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The UK general election on Tuesday 27 October 1931 was the last in the United Kingdom not held on a Thursday. The 1929 UK general election was held on 30th May 1929, and resulted in a hung parliament. ...
The UK general election held on 14th November 1935 resulted in a large, though reduced, majority for the National Government now led by Stanley Baldwin. ...
October 27 is the 300th day of the year (301st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 65 days remaining. ...
1931 is a common year starting on Thursday. ...
Thursday is the day of the week between Wednesday and Friday. ...
The election was held in the middle of the Great Depression. Ramsay MacDonald's Labour government had reached deadlock over a response to the crisis. In August 1931 MacDonald quit the government to form the the multi-party National Government. The Great Depression was a massive global economic recession (or depression) that ran from 1929 to 1941. ...
James Ramsay MacDonald (October 12, 1866 – November 9, 1937), British politician, was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. ...
In the United Kingdom the term National Government is in an abstract sense used to refer to a coalition of some or all major political parties. ...
The decision of MacDonald to join the National Government with the Conservatives had lead the Labour Party to expell him from the party, which split into two groups (The Labour Party and the National Labour Party) 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. ...
This article is about the poltical party that existed from 1931-1945. ...
Due to this, and the previous Labour government's failure to tackle the economic crisis, the Labour vote fell sharply, and the Conservatives, led by Stanley Baldwin won a huge majority, although the prime minister of the resulting National Government was still Ramsay MacDonald. Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley (August 3, 1867 - December 14, 1947) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on three separate occasions. ...
A prime minister may be either: the chief or leading member of the cabinet of the top-level government in a country having a parliamentary system of government; or the official, in countries with a semi-presidential system of government, appointed to manage the civil service and execute the directives...
The Liberals lacked the funds to contest their usual number of seats, but won almost as many as Labour, who nonetheless polled 38% of the votes cast.
| Party | Votes | Seats | Loss/Gain | Share of Vote (%) | | Conservative | 11,377,022 | 473 | + 210 | 55.0 | | Labour | 6,339,306 | 52 | - 225 | 38.0 | | Liberal | 1,346,571 | 32 | - 27 | 6.5 | | National Liberals | 761,705 | 35 | + 35 | 3.7 | | National Labour | 316,741 | 13 | + 13 | 1.5 | | Independent Liberal | 103,528 | 4 | + 4 | 0.5 | | "National" | 100,193 | 4 | + 4 | 0.5 | | Irish Nationalist | 72,530 | 2 | - 1 | 0.4 | | Communist Party | 69,692 | 0 | | 0.3 | | New | 36,377 | 0 | | 0.2 | | National Independent | 33,468 | 2 | + 2 | 0.2 | | National (Scotland) | 20,954 | 0 | | 0.1 | | Independent Labour | 18,200 | 0 | | 0.1 | | Scottish Prohibition | 16,114 | 0 | - 1 | 0.1 | | Independent | 10,789 | 1 | - 3 | 0.0 | | Liverpool Protestant | 7,834 | 0 | | 0.0 | | Agriculturalist | 6,993 | 0 | | 0.0 | | Independent Nationalist | 3,134 | 0 | | 0.0 | | Independent Liberal | 2,578 | 0 | | 0.0 | | Plaid Cymru | 2,050 | 0 | | 0.0 | | Common Wealth Land | 1,347 | 0 | | 0.0 | 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 National Liberals, also known as Liberal Nationals, were a political party in the United Kingdom who broke away from the Liberal Party. ...
This article is about the poltical party that existed from 1931-1945. ...
The Independent Liberal Party was a small group led by the former party leader, David Lloyd George, who refused to work with either those Liberals who entered the National Government, or the offical Liberal Party, which sat in Opposition. ...
In the United Kingdom the term National Government is in an abstract sense used to refer to a coalition of some or all major political parties. ...
The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was a political party in the United Kingdom, which existed from 1920 to 1991. ...
The New Party were a political party briefly active in the United Kingdom in the early 1930s. ...
The National Party of Scotland (NPS) was formed in 1928 after John MacCormick of the Glasgow University Scottish Nationalist Association (GUSNA) called a meeting of all those favouring the establishment of a party favouring Scottish independence. ...
The Scottish Prohibition Party was a minor Scottish political party, represented in the House of Commons by Edwin Scrymgeour from 1922-1931. ...
The Liverpool Protestant Party (LPP) were a minor political party operating in the city of Liverpool in North-West England. ...
Plaid Cymru (literally meaning, Party of Wales) is a left-of-centre (describing itself as socialist and proud of it) Welsh nationalist party. ...
External links
- 1931 Conservative manifesto (http://www.conservativemanifesto.com/1931/1931-conservative-manifesto.shtml)
- 1931 Labour manifesto (http://www.labour-party.org.uk/manifestos/1931/1931-labour-manifesto.shtml)
- 1931 Liberal manifesto (http://www.libdemmanifesto.com/1931/1931-liberal-manifesto.shtml)
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