Independent Labour Party election results

This article lists the Independent Labour Party's election results in UK parliamentary elections.

Summary of general election performance

Year	Number of candidates[1]	Total votes	Average voters per candidate	Percentage of vote	Saved deposits[2]	Change (%)	Number of MPs[1]
1895	28	44,325	1,583	1.0	N/A	N/A	0
1900	9	32,135	3,571	0.9	N/A	-0.1	1
1906	11	81,415	7,401	1.6	N/A	+0.7	7
1910 Jan	14	87,499	6,250	1.4	N/A	-0.2	6
1910 Dec	12	69,884	5,824	1.4	N/A	0.0	8
1918	50						3
1922	55	673,283	12,242	4.9	31		31
1923	89						39
1924	87						30
1929	54	921,914	17,072	4.3	54		36
1931	19	239,280	12,594	1.2		-3.1	3
1935	17	136,208	8,012	0.7	9	-0.5	4
1945	5	46,769	9,354	0.2	4	-0.5	3
1950	4	4,112	1,028	0.0	0	-0.2	0
1951	3	4,057	1,352	0.0	0	0.0	0
1955	2	3,334	1,667	0.0	0	0.0	0
1959	2	923	462	0.0	0	0.0	0
1964	0	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
1966	1	441	441	0.0	0	N/A	0
1970	1	847	847	0.0	0	0.0	0
February 1974	1	991	991	0.0	0	0.0	0

Election results

By-elections, 1893–1895

By-election	Candidate	Votes	%	Position
1894 Sheffield Attercliffe by-election	Frank Smith	1,249	13.5	3
1894 Leicester by-election	Joseph Burgess	4,402	15.7	4

1895 general election

Constituency	Candidate	Votes	%	Position[3]
Ashton-under-Lyne	James Sexton	415	6.4	3
Barrow-in-Furness	Pete Curran	414	6.9	3
Bradford West	Ben Tillett	2,264	23.4	3
Bolton	Fred Brocklehurst	2,691	9.8	4
Bristol East	Samuel George Hobson	1,874	31.2	2
Colne Valley	Tom Mann	1,245	13.4	3
Dewsbury	Edward Hartley	1,080	10.5	3
Dundee	James MacDonald	1,313	5.0	5
Fulham	William Parnell	191	2.0	3
Glasgow Blackfriars and Hutchesontown	James Shaw Maxwell	448	7.1	3
Glasgow Bridgeton	James Robertson Watson	609	9.4	3
Glasgow Camlachie	Robert Smillie	696	10.9	3
Glasgow St Rollox	John Evans Woolacott	405	4.4	3
Glasgow Tradeston	Frank Smith	368	5.8	3
Gorton	Richard Pankhurst	4,261	42.1	2
Govan	Alex Haddow	430	4.9	3
Halifax	John Lister	3,818	20.5	4
Huddersfield	Russell Smart	1,594	11.2	3
Hyde	George Christie	448	5.0	3
Kingston upon Hull West	Tom McCarthy	1,400	17.4	2
Leeds South	Arthur Shaw	622	6.4	3
Leicester	Joseph Burgess	4,009	13.7	4
Manchester North East	James Johnston	546	6.6	3
Newcastle-upon-Tyne	Fred Hammill	2,302	4.6	5
Preston	James Tattersall	4,781	22.4	3
Rochdale	George Nicoll Barnes	1,251	12.0	3
Southampton	Ramsay MacDonald	867	4.0	5
West Ham South	Keir Hardie	3,975	45.6	2

By-elections, 1895–1900

By-election	Candidate	Votes	%	Position
1896 Aberdeen North by-election	Tom Mann	2,479	46.0	2
1896 Bradford East by-election	Keir Hardie	1,953	17.1
1897 Halifax by-election	Tom Mann	2,000	15.5
1897 Barnsley by-election	Pete Curran	1,091	9.7	3

1900 general election

Constituency	Candidate	Votes	%	Position
Accrington	John Hempsall	433	3.3	3
Ashton-under-Lyne	James Johnston	737	11.0	3
Blackburn	Philip Snowden	7,096	25.6	3
Bradford West	Fred Jowett	4,949	49.8	2
Halifax	James Parker	3,276	16.1	4
Leicester	Ramsay MacDonald	4,164	13.0	4
Merthyr Tydfil	Keir Hardie	5,745	31.3	2
Preston	Keir Hardie	4,834	22.1	3
Rochdale	Allen Clarke	901	8.0	3

Hardie stood for two seats. All candidates other than Hempsall stood as part of the Labour Representation Committee. Clarke ran as a joint Independent Labour Party-Social Democratic Federation candidate. The list does not include Alfred Ewen Fletcher, who was supported by the ILP but ran for the Scottish Workers' Representation Committee.

By-elections, 1900–1906

By-election	Candidate	Votes	%	Position
1902 Wakefield by-election	Philip Snowden	1,979	40.1	2
1904 Norwich by-election	George Henry Roberts	2,440	13.7	3

All candidates stood as part of the Labour Representation Committee.

