Election results of women standing for the Parliament of the United Kingdom (to 1945)

This is a list of women who stood in general elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom up to and including the 1945 general election.

22 of the women standing in the 1923 general election

Summary of general election candidates

Year	Number of Candidates[1]	Number of MPs
1918	17	1
1922	33	2
1923	34	8
1924	41	4
1929	69	14
1931	62	15
1935	67	9
1945	87	24

Year	Conservative[1]		Labour[1]		Liberal[1]		Independent[2]		Other parties[2]
	Candidates	MPs	Candidates	MPs	Candidates	MPs	Candidates	MPs	Candidates	MPs
1918	1	0	4	0	4	0	5	0	3	1
1922	5	1	10	0	16	1	2	0	0	0
1923	7	3	14	3	12	2	1	0	0	0
1924	12	3	22	1	6	0	1	0	0	0
1929	10	3	30	9	25	1	1	1	3	0
1931	16	13	36	0	5	1	1	1	4	0
1935	19	6	33	1	11	1	2	1	2	0
1945	14	1	41	21	20	1	7	1	5	0

Unionist candidates or MPs in Scottish constituencies were counted as Conservatives.

Election results

1918 UK general election

Party		Constituency	Name	Votes	%	Position
	Conservative	Kennington	Alice Lucas	3,573	32.2	2
	Independent	Brentford and Chiswick	Ray Strachey	1,263	9.7	3
	Independent	Chelsea	Emily Frost Phipps	2,419	20.9	2
	Independent	Glasgow Bridgeton	Eunice Murray	991	5.0	3
	Independent	Hendon	Edith How-Martyn	2,067	10.5	3
	Independent	Richmond (Surrey)	Norah Dacre Fox	3,615	20.4	2
	Labour	Battersea North	Charlotte Despard	5,634	33.4	2
	Labour	Manchester Rusholme	Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence	2,985	15.6	3
	Labour	Stourbridge	Mary Anderson	7,587	32.7	3
	Labour	University of Wales	Millicent Mackenzie	176	19.2	2
	Liberal	Enfield	Janet McEwan	1,987	12.1	3
	Liberal	Birmingham Ladywood	Margery Corbett Ashby	1,552	11.5	3
	Liberal	Mansfield	Violet Carruthers	4,000	19.5	3
	Liberal	Portsmouth South	Alison Garland	4,283	18.5	2
	Sinn Féin	Belfast Victoria	Winifred Carney	539	4.1	3
	Sinn Féin	Dublin St Patrick's	Constance Markievicz	7,835	65.9	1
	Women's Party	Smethwick	Christabel Pankhurst	8,614	47.8	2

By-elections, 1918-1922

Party		Election	Name	Votes	%	Position
	Conservative	1919 Plymouth Sutton by-election	Nancy Astor	14,495	51.9	1
	Labour	1920 Camberwell North West by-election	Susan Lawrence	4,733	32.1	2
	Labour	1920 Northampton by-election	Margaret Bondfield	13,279	44.4	2
	Liberal	1921 Louth by-election	Margaret Wintringham	8,386	42.2	1

1922 UK general election

Party		Constituency	Name[3]	Votes	%	Position
	Conservative	Camberwell North	Helen Gwynne-Vaughan	8,066	49.2	2
	Conservative	Denbigh	Lesley Venetia Elizabeth Brodrick	9,138	37.9	2
	Conservative	Ogmore	Dorothy Caroline Edmondes	6,577	20.1	3
	Conservative	Plymouth Sutton	Nancy Astor	13,924	47.4	1
	Conservative	Walsall	Alice Cooper	14,349	37.8	2
	Independent	Brentford and Chiswick	Ray Strachey	7,804	43.5	2
	Independent	Liverpool East Toxteth	Eleanor Rathbone	9,984	39.7	2
	Labour	Acton	Mary Richardson	5,342	26.2	2
	Labour	Chelmsford	Clara Rackham	3,767	17.6	3
	Labour	East Ham North	Susan Lawrence	6,747	27.8	2
	Labour	East Surrey	Marjorie Pease	3,667	22.7	2
	Labour	Islington North	Edith Picton-Turbervill	7,993	27.8	2
	Labour	Islington East	Ethel Bentham	5,900	22.7	3
	Labour	Lambeth North	Barbara Ayrton-Gould	3,353	17.8	3
	Labour	Northampton	Margaret Bondfield	14,498	37.9	2
	Labour	University of Wales	Olive Wheeler	309	24.8	3
	Labour Co-op	Birmingham King's Norton	Eleanor Barton	7,017	32.8	2
	Liberal	Bedford	Mary Camilla Lawson	2,075	7.8	4
	Liberal	Dartford	Alison Garland	2,175	6.5	3
	Liberal	Devizes	Hilda Beatrice Currie	6,576	40.7	2
	Liberal	Glasgow Maryhill	Annie Burnett Smith	3,617	13.1	3
	Liberal	High Peak	Anna Barlow	5,802	20.4	3
	Liberal	Huntingdonshire	Lina Scott Gatty	5,123	25.7	2
	Liberal	Louth, Lincolnshire	Margaret Wintringham	11,609	52.0	1
	Liberal	Oldham	Mary Emmott	6,186	7.0	5
	Liberal	Richmond (Surrey)	Margery Corbett Ashby	5,765	24.1	3
	Liberal	Waterloo	Nessie Stewart-Brown	6,300	32.7	2
	Liberal	Westminster St George's	Mary Sophia Allen	1,303	6.5	3
	Liberal	Wycombe	Vera Terrington	11,154	35.8	2
	National Liberal	Edinburgh South	Catherine Alderton	7,408	33.3	2
	National Liberal	Forest of Dean	Winifred Coombe Tennant	3,861	18.7	3
	National Liberal	Glasgow Govan	Helen Fraser	9,336	37.7	2
	National Liberal	Leeds South East	Mary Grant	9,554	41.1	2

