This article lists the Labour Party's election results from the 1922 United Kingdom general election to 1929, including by-elections.
All candidates were sponsored, in some cases by the Divisional Labour Party (noted as "Constituency"). During this period, full details of the sponsorship of candidates were not reported; where known, they are listed.
Summary of general election performance
Year | Number of candidates | Total votes | Average votes per candidate | % UK vote | Change (percentage points) | Lost deposits | Number of MPs |
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1922 | 414 | 4,237,349 | 10,235 | 29.1 | +8.3 | 7 | 142 |
1923 | 427 | 4,267,831 | 9,994 | 30.7 | +1.6 | 17 | 191 |
1924 | 514 | 5,281,626 | 10,275 | 24.6 | -6.1 | 28 | 151 |
Sponsorship of candidates
Sponsor | Candidates 22 | MPs 22 | Candidates 23 | MPs 23 | Candidates 24 | MPs 24 |
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CLP | unknown | 19 | unknown | 38 | unknown | 24 |
Co-op | 11 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 5 |
Fabian | unknown | 1 | unknown | 2 | unknown | 1 |
ILP | 55 | 32 | 89 | 45 | 87 | 37 |
SDF | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
Trade union | 157 | 86 | 129 | 102 | 144 | 88 |
Details of the sponsorship of candidates by the Co-operative Party and ILP nominees in 1922, 1923 and 1924 were published by those organisations. Other figures were not collected and are therefore not known with certainty, but estimates of the number of trade union-sponsored candidates come from James Parker's Trade unions and the political culture of the British Labour Party, 1931-1940.
Election results
1922 general election
Morel in Dundee and Tout in Oldham were elected by taking second place in a two-seat constituency.
By-elections, 1922–1923
By-election | Candidate | Votes | % | Position | Sponsor |
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1923 Newcastle-upon-Tyne East by-election | Arthur Henderson | 11,066 | 45.7 | 1 | |
1923 Whitechapel and St George's by-election | Harry Gosling | 8,398 | 57.0 | 1 | |
1923 Darlington by-election | Will Sherwood | 11,271 | 43.4 | 2 | |
1923 Mitcham by-election | James Chuter Ede | 8,029 | 38.0 | 1 | |
1923 Liverpool Edge Hill by-election | Jack Hayes | 10,300 | 52.7 | 1 | |
1923 Anglesey by-election | Edward Thomas John | 6,368 | 30.5 | 2 | |
1923 Ludlow by-election | Percy F. Pollard | 1,420 | 7.8 | 3 | ILP |
1923 Berwick-upon-Tweed by-election | Gilbert Oliver | 3,966 | 18.2 | 3 | |
1923 Morpeth by-election | Robert Smillie | 20,053 | 60.5 | 1 | |
1923 Leeds Central by-election | Henry Slesser | 11,359 | 41.4 | 2 | |
1923 Rutland and Stamford by-election | Arthur Sells | 8,406 | 42.9 | 2 | |
1923 Yeovil by-election | William Thomas Kelly | 8,140 | 28.7 | 2 |
1923 general election
By-elections, 1923–1924
By-election | Candidate | Votes | % | Position | Sponsor |
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1924 Burnley by-election | Arthur Henderson | 24,571 | 58.4 | 1 | |
1924 Westminster Abbey by-election | Fenner Brockway | 6,156 | 27.0 | 3 | ILP |
1924 Liverpool West Toxteth by-election | Joseph Gibbins | 15,505 | 27.0 | 3 | Boilermakers |
1924 Glasgow Kelvingrove by-election | Aitken Ferguson | 11,167 | 39.8 | 2 | Boilermakers |
1924 Oxford by-election | Kenneth Lindsay | 2,769 | 13.1 | 3 | |
1924 Lewes by-election | Basil Hall | 6,112 | 33.2 | 2 | |
1924 Holland with Boston by-election | Hugh Dalton | 12,101 | 37.1 | 2 | |
1924 Carmarthen by-election | Edward Teilo Owen | 8,351 | 28.8 | 2 |
1924 general election
By-elections, 1924–1929
References
- ^ Parker, James (2017). Trade unions and the political culture of the Labour Party, 1931-1940 (PDF). Exeter: University of Exeter.
- Rallings, Colin; Thrasher, Michael (2006). British Electoral Facts. Ashgate. p. 74.
- Craig, F. W. S. (1968). British Parliamentary Election Statistics 1918-1968. Glasgow: Political Reference Publications. p. 53. ISBN 0900178000.
- ^ Craig, F. W. S. (1968). British Parliamentary Election Statistics 1918-1968. Glasgow: Political Reference Publications. p. 54. ISBN 0900178000.
- ^ Independent Labour Party, Annual Report (1923), pp. 39–41.
- ^ Robin Page Arnot, The Miners, vol. 2, pp. 550–551.
- ^ "Appendix III: List of sanctioned candidates, June, 1922". Report of the Twenty-second Annual Conference of the Labour Party: 116–126. 1922.. Note that this list is of the sanctioned candidates as of June 1922, and there were some changes between this date and the general election.
- ^ McKillop, Norman (1950). The Lighted Flame; a History of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen. London & Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd.
- Hughes, Fred (1953). By Hand and Brain. London: Lawrence and Wishart.
- ^ Wallace, Malcolm (1996). Single or return. Transport Salaried Staffs' Association. pp. 162–165.
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- ^ Independent Labour Party, Annual Report (1924), pp. 46–51.
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- ^ "Trade unions' "parliamentary panels"". Manchester Guardian. 19 September 1923.
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- ^ "Only five railway union candidates". Manchester Guardian. 19 November 1923.
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- ^ Benney, Mark; Gray, E. P.; Pear, R. H. (1956). How People Vote: A Study of Electoral Behaviour in Greenwich. Routledge. p. 56.
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- ^ Clegg, H. A. (1954). General Union. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. pp. 304–306.
- ^ "Woodworkers' six for Parliament". Manchester Guardian. 28 July 1924.
- Independent Labour Party, Annual Report (1924), pp. 12–13.
- ^ ILP, Annual Report (1925), pp. 57–61.
- ^ Labour Party, Annual Report of the Labour Party Conference (1928), pp. 275–281. Note that this is a list of affiliations of Labour MPs as of September 1928, and it is possible that some MPs held different sponsorship as of the 1924 election.
- ^ "Labour's candidates". Manchester Guardian. 11 October 1924.
- ^ "Seven textile workers' candidates". Manchester Guardian. 15 October 1924.
- "Manchester ready for election". Manchester Guardian. 11 September 1924.
- ^ Labour Party, Report of the Annual Labour Party Conference (1925), pp. 25–27.
- Wallace, Malcolm (1996). Single or return. Transport Salaried Staffs' Association. p. 165.
- ^ Labour Party, "Report of the Annual Labour Party Conference" (1927), pp. 9–13.
- ^ Labour Party, "Report of the Annual Labour Party Conference" (1928), pp. 11–17.
- ^ "By-elections: before the general election". Report of the Annual Labour Party Conference: 15–19. 1929.
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