1906 general election

Constituency	Candidate	Votes	%	Position
Blackburn	Philip Snowden	10,282	26.8	2
Bradford West	Fred Jowett	4,957	39.1	1
Glasgow Camlachie	Joseph Burgess	2,568	30.0	3
Halifax	James Parker	8,937	38.3	2
Huddersfield	T. Russell Williams	5,813	35.2	2
Keighley	W. T. Newlove	3,102	26.9	3
Leicester	Ramsay MacDonald	14,685	39.8	2
Manchester North East	John Robert Clynes	5,386	64.6	1
Merthyr Tydfil	Keir Hardie	10,187	32.0	2
Sunderland	Thomas Summerbell	13,430	31.8	2
Wakefield	Stanton Coit	2,068	36.9	2

All candidates other than Burgess and Newlove stood as part of the Labour Representation Committee. Only ILP members sponsored by the party are listed.

By-elections, 1906–1910

By-election	Candidate	Votes	%	Position
1906 Huddersfield by-election	T. Russell Williams	5,422	33.8	2
1907 Aberdeen South by-election	Fred Bramley	1,740	19.5	3
1908 Montrose Burghs by-election	Joseph Burgess	1,937	29.4	2
1909 Croydon by-election	Frank Smith	886	4.2	3

All candidates other than Bramley stood for the Labour Party.[4] Only candidates sponsored by the ILP are listed.

January 1910 general election

Constituency	Candidate	Votes	%	Position[5]
Blackburn	Philip Snowden	10,762		1
Bow and Bromley	George Lansbury	2,955	33.5	2
Bradford West	Fred Jowett	8,880	66.6	1
Glasgow Camlachie	James O'Connor Kessack	2,443	28.9	3
Halifax	James Parker	9,093	38.9	2
Hyde	William Crawford Anderson	2,401	21.2	3
Leicester	Ramsay MacDonald	14,337	38.2	2
Manchester North East	John Robert Clynes	5,157	58.4	1
Manchester South West	J. M. McLachlan	1,218	16.6	3
Merthyr Tydfil	Keir Hardie	13,841	36.7	2
Spen Valley	T. Russell Williams	2,514	23.3	3
Sunderland	Thomas Summerbell	11,058	23.4	4
Tewkesbury	Charles Fox	238	2.1	3
Wakefield	Stanton Coit	2,602	45.5	2

All candidates stood as part of the Labour Party. Only ILP members sponsored by the party are listed.

December 1910 general election

Constituency	Candidate	Votes	%	Position[6]
Blackburn	Philip Snowden	10,762		1
Bow and Bromley	George Lansbury	4,315	55.6	1
Bradford West	Fred Jowett	8,880	66.6	1
Chatham	Frank Smith	1,103	8.9	3
Glasgow Camlachie	James O'Connor Kessack	1,539	18.1	3
Halifax	James Parker	8,511		2
Leeds South	John Badlay	2,706	21.5	3
Leicester	Ramsay MacDonald	12,998	38.5	2
Liverpool Kirkdale	Thomas McKerrell	2,992	41.6	2
Manchester North East	J. R. Clynes	4,313		1
Merthyr Tydfil	Keir Hardie	11,507	39.6	2
Whitehaven	Thomas Richardson	1,414	53.7	1

All candidates stood as part of the Labour Party.

By-elections, 1910–1918

By-election	Candidate	Votes	%	Position
1911 Kilmarnock Burghs by-election	Thomas McKerrell	2,761	19.3	3
1911 Keighley by-election	William Crawford Anderson	3,452	28.9	3
1912 East Carmarthenshire by-election	John Henry Williams	1,089	10.3	3
1913 Keighley by-election	William Bland	3,646	29.8	3
1914 Sheffield Attercliffe by-election	William Crawford Anderson	unopposed	N/A	1
1918 Keighley by-election	William Bland	2,349	32.5	2
1918 Manchester North East by-election	J. R. Clynes	unopposed	N/A	1

All candidates except Williams and Bland (in 1918) stood for the Labour Party.[4]