By-elections, 1922-1923

Party		Election	Name	Votes	%	Position
	Conservative	1923 Berwick-upon-Tweed by-election	Mabel Philipson	12,000	55.0	1

1923 UK general election

Party		Constituency	Name[4]	Votes	%	Position
	Conservative	Berwick-upon-Tweed	Mabel Philipson	10,636	48.0	1
	Conservative	Camberwell North	Helen Gwynne-Vaughan	5,934	35.8	2
	Conservative	Ince	Rachel Parsons	6,262	26.5	2
	Conservative	Plymouth Sutton	Nancy Astor	16,114	54.5	1
	Conservative	St Helens	Margaret Evelyn Pilkington	16,109	44.5	2
	Independent	Brentford and Chiswick	Ray Strachey	4,828	27.3	2
	Labour	Ashton-under-Lyne	Ellen Wilkinson	6,208	28.7	3
	Labour	Berwick-upon-Tweed	Edna Penny	2,784	12.5	3
	Labour	Bournemouth	Minnie Pallister	5,986	19.5	3
	Labour	Chatham	Mary Agnes Hamilton	5,794	24.1	3
	Labour	East Ham North	Susan Lawrence	8,727	35.7	1
	Labour	Farnham	Anne Corner	3,520	16.7	3
	Labour	Isle of Wight	Emily Palmer	2,475	7.1	3
	Labour	Islington East	Ethel Bentham	6,941	26.0	3
	Labour	Northampton	Margaret Bondfield	15,556	40.5	1
	Labour	Norwich	Dorothy Jewson	19,304	20.0	2
	Labour	Portsmouth South	Jessie Stephen	7,388	24.9	2
	Labour	Warwick and Leamington	Countess of Warwick	4,015	12.8	3
	Labour	West Dorset	Louie Simpson	7,087	41.2	2
	Labour Co-op	Birmingham King's Norton	Eleanor Barton	6,743	30.7	2
	Liberal	Birmingham King's Norton	Elizabeth Cadbury	5,686	25.9	3
	Liberal	Birmingham Moseley	Janet Clarkson	7,904	28.7	2
	Liberal	Cambridgeshire	Elsbeth Dimsdale	6,619	24.6	3
	Liberal	Consett	Ursula Williams	14,619	48.0	2
	Liberal	Gower	Leah Norah Folland	10,219	40.9	2
	Liberal	Hamilton	Helen Fraser	8,436	41.6	2
	Liberal	Hanley	Ada Rowley Moody	4,268	19.8	3
	Liberal	Hastings	Maria Gordon	5,876	25.9	2
	Liberal	Louth, Lincolnshire	Margaret Wintringham	12,104	52.4	1
	Liberal	Pontefract	Mary Pollock Grant	4,567	18.6	3
	Liberal	Richmond (Surrey)	Margery Corbett Ashby	7,702	37.0	2
	Liberal	Wycombe	Lady Terrington	14,910	46.9	1
	Unionist	Glasgow St Rollox	Violet Mary Robertson	9,204	37.7	2
	Unionist	Kinross and Western Perthshire	Duchess of Atholl	9,235	50.4	1

Jewson was elected by taking second place in a two-seat constituency.

