Labour Party (UK) election results (1906–1922)

This article lists the Labour Party's election results in elections from it adopting the "Labour Party" name in 1906 until the end of the 1918 to 1922 Parliament.

Summary of general election performance

YearNumber of CandidatesTotal votesAverage votes per candidate% UK voteChange (percentage points)Saved depositsNumber of MPs[1]
1910 Jan78505,6576,4837.0+2.7N/A40
1910 Dec56371,8026,6396.4-0.6N/A42
19183612,245,7776,22120.8+14.435557

Sponsorship of candidates

SponsorCandidates Jan 10MPs Jan 10Candidates Dec 10MPs Dec 10Candidates 18MPs 18[2]
BSPN/AN/AN/AN/A40
CLP00001445
Fabian2021unknown0
ILP146128503
SDFN/AN/AN/AN/A31
Trade union6234423316349

Election results

By-elections, 1906–1910

Smillie, first candidate run under the "Labour Party" name
By-electionCandidateVotes%PositionSponsor[3]
1906 Cockermouth by-electionRobert Smillie1,43614.53Miners
1906 Huddersfield by-electionT. Russell Williams5,42233.82ILP
1907 Belfast North by-electionWilliam Walker4,19441.12Carpenters & Joiners
1907 Jarrow by-electionPete Curran4,69833.01Gasworkers
1907 Liverpool Kirkdale by-electionJohn Hill3,33045.42Boilermakers
1907 Kingston upon Hull West by-electionJames Holmes4,51229.13ASRS
1908 Leeds South by-electionAlbert E. Fox2,45119.43ASLEF
1908 Dewsbury by-electionBen Turner2,44620.23Textile Workers
1908 Dundee by-electionGeorge Harold Stuart4,01424.93Postmen
1908 Montrose Burghs by-electionJoseph Burgess1,93729.42ILP
1909 Taunton by-electionFrank Smith1,08535.42Fabian[4]
1909 Croydon by-electionFrank Smith8864.23ILP[4]
1909 Sheffield Attercliffe by-electionJoseph Pointer3,63127.51Patternmakers
1909 Mid Derbyshire by-electionJohn George Hancock6,73560.51Miners

