1923 United Kingdom general election

1923 United Kingdom general election

6 December 1923
All 615 seats in the House of Commons 308 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	71.1%, 1.9%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Stanley Baldwin Ramsay MacDonald H. H. Asquith Party Conservative Labour Liberal Leader since 23 May 1923 21 November 1922 30 April 1908 Leader's seat Bewdley Aberavon Paisley Last election 344 seats, 38.5% 142 seats, 29.7% 115 seats, 28.8% Seats won 258 191 158 Seat change 86 49 43 Popular vote 5,286,159 4,267,831 4,129,922 Percentage 38.0% 30.7% 29.7% Swing 0.5% 1.0% 0.9%   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Joseph Devlin Edwin Scrymgeour Party Nationalist Scottish Prohibition Leader since 1918 Unclear Leader's seat N/A Dundee Last election 3 seats, 0.4% 1 seat, 0.1% Seats won 3 1 Seat change Popular vote 54,157 12,877 Percentage 0.4% 0.1% Swing
Colours denote the winning party—as shown in § Results
Prime Minister before election Stanley Baldwin Conservative Appointed Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald Labour

The 1923 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 6 December 1923. The Conservatives, led by Stanley Baldwin, won the most seats, but Labour, led by Ramsay MacDonald, and H. H. Asquith's reunited Liberal Party gained enough seats to produce a hung parliament. It was the last UK general election in which a third party (the Liberals) won more than 100 seats, or received more than 26% of the vote.

MacDonald formed the first ever Labour government with tacit support from the Liberals. Asquith's motivation for permitting Labour to enter power, rather than trying to bring the Liberals back into government, was that he hoped they would prove to be incompetent and quickly lose support. Being a minority, MacDonald's government only lasted ten months and another general election was held in October 1924.

Overview

In May 1923, Prime Minister Bonar Law fell ill and resigned on 22 May, after just 209 days in office. He was replaced by Chancellor of the Exchequer, Stanley Baldwin. The Labour Party had also changed leaders since the previous election, after J. R. Clynes was defeated in a leadership challenge by former leader Ramsay MacDonald.

Having won an election just the year before, Baldwin's Conservative Party had a comfortable majority in the House of Commons and could have waited another four years, but the government was concerned. Baldwin felt the need to receive a mandate from the people, which, if successful, would strengthen his grip on the Conservative Party leadership.

Oxford historian (and Conservative MP) J.A.R. Marriott depicts the gloomy national mood:

The times were still out of joint. Mr. Baldwin had indeed succeeded in negotiating (January 1923) a settlement of the British debt to the United States, but on terms which involved an annual payment of £34 million, at the existing rate of exchange. The French remained in the Ruhr. Peace had not yet been made with Turkey; unemployment was a standing menace to national recovery; there was continued unrest among the wage-earners, and a significant strike among farm labourers in Norfolk.

Confronted by these difficulties, convinced that economic conditions in England called for a drastic change in fiscal policy, and urged thereto by the Imperial Conference of 1923, Mr. Baldwin decided to ask the country for a mandate for Preference and Protection.

The result however backfired on Baldwin, who lost a host of seats to Labour and the Liberals, resulting in a hung parliament. Baldwin attempted to continue in power, hoping that the Liberals would support his government, but they combined with Labour to vote down the King's Speech prepared by Baldwin, causing his government to fall. For the first time in history, Labour formed a government.

Results

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Conservative	Labour	Liberal	O

UK General Election 1923

			Candidates						Votes
Party		Leader	Stood	Elected	Gained	Unseated	Net	% of total	%	No.	Net %
	Conservative	Stanley Baldwin	536	258	23	109	−86	41.95	38.0	5,286,159	−0.5
	Labour	Ramsay MacDonald	427	191	64	15	+49	31.06	30.7	4,267,831	+1.0
	Liberal	H. H. Asquith	457	158	86	43	+43	25.69	29.7	4,129,922	+0.9
	Nationalist	Joseph Devlin	4	3	0	0	0	0.487	0.4	54,157	N/A
	Independent	N/A	6	2	0	1	−1	0.325	0.3	36,802	−0.5
	Communist	Albert Inkpin	4	0	0	1	−1		0.2	34,258	0.0
	Belfast Labour	David Robb Campbell	1	0	0	0	0		0.2	22,255	N/A
	Independent Labour	N/A	4	0	0	1	−1		0.2	17,331	0.0
	Independent Liberal	N/A	3	1	1	1	0		0.1	16,184	0.0
	Constitutionalist	N/A	1	0	0	1	−1		0.1	15,500	0.0
	Ind. Conservative	N/A	1	0	0	3	−3		0.1	15,171	−0.8
	Scottish Prohibition	Edwin Scrymgeour	1	1	0	0	0		0.1	12,877	0.0
	Christian Pacifist	N/A	1	1	1	0	0		0.0	570	N/A

Total votes cast: 13,909,017. Turnout: 71.1%.