1918 general election

Constituency	Candidate	Votes	%	Position[7]
Aberdare	T. E. Nicholas	6,229	21.4	2
Accrington	Charles Roden Buxton	6,369	21.7	3
Ayr Burghs	Campbell Stephen	4,534	23.2	3
Bermondsey West	Alfred Salter	1,956	18.6	3
Birmingham Ladywood	John Kneeshaw	2,572	19.0	2
Blackburn	Philip Snowden	15,274	19.7	3
Bosworth	Thomas Richardson	6,344	33.6	2
Bradford Central	William Leach	7,636	31.3	2
Bradford East	Frederick William Jowett	8,637	37.9	2
Brigg	David Quibell	4,789	27.3	2
Bristol East	Luke Bateman	8,135	42.8	2
Camberwell North	Charles Ammon	2,175	21.0	3
Cardiff Central	James Ewart Edmunds	4,663	22.4	2
Chorley	Elijah Sandham	6,222	32.3	2
Colne Valley	Wilfrid Whiteley	9,473	41.2	2
Coventry	Richard Collingham Wallhead	10,298	32.4	2
Dewsbury	Benjamin Riley	5,596	30.1	2
Dunbartonshire	William Henry Porteous Martin	7,072	30.9	2
Edinburgh Central	William Graham	7,161	51.3	1
Glasgow Bridgeton	James Maxton	7,860	39.8	2
Glasgow Camlachie	Hugh Guthrie	7,192	33.1	2
Glasgow Govan	Neil Maclean	9,577	47.8	1
Glasgow Hillhead	John Izett	4,186	24.6	2
Glasgow St Rollox	James Stewart	6,147	33.2	2
Glasgow Shettleston	John Wheatley	9,827	49.8	2
Glasgow Springburn	George Hardie	7,996	39.1	2
Huddersfield	Harry Snell	12,737	32.5	2
Ipswich	Robert Jackson	8,143	32.1	2
Keighley	William Bland	6,324	27.7	3
Kingston upon Hull South West	Robert Mell	3,121	19.3	3
Lanark	James C. Welsh	5,821	31.0	2
Leeds West	John Arnott	6,020	29.5	2
Leicester East	George Banton	6,697	27.1	2
Leicester West	Ramsay MacDonald	6,347	24.0	2
Linlithgowshire	Manny Shinwell	8,723	40.3	2
Montrose Burghs	Henry Noel Brailsford	2,940	24.0	2
Motherwell	Walton Newbold	4,135	23.2	2
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Central	James Smith	4,976	34.6	2
Rochdale	R. H. Tawney	4,956	16.5	3
Rutherglen	William Regan	8,759	40.9	2
Sheffield Attercliffe	William Crawford Anderson	6,539	34.7	2
Shipley	Tom Snowden	5,690	25.4	2
Southampton	Frederick Perriman	6,776	09.2	5
Stalybridge and Hyde	Walter Fowden	6,508	24.8	2
Swansea East	David Williams	6,341	36.4	2
West Ham Silvertown	David John Davis	2,278	16.9	3
West Ham Upton	Benjamin Walter Gardner	3,186	22.2	2
West Renfrewshire	Robert Murray	7,126	38.2	2
West Stirlingshire	Tom Johnston	3,809	28.7	2

All candidate stood for the Labour Party.

By-elections, 1918–1922

By-election	Candidate	Votes	%	Position
1919 Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire Central by-election	Joseph Forbes Duncan	3,482	26.4	3[8]
1919 Swansea East by-election	David Williams	8,158	46.9	2[8]
1919 Manchester Rusholme by-election	Robert Dunstan	6,412	31.2	2[8]
1919 Spen Valley by-election	Tom Myers	11,962	39.4	1[8]
1921 Woolwich East by-election	Ramsay MacDonald	13,081	48.7	2
1921 Caerphilly by-election	Morgan Jones	13,699	54.2	1
1922 Leicester East by-election	George Banton	14,062	52.9	1

1922 general election

Constituency	Candidate	Votes	%	Position[9]
Aberavon	Ramsay MacDonald	14,138	46.6	1
Accrington	Charles Roden Buxton	16,462	44.2	1
Bermondsey West	Alfred Salter	7,550	44.6	1
Birmingham Ladywood	Robert Dunstan	10,589	44.8	2
Bishop Auckland	Ben Spoor	13,946	53.7	1
Blackburn	Percy Davies	24,049	21.7	3
Bradford Central	William Leach	14,296	42.4	1
Bradford East	Fred Jowett	13,573	45.4	1
Brigg	David Quibell	9,185	37.3	2
Bristol North	Walter Ayles	9,567	35.4	2
Bute and North Ayrshire	John Paton	9,323	39.4	2
Caerphilly	Morgan Jones	13,759	57.2	1
Cardiff Central	James Ewart Edmunds	8,169	29.4	2
Chelsea	Bertrand Russell	4,513	25.1	2
Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire	Lauchlin MacNeill Weir	10,312	42.0	1
Colne Valley	Philip Snowden	12,614	39.5	1
Consett	Herbert Dunnico	14,469	46.5	1
Dewsbury	Benjamin Riley	8,856	37.3	1
Dunbartonshire	W. H. Martin	13,216	49.6	2
East Renfrewshire	Robert Nichol	9,708	42.4	1
Edinburgh Central	William Graham	12,876	57.9	1
Glasgow Bridgeton	James Maxton	17,890	63.7	1
Glasgow Camlachie	Campbell Stephen	15,181	53.2	1
Glasgow Cathcart	John Primrose Hay	9,137	34.0	1
Glasgow Central	Edward Rosslyn Mitchell	12,923	41.9	2
Glasgow Govan	Neil Maclean	15,441	62.3	1
Glasgow Maryhill	John William Muir	13,058	47.3	1
Glasgow Pollok	Alexander Burns Mackay	5,759	24.7	2
Glasgow St Rollox	James Stewart	16,114	56.6	1
Glasgow Shettleston	John Wheatley	14,695	59.1	1
Glasgow Springburn	George Hardie	15,771	60.5	1
Huddersfield	James Hindle Hudson	15,673	33.5	2
Ipswich	Robert Jackson	14,924	46.6	2
Keighley	Hastings Lees-Smith	13,978	46.3	1
Kilmarnock	Robert Climie	10,752	45.3	2
Kingston upon Hull South West	John Arnott	4,859	19.1	3
Lanark	Thomas Scott Dickson	9,812	45.0	2
Lancaster	Fenner Brockway	9,043	31.6	2
Leeds North East	John Badlay	6,525	24.4	3
Leeds West	Thomas Stamford	12,487	48.3	2
Leicester East	George Banton	13,850	47.7	2
Limehouse	Clement Attlee	9,688	55.4	1
Linlithgowshire	Manny Shinwell	12,625	46.4	1
Merthyr	R. C. Wallhead	17,516	53.0	1
Montrose Burghs	John Carnegie	7,044	45.6	2
Newcastle-under-Lyme	Josiah Wedgwood	14,503	60.2	1
Newcastle Central	Charles Trevelyan	13,709	54.2	1
Norwich	Herbert Witard	15,609	16.9	3
Rutherglen	William Wright	14,029	55.1	1
Sheffield Brightside	Arthur Ponsonby	16,692	60.4	1
Spen Valley	Tom Myers	12,519	36.9	2
Stirling and Clackmannan West	Tom Johnston	9,919	55.0	1
Swansea East	David Williams	11,333	50.9	1
Upton	Benjamin Walter Gardner	7,268	32.8	1
West Renfrewshire	Robert Murray	11,787	54.0	1

