Constituency election results in the 1945 United Kingdom general election
This is an incomplete alphabetical list of constituency election results to the 38th Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1945 general election, held in July 1945.
36th Parliament | (1931) |
37th Parliament | (1935) |
38th Parliament | (1945) |
39th Parliament | (1950) |
40th Parliament | (1951) |
Notes
- Change in % vote and swing is calculated between the winner and second place and their respective performances at the 1935 election. A plus denotes a swing to the winner and a minus against the winner.
England
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Oliver Lyttelton | 19,456 | 57.4 | -16.0 | |
Common Wealth | Tom Wintringham | 14,435 | 42.6 | n/a | |
Majority | 5,021 | 14.8 | -32.0 | ||
Turnout | 33,891 | 69.2 | n/a | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | n/a |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Common Wealth | Ernest Millington | 27,309 | 46.7 | n/a | |
Conservative | Hubert Ashton | 25,229 | 43.2 | -27.6 | |
Liberal | Hilda Buckmaster | 5,909 | 10.1 | n/a | |
Majority | 2,080 | 3.6 | |||
Turnout | 73.4 | +8.0 | |||
Common Wealth gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
- ignores by-election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Lancelot Joynson-Hicks | 30,989 | 54.6 | -23.7 | |
Labour | Rosalie Francesca Chamberlayne | 13,670 | 24.1 | +2.4 | |
Liberal | Gerald Kidd | 11,345 | 20.0 | n/a | |
National Independent | MH Woodard | 625 | 1.1 | n/a | |
Democratic | Paul Tracy Carter | 118 | 0.2 | n/a | |
Majority | 17,319 | 30.5 | -26.1 | ||
Turnout | 68.2 | +8.7 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | -13.0 |
- ignores by-election in 1942
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Rupert De la Bère | 17,835 | 53.4 | -11.7 | |
Liberal | Duncan McGuffie | 7,849 | 23.5 | +10.4 | |
Common Wealth | Desmond Donnelly | 7,727 | 23.1 | n/a | |
Majority | 9,986 | 29.9 | -13.4 | ||
Turnout | 63.3 | -3.1 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | -11.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Alfred Bossom | 21,320 | 53.3 | -19.2 | |
Labour | Otto Leslie Shaw | 18,295 | 45.7 | +18.2 | |
Democratic | G Murray | 416 | 1.0 | n/a | |
Majority | 3,025 | 7.6 | -37.4 | ||
Turnout | 71.0 | +3.6 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | -18.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | George Jeffreys | 20,838 | 58.4 | -20.7 | |
Liberal | Basil Goldstone | 8,269 | 23.2 | n/a | |
Common Wealth | Thomas Sargant | 6,600 | 18.5 | n/a | |
Majority | 12,569 | 35.2 | -22.9 | ||
Turnout | 64.4 | +1.0 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | n/a |
- ignores by-election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Julian Snow | 14,745 | 55.3 | +25.4 | |
Conservative | Ralph Beaumont | 11,345 | 42.6 | -17.4 | |
Democratic | Walter R C Foster | 561 | 2.1 | n/a | |
Majority | 3,400 | 12.7 | 42.8 | ||
Turnout | 73.5 | +2.4 | |||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +21.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Donald Bruce | 15,352 | 51.1 | +17.7 | |
Conservative | Greville Howard | 14,310 | 47.6 | -19.0 | |
Democratic | John Edward Vincent Keast | 388 | 1.3 | n/a | |
Majority | 1,042 | 3.5 | 36.7 | ||
Turnout | 75.4 | +10.5 | |||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +18.3 | |||
- ignores by-election in 1943
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Peter Roberts | 18,120 | 54.0 | -19.4 | |
Common Wealth | Sydney Checkland | 12,045 | 35.9 | n/a | |
Liberal | Philip Rodney Nightingale | 3,391 | 10.1 | n/a | |
Majority | 6,075 | 18.1 | -29.1 | ||
Turnout | 75.6 | -4.6 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | n/a |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Robert Turton | 20,483 | 60.1 | n/a | |
Common Wealth | Edward Moeran | 13,572 | 39.8 | n/a | |
Majority | 6,911 | 20.3 | n/a | ||
Turnout | 65.5 | n/a | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | n/a |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Harold Webbe | 9,160 | 54.4 | -23.1 | |
Labour | Jeremy Hutchinson | 4,408 | 26.1 | +3.6 | |
Communist | G. Billy Carritt | 2,964 | 17.6 | n/a | |
Democratic | Norman Leith-Hay-Clark | 326 | 1.9 | n/a | |
Majority | 4,752 | 28.3 | -6.5 | ||
Turnout | 28,823 | 58.5 | +28.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | n/a |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Arthur Howard | 13,086 | 67.2 | -17.4 | |
Common Wealth | Wilfred Brown | 5,314 | 27.3 | n/a | |
Independent | Dorothy Crisp | 1,069 | 5.5 | n/a | |
Majority | 7,772 | 39.9 | -29.3 | ||
Turnout | 19,469 | 57.2 | +2.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | n/a |
Scotland
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Hector Hughes | 26,753 | 69.7 | +21.0 | |
Unionist | Grant of Monymusk | 9,623 | 25.1 | -15.1 | |
SNP | Austin William Walker | 2,021 | 5.3 | n/a | |
Majority | 17,130 | 44.6 | +36.1 | ||
Turnout | 67.5 | +1.6 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | +18.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Frederick Pethick-Lawrence | 19,300 | 56.4 | +13.2 | |
