C%20replacing%20the%20Home%20Rule%20League%2C%20as%20a%20parliamentary%20party%20with%20strict%20rules.%20... Irish Nationalists.

Party Votes Seats Loss/Gain Share of Vote (%)
%20%20%20%20The%20Conservative%20Party%20is%20the%20largest%20%20%20political%20party%20on%20the%20%20%20right%20in%20the%20%20%20United%20Kingdom.%20... Conservative 2,270,753 271 - 1 46.6
%20%20%20%20The%20Liberal%20Party%20was%20one%20of%20the%20two%20major%20British%20political%20parties%20from%20the%20early%2019th%20century%20until%20the%201920s%2C%20and%20a%20third%20party%20of%20varying%20strength%20and%20importance%20up%20to%201988%2C%20when%20it%20merged%20with%20the%20Social%20Democratic%20Party%20to%20form%20a%20new%20party%20which%20would%20become%20known%20as... Liberal 2,157,256 272 - 2 44.2
%20%20%20%20The%20Labour%20Party%20is%20a%20centre-left%20or%20social%20democratic%20political%20party%20in%20Britain%20(see%20British%20politics)%2C%20and%20one%20of%20the%20United%20Kingdom%5Cs%20three%20main%20political%20parties.%20... Labour 309,963 42 + 2 6.4
%20%20%20In%201882%20Charles%20Stewart%20Parnell%2C%20the%20leader%20of%20the%20Nationalist%20Party%2C%20formed%20the%20Irish%20Parliamentary%20Party%20(IPP)%2C%20replacing%20the%20Home%20Rule%20League%2C%20as%20a%20parliamentary%20party%20with%20strict%20rules.%20... Irish Nationalist 121,649 84 + 2 2.5
%20%20%20%20This%20article%20is%20about%20the%20British%20political%20party.%20... SDP 5,733 0 0.1
Independent Conservative 4,647 1 0.1
Independent Labour 3,492 1 0.1
Independent Liberal 1,946 0 - 1 0.0

Total votes cast: 7,709,981. All parties with more than 1,000 votes shown.


External links

December 1910 Conservative manifesto (http://www.conservativemanifesto.com/1910/dec/december-1910-conservative-manifesto.shtml)
December 1910 Labour manifesto (http://www.labour-party.org.uk/manifestos/1910/dec/december-1910-labour-manifesto.shtml)
December 1910 Liberal manifesto (http://www.libdemmanifesto.com/1910/dec/december-1910-liberal-manifesto.shtml)

  Results from FactBites:
 
United Kingdom general election, January 1910 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (116 words)
The UK general election of January 1910 was held from 15th January – 10th February 1910.
The election produced a hung parliament, with the Conservatives, led by Arthur Balfour, and Liberals, led by Herbert Asquith having almost equal forces.
A second election was held in December in an attempt to resolve the situation.
MSN Encarta - Printer-friendly - United Kingdom (14065 words)
The United Kingdom and World War II Memories of World War I left Britons with an overwhelming desire to avoid another conflict, and the country played a leading role in the League of Nations and at inter-war disarmament conferences, such as those in Washington (1921-1922) and London (1930) which limited naval size.
Post-war Germany was divided into occupation zones among the USSR, the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, but efforts to reach agreement on a peace treaty with Germany broke down as it became clear that the USSR was converting all of eastern Europe into a Soviet sphere of influence.
In the general election of 1964, however, the latter was narrowly defeated by the Labour Party, headed by Harold Wilson.
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