January 1910 general election

Henderson, leader of the party in January 1910, elected for Barnard Castle
"Mabon", a miners' MP and former Liberal, re-elected for Rhondda
Thomas, newly elected for Derby
ConstituencyCandidateVotes%PositionSponsor[3]
Barnard CastleArthur Henderson6,09656.71Iron Founders
Barrow-in-FurnessCharles Duncan5,30455.21Engineers
Belfast NorthRobert Gageby3,95138.72Flaxdressers
Birmingham BordesleyFred Hughes3,45327.72
Birmingham EastJoseph James Stephenson3,95831.92Engineers
Bishop AucklandWilliam House3,99333.22Miners
BlackburnPhilip Snowden10,76228.12ILP
BoltonAlfred Gill11,86430.52Textile Factory Workers
Bow and BromleyGeorge Lansbury2,95533.52ILP
Bradford WestFred Jowett8,88066.61ILP
Bristol EastFrank Sheppard1,87431.22Boot and Shoe
ChathamJohn Hagan Jenkins6,13045.32Shipwrights
Chester-le-StreetJohn Wilkinson Taylor12,68464.81Miners
ChesterfieldJames Haslam8,23459.11Miners
ClitheroeDavid Shackleton13,87367.31Textile Factory Workers
CockermouthPercy Whitehead1,90918.93Steel Smelters
CreweFrank Herbert Rose1,3809.53Engineers
DeptfordC. W. Bowerman6,88052.01Compositors[5]
DerbyJames Henry Thomas10,18927.92Railway Servants[6]
DundeeAlexander Wilkie10,36532.92Shipwrights
EcclesGeorge Henry Stuart3,51120.33Postmen
GatesheadJohn Johnson3,57221.43Miners
Glasgow Blackfriars and HutchesontownGeorge Nicoll Barnes4,49661.71Engineers
Glasgow CamlachieJames O'Connor Kessack2,44328.93ILP
GortonJohn Hodge7,80751.61Steel Smelters[7]
GovanJames Thomas Brownlie3,54523.33Engineers
GowerJohn Williams9,31278.61Miners
HalifaxJames Parker9,09338.92ILP
HallamshireJohn Wadsworth10,19362.21Miners
HanleyEnoch Edwards9,19963.91Miners
HolmfirthWilliam Pickles1,64314.93Painters
HuddersfieldHarry Snell5,68631.62Fabians[8]
HydeWilliam Crawford Anderson2,40121.23ILP
InceStephen Walsh7,72360.61Miners
JarrowPete Curran4,81833.52Gasworkers
Leeds EastJames O'Grady5,87371.81Furnishing
LeicesterRamsay Macdonald14,33731.42ILP
LeighThomas Greenall3,26824.73Miners
Leith BurghsWilliam Walker2,72418.93Carpenters & Joiners
Liverpool KirkdaleAlexander Gordon Cameron3,92148.62Carpenters & Joiners
Liverpool West ToxtethJames Sexton2,90942.52Dock Labourers
Manchester EastJohn Edward Sutton6,11054.51Miners
Manchester North EastJ. R. Clynes5,15758.41ILP
Manchester South WestJ. M. McLachlan1,21816.63ILP
Merthyr TydfilKeir Hardie13,84136.72ILP
Mid DerbyshireJohn Hancock7,57563.91Miners
MiddlesbroughPatrick Walls2,71014.23Blastfurnacemen
Mid LanarkshireRobert Smillie3,86425.73Miners
MorleyHerbert Smith2,19116.13Miners
Newcastle-upon-TyneWalter Hudson18,24128.12Railway Servants
NewtonJames Andrew Seddon7,25652.71Shop Assistants
NormantonFrederick Hall9,17272.21Miners
North AyrshireJames Brown1,80112.93Miners
North East DerbyshireWilliam Edwin Harvey8,71557.61Miners
North East LanarkshireJoseph Sullivan2,16011.83Miners
North West LanarkshireRobert Small1,7189.73Miners
North West StaffordshireAlbert Stanley8,56659.81Miners
NorwichGeorge Henry Roberts11,11928.72Typographical[9]
NuneatonWilliam Johnson8,15450.81Miners
PortsmouthWilliams Sanders3,5296.15Fabians[8]
PrestonJohn Thomas Macpherson7,53921.43Steel Smelters[7]
RhonddaWilliam Abraham12,43678.21Miners
St HelensThomas Glover6,51253.31Miners
Sheffield AttercliffeJoseph Pointer7,75556.11Patternmakers
South GlamorganshireWilliam Brace11,61261.11Miners
Spen ValleyT. Russell Williams2,51423.33ILP
StockportGeorge James Wardle6,68228.01Railway Servants
SunderlandThomas Summerbell11,05823.44ILP
TewkesburyCharles Fox2382.13ILP
WakefieldStanton Coit2,60245.52ILP
West FifeWilliam Adamson4,73637.72Miners
West Ham SouthWill Thorne11,79163.11Gasworkers
WesthoughtonWilliam Tyson Wilson9,06453.21Carpenters & Joiners
West MonmouthshireThomas Richards13,29581.41Miners
WhitehavenAndrew Sharp82528.83Miners
WiganHenry Twist4,80352.81Miners
Wolverhampton WestThomas Frederick Richards5,79047.62Boot and Shoe
WoolwichWill Crooks8,42049.12Coopers[8]

Gill in Bolton, Hardie in Merthyr Tydfil, Hudson in Newcastle, Macdonald in Leicester, Parker in Halifax, Roberts in Norwich, Snowden in Blackburn, Thomas in Derby and Wilkie in Dundee were elected by taking second place in a multi-seat constituency.

By-elections, Jan–Dec 1910

Hartshorn, who stood unsuccessfully in Mid Glamorgan in 1910
By-electionCandidateVotes%PositionSponsor[3]
1910 Mid Glamorgan by-electionVernon Hartshorn6,21041.02Miners
1910 Liverpool Kirkdale by-electionAlexander Gordon Cameron3,42744.52Carpenters & Joiners