1924 UK general election

Party		Constituency	Name[5]	Votes	%	Position
	Conservative	Berwick-upon-Tweed	Mabel Philipson	12,130	50.9	1
	Conservative	Camberwell North	Helen Gwynne-Vaughan	7,564	36.7	2
	Conservative	Denbigh	Lesley Venetia Elizabeth Brodrick	11,250	47.0	2
	Conservative	Derby	Hilda Hulse	21,700	20.3	4
	Conservative	Manchester Ardwick	Mary Kingsmill Jones	13,115	45.1	2
	Conservative	Morpeth	Irene Ward	10,828	32.0	2
	Conservative	Plymouth Sutton	Nancy Astor	18,174	58.1	1
	Conservative	St Helens	Margaret Evelyn Pilkington	16,908	44.2	2
	Conservative	Wansbeck	Mary Middleton	18,875	47.1	2
	Independent Labour	Acton	Mary Richardson	1,775	7.6	4
	Labour	Blackburn	Mary Agnes Hamilton	24,330	21.8	3
	Labour	Bournemouth	Minnie Pallister	7,735	27.3	2
	Labour	Chelsea	Dora Russell	5,661	26.0	2
	Labour	Dumfriesshire	Agnes Dollan	6,342	23.0	3
	Labour	East Ham North	Susan Lawrence	10,137	35.8	2
	Labour	Edinburgh North	Eleanor Stewart	8,192	27.9	2
	Labour	Farnham	Anne Corner	4,613	20.2	2
	Labour	Hackney North	Stella Churchill	6,097	24.1	3
	Labour	Hastings	Muriel Matters Porter	6,082	28.6	2
	Labour	Hemel Hempstead	Amy Sayle	1,553	6.9	3
	Labour	Islington East	Ethel Bentham	10,280	32.3	2
	Labour	Lewisham West	Barbara Drake	6,781	20.4	2
	Labour	Liverpool Fairfield	Mary Mercer	8,412	37.1	2
	Labour	Middlesbrough East	Ellen Wilkinson	9,574	38.5	1
	Labour	Northampton	Margaret Bondfield	15,046	37.2	2
	Labour	Northwich	Barbara Ayrton-Gould	11,630	34.6	2
	Labour	Norwich	Dorothy Jewson	22,931	22.0	4
	Labour	Portsmouth South	Jessie Stephen	8,310	27.0	2
	Labour	Stroud	Edith Picton-Turbervill	7,418	25.2	2
	Labour	Totnes	Kate Spurrell	2,240	6.1	3
	Labour	West Dorset	Louie Simpson	5,764	31.7	2
	Labour Co-op	Leeds North East	Edna Penny	8,894	31.6	2
	Liberal	Ilkeston	Anna Barlow	4,320	17.6	3
	Liberal	Lanark	Elizabeth Buchanan Mitchell	2,126	8.1	3
	Liberal	Louth, Lincolnshire	Margaret Wintringham	11,330	47.2	2
	Liberal	Southwark South East	Elsie Cameron Elias|| 2,388	11.2	3
	Liberal	Watford	Margery Corbett Ashby	5,205	18.7	3
	Liberal	Wycombe	Lady Terrington	12,526	33.0	2
	Unionist	Aberdeen North	Laura Sandeman	8,545	39.2	2
	Unionist	Bothwell	Helen Brown Shaw	11,314	43.7	2
	Unionist	Kinross and Western Perthshire	Duchess of Atholl	13,565	72.0	1

By-elections, 1924-1929

Party		Election	Name	Votes	%	Position
	Labour	1926 Wallsend by-election	Margaret Bondfield	18,866	57.7	1
	Labour	1926 East Ham North by-election	Susan Lawrence	10,798	40.6	1
	Conservative	1927 Southend by-election	Countess of Iveagh	21,221	54.6	1
	Labour	1928 Bristol West by-election	Clare Annesley	7,702	26.0	2
	Liberal	1928 St Ives by-election	Hilda Runciman	10,241	42.6	1
	Unionist	1928 Linlithgowshire by-election	Margaret Kidd	9,268	31.5	2
	Labour	1928 Epsom by-election	Helen Keynes	3,719	16.8	3
	Unionist	1928 Aberdeen North by-election	Laura Sandeman	4,696	23.1	2
	Labour	1928 Cheltenham by-election	Florence Widdowson	3,962	18.8	3
	Labour	1929 Bishop Auckland by-election	Ruth Dalton	14,797	57.1	1
	Labour	1929 North Lanarkshire by-election	Jennie Lee	15,711	57.5	1
	Liberal	1929 North Lanarkshire by-election	Elizabeth Buchanan Mitchell	2,488	9.1	3