All candidates stood for the Labour Party.

By-elections, 1922–1923

By-election	Candidate	Votes	%	Position
1923 Ludlow by-election	Percy F. Pollard	1,420	7.8	3[10]

Candidate stood for the Labour Party.

1923 UK general election

Constituency	Candidate	Votes	%	Position[11]
Aberavon	Ramsay MacDonald	17,439	55.6	1
Aberdeen South	John Paton	6,911	29.0	2
Accrington	Charles Roden Buxton	16,793	45.7	2
Acton	Herbert Alphonsus Baldwin	6,069	28.9	2
Bermondsey West	Alfred Salter	8,298	47.5	2
Bethnal Green North East	Walter Windsor	7,415	45.7	1
Birmingham Ladywood	Robert Dunstan	11,330	46.8	2
Bishop Auckland	Ben Spoor	13,328	51.2	1
Blackburn	John Davies	25,428	23.8	3
Bootle	John Kinley	3,272	13.8	3
Bosworth	Emrys Hughes	8,152	28.9	3
Bournemouth	Minnie Pallister	5,986	19.5	3
Bradford Central	William Leach	14,241	44.6	1
Bradford East	Fred Jowett	13,579	48.1	1
Brigg	David Quibell	10,753	46.4	2
Bristol North	Walter Ayles	10,433	37.5	1
Bute and Northern Ayrshire	Peter Campbell Stephen	9,855	44.4	2
Caerphilly	Morgan Jones	16,535	58.7	1
Cardiff Central	James Ewart Edmunds	8,563	32.0	2
Chatham	Mary Hamilton	5,794	24.1	3
Chelsea	Bertrand Russell	5,047	27.5	2
Chesterfield	George Benson	6,198	25.9	2
Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire	Lauchlin MacNeill Weir	10,492	51.1	1
Colne Valley	Philip Snowden	13,136	40.4	1
Consett	Herbert Dunnico	15,862	52.0	1
Croydon North	Gilbert Foan	10,054	37.0	2
Dewsbury	Ben Riley	8,923	44.4	2
Dunbartonshire	William Martin	11,705	43.0	1
East Renfrewshire	Robert Nichol	9,857	44.6	1
Edinburgh Central	William Graham	13,186	67.9	1
Glasgow Bridgeton	James Maxton	15,735	64.8	1
Glasgow Camlachie	Campbell Stephen	14,143	56.2	1
Glasgow Cathcart	John Primrose Hay	8,884	34.7	2
Glasgow Central	Edward Mitchell	12,976	44.4	2
Glasgow Govan	Neil Maclean	13,987	66.3	1
Glasgow Hillhead	John L. Kinloch	5,059	26.4	2
Glasgow Maryhill	John William Muir	12,508	48.1	1
Glasgow Pollok	John Rankin	6,836	32.8	2
Glasgow Shettleston	John Wheatley	12,624	59.8	1
Glasgow Springburn	George Hardie	14,535	62.3	1
Glasgow St Rollox	James Stewart	15,240	62.3	1
Gloucester	M. Philips Price	8,127	35.7	2
Hackney Central	Ernest E. Hunter	6,354	28.7	3
Hammersmith North	James Patrick Gardner	8,101	41.0	1
Hammersmith South	Wyndham Albery	6,974	36.9	2
Hitchin	Skene Mackay	5,913	26.3	2
Huddersfield	James Hudson	17,430	36.7	1
Ilford	Dan Chater	5,775	18.1	3
Inverness	Andrew D. Kinloch	5,385	34.6	2
Ipswich	Robert Jackson	15,824	50.7	1
Islington East	Ethel Bentham	6,941	26.0	3
Keighley	Hastings Lees-Smith	14,083	49.1	2
Kilmarnock	Robert Climie	10,992	43.2	1
Kingston upon Hull South West	John Arnott	5,973	23.7	3
Lambeth North	Fred Hughes	4,089	21.9	3
Lanark	Thomas Scott Dickson	11,384	50.5	1
Leeds West	Thomas Stamford	11,434	40.7	1
Leicester East	George Banton	13,162	44.8	1
Leyton East	Archibald Church	7,944	39.5	1
Limehouse	Clement Attlee	11,473	68.5	1
Linlithgowshire	Manny Shinwell	13,304	50.9	1
Llandaff and Barry	Thomas F. Worrall	7,871	27.0	3
Lowestoft	Robert Arthur Mellanby	4,788	19.7	3
Maidstone	Seymour Cocks	6,558	24.4	3
Merthyr	R. C. Wallhead	19,511	60.1	1
Mile End	John Scurr	6,219	41.0	1
Montrose Burghs	John Carnegie	7,032	44.7	2
Newcastle-under-Lyme	Josiah Wedgwood	12,881	65.6	1
Newcastle upon Tyne Central	Charles Trevelyan	12,447	52.5	1
Newcastle upon Tyne North	John Beckett	5,374	22.0	3
Norwich	Dorothy Jewson	19,304	20.0	2
Penistone	Rennie Smith	8,329	33.5	2
Reading	Somerville Hastings	16,657	44.8	1
Rutherglen	William Wright	13,021	54.5	1
St Pancras North	James Marley	10,931	43.0	1
Salford West	Alexander Haycock	9,868	38.4	1
Sheffield Attercliffe	Cecil Wilson	13,581	58.7	1
Sheffield Brightside	Arthur Ponsonby	14,741	53.0	1
Southampton	Reginald Sorensen	16,679	16.4	4
Stourbridge	Wilfred Wellock	9,050	24.4	3
Sunderland	David Baxter Lawley	13,707	11.6	5
Swansea East	David Williams	12,735	57.4	1
Upton	Benjamin Walter Gardner	8,656	39.3	1
Walthamstow East	John Gilbert Dale	6,837	34.6	2
Wells	Charles Henry Whitlow	1,713	07.6	3
Westbury	George Ward	4,372	17.4	3
West Dorset	Louie Simpson	7,087	41.2	2
West Renfrewshire	Robert Murray	10,904	48.1	1
West Stirlingshire	Tom Johnston	9,242	51.9	1

