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.

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.

Aldershot[1]
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

Chelmsford
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

Chichester
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

Evesham[2]
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

Maidstone[2]
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

Petersfield
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

Portsmouth Central
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

Portsmouth North
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

Sheffield Ecclesall[3]
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

Thirsk and Malton
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

Westminster Abbey
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

Westminster St George's
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

Aberdeen North
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

Edinburgh East
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

Glasgow Kelvingrove
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

Kirkcaldy Burghs[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

Motherwell
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

Perth
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

Renfrewshire West
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

Caernarvon Boroughs
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

Caernarvonshire
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

Merioneth[5]
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

Neath
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

Ogmore[6]
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

Rhondda East
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

University of Wales
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

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