December 1910 general election

Barnes, leader of the party in December 1910, re-elected in Glasgow Blackfriars and Hutchesontown
Lansbury, future party leader, newly elected in Bow and Bromley
Smith, frequent candidate, unsuccessful in Chatham
ConstituencyCandidateVotes%PositionSponsor[3][10]
Barnard CastleArthur Henderson5,86857.01Iron Founders
Barrow-in-FurnessCharles Duncan4,81052.91Engineers
Bishop AucklandWilliam House3,99333.22Miners
BlackburnPhilip Snowden10,76226.41ILP
BoltonAlfred Gill7,72964.02Textile Factory Workers
Bow and BromleyGeorge Lansbury4,31555.61ILP
Bradford WestFred Jowett8,88066.61ILP
ChathamFrank Smith1,1038.93ILP
Chester-le-StreetJohn Wilkinson TaylorunopposedN/A1Miners
ChesterfieldJames Haslam7,28359.01Miners
ClitheroeAlbert Smith12,10767.71Textile Factory Workers
DeptfordC. W. Bowerman6,35751.41Compositors[5]
DerbyJames Henry Thomas9,14434.12Railway Servants[6]
DundeeAlexander Wilkie8,95729.32Shipwrights
East CarmarthenshireJohn Henry Williams1,17612.63Steel Smelters
East GlamorganCharles Stanton4,67524.13Miners
Glasgow Blackfriars and HutchesontownGeorge Nicoll Barnes4,16259.11Engineers
Glasgow CamlachieJames O'Connor Kessack1,53918.13ILP
GortonJohn Hodge7,84052.21Steel Smelters[7]
GowerJohn Williams5,48054.81Miners
HalifaxJames Parker8,51132.32ILP
HallamshireJohn Wadsworth8,70859.91Miners
HanleyEnoch Edwards8,34364.21Miners
HuddersfieldHarry Snell4,98829.03Fabians[8]
InceStephen Walsh7,11757.21Miners
JarrowAlexander Gordon Cameron4,89230.63Carpenters & Joiners
Leeds EastJames O'Grady4,02868.01Furnishing
Leeds SouthJohn Badlay2,70621.53ILP
LeicesterRamsay Macdonald12,99838.52ILP
Liverpool KirkdaleThomas McKerrell2,99241.62ILP
Manchester EastJohn Edward Sutton5,52454.31Miners
Manchester North EastJ. R. Clynes4,31358.41ILP
Merthyr TydfilKeir Hardie11,50739.62ILP
Mid DerbyshireJohn Hancock6,55760.51Miners
Mid GlamorganshireVernon Hartshorn6,10244.52Miners
Mid LanarkshireRobert Smillie3,84724.73Miners
Newcastle-upon-TyneWalter Hudson16,44728.02Railway Servants[6]
NewtonJames Andrew Seddon6,56249.52Shop Assistants
NormantonFrederick HallunopposedN/A1Miners
North East DerbyshireWilliam Edwin Harvey7,83856.31Miners
North West StaffordshireAlbert Stanley8,12562.21Miners
NorwichGeorge Henry Roberts10,00335.82Typographical[9]
NuneatonWilliam Johnson8,19952.21Miners
PrestonWilliam Henry Carr7,85323.04Textile Factory Workers
RhonddaWilliam Abraham9,07371.01Miners
St HelensThomas Glover5,75248.92Miners
Sheffield AttercliffeJoseph Pointer6,53255.01Patternmakers
South GlamorganshireWilliam Brace10,91058.41Miners
StockportGeorge James Wardle6,09426.92Railway Servants[6]
SunderlandFrank Goldstone11,29125.82Teachers
West FifeWilliam Adamson6,12853.01Miners
West MonmouthshireThomas RichardsunopposedN/A1Miners
West Ham SouthWill Thorne9,50866.41Gasworkers
WesthoughtonWilliam Tyson Wilson9,06453.21Carpenters & Joiners
WhitehavenThomas Richardson1,41453.71ILP and Miners
WiganHenry Twist4,11046.82Miners
WoolwichWill Crooks8,25250.71Fabians[8] and Coopers

Gill in Bolton, Hardie in Merthyr Tydfil, Hudson in Newcastle, Macdonald in Leicester, Parker in Halifax, Roberts in Norwich, Goldstone in Sunderland, Thomas in Derby, Wardle in Stockport and Wilkie in Dundee were elected by taking second place in a multi-seat constituency.