All candidates stood for the Labour Party.

By-elections, 1923–1924

By-election	Candidate	Votes	%	Position
1924 Westminster Abbey by-election	Fenner Brockway	6,156	27.0	3[12]

Candidate stood for the Labour Party.

1924 general election

By-election	Candidate	Votes	%	Position[13]
Aberavon	Ramsay MacDonald	17,724	53.1	1
Aberdeen and Kincardine East	William Sloan Cormack	3,899	24.4	3
Aberdeen North	Frank Herbert Rose	13,249	60.8	1
Aberdeen South	George Archibald	10,699	39.9	2
Accrington	Charles Roden Buxton	18,148	47.1	2
Argyllshire	I. H. MacIver	4,532	22.7	3
Belper	Jack Lees	10,618	41.8	2
Bermondsey West	Alfred Salter	11,578	57.2	1
Birkenhead East	James Coulthard	7,496	26.7	3
Birmingham Erdington	Charles Simmons	11,412	40.5	2
Birmingham Ladywood	Oswald Mosley	13,297	48.9	2
Birmingham Sparkbrook	Sydney Potter	9,759	36.1	2
Bishop Auckland	Ben Spoor	15,786	55.1	1
Blackburn	Mary Hamilton	24,330	21.8	3
Bradford Central	William Leach	16,652	48.3	2
Bradford East	Fred Jowett	15,174	49.9	2
Bradford North	Frank Wise	9,442	32.7	2
Brigg	David Quibell	11,669	43.6	2
Bristol North	Walter Ayles	12,319	40.9	2
Bute and Northern Ayrshire	Peter Campbell Stephen	10,075	38.3	2
Caerphilly	Morgan Jones	17,723	59.0	1
Central Aberdeenshire	J. Newman	3,791	18.4	2
Chesterfield	George Benson	9,206	39.7	2
Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire	Lauchlin MacNeill Weir	13,032	52.6	1
Colchester	Richard Reiss	10,953	43.4	2
Consett	Herbert Dunnico	18,842	55.9	1
Croydon North	Gilbert Foan	10,954	29.7	2
Dewsbury	Benjamin Riley	9,941	41.1	1
Dumfriesshire	Agnes Dollan	6,342	23.0	3
Dunbartonshire	William Martin	12,872	44.2	2
East Renfrewshire	Robert Nichol	10,903	44.3	2
Edinburgh Central	William Graham	13,628	60.5	1
Gateshead	John Beckett	23,514	50.2	1
Glasgow Bridgeton	James Maxton	16,850	61.3	1
Glasgow Camlachie	Campbell Stephen	14,588	50.4	1
Glasgow Cathcart	John Primrose Hay	9,915	35.0	2
Glasgow Central	J. D. White	12,617	40.9	2
Glasgow Govan	Neil Maclean	15,132	63.2	1
Glasgow Hillhead	John L. Kinloch	6,957	32.3	2
Glasgow Maryhill	John William Muir	13,947	47.4	2
Glasgow Kelvingrove	Thomas Archibald Kerr	12,844	41.6	2
Glasgow Pollok	John Rankin	6,749	24.7	2
Glasgow St Rollox	James Stewart	16,299	59.2	1
Glasgow Shettleston	John Wheatley	12,714	51.3	1
Glasgow Springburn	George Hardie	15,635	56.5	1
Gloucester	M. Philips Price	8,005	36.2	2
Greenock	Stephen Kelly	5,874	22.4	3
Hackney Central	Ernest E. Hunter	9,684	36.3	2
Hammersmith North	James Patrick Gardner	10,970	45.9	2
Harwich	Alf Barton	1,604	06.8	3
Huddersfield	James Hudson	19,010	36.3	1
Inverness	T. Henderson	6,863	37.4	2
Ipswich	Robert Jackson	15,791	44.6	2
Keighley	Hastings Lees-Smith	14,105	45.0	1
Kilmarnock	Robert Climie	13,054	47.8	2
Kingston upon Hull South West	John Arnott	7,965	29.2	3
Kinross and Western Perthshire	John MacDiarmid	5,286	28.0	2
Lanark	Thomas Scott Dickson	11,426	43.5	2
Lancaster	Harold Mostyn Watkins	5,572	17.5	3
Leeds West	Thomas Stamford	13,057	42.5	1
Leicester East	George Banton	15,669	49.3	2
Limehouse	Clement Attlee	11,713	57.7	1
Linlithgowshire	Manny Shinwell	14,123	48.9	2
Liverpool Fairfield	Mary Ann Mercer	8,412	37.1	2
Liverpool Kirkdale	Elijah Sandham	9,369	39.4	2
Maidstone	Seymour Cocks	8,192	33.7	2
Merthyr	R. C. Wallhead	19,882	59.8	1
Mile End	John Scurr	8,306	48.5	1
Motherwell	James Barr	12,816	52.1	1
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Central	Charles Trevelyan	14,542	51.6	1
Norwich	Dorothy Jewson	22,931	22.0	4
Paisley	Edward Mitchell	17,057	53.5	1
Penrith and Cockermouth	Fred Tait	5,404	32.1	2
Perth	Cameron Roberts	5,316	20.2	3
Rutherglen	William Wright	13,796	52.1	1
St Pancras North	James Marley	13,171	44.1	2
Salford West	Alexander Haycock	12,369	42.5	2
Sheffield Attercliffe	Cecil Wilson	16,802	63.6	1
Sheffield Brightside	Arthur Ponsonby	17,053	55.4	1
Stalybridge and Hyde	Walter Fowden	12,509	33.7	2
Stirling and Clackmannan Western	Tom Johnston	9,749	49.3	2
Stourbridge	Wilfred Wellock	14,113	34.8	2
Upton	Benjamin Gardner	11,443	46.0	2
Westbury	George Ward	4,731	18.1	3
Western Isles	A. G. Burns	1,454	17.2	3
Weston-super-Mare	Raphael Neft	1,343	04.2	3
West Renfrewshire	Robert Murray	11,252	45.9	2
Willesden East	William Davies Lloyd	7,860	24.7	3