Votes summary

Popular vote Conservative   38.01% Labour   30.68% Liberal   29.69% Nationalist   0.39% Independent   0.61% Others   0.60%

Seats summary

Parliamentary seats Conservative   41.95% Labour   31.06% Liberal   25.69% Nationalist   0.5% Independent   0.49% Others   0.31%

Constituency results

For a full list of the results by constituency, see Constituency election results in the 1923 United Kingdom general election.

List of MPs who lost their seat in the 1923 United Kingdom general election

This is a list of MPs who lost their seat at the 1923 United Kingdom general election

Party		Name	Constituency	Office held whilst in Parliament	Year elected	Defeated by	Party
rowspan=50 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Conservative	George Hamilton	Altrincham		1913	Robert Alstead	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Liberal
John Rogerson		Barnard Castle		1922	Moss Turner-Samuels	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Labour
Basil Peto		Barnstaple		1922	Tudor Rees	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Liberal
Arthur Richard Holbrook		Basingstoke		1920	Reginald Fletcher	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Liberal
Charles Foxcroft		Bath		1918	Frank Raffety	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Liberal
William Henry Stott		Birkenhead West		1922	William Henry Egan	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Labour
Guy Paget		Bosworth		1922	George Ward	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Liberal
Archibald Boyd-Carpenter		Bradford North	Paymaster-General (1923-1924)	1918	Walter Rea	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Liberal
Robert Sanders		Bridgwater	Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries (1922-1924)	January 1910	William Morse	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Liberal
Davison Dalziel		Brixton		January 1910	Frederick Joseph Laverack	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Liberal
Lewis Lougher		Cardiff East		1922	Sir Henry Webb, 1st Baronet	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Liberal
Herbert Cory		Cardiff South		1915	Arthur Henderson	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Labour
E. G. Pretyman		Chelmsford	Civil Lord of the Admiralty (1916-1919)	1908	Sydney Robinson	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Liberal
William Bird		Chichester		1921	Charles Rudkin	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Liberal
Park Goff		Cleveland		1918	Sir Charles Starmer	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Liberal
Edward Manville		Coventry		1918	A. A. Purcell	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Labour
Frank Sanderson		Darwen		1922	Frederick Hindle	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Liberal
Cory Bell		Devizes		1918	Eric Macfadyen	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Liberal
Charles Crook		East Ham North		1922	Susan Lawrence	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Labour
Patrick Ford		Edinburgh North		1920	Peter Raffan	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Liberal
Thomas Fermor-Hesketh		Enfield		1922	William Henderson	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Liberal
Frank Hilder		South East Essex		1918	Philip Hoffman	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Labour
John Pretyman Newman		Finchley		January 1910	T. Atholl Robertson	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Liberal
Martin Archer-Shee		Finsbury		January 1910	George Gillett	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Labour
Percy Hurd		Frome		1918	Frederick Gould	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Labour
John Molson		Gainsborough		1918	Richard Winfrey MP	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Liberal
Allen Smith		Croydon South, contesting Glasgow Partick		1919	Andrew Young	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Liberal
Alexander Richardson		Gravesend		1918	George Isaacs	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Labour
George Hume		Greenwich		1918	Edward Timothy Palmer	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Labour
Sir Raymond Greene, 2nd Baronet		Hackney North		January 1910	John Harris	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Liberal
Clifford Erskine-Bolst		Hackney South		1922	Herbert Morrison	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Labour
Sir Keith Fraser, 5th Baronet		Harborough		1918	John Wycliffe Black	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Liberal
J. C. C. Davidson		Hemel Hempstead	Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1923-1924)	1920	John Freeman Dunn	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Liberal
Douglas Clifton Brown		Hexham		1918	Victor Finney	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Liberal
Charles Murchison		Huntingdonshire		1918	Leonard Costello	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Liberal
John Ganzoni		Ipswich		1914	Robert Jackson	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Labour
Austin Hudson		Islington East		1922	Arthur Comyns Carr	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Liberal
Charles Garland		Islington South		1922	William Sampson Cluse	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Labour
James Despencer-Robertson		Islington West		1922	Frederick Montague	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Labour
