United Kingdom general election, 1935

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United Kingdom general election, 1935
All 616 seats to the House of Commons
14 November 1935
		First party	Second party	Third party
Leader		Stanley Baldwin	Clement Attlee	Sir Herbert Samuel
Party		Conservative	Labour	Liberal
Leader since		23 May 1923	25 October 1935	1931
Leader's seat		Bewdley	Limehouse	Darwen (defeated)
Last election		473 seats, 55%	52 seats, 30.8%	33 seats, 6.5%
Seats won		386	154	21
Seat change		-83	+102	-12
Popular vote		10,025,083	7,984,988	1,414,010
Percentage		47.8%	38%	6.7%
Swing		%	%	%
Incumbent PM Stanley Baldwin Conservative Subsequent PM Stanley Baldwin Conservative

The UK general election held on 14 November 1935 resulted in a large, though reduced, majority for the National Government now led by Conservative Stanley Baldwin. The greatest number of MPs, as before, were Conservative, while the National Liberal vote held steady. The National Labour vote collapsed, and even leader Ramsay MacDonald lost his seat.

Labour, under what was then regarded internally as the caretaker leadership of Clement Attlee, made large gains over their very poor showing in the 1931 general election. The Liberals continued their slow political demise and lost further ground, with their leader Sir Herbert Samuel losing his own seat (see Liberal Party section).

The Independent Labour Party stood separately from Labour for the first time since 1895, while the Scottish National Party contested their first election, and the Communist Party gained their first parliamentary seat in almost ten years, West Fife.

The major election issues were the continuing unemployment problems and the role of the League of Nations, particularly as regarding the Empire of Japan.

Due to World War II the 1935 elected House was to sit until 1945.

Results

Total votes cast: 20,991,488. All parties shown. Conservatives include Ulster Unionists. Seats won by the Independent Labour Party (ILP) are compared with those won by ILP candidates within Labour in the previous parliament.

References

• F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987
• United Kingdom election results - summary results 1885-1979

See also

• MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1935

External links

• 1935 Conservative manifesto
• 1935 Labour manifesto
• 1935 Liberal manifesto

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