Candidates stood for the Labour Party.

By-elections, 1924–1929

By-election	Candidate	Votes	%	Position
1924 Dundee by-election	Tom Johnston	22,973	69.2	1[14]
1925 Ayr Burghs by-election	Patrick Dollan	9,787	35.2	2[14]
1928 Linlithgowshire by-election	Manny Shinwell	14,446	49.1	1[15]
1928 Aberdeen North by-election	William Wedgwood Benn	10,646	52.5	1[15]
1929 North Lanarkshire by-election	Jennie Lee	15,711	57.5	1[16]

Candidates stood for the Labour Party.

1929 general election

Constituency	Candidate	Votes	%	Position[17][18]
Aberdeen North	William Wedgwood Benn	17,826	60.8	1
Aberdeen South	William Henry Porteous Martin	13,856	39.1	2
Argyll	John L. Kinloch	6,001	23.8	3
Ayr Burghs	Clarice Shaw	13,429	36.5	2
Belper	Jack Lees	15,958	43.0	1
Birkenhead East	James Coulthard	11,654	31.8	3
Birmingham Erdington	Charles Simmons	20,665	43.4	1
Birmingham Ladywood	Wilfrid Whiteley	16,447	50.0	1
Blackburn	Mary Agnes Hamilton	37,256	26.1	1
Bradford Central	William Leach	24,876	59.0	1
Bradford East	Frederick William Jowett	21,398	54.7	1
Bute and Northern Ayrshire	Alexander Sloan	14,294	43.8	2
Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire	Lauchlin MacNeill Weir	17,667	53.2	1
Clapham	J. Allen Skinner	9,871	30.5	2
Dumfriesshire	W. H. Marwick	6,687	18.7	3
East Renfrewshire	John Martin Munro	16,924	47.8	2
Edinburgh Central	William Graham	16,762	59.0	1
Fylde	J. Williamson	16,318	35.3	2
Galloway	Hector McNeill	4,903	15.5	3
Glasgow Bridgeton	James Maxton	21,033	67.7	1
Glasgow Camlachie	Campbell Stephen	17,946	53.2	1
Glasgow Cathcart	John Primrose Hay	12,983	36.3	2
Glasgow Hillhead	William Sloan Cormack	10,065	36.7	1
Glasgow Kelvingrove	John Winning	15,173	43.6	2
Glasgow Maryhill	John Smith Clarke	18,311	50.6	1
Glasgow Shettleston	John Wheatley	19,594	60.4	1
Glasgow Springburn	George Hardie	21,079	65.5	1
Glasgow St Rollox	James Stewart	19,445	61.8	1
Huddersfield	James Hindle Hudson	25,966	38.3	1
Keighley	Hastings Lees-Smith	18,412	44.7	1
Kilmarnock	Robert Climie	17,386	48.2	1
Kingston upon Hull South West	John Arnott	14,903	41.2	1
Leeds West	Thomas William Stamford	18,765	41.9	1
Leicester East	Edward Frank Wise	22,533	50.8	1
Leyton East	Fenner Brockway	11,111	42.9	1
Linlithgowshire	Manny Shinwell	18,063	51.6	1
Liverpool Kirkdale	Elijah Sandham	15,222	51.3	1
Merthyr	R. C. Wallhead	22,701	59.6	1
Motherwell	James Barr	16,650	58.0	1
North Lanarkshire	Jennie Lee	19,884	55.9	1
Norwich	Dorothy Jewson	31,040	24.0	3
Oldham	Gordon Lang	34,223	26.2	1
Paisley	James Welsh	22,425	55.8	1
Perth	Helen Gault	8,291	23.5	3
Rutherglen	William Wright	17,538	52.2	1
Salford West	Alexander Haycock	15,647	42.8	1
Sheffield Brightside	Arthur Ponsonby	20,277	55.2	1
Sheffield Hallam	Basil Rawson	12,133	39.1	2
Western Isles	John M. MacDiarmid	3,589	32.5	2
West Renfrewshire	Robert Forgan	14,419	46.5	1
West Stirlingshire	Tom Johnston	15,179	56.7	1
Whitehaven	Morgan Phillips Price	14,034	46.8	1
Widnes	Alexander Gordon Cameron	19,125	51.0	1
Willesden East	William Davies Lloyd	13,977	33.1	2