1929 UK general election

Party		Constituency	Name[6]	Votes	%	Position
	Communist	Bothwell	Helen Crawfurd	1,677	5.5	3
	Communist	Mansfield	Rose Smith	533	1.1	4
	Communist	Motherwell	Isabel Brown	984	3.4	4
	Conservative	Farnworth	Mary Pickford	10,643	25.4	2
	Conservative	Liverpool Everton	Margaret Beavan	12,667	47.1	2
	Conservative	Manchester Ardwick	Mary Kingsmill Jones	13,177	39.7	2
	Conservative	Morpeth	Irene Ward	9,206	22.1	2
	Conservative	Plymouth Sutton	Nancy Astor	16,625	43.2	1
	Conservative	Pontypridd	May Gordon Williams	3,967	10.1	3
	Conservative	Southend-on-Sea	Countess of Iveagh	27,605	55.8	1
	Independent	Combined English Universities	Eleanor Rathbone	3,331	33.3	2
	Labour	Ayr Burghs	Clarice Shaw	13,429	36.5	2
	Labour	Blackburn	Mary Agnes Hamilton	37,256	26.1	1
	Labour	Brentford and Chiswick	Stella Churchill	10,918	37.8	2
	Labour	Bristol West	Clare Annesley	11,961	25.3	2
	Labour	East Ham North	Susan Lawrence	13,969	42.1	1
	Labour	Edinburgh North	Eleanor Stewart	11,340	32.2	2
	Labour	Honiton	Rose Davies	915	2.6	3
	Labour	Horsham and Worthing	Helen Keynes	7,611	16.4	3
	Labour	Hythe	Grace Colman	2,597	11.5	3
	Labour	Islington East	Ethel Bentham	15,199	38.0	1
	Labour	Lewisham West	Catherine Mary Wadham	10,598	25.9	2
	Labour	Luton	Florence Harrison Bell	7,351	16.5	3
	Labour	Middlesbrough East	Ellen Wilkinson	12,215	41.3	1
	Labour	North Lanarkshire	Jennie Lee	19,884	55.9	1
	Labour	Northwich	Barbara Ayrton-Gould	15,473	34.3	2
	Labour	Norwich	Dorothy Jewson	31,040	24.0	3
	Labour	Nottingham Central	Eleanor Barton	11,573	33.2	2
	Labour	Perth	Helen Gault	8,291	23.5	3
	Labour	Petersfield	Gertrude Massingham	3,418	12.1	3
	Labour	Portsmouth South	Jessie Stephen	10,127	24.8	2
	Labour	Rushcliffe	Florence Widdowson	16,069	35.0	2
	Labour	St Albans	Monica Whately	11,699	27.6	2
	Labour	Stoke-on-Trent	Cynthia Mosley	26,548	58.7	1
	Labour	Sunderland	Marion Phillips	31,794	19.5	1
	Labour	The Wrekin	Edith Picton-Turbervill	14,569	44.4	1
	Labour	Totnes	Kate Spurrell	5,828	12.9	3
	Labour	Wallsend	Margaret Bondfield	20,057	49.5	1
	Labour	Wells	Ruby Docie Quarrell Davies	4,472	15.0	3
	Labour	Weston-super-Mare	Constance Borrett	4,766	11.1	3
	Labour	Wycombe	Rochelle Townsend	8,899	18.1	3
	Liberal	Anglesey	Megan Lloyd George	13,181	49.4	1
	Liberal	Birmingham Deritend	Beta Hornabrook	2,268	6.8	3
	Liberal	Caerphilly	Alice Grace Roberts	8,190	22.4	2
	Liberal	East Grinstead	Barbara Bliss	9,718	25.6	2
	Liberal	Hackney South	Muriel Morgan Gibbon	6,302	20.7	3
	Liberal	Hendon	Margery Corbett Ashby	13,449	22.2	3
	Liberal	Hitchin	Enid Lapthorn	9,325	28.3	2
	Liberal	Hythe	Hester Lloyd Holland	6,912	30.7	2
	Liberal	Islington North	Domini Crosfield	10,210	23.4	3
	Liberal	Kensington North	Frances Henrietta Stewart	5,516	13.5	3
	Liberal	Kingston upon Hull North West	Catherine Alderton	10,059	28.3	3
	Liberal	Louth, Lincolnshire	Margaret Wintringham	13,560	42.9	2
	Liberal	Manchester Gorton	Beatrice Bayfield	3,385	9.4	3
	Liberal	North Norfolk	Zelia Hoffman	3,403	11.1	3
	Liberal	Northampton	Helen Schilizzi	11,054	20.6	3
	Liberal	Rotherhithe	Dora West	4,556	19.1	3
	Liberal	St Pancras South East	Elizabeth Edwardes	3,798	13.8	3
	Liberal	Salford West	Mary Pollock Grant	5,614	15.4	3
	Liberal	Salisbury	Lucy Masterman	13,022	39.3	2
	Liberal	Smethwick	Maude Egerton Marshall	3,909	11.0	3
	Liberal	Sunderland	Elizabeth Morgan	21,300	13.0	5
	Liberal	Surrey East	Ida Swinburne	7,435	23.1	2
	Liberal	Tavistock	Hilda Runciman	14,040	44.1	2
	Liberal	Warrington	Alison Garland	3,070	7.2	3
	Liberal	Winchester	Frances Josephy	7,278	18.6	3
	Unionist	Bothwell	Helen Brown Shaw	12,077	39.3	2
	Unionist	Kinross and Western Perthshire	Duchess of Atholl	12,245	48.6	1
	Unionist	Paisley	Minna Cowan	7,094	17.7	3

Rathbone was elected by taking second place in a two-seat constituency.

By-elections, 1929-1931

Party		Election	Name	Votes	%	Position
	Communist	1929 Kilmarnock by-election	Isabel Brown	1,448	4.4	3
	Labour	1930 North Norfolk by-election	Lucy Noel-Buxton	14,821	50.3	1
	Labour	1930 Paddington South by-election	Dorothy Evans	7,944	26.6	3
	United Empire	1930 Paddington South by-election	Alexandra Stewart-Richardson	494	1.7	4
	Labour	1931 Islington East by-election	Leah Manning	10,591	34.7	1
	Conservative	1931 Islington East by-election	Thelma Cazalet	7,182	23.5	3
	Liberal	1931 Salisbury by-election	Lucy Masterman	9,588	32.7	2
	Liberal	1931 Sunderland by-election	Elizabeth Morgan	15,020	19.9	3
	National (Scotland)	1931 Glasgow St Rollox by-election	Elma Campbell	3,521	15.8	3