By-elections, 1910–1918

Roberts, winner of a ministerial by-election in Norwich in 1917
By-electionCandidateVotes%PositionSponsor[3]
1911 North East Lanarkshire by-electionJohn Robertson2,87916.33Miners
1911 Kilmarnock Burghs by-electionThomas McKerrell2,76119.33ILP
1911 Keighley by-electionWilliam Crawford Anderson3,45228.93ILP
1911 Oldham by-electionWilliam Cornforth Robinson7,44824.63Textile Factory Workers
1912 Holmfirth by-electionWilliam Lunn3,19528.23Miners
1912 Hanley by-electionSamuel Finney1,69411.83Miners
1912 Crewe by-electionJames Holmes2,48517.73Railway Servants
1912 Midlothian by-electionRobert Brown2,41516.73Miners
1913 Houghton-le-Spring by-electionWilliam House4,16526.23Miners
1913 Keighley by-electionWilliam Bland3,64629.83ILP
1913 South Lanarkshire by-electionThomas Gibb1,67416.83Miners
1914 North West Durham by-electionG. H. Stuart5,02628.23Postmen
1914 Leith Burghs by-electionJoseph Nicholas Bell3,34624.53Labour Amalgamation
1914 North East Derbyshire by-electionJames Martin3,66922.53Miners
1914 Bolton by-electionRobert TootillunopposedN/A1Carters & Lurrymen[11]
1914 Sheffield Attercliffe by-electionWilliam Crawford AndersonunopposedN/A1ILP[11]
1915 Merthyr Tydfil by-electionJames Winstone6,08037.22Miners
1916 North West Staffordshire by-electionSamuel FinneyunopposedN/A1Miners
1917 Norwich by-electionGeorge Henry RobertsunopposedN/A1Typographical[9]
1918 Manchester North East by-electionJ. R. ClynesunopposedN/A1ILP