All candidates stood as part of the Labour Party.

By-elections 1929–1931

By-election	Candidate	Votes	%	Position
1930 Glasgow Shettleston by-election	John McGovern	10,699	42.8	1
1930 East Renfrewshire by-election	Thomas Irwin	12,293	33.3	2
1931 Rutherglen by-election	David Hardie	6,736	51.4	1

All candidates except Irwin were endorsed by the Labour Party. Irwin was sponsored by the United Society of Boilermakers.

1931 general election

Constituency	Candidate	Votes	%	Position[19]
Bradford East	Fred Jowett	15,779	41.2	2
Bute and Northern Ayrshire	Alexander Sloan	12,758	34.3	2
Camborne	Kate Spurrell	8,280	24.5	3
Clapham	Hilda Browning	7,317	23.0	2
Dumbarton Burghs	David Kirkwood	16,335	51.6	1
Glasgow Bridgeton	James Maxton	16,630	58.2	1
Glasgow Camlachie	Campbell Stephen	15,282	45.3	2
Glasgow Govan	George Buchanan	19,278	58.1	1
Glasgow Kelvingrove	John Winning	12,415	36.6	2
Glasgow Shettleston	John McGovern	16,301	47.8	1
Kilmarnock	John Pollock	14,767	40.4	2
Lanark	Jack Gibson	11,815	36.4	2
Leyton East	Fenner Brockway	10,433	37.6	2
Liverpool Kirkdale	Elijah Sandham	9,531	30.1	2
Merthyr	R. C. Wallhead	24,623	69.4	1
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Central	Charles Trevelyan	12,136	37.3	2
North Lanarkshire	Jennie Lee	19,691	44.7	2
Norwich	Dorothy Jewson	26,537	19.7	4
Peckham	John Beckett	11,217	33.5	2
Perth	Helen Gault	3,705	9.7	3
Stockport	John Thomas Abbott	15,591	11.3	4
Warwick and Leamington	Jim Garton	9,261	19.4	2
West Renfrewshire	Jean Mann	10,203	31.5	2

In addition, Josiah Wedgwood was elected unopposed for Newcastle-under-Lyme. Only those ILP members not accredited by the Labour Party are listed.[20]

By-elections, 1931–1935

By-election	Candidate	Votes	%	Position[19]
1932 New Forest and Christchurch by-election	C. A. Smith	5,135	18.0
1933 Kilmarnock by-election	John Pollock	7,575	20.9	3
1934 Upton by-election	Fenner Brockway	748	3.5
1934 Merthyr by-election	Campbell Stephen	3,508	9.8	3

1935 general election

Constituency	Candidate	Votes	%	Position[19]
Aberdeen North	Fraser Macintosh	3,871	11.1	3
Bradford East	Fred Jowett	8,983	26.7	2
Camborne	Kate Spurrell	592	1.9	4
Chorley	Robert Edwards	1,365	3.3	3
Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire	David Gibson	1,513	4.3	4
Glasgow Bridgeton	James Maxton	17,691	65.0	1
Glasgow Camlachie	Campbell Stephen	15,070	47.1	1
Glasgow Gorbals	George Buchanan	22,860	75.0	1
Glasgow Govan	Tom Taylor	4,959	16.0	3
Glasgow Shettleston	John McGovern	18,377	52.8	1
Glasgow Tradeston	James Carmichael	3,423	13.2	3
Kilmarnock	John Pollock	3,582	10.2	3
Lanark	William Carlin	2,583	8.3	3
Merthyr	Claude Stanfield	9,640	32.0	2
North Lanarkshire	Jennie Lee	17,267	37.3	2
Norwich	Fenner Brockway	6,737	5.4	5
Whitehaven	Tom Stephenson	1,004	3.3	3