1931 UK general election

Party		Constituency	Name[7]	Votes	%	Position
	Communist	Aberdeen North	Helen Crawfurd	3,980	11.1	3
	Communist	Greenwich	Kath Duncan	2,024	4.4	4
	Conservative	Caerphilly	Catherine Bowen-Davies	11,044	32.4	2
	Conservative	Cannock	Sarah Ward	27,498	54.6	1
	Conservative	Hackney South	Marjorie Graves	15,920	55.4	1
	Conservative	Hammersmith North	Mary Pickford	18,815	59.2	1
	Conservative	Islington East	Thelma Cazalet	27,221	67.5	1
	Conservative	Plymouth Sutton	Nancy Astor	24,277	63.3	1
	Conservative	Rotherhithe	Norah Runge	11,666	50.3	1
	Conservative	Silvertown	Eleonora Tennant	5,654	22.2	2
	Conservative	Southend-on-Sea	Countess of Iveagh	46,564	85.7	1
	Conservative	Stoke	Ida Copeland	19,918	45.6	1
	Conservative	Wallsend	Irene Ward	25,999	58.6	1
	Conservative	Willesden West	Mavis Tate	23,910	60.6	1
	Independent	Combined English Universities	Eleanor Rathbone	5,096	37.2	1
	Ind. Labour Party	Camborne	Kate Spurrell	8,280	24.5	3
	Ind. Labour Party	Clapham	Hilda Browning	7,317	23.0	2
	Ind. Labour Party	North Lanarkshire	Jennie Lee	19,691	44.7	2
	Ind. Labour Party	Norwich	Dorothy Jewson	26,537	19.7	4
	Ind. Labour Party	Perth	Helen Gault	3,705	9.7	3
	Ind. Labour Party	West Renfrewshire	Jean Mann	10,203	31.5	2
	Independent Liberal	Anglesey	Megan Lloyd George	14,839	58.3	1
	Labour	Aldershot	Mary Richardson	4,091	15.6	2
	Labour	Aylesbury	Dorothy Woodman	4,677	10.9	3
	Labour	Ayr Burghs	Clarice Shaw	9,974	26.1	2
	Labour	Bedford	Clare Annesley	9,654	27.8	2
	Labour	Blackburn	Mary Agnes Hamilton	25,643	17.0	3
	Labour	East Ham North	Susan Lawrence	11,769	34.1	2
	Labour	Flintshire	Frances Edwards	16,158	28.6	2
	Labour	Gillingham	Catherine Mary Wadham	9,103	31.0	2
	Labour	Hastings	Irene Goddard	4,983	15.5	2
	Labour	Hendon	Amber Blanco White	15,305	18.8	2
	Labour	Horsham and Worthing	Helen Keynes	5,932	11.7	2
	Labour	Hythe	Grace Colman	3,608	15.1	2
	Labour	Islington East	Leah Manning	13,111	32.5	2
	Labour	Kidderminster	Jessie Stephen	9,814	22.7	2
	Labour	Maidstone	Gertrude Speedwell Massingham	6,770	19.8	2
	Labour	Middlesbrough East	Ellen Wilkinson	12,080	39.6	2
	Labour	North Norfolk	Lucy Noel-Buxton	13,035	39.5	2
	Labour	Northwich	Barbara Gould	15,746	34.4	2
	Labour	Norwood	Ann Jane Anstey	7,217	19.0	2
	Labour	Paddington North	Esther Rickards	9,597	28.6	2
	Labour	Paddington South	Lucy Cox	4,532	14.3	2
	Labour	Rushcliffe	Florence Paton	14,176	27.9	2
	Labour	St Albans	Monica Whately	10,289	21.9	2
	Labour	Streatham	Betty Fraser	5,343	15.0	2
	Labour	Sunderland	Marion Phillips	29,707	18.0	3
	Labour	The Wrekin	Edith Picton-Turbervill	14,162	38.9	2
	Labour	Tonbridge	Constance Borrett	8,208	21.2	2
	Labour	Wallsend	Margaret Bondfield	18,393	41.4	2
	Labour	Woodbridge	Ida Mary Nussey Keeble	5,885	18.7	2
	Labour Co-op	Brighton	Rosalind Moore	12,878	7.3	4
	Liberal	Basingstoke	Frances Josephy	6,106	18.1	2
	Liberal	Exeter	Eleanor Acland	8,571	23.2	2
	Liberal	Holderness	Aline MacKinnon	10,471	30.0	2
	Liberal	Shrewsbury	Betty Morgan	9,358	30.8	2
	Liberal National	Wentworth	Charlotte Isabel Hilyer	14,462	31.2	2
	National (Scotland)	Glasgow St Rollox	Elma Campbell	3,521	13.3	3
	Unionist	Bothwell	Helen Brown Shaw	16,571	50.0	1
	Unionist	Dundee	Florence Horsbrugh	48,556	27.7	2
	Unionist	Glasgow Bridgeton	Catherine Gavin	11,941	41.8	2
	Unionist	Kinross and Western Perthshire	Duchess of Atholl	16,228	60.6	1

Horsbrugh was elected by taking second place in a two-seat constituency.