Owen Parker		Kettering		1922	Samuel Perry	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Labour
Neville Jodrell		King's Lynn		1918	George Woodwark	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Liberal
Walter Elliot		Lanark		1918	Thomas Scott Dickson	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Labour
John Joseph O'Neill		Lancaster		1922	John Edward Singleton	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Liberal
Arthur Evans		Leicester East		1922	George Banton	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Labour
William George Waterhouse Reynolds		Leicester South		1922	Ronald Wilberforce Allen	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Liberal
Ernest Edward Alexander		Leyton East		1922	Archibald Church	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Labour
Harold Smith		Liverpool Wavertree		December 1910	Hugh Rathbone	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Liberal
Sir Reginald Hall		Liverpool West Derby		1919	Sydney Jones	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Liberal
Nigel Kennedy		Lonsdale		1922	Henry Maden	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Liberal
John Prescott Hewett		Luton		1922	Geoffrey Howard	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Liberal
rowspan=16 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Liberal	Arthur Murray	Kincardine & Western Aberdeenshire		1908	Malcolm Barclay-Harvey	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Conservative
John Hancock		Belper		1909	Herbert Wragg	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Conservative
Walter Waring		Berwick and Haddington		1907	Robert Spence	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Labour
Garnham Edmonds		Bethnal Green North East		1922	Walter Windsor	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Labour
William Edge		Bolton		1916	Albert Law	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Labour
Harold Morris		Bristol East		1922	Walter John Baker	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Labour
Henry Guest		Bristol North		1922	Walter Ayles	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Labour
Algernon Moreing		Camborne		1918	Leif Jones	style="background-color: Template:Independent Liberal/meta/color" |	Independent Liberal
Ernest Evans		Cardiganshire		1921	Rhys Hopkin Morris	style="background-color: Template:Independent Liberal/meta/color" |	Independent Liberal
Charles Roberts		Derby	Comptroller of the Household (1915-1916)	1922	William Raynes	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Labour
Alexander Lyle-Samuel		Eye		1918	William Vanneck, 5th Baron Huntingfield	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Conservative
Robert Pattinson		Grantham		1922	Victor Warrender	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Conservative
Audley Bowdler		Holderness		1922	Samuel Savery	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Conservative
Arthur Marshall		Huddersfield		1922	James Hindle Hudson	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Labour
Sir Robert Hutchison		Kirkcaldy Burghs		1922	Tom Kennedy	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Labour
John Murray		Leeds West		1918	Thomas William Stamford	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Labour
rowspan=9 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Labour	Charles Buxton	Accrington		1922	J. Hugh Edwards	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Liberal
Alfred Salter		Bermondsey West		1922	Roderick Kedward	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Liberal
Andrew MacLaren		Burslem		1922	William Edward Robinson	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Liberal
Robert Jones		Caernarvonshire		1922	Goronwy Owen	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Liberal
Ben Riley		Dewsbury		1922	Edmund Harvey	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Liberal
William C. Robinson		Elland		1922	Sir Robert Kay	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Liberal
John Brotherton		Gateshead		1922	John Purcell Dickie	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Liberal
John Primrose Hay		Glasgow Cathcart		1922	Robert MacDonald	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Conservative
Hastings Lees-Smith		Keighley		1922	Robert Pilkington	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Liberal
rowspan=1 style="background-color: Template:Constitutionalist (UK)/meta/color" |	Constitutionalist	George Jarrett	Dartford		1922	John Edmund Mills	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Labour
rowspan=1 style="background-color: Template:Independent Liberal/meta/color" |	Independent Liberal	J. R. M. Butler	Cambridge University		1922	Geoffrey G. Butler	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Conservative
rowspan=1 style="background-color: Template:Communist Party of Great Britain/meta/color" |	Communist	Shapurji Saklatvala	Battersea North		1922	Henry Hogbin	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Liberal

Transfers of seats

• All comparisons are with the 1922 election.
  • In some cases the change is due to the MP defecting to the gaining party. Such circumstances are marked with a *.
  • In other circumstances the change is due to the seat having been won by the gaining party in a by-election in the intervening years, and then retained in 1923. Such circumstances are marked with a †.

