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The UK general election of 1923 was held on 5th December 1923. The Conservatives, led by Stanley Baldwin, won the most seats, but Labour, led by Ramsay MacDonald and Herbert Henry Asquith's Liberals gained enough to produce a hung parliament. As the election had been fought on the Conservative proposals for tariff reform it was inevitable that they could not retain office and so the first ever Labour government was formed. Being in a minority it only lasted 10 months and another election was held in 1924. The UK general election of 1922 was held on 15th November 1922. ...
The 1924 UK general election was held on 29th October 1924. ...
December 5 is the 339th day (340th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1923 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley (August 3, 1867 - December 14, 1947) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on three separate occasions. ...
James Ramsay MacDonald (October 12, 1866 – November 9, 1937), British politician, was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. ...
Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith (September 12, 1852 – February 15, 1928) served as the Liberal Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916. ...
In Parliamentary systems, a hung parliament is one in which no one political party has an outright majority. ...
The 1924 UK general election was held on 29th October 1924. ...
| Party | Votes | Seats | Loss/Gain | Share of Vote (%) | | Conservative | 5,286,159 | 258 | - 86 | 38.0 | | Labour | 4,267,831 | 191 | + 49 | 30.7 | | Liberal | 4,129,922 | 158 | + 96 | 29.7 | | Irish Nationalist | 54,157 | 3 | | 0.4 | | Independent | 36,802 | 3 | - 1 | 0.3 | | Communist | 34,258 | 0 | - 1 | 0.2 | | Belfast Labour | 22,255 | 0 | | 0.2 | | Independent Labour | 17,331 | 0 | - 1 | 0.1 | | Constitutionalist | 15,500 | 0 | | 0.1 | | Independent Conservative | 15,171 | 0 | - 3 | 0.1 | | Scottish Prohibition | 12,877 | 1 | | 0.1 | Total number of votes cast: 13,909,017. All parties with more than 1,000 votes shown. Conservatives include Ulster Unionists. The Conservative Party is the largest political party on the centre-right in the United Kingdom. ...
The Labour Party is a a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdoms three main political parties. ...
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 Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was a political party in the United Kingdom, which existed from 1920 to 1991. ...
The Belfast Labour Party was a political party in Northern Ireland from 1892 until 1924. ...
Constitutionalist currently refers to United States citizens who advocate strict adherence to the intentions of the framers of the U.S. Constitution. ...
The Scottish Prohibition Party was a minor Scottish political party, represented in the House of Commons by Edwin Scrymgeour from 1922-1931. ...
The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP, sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or OUP) is a political party in Northern Ireland representing the unionist community, and was the party of government in Northern Ireland between 1921 and 1972. ...
External links
- 1923 Conservative manifesto
- 1923 Labour manifesto
- 1923 Liberal manifesto
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