By-elections, 1931-1935

Party		Election	Name	Votes	%	Position
	Labour	1932 Dulwich by-election	Helen Bentwich	3,905	19.3	3
	Independent	1934 Lambeth North by-election	Alice Brown	305	1.6	4
	Labour	1934 Putney by-election	Edith Summerskill	12,936	45.3	2
	Labour	1935 Norwood by-election	Barbara Gould	12,799	40.4	2
	Labour	1935 Perth by-election	Helen Gault	3,705	9.7	3
	Labour	1935 Combined Scottish Universities by-election	Naomi Mitchison	4,293	17.3	2

1935 UK general election

Party		Constituency	Name[8]	Votes	%	Position
	Conservative	Caerphilly	N. J. Stoneham	7,738	23.8	2
	Conservative	Cannock	Sarah Ward	26,876	49.1	2
	Conservative	Clay Cross	Bridget Jackson	8,391	25.4	2
	Conservative	Ebbw Vale	Ethel Scarborough	7,145	22.2	2
	Conservative	Frome	Mavis Tate	19,684	46.3	1
	Conservative	Hackney South	Marjorie Graves	10,876	40.7	2
	Conservative	Islington East	Thelma Cazalet	18,248	52.5	1
	Conservative	Plaistow	Dorothy Roddick	6,730	26.7	2
	Conservative	Plymouth Sutton	Nancy Astor	21,491	58.3	1
	Conservative	Poplar South	Diana Spearman	6,862	26.8	2
	Conservative	Rotherhithe	Norah Runge	9,751	40.3	2
	Conservative	Rothwell	Gwendoline Beaumont	17,352	35.5	2
	Conservative	Silvertown	Eleonora Tennant	4,276	19.0	2
	Conservative	Stoke	Ida Copeland	18,867	47.3	2
	Conservative	Wallsend	Irene Ward	23,842	52.6	1
	Independent	Combined English Universities	Eleanor Rathbone	unopposed	N/A	1
	Independent	Putney	Violet Van der Elst	1,021	3.0	3
	Ind. Labour Party	Camborne	Kate Spurrell	592	1.9	4
	Ind. Labour Party	North Lanarkshire	Jennie Lee	17,267	37.3	2
	Labour	Birkenhead East	Mary Mercer	8,028	23.3	3
	Labour	Bradford North	Muriel Nichol	14,047	35.2	2
	Labour	Burton	Gladys Paling	8,041	25.5	2
	Labour	Bury	Edith Summerskill	12,845	34.4	2
	Labour	Cheltenham	Elizabeth Pakenham	7,784	29.5	2
	Labour	City of Chester	Agnes Bulley	6,450	19.3	3
	Labour	Clapham	Monica Whately	11,368	23.0	2
	Labour	Dartford	Janet Adamson	35,596	48.2	2
	Labour	Darwen	Frances Kerby	7,778	20.9	3
	Labour	Edinburgh South	Barbara Woodburn	5,365	16.5	2
	Labour	Harrow	Helen Bentwich	31,422	37.3	2
	Labour	Hendon	Amber Blanco White	28,375	26.8	2
	Labour	Hornsey	Mari Power	10,320	21.9	2
	Labour	Jarrow	Ellen Wilkinson	20,324	53.1	1
	Labour	Lewisham East	Freda Corbet	25,425	44.6	2
	Labour	Manchester Hulme	Barbara Ayrton-Gould	11,221	39.7	2
	Labour	New Forest and Christchurch	Catherine Mary Wadham	10,876	25.2	2
	Labour	North Dorset	M. M. Whitehead	1,360	5.2	4
	Labour	North Norfolk	Lucy Noel-Buxton	14,465	44.7	2
	Labour	Paddington North	Caroline Ganley	9,925	34.4	2
	Labour	Pudsey and Otley	Lucy Cox	9,997	23.3	3
	Labour	Saffron Walden	Clara Rackham	9,633	32.9	2
	Labour	St Marylebone	Elizabeth Jacobs	8,088	20.4	2
	Labour	Sheffield Hallam	Grace Colman	10,346	32.7	2
	Labour	Southend-on-Sea	Helen Keynes	7,796	13.8	3
	Labour	Stockton-on-Tees	Susan Lawrence	19,217	40.3	2
	Labour	Stroud	Constance Borrett	14,133	36.8	2
	Labour	Sunderland	Leah Manning	32,059	19.8	4
	Labour	Wallsend	Margaret Bondfield	21,462	47.4	2
	Labour	Westminster St George's	Anne Fremantle	4,643	15.4	2
	Labour	Westmorland	Evelyn Short	10,417	31.5	2
	Labour	West Renfrewshire	Jean Mann	12,407	38.8	2
	Labour	Wood Green	Dorothy Woodman	14,561	24.8	2
	Liberal	Anglesey	Megan Lloyd George	11,227	44.5	1
	Liberal	Aylesbury	Margaret Wintringham	13,622	31.6	2
	Liberal	Carlisle	Barbara Bliss	3,525	10.3	3
	Liberal	Devizes	Frances Josephy	9,903	40.7	2
	Liberal	Edinburgh North	Chrystal Macmillan	1,798	5.8	3
	Liberal	Hemel Hempstead	Margery Corbett Ashby	7,078	22.0	2
	Liberal	Holderness	Aline Mackinnon	10,348	24.9	2
	Liberal	Kinross and Western Perthshire	Elizabeth MacDonald	10,069	39.8	2
	Liberal	Maldon	Hilda Buckmaster	5,680	17.7	3
	Liberal	Rye	Dorothy Osborn	9,162	28.8	2
	Liberal	Willesden East	Nancy Stewart Parnell	3,217	7.3	3
	Unionist	Bothwell	Helen Brown Shaw	13,761	39.7	2
	Unionist	Dundee	Florence Horsbrugh	50,542	26.8	1
	Unionist	Edinburgh East	Minna Cowan	12,229	39.6	2
	Unionist	Kinross and Western Perthshire	Duchess of Atholl	15,238	60.2	1