By-elections, 1935–1945

By-election	Candidate	Votes	%	Position[19]
1939 Stretford by-election	Robert Edwards	4,424	15.1	2
1940 Glasgow Pollok by-election	John Nicolson	8,206	11.9	2
1940 East Renfrewshire by-election	Annie Maxton	8,206	19.3	2
1941 Lancaster by-election	Fenner Brockway	5,418	19.5	3
1941 Edinburgh Central by-election	Tom Taylor	1,950	29.0	2
1942 Cardiff East by-election	Fenner Brockway	3,311	24.8	2
1942 Glasgow Cathcart by-election	James Carmichael	2,493	13.8	3
1943 Bristol Central by-election	John McNair	830	7.4	3
1943 Woolwich West by-election	Tom Colyer	3,419	27.2	2
1943 Acton by-election	Walter Padley	2,336	28.1	2
1944 Bilston by-election	Arthur Eaton	9,344	49.1	2
1945 Newport by-election	Robert Edwards	13,722	45.5	2

1945 general election

Constituency	Candidate	Votes	%	Position[19]
Bilston	Arthur Eaton	849	1.8	3
Bradford East	Will Ballantine	5,105	14.6	3
Glasgow Bridgeton	James Maxton	13,220	66.4	1
Glasgow Camlachie	Campbell Stephen	15,558	57.7	1
Glasgow Shettleston	John McGovern	11,947	35.5	1

By-elections, 1945–1950

By-election	Candidate	Votes	%	Position[19]
1946 Battersea North by-election	Hugo Dewar	240	1.5	3
1946 Glasgow Bridgeton by-election	James Carmichael	6,351	34.3	1
1947 Liverpool Edge Hill by-election	David Gibson	154	0.7	4
1948 Glasgow Camlachie by-election	Annie Maxton	1,622	6.4	3

1950 general election

Constituency	Candidate	Votes	%	Position[19]
Burnley	Dan Carradice	295	0.5	4
Glasgow Bridgeton	Robert Duncan	1,974	5.8	3
Glasgow Shettleston	Jim Graham	1,031	2.5	4
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Central	Fred Barton	812	2.1	3

By-elections, 1950–1951

By-election	Candidate	Votes	%	Position[19]
1950 Glasgow Scotstoun by-election	David Gibson	680	1.9	3
1951 Ormskirk by-election	Fred Barton	689	2.0	3

1951 general election

Constituency	Candidate	Votes	%	Position[19]
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Central	Fred Barton	1,006	2.5	3
Glasgow Bridgeton	Robert Duncan	1,796	5.4	3
Glasgow Shettleston	Jim Graham	1,195	2.8	3

1955 general election

Constituency	Candidate	Votes	%	Position[19]
Bermondsey	Stan Birkett	715	2.5	3
Glasgow Bridgeton	George Stone	2,619	7.4	3

By-elections, 1955–1959

By-election	Candidate	Votes	%	Position[19]
1957 East Ham North by-election	Bill Christopher	458	2.1	4
1958 Glasgow Kelvingrove by-election	William Park	587	2.8	4
1958 Islington North by-election	Jim McKie	576	2.9	3

1959 general election

Constituency	Candidate	Votes	%	Position[19]
Glasgow Kelvingrove	William Park	740	3.0	3
Walthamstow East	Bill Christopher	183	0.5	4

By-elections, 1959–1964

By-election	Candidate	Votes	%	Position[19]
1961 Glasgow Bridgeton by-election	George Stone	586	3.1	4

1966 general election

Constituency	Candidate	Votes	%	Position[19]
Leyton	Bill Hanley	441	0.9	4

1970 general election

Constituency	Candidate	Votes	%	Position[19]
Halifax	Alistair Graham	847	1.7	3

February 1974 general election

Constituency	Candidate	Votes	%	Position[19]
St Helens	M. Pike	991	1.8	4

References

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2. Craig, F. W. S. (1968). British Parliamentary Election Statistics 1918–1968. Glasgow: Political Reference Publications. p. 46. ISBN 0900178000.
3. The Labour Annual (1896), pp.40–41
4. F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results: 1885–1918, p.xvi
5. "I.L.P. Candidates: the official list", Manchester Guardian, 10 December 1909
6. The New Hazell Annual and Almanack, vol.26, p.361
7. Independent Labour Party, Report of the Annual Conference (1919), pp.28–29
8. Independent Labour Party, Annual Report (1920), pp.14–15
9. Independent Labour Party, Annual Report (1923), pp.39–41
10. Clare V. J. Griffiths, Labour and the Countryside: The Politics of Rural Britain 1918–1939, p.1
11. Independent Labour Party, Annual Report (1924), pp.46–51
12. Independent Labour Party, Annual Report (1924), pp.12–13
13. ILP, Annual Report (1925), pp.57–61
14. Labour Party, Report of the Annual Labour Party Conference (1925), pp.25–27
15. Labour Party, "Report of the Annual Labour Party Conference (1928), pp.11–17
16. Report of the Annual Labour Party Conference: 15–19. 1929. Missing or empty |title= (help)
17. Independent Labour Party, The Report of the Annual Conference (1929), p.40
18. Report of the Annual Labour Party Conference: 24–44. 1929. Missing or empty |title= (help)
19. F. W. S. Craig, Minor parties at British Parliamentary elections 1885–1974
20. Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party (1931), p.295; Josiah Wedgwood omitted as he was not affiliated with the ILP.

• F. W. S. Craig, Chronology of British Parliamentary By-elections 1833–1987