Unionist | William Angus Sinclair | 12,771 | 37.3 | -2.3 | |
SNP | Frederick C Yeaman | 2,149 | 6.3 | n/a | |
Majority | 6,529 | 19.1 | +15.5 | ||
Turnout | 69.6 | +1.0 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | +7.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John Williams | 12,273 | 46.0 | -2.1 | |
Unionist | Walter Elliot | 12,185 | 45.7 | -3.0 | |
SNP | Hugh MacDiarmid | 1,314 | 4.9 | n/a | |
Liberal | Charles John Edwin Morgan | 919 | 3.4 | +0.2 | |
Majority | 88 | 0.3 | +0.9 | ||
Turnout | 61.7 | -10.8 | |||
Labour gain from Unionist | Swing | +0.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Thomas Hubbard | 15,401 | 45.0 | -11.3 | |
Unionist | Christopher Guest | 10,099 | 29.5 | -14.2 | |
SNP | Douglas Young | 5,811 | 17.0 | n/a | |
Communist | John McArthur | 2,898 | 8.47 | n/a | |
Majority | 5,302 | 15.5 | +2.9 | ||
Turnout | 34,209 | 76.4 | -3.5 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +1.4 |
- ignores the by-election of 1944
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Alexander Anderson | 15,831 | 52.7 | +2.0 | |
SNP | Robert McIntyre | 8,022 | 26.7 | n/a | |
Unionist | J. H. Hamilton | 6,197 | 20.6 | -28.7 | |
Majority | 7,809 | 26.0 | +24.7 | ||
Turnout | 72.8 | -3.1 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | n/a |
- ignores the by-election of April 1945
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Alan Gomme-Duncan | 22,484 | 63.1 | -10.6 | |
Labour | William Hughes | 11,617 | 32.6 | +6.3 | |
SNP | James Blair Brown | 1,547 | 4.3 | n/a | |
Majority | 10,867 | 30.5 | +16.9 | ||
Turnout | 65.7 | +1.6 | |||
Unionist hold | Swing | -8.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Thomas Scollan | 15,050 | 48.9 | +10.1 | |
Unionist | Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn | 13,836 | 44.9 | -4.8 | |
SNP | Robert Blair Wilkie | 1,995 | 6.3 | -5.2 | |
Majority | 1,214 | 3.9 | 14.8 | ||
Turnout | 30,841 | 70.0 | -11.2 | ||
Labour gain from Unionist | Swing | +7.4 | |||
Wales
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | David Price-White | 11,432 | 32.9 | -0.5 | |
Liberal | Seaborne Davies | 11,096 | 32.0 | -34.6 | |
Labour | Elwyn Jones | 10,625 | 30.6 | n/a | |
Plaid Cymru | John Edward Daniel | 1,560 | 4.5 | n/a | |
Majority | 336 | 0.9 | 34.1 | ||
Turnout | 34,713 | 73.8 | +15.0 | ||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | ||||
- ignores the by-election of May 1945
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Goronwy Roberts | 22,043 | 55.3 | +10.8 | |
Liberal | Goronwy Owen | 15,637 | 39.3 | -9.3 | |
Plaid Cymru | Ambrose Bebb | 2,152 | 5.4 | -1.5 | |
Majority | 6,406 | 16.1 | 20.1 | ||
Turnout | 77.7 | +2.8 | |||
Labour gain from Liberal | Swing | +10.0 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Emrys Roberts | 8,495 | 35.8 | -4.2 | |
Labour | Huw Morris Jones | 8,383 | 35.4 | +0.2 | |
Conservative | Craig Parry Hughes | 4,374 | 18.5 | -6.3 | |
Plaid Cymru | Gwynfor Evans | 2,448 | 10.3 | n/a | |
Majority | 112 | 0.4 | -4.5 | ||
Turnout | 82.2 | +0.6 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | -2.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | D. J. Williams | 37,957 | 75.8 | n/a | |
Liberal National | David J Bowen | 8,466 | 16.9 | n/a | |
Plaid Cymru | Wynne Samuel | 3,659 | 7.3 | n/a | |
Majority | 29,491 | 58.9 | n/a | ||
Turnout | 75.7 | n/a | |||
Labour hold | Swing | n/a |
- ignores the by-election of May 1945
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Edward Williams | 32,715 | 76.4 | n/a | |
National | Owen Glyndwr Davies | 7,712 | 18.0 | n/a | |
Plaid Cymru | Trefor Richard Morgan | 2,379 | 5.6 | n/a | |
Majority | 25,003 | 58.4 | n/a | ||
Turnout | 75.7 | n/a | |||
Labour hold | Swing | n/a |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | William Mainwaring | 16,733 | 48.4 | – 13.4 | |
Communist | Harry Pollitt | 15,761 | 45.5 | + 7.3 | |
Plaid Cymru | James Kitchener Davies | 2,123 | 6.1 | n/a | |
Majority | 972 | 2.9 | – 20.7 | ||
Turnout | 82.8 | + 2.0 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | -10.3 |
Universities
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | William John Gruffydd | 5,239 | 75.5 | +4.2 | |
Plaid Cymru | Gwenan Jones | 1,696 | 24.5 | n/a | |
Majority | 3,543 | 51.0 | +28.4 | ||
Turnout | 6,935 | 58.5 | -3.8 | ||
Liberal hold | Swing | n/a |
- ignores the by-election of 1943
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References
- Archived 25 May 2015 at the Wayback Machine UK General Election results 1945 [Archive]
- British Parliamentary Election Results 1918–1949, FWS Craig
- "UK General Election results July 1945". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
- Kimber, Richard. "UK General Election results July 1945". Political Science Resources. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
- http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/area/uk/ge45/i13.htm
- Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
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