By-elections, 1935-1945

Party		Election	Name	Votes	%	Position
	Conservative	1936 Clay Cross by-election	Bridget Jackson	8,042	24.9	2
	Independent	1936 Preston by-election	Florence White	3,221	4.8	3
	Conservative	1937 Hemel Hempstead by-election	Frances Davidson	14,992	57.7	1
	Liberal	1937 Hemel Hempstead by-election	Margery Corbett Ashby	7,078	22.0	2
	Labour	1937 Glasgow Springburn by-election	Agnes Hardie	14,859	62.6	1
	Liberal National	1938 Pontypridd by-election	Juliet Rhys-Williams	14,810	40.1	2
	Independent	1938 Combined Scottish Universities by-election	Frances Melville	5,618	19.5	2
	Labour	1938 Fulham West by-election	Edith Summerskill	16,583	52.2	1
	Labour	1938 Dartford by-election	Jennie Adamson	46,514	52.4	1
	Labour	1938 Fylde by-election	Mabel Tylecote	17,648	31.6	2
	Independent	1938 Kinross and Western Perthshire by-election	Duchess of Atholl	10,495	47.1	2
	Liberal	1939 Holderness by-election	Aline Mackinnon	11,590	25.7	2
	Unionist	1939 South Ayrshire by-election	Catherine Gavin	12,986	42.0	2
	National Independent	1940 Southwark Central by-election	Violet van der Elst	1,382	16.8	3
	Ind. Labour Party	1940 East Renfrewshire by-election	Annie Maxton	8,206	19.3	2
	Communist	1940 Bow and Bromley by-election	Isabel Brown	506	4.2	2
	Conservative	1941 Bodmin by-election	Beatrice Wright	unopposed	N/A	1
	Independent	1941 Harrow by-election	Winifred Henney	3,433	19.1	2
	Common Wealth	1943 Ashford by-election	Catherine Williamson	4,192	30.3	2
	Conservative	1943 Bristol Central by-election	Violet Bathurst	5,867	52.1	1
	Independent Labour	1943 Bristol Central by-election	Jennie Lee	4,308	38.2	2
	Common Wealth	1943 The Hartlepools by-election	Elaine Burton	3,634	17.4	2
	Independent Liberal	1943 Darwen by-election	Honor Balfour	8,799	49.8	2
	Independent	1943 Acton by-election	Dorothy Crisp	707	8.5	3
	Independent Liberal	1944 Bury St Edmunds by-election	Margery Corbett Ashby	9,121	43.8	2