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From		To		No.	Seats
rowspan=2 bgcolor="Template:Communist Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Communist style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" |	Liberal	1	Battersea North
Conservative		1	Motherwell
rowspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Labour style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" |	Labour (HOLD)	124	Aberdeen North, Ayrshire South, Bishop Auckland, Chester-le-Street, Derby (one of two), Dundee (one of two), Edinburgh Central, Fife West, Govan, Hamilton, Houghton-le-Spring, Workington, Plaistow, Forest of Dean, Burnley, Nelson and Colne, Preston (one of two), Ince, Platting, Westhoughton, Wigan, Salford North, Newton, St Helens, Holland with Boston, Deptford, Woolwich East, Morpeth, Broxtowe, Nottingham West, Kingswinford, Leek, Smethwick, Wednesbury, West Bromwich, Hemsworth, Leeds South East, Normanton, Rother Valley, Rothwell, Wentworth, Abertillery, Bedwellty, Ebbw Vale, Pontypool, Caerphilly, Gower, Ogmore, Rhondda East, Rhondda West, Glasgow Gorbals, Manchester Gorton, Cannock, East Ham South, Walthamstow West, Leicester West, Wallsend, Hanley, Bradford East, Don Valley, Aberdare, Silvertown, Midlothian South & Peebles, Derbyshire North East, Spennymoor, Seaham, Consett, Leigh, Whitechapel and St Georges, Wansbeck, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Dunfermline Burghs, Renfrewshire East, Renfrewshire West, Rutherglen, Dumbarton Burghs, Glasgow Bridgeton, Crewe, Clay Cross, Ilkeston, Blaydon, Jarrow, Poplar South, Stepney Limehouse, Pontefract, Sheffield Hillsborough, Sheffield Attercliffe, Sheffield Brightside, Leeds South, Doncaster, Barnsley, Batley and Morley, Colne Valley, Wrexham, Llanelli, Aberavon, Merthyr, Neath, Swansea East, Norfolk North, Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire, Stirlingshire West, Lanarkshire North, Glasgow Maryhill, Glasgow Camlachie, Bothwell†, Coatbridge, Glasgow Springburn, Glasgow Tradeston, Glasgow St. Rollox, Glasgow Shettleston, Linlithgow, Durham, Stratford, Eccles, Farnworth, Manchester Ardwick, Oldham (one of two), Bow and Bromley, Camberwell North, Edmonton, Tottenham North, Newcastle upon Tyne Central, Bradford Central
Liberal		12	Accrington, Bermondsey West, Burslem, Carnarvonshire, Dewsbury, Elland, Gateshead, Keighley, Newcastle upon Tyne East, Newcastle upon Tyne West, Rochdale, Stirling and Falkirk
Conservative		2	Cathcart, Sedgefield
Independent Labour style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" |	Liberal	1	Anglesey†
Scottish Prohibition style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: purple;" data-sort-value="Scottish Prohibition Party" |	Scottish Prohibition	1	Dundee (one of two)
Nationalist style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #32cd32;" data-sort-value="Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland)" |	Nationalist	3	Fermanagh and Tyrone (both seats), Liverpool Scotland
rowspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Liberal style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" |	Labour	5	Bethnal Green North-East, Derby (one of two), Huddersfield, Leeds West, Mansfield
Liberal (HOLD)		45	Greenock, Paisley, Leith, Edinburgh East, Chesterfield, Hull South West, Lambeth North, Wolverhampton East, Middlesbrough West, Penistone, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire, Orkney and Shetland, East Aberdeenshire & Kincardineshire, Galloway, South Molton, South Shields, Spen Valley, Combined Scottish Universities (one of three), Aberdeen and Kincardine Central†, Forfarshire, Fife East, Edinburgh West, Dumfriesshire, Bedfordshire Mid, Birkenhead East, Tavistock, Dorset North, The Hartlepools, Harwich, Isle of Wight, Hull Central, Preston (one of two), Bootle, Horncastle, Bethnal Green South-West, Great Yarmouth, Nottingham Central, Oxford, Taunton, Chippenham, Westbury, Bradford South, Louth, Walsall
Conservative		8	Aberdeenshire West and Kincardine, Penrith and Cockermouth, Belper, Derbyshire West, Worcester, Holderness, Grantham, Norfolk South West
rowspan="5" bgcolor="Template:National Liberal Party (UK, 1922)/meta/color" |	National Liberal style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" |	Labour	20	Kirkcaldy Burghs, Glasgow Partick, Kilmarnock, Berwick & Haddington, Bristol East, Bristol North, Dartford, Bolton (one of two), Leicester East, Shoreditch, Southwark North, Southwark South East, Norwich (both seats), Northampton, Wellingborough, Lichfield, Shipley, Pontypridd†, Swansea West
Liberal		26	Caithness and Sutherland*, Inverness*, Ross and Cromarty*, Western Isles, Banff*, Montrose Burghs*, Argyll*, Stockport (one of two), Cornwall North*, Stockton-on-Tees, Bristol South*, Blackburn (one of two), Heywood and Radcliffe*, Oldham (one of two)*, Stretford, Camberwell North-West*, Hackney Central, Southwark Central*, Stoke*, Denbigh, Flintshire*, Carmarthen, Pembrokeshire*, Carnarvon*, Brecon and Radnor*, Combined English Universities (one of two)*
Independent Liberal		2	Camborne, Cardiganshire
		Christian Pacifist	1	University of Wales
rowspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |		Conservative	5	Moray and Nairn, Kinross and West Perthshire, Romford, Middleton & Prestwich, Sheffield Park
Independent Liberal	2		Eye, Cambridge University (one of two)
Independent style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent politician" |	Independent	2	Mossley, Harrow
Speaker style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom)" |	Speaker	1	Halifax
rowspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Conservative style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" |	Labour	40	Dunbartonshire, Lanark, Midlothian & Peebles North, Reading, Birkenhead West, Barnard Castle, Leyton East, East Ham North, Essex SE, Maldon, Upton, Gravesend, Manchester Clayton, Salford South, Salford West, Warrington, Liverpool Edge Hill†, Greenwich, Kennington, Hammersmith North, Finsbury, Hackney South, Islington South, Islington West, Stepney Mile End, Rotherhithe, St Pancras North, St Pancras South East, Norfolk South, Kettering, The Wrekin, Frome, Ipswich, Coventry, Enfield, Tottenham South, Willesden West, Wakefield, Rotherham, Cardiff South
Liberal		69	Perth, Edinburgh North, Luton, Abingdon, Newbury, Aylesbury, Wycombe, Huntingdonshire, Isle of Ely, Altrincham, Stalybridge and Hyde, Wirral, Penryn and Falmouth, St Ives, Barnstaple, Plymouth Devonport, Tiverton, Torquay, Totnes, Chelmsford, Stroud, Thornbury, Basingstoke, Portsmouth Central, Hemel Hempstead, Sevenoaks, Blackpool, Darwen, Lancaster, Lonsdale, Manchester Blackley, Manchester Exchange, Manchester Moss Side, Manchester Rusholme, Manchester Withington, Royton, Liverpool Wavertree, Liverpool West Derby, Southport, Bosworth, Harborough, Leicester South, Gainsborough, Hackney North, Brixton, Islington East, Stoke Newington, King's Lynn, Norfolk East, Hexham, Nottingham East, Shrewsbury, Bath, Bridgwater, Wells, Weston-super-Mare, Sudbury, Chichester, Nuneaton, Rugby, Finchley, Willesden East†, Devizes, Salisbury, Cleveland, Middlesbrough East, Bradford North, Sowerby, Cardiff East
Conservative (HOLD)		226	Cambridge University (one of two), Combined English Universities (one of two), Oxford University (both seats), London University, Combined Scottish Universities (two of three), Aberdeen South, Ayr Burghs, Ayrshire N & Bute, Glasgow Central, Hillhead, Pollok, Kelvingrove, Edinburgh South, Windsor, Buckingham, Cambridge, Chester, Eddisbury, Knutsford, Macclesfield, Northwich, Wallasey, Cumberland North, Westmorland, High Peak, Exeter, Honiton, Plymouth Drake, Plymouth Sutton, Dorset South, Dorset West, Darlington, Sunderland (both seats), Colchester, Epping, Ilford, Leyton West, Southend, Walthamstow E, Bristol Central, Bristol West, Cheltenham, Cirencester and