1945 UK general election

Party		Constituency	Name	Votes	%	Position
	Common Wealth	Canterbury	Catherine Williamson	1,017	2.6	3
	Common Wealth	Chelsea	Dorothy Sharpe	984	5.2	3
	Common Wealth	North Midlothian	Kitty Wintringham	3,299	6.4	3
	Common Wealth	Sutton Coldfield	Joyce Purser	2,043	4.2	3
	Communist	Birmingham Handsworth	Jessie Eden	1,390	3.4	5
	Communist	Harrow East	Gladys Driver	3,493	5.9	4
	Conservative	Bristol Central	Violet Bathurst	7,369	36.1	2
	Conservative	Frome	Mavis Tate	24,228	44.9	2
	Conservative	Islington East	Thelma Cazalet-Keir	9,960	34.5	2
	Conservative	Hemel Hempstead	Frances Davidson	19,536	44.2	1
	Conservative	Kingston upon Hull Central	Diana Spearman	4,106	27.5	2
	Conservative	Manchester Ardwick	Nellie Beer	8,093	36.0	2
	Conservative	Poplar South	Joan Vickers	1,403	10.8	2
	Conservative	Rotherhithe	Norah Runge	2,577	20.9	2
	Conservative	Wallsend	Irene Ward	21,319	39.9	2
	Conservative	Wentworth	Aymée Lavender Gandar Dower	8,670	16.4	2
	Independent	Combined English Universities	Eleanor Rathbone	11,176	53.3	1
	Independent	Hornchurch	Violet van der Elst	232	0.5	4
	Independent	Westminster St George's	Dorothy Crisp	1,069	5.5	3
	Ind. Conservative	Putney	Eleonora Tennant	144	0.4	5
	Independent Progressive	London University	Mary Danvers Stocks	7,469	49.5	2
	Labour Co-op	Battersea South	Caroline Ganley	19,275	61.5	1
	Labour Co-op	Birmingham Duddeston	Edith Agnes Wills	10,745	65.0	1
	Labour Co-op	Ilford North	Mabel Ridealgh	18,833	42.8	1
	Labour	Basingstoke	Edith Alice Weston	13,763	33.8	2
	Labour	Bath	Dorothy Archibald	18,120	39.2	2
	Labour	Bexley	Jennie Adamson	24,686	56.9	1
	Labour	Blackburn	Barbara Castle	35,145	26.0	2
	Labour	Bradford North	Muriel Nichol	20,268	43.6	1
	Labour	Bury St Edmunds	Cecily Alicia McCall	9,195	29.8	2
	Labour	Camberwell North West	Freda Corbet	12,251	69.6	1
	Labour	Cannock	Jennie Lee	48,849	62.6	1
	Labour	Chelsea	Margaret Douglas Shufeldt	5,874	31.1	2
	Labour	Cheltenham	Phyllis Maude Warner	11,095	29.9	2
	Labour	Chichester	Rosalie Francesca Chamberlayne	13,670	24.1	2
	Labour	Coatbridge	Jean Mann	18,619	61.1	1
	Labour	Croydon North	Marian Billson	22,810	40.1	2
	Labour	Epping	Leah Manning	15,993	44.1	1
	Labour	Flintshire	Eirene Lloyd Jones	26,761	37.4	2
	Labour	Fulham West	Edith Summerskill	19,537	61.9	1
	Labour	Harrow West	B. J. K. Thompson	18,961	33.0	2
	Labour	Hemel Hempstead	Doris Mobbs	14,426	32.6	2
	Labour	Hendon North	Barbara Gould	18,251	47.6	1
	Labour	Hendon South	Elaine Burton	14,917	38.1	2
	Labour	Holborn	Irene Marcousé	5,136	45.9	2
	Labour	Jarrow	Ellen Wilkinson	22,656	66.0	1
	Labour	Kensington South	Patricia Strauss	6,014	18.9	2
	Labour	Kilmarnock	Clarice Shaw	23,837	59.4	1
	Labour	Leeds North East	Alice Bacon	28,870	53.1	1
	Labour	Liverpool Exchange	Bessie Braddock	8,494	52.0	1
	Labour	Middleton and Prestwich	Mabel Tylecote	25,908	49.2	2
	Labour	Newbury	Iris Brook	15,754	33.7	2
	Labour	North Lanarkshire	Margaret Herbison	30,251	59.6	1
	Labour	Norwich	Lucy Noel-Buxton	31,553	27.9	1
	Labour	Plymouth Sutton	Lucy Middleton	15,417	51.6	1
	Labour	Rushcliffe	Florence Paton	43,303	54.2	1
	Labour	St Marylebone	Elizabeth Jacobs	10,740	32.4	2
	Labour	Sutton and Cheam	Helen Judd	17,293	41.0	2
	Labour	Tonbridge	Vera Dart	16,590	35.9	2
	Labour	Tynemouth	Grace Colman	13,963	46.1	1
	Labour	Windsor	Marjorie Nicholson	16,420	33.1	2
	Labour	Wirral	Agnes Bulley	25,919	31.3	2
	Liberal	Anglesey	Megan Lloyd George	12,610	52.2	1
	Liberal	Barnet	Jean Henderson	4,495	11.4	3
	Liberal	Birmingham Handsworth	Barbara Lewis	4,945	12.0	4
	Liberal	Blackburn	Marjorie Annie MacInerney	6,096	4.5	6
	Liberal	Chelmsford	Hilda Buckmaster	5,909	10.1	3
	Liberal	Darwen	Honor Balfour	7,979	24.3	3
	Liberal	Devizes	Frances Josephy	6,278	23.1	3
	Liberal	Exeter	Freda Evelyn Griffith Morgan	6,220	16.4	3
	Liberal	Hackney North	Doreen Gorsky	3,546	13.3	3
	Liberal	Ilford North	Juliet Rhys-Williams	9,128	20.8	3
	Liberal	Isle of Wight	May O'Conor	5,967	12.6	3
	Liberal	Mossley	Marjorie Wainwright Jalland	7,128	12.4	3
	Liberal	Paisley	Louise Glen-Coats	4,532	10.0	3
	Liberal	Plymouth Sutton	Joan Gaved	3,695	12.4	3
	Liberal	Ripon	Mabel Cowley	6,122	12.6	3
	Liberal	St Albans	Enid Lakeman	5,601	10.7	3
	Liberal	St Pancras South East	Audrey Blackman	1,474	8.8	3
	Liberal	Sevenoaks	Nelia Muspratt	6,906	16.7	3
	Liberal	Sudbury	Margaret Hitchcock	5,045	20.5	3
	Liberal	Wells	Violet Bonham-Carter	7,910	25.1	3
	Plaid Cymru	University of Wales	Gwenan Jones	1,696	24.5	2
	Unionist	Aberdeen North	Priscilla Buchan	9,623	25.1	2
	Unionist	Bothwell	Helen Brown Shaw	13,207	34.2	2
	Unionist	Dundee	Florence Horsbrugh	32,309	18.9	4
	UUP	Fermanagh and Tyrone	Noreen Cooper	46,260	22.8	4

Castle won in Blackburn by taking second place in a two-seat constituency.

See also

• List of female Members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom
• Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918
• Women in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom

References

1. Richard Keen; Richard Cracknell. "Women in Parliament and Government". House of Commons Library. p. 22.
2. Craig, F. W. S. (1968). British Parliamentary Election Statistics 1918-1968. Glasgow: Political Reference Publications. p. 62. ISBN 0900178000.
3. "The defeated thirty", Manchester Guardian, 5 December 1922
4. "Eight woman MPs", The Times, 8 December 1923
5. "The 41 women candidates", Manchester Guardian, 20 October 1924
6. "Women candidates: a total of 64 for all parties", Manchester Guardian, 4 May 1929
7. "Women candidates: 61 Nominated : Two Straight Fights", Manchester Guardian, 17 October 1931
8. "Women candidates", The Times, 5 November 1935

F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949

Further reading

• Women Members of Parliament