Tewkesbury, Gloucester, Aldershot, Fareham, New Forest & Christchurch, Petersfield, Portsmouth North, Portsmouth South, Winchester, Hereford, Leominster, Bewdley, Dudley, Evesham, Kidderminster, Hitchin, St Albans, Watford, Ealing, Hornsey, Twickenham, Wood Green, Brentford and Chiswick, Hendon, Spelthorne, Uxbridge, Acton, Howdenshire, Hull East, Hull North West, Ashford, Bromley, Canterbury, Chatham, Chislehurst, Dover, Faversham, Gillingham, Hythe, Isle of Thanet, Maidstone, Tonbridge, Barrow-in-Furness, Blackburn (one of two), Chorley, Fylde, Rossendale, Ashton-under-Lyne, Bury, Hulme, E Toxteth, Everton, Liverpool Exchange, Fairfield, Kirkdale, Walton, West Toxteth, Waterloo, Widnes, Melton, Brigg, Grimsby, Lincoln, Rutland and Stamford, Balham and Tooting, Chelsea, Clapham, Dulwich, Fulham East, Hampstead, Holborn, Lewisham East, Lewisham West, Kensington South, Fulham West, Hammersmith South, Islington North, Kensington North, Battersea South, City of London (both seats), Norwood, Paddington North, Paddington South, Putney, St Marylebone, St Pancras South West, Streatham, Wandsworth Central, Westminster Abbey, Woolwich West, Daventry, Peterborough, Newcastle upon Tyne North, Tynemouth, Bassetlaw, Nottingham South, Rushcliffe, Newark, Henley, Ludlow, Oswestry, Yeovil, Burton, Stafford, Stone, Tamworth, Bilston, Wolverhampton West, Bury St Edmunds, Woodbridge, Chertsey, Croydon North, Croydon South, Epsom, Farnham, Guildford, Kingston upon Thames, Mitcham, Reigate, Surrey East, Wimbledon, Brighton (both seats), East Grinstead, Eastbourne, Hastings, Horsham and Worthing, Lewes, Rye, Aston, Deritend, Erdington, King's Norton, Ladywood, Yardley, Sparkbrook, Birmingham West, Edgbaston, Handsworth, Moseley, Warwick and Leamington, Swindon, York, Richmond (Yorks), Scarborough and Whitby, Thirsk and Malton, Barkston Ash, Ripon, Ecclesall, Hallam, Skipton, Leeds North East, Sheffield Central, Monmouth, Llandaff & Barry, Cardiff C, Bournemouth, Hertford, Bedford, Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire South, Southampton (both seats), Buckrose, Peckham, Banbury, Lowestoft, Pudsey and Otley, Leeds North, Leeds Central, Newport (Monmouthshire), Bodmin, Saffron Walden, Stourbridge, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Birmingham Duddeston, Stockport (one of two), Clitheroe, Ormskirk, Bolton (one of two)
rowspan=2 bgcolor="Template:Independent Conservative/meta/color" |	Ind. Conservative style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	2	Westminster St George's, Richmond (Surrey)*
Ind. Conservative		1	Dorset East
UUP style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" |	UUP	11	Antrim (both seats), Armagh, Belfast East, Belfast North, Belfast South, Belfast West, Down (both seats), Londonderry, Queen's University of Belfast

See also

• List of MPs elected in the 1923 United Kingdom general election

References

Sources

• Craig, F. W. S. (1989), British Electoral Facts: 1832–1987, Dartmouth: Gower, ISBN 0900178302
• Doerr, Paul W., British foreign policy 1919–1939
• Marriott, J. A. R., Modern England: 1885–1945 (1948 ed.)

Further reading

• Cook, Chris P. (1969), "Wales and the General Election of 1923", Welsh History Review, 4 (4): 393–4
• Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1975), British General Election Manifestos, 1900-74
• Irwin, Douglas A. (1995), Industry or Class Cleavages over Trade Policy? Evidence from the British General Election of 1923 (PDF), National Bureau of Economic Research
• Self, Robert (1992), "Conservative reunion and the general election of 1923: a reassessment", Twentieth Century British History, 3 (3): 249–273
• Smart, Nick (1996), "Baldwin's Blunder? The General Election of 1923", Twentieth Century British History, 7 (1): 110–139

External links

• United Kingdom election results—summary results 1885–1979

Manifestos

• 1923 Conservative manifesto
• 1923 Labour manifesto
• 1923 Liberal manifesto