1918 UK general election

Adamson, leader of the party in 1918, re-elected in West Fife
Pethick-Lawrence, one of four women to stand for the party in 1918, defeated in Manchester Rusholme
Tillett, newly elected in Salford North
ConstituencyCandidateVotes%PositionSponsor[12]
AberavonRobert Williams7,75835.72NAUL
AberdareT. E. Nicholas6,22921.42ILP[13]
AbertilleryWilliam BraceunopposedN/A1Miners[14]
AccringtonCharles Roden Buxton6,36921.73ILP[13]
ActonRobert Dunsmore4,24126.72Constituency[15]
AltrinchamGeorge Middleton7,68527.32Postal Clerks[16][17]
ArgyllshireLauchlin MacNeill Weir2,73318.62Highland Land League
Ayr BurghsCampbell Stephen4,53423.23ILP[13]
Balham and TootingFrank Smith3,58617.22
Barnard CastleJohn Edmund Swan5,46842.91Miners[14]
Barrow-in-FurnessCharles Duncan12,30949.42Workers[18]
BasingstokeA. Close6,27735.92
BathAlfred James Bethell5,24425.22
Batley and MorleyBen Turner12,05147.12Textile Workers[17]
Battersea NorthCharlotte Despard5,63433.42Constituency
Battersea SouthArthur Lynch3,38314.72
BedwelltyCharles Edwards11,37053.61Miners[14]
Bermondsey WestAlfred Salter1,95618.63ILP[13]
Berwick and HaddingtonRobert W. Foulis4,78330.02Constituency[15]
Birkenhead EastJohn Finigan5,39926.72
Birkenhead WestWilliam Henry Egan5,67131.02
Birmingham AstonJohn Banfield4,45129.42
Birmingham ErdingtonAlbert Edward Ayton5,21127.12
Birmingham HandsworthHenry Joseph Odell4,57621.53
Birmingham LadywoodJohn Kneeshaw2,57219.02ILP[13]
Birmingham MoseleyRobert Dunstan3,78916.22Constituency[15]
Birmingham YardleyGeorge Shann7,46638.32Constituency[17]
Bishop AucklandBen Spoor10,06050.61
BlackburnPhilip Snowden15,27419.73ILP[13]
BlackpoolAllan Gee2,60809.23Textile Workers[15]
BlaydonWilliam Whiteley7,84441.62Miners[14]
BoltonRobert TootillunopposedN/A1General Workers[18]
BosworthThomas Richardson6,34433.62ILP[13]
BothwellJohn Robertson9,02749.12Miners[14]
BournemouthFrederick Jesse Hopkins5,30125.02
Bow and BromleyGeorge Lansbury7,24844.32
Bradford CentralWilliam Leach7,63631.32ILP[13]
Bradford EastFrederick William Jowett8,63737.92ILP[13]
Bradford NorthJohn Henry Palin6,49929.22Constituency[15]
Brentford and ChiswickWilliam Haywood2,62020.22Constituency[15]
BridgwaterSid Plummer5,77131.42Constituency[15]
BriggDavid Quibell4,78927.32ILP[13]
BrightonThomas Lewis8,97110.83
BrightonGeorge William Canter8,51410.24
Bristol CentralErnest Bevin7,13736.82
Bristol EastLuke Bateman8,13542.82ILP[13]
Bristol NorthJames Kaylor5,00726.52Engineers
Bristol SouthThomas Lewis6,40931.82Dockers[15]
BroxtoweGeorge Alfred Spencer11,15055.21Miners[14]
BuckinghamJohn Scurr7,48132.32Constituency[15]
BuckroseGeorge Henry Dawson3,17620.82
BurnleyDan Irving15,21741.91Socialist
BurslemSamuel Finney7,47444.31Miners[14]
BuryHarry Wright Wallace4,97322.73Postmen[16]
Bute and Northern AyrshireRobert Smith5,84828.52Constituency
CaerphillyAlfred Onions11,49654.81Miners[14]
Camberwell NorthCharles Ammon2,17521.03ILP[13] and Fawcett[16]
CamborneGeorge Nicholls6,54648.02
CambridgeThomas Rhondda Williams3,78924.72
CambridgeshireAlbert Ernest Stubbs6,68634.92Constituency[9]
Cambridge UniversityJ. C. Squire64011.14
CanterburyEdward Timothy Palmer2,71919.22Constituency[15]
Cardiff CentralJames Ewart Edmunds4,66322.42ILP[13]
Cardiff EastArthur James Williams5,55428.53Railwaymen
Cardiff SouthJoshua Clatworthy4,30326.32Coal Trimmers
CarlisleErnest Lowthian4,73633.22General Workers
ChathamDan W. Hubbard4,13422.52Engineers[19]
ChelmsfordWilliam F. Toynbee5,55133.12Constituency[9][15]
ChertseyThomas Linsey3,23219.32Constituency[20][15]
ChesterArthur Mason2,79915.73Locomotive Engineers[21]
Chester-le-StreetJohn Wilkinson TaylorunopposedN/A1Durham Colliery Mechanics
ChichesterFrederick Ernest Green6,70531.62Constituency[15]
ChippenhamReuben George2,93917.73Constituency[15]
ChorleyElijah Sandham6,22232.32ILP[13]
Clay CrossFrank Hall6,76645.92Miners[14]
ClevelandHarry Dack8,61035.32Miners[14]
ClitheroeAlfred Davies9,57844.71Textile Factory Workers[22]
CoatbridgeOwen Coyle7,25435.52Constituency[15]
ColchesterAndrew Conley7,11238.92Garment Workers[17]
Colne ValleyWilfrid Whiteley9,47341.22ILP[13]
Combined English UniversitiesJohn A. Hobson36618.43
Combined Scottish UniversitiesPeter Macdonald1,58112.24
ConsettG. H. Stuart-Bunning7,26832.83Postmen[16]
CoventryRichard Collingham Wallhead10,29832.42ILP[13]
CreweJames Thomas Brownlie10,43943.82Engineers[19]
Croydon SouthHenry Thomas Muggeridge7,00628.22
DartfordWilliam Ling6,50629.42Constituency[15]
DarwenJohn McGurk5,21123.43Miners[14]
DaventryWill Rogers7,82441.22Constituency[15]
DenbighEdward Thomas John2,95816.72Constituency[15]
DeptfordCharles William Bowerman14,07354.41Compositors[18]
DerbyJames Henry Thomas25,14537.81Railwaymen[22]
DewsburyBenjamin Riley5,59630.12ILP[13]
DoncasterRobert Morley5,15325.02Workers[23]
Don ValleyEdward Hough3,22624.53Miners[14]
DudleyWilliam Bridgland Steer6,04839.82
Dumbarton BurghsDavid Kirkwood10,56647.42Engineers
DunbartonshireWilliam Martin7,07230.92ILP[13]
DundeeAlexander Wilkie24,82236.12Shipwrights[18]
DundeeJames Sunney Brown7,76911.34
DurhamJoshua Ritson8,80949.42Miners[14]
EalingAlfred Chilton3,61020.82
EastbourneThomas Burleigh Hasdell4,64126.02Constituency[15]
East DorsetAlfred Smith4,32126.62Vehicle Workers[17]
East GrinsteadDavid Pole6,20833.02Constituency[15]
East Ham SouthArthur Henderson5,02426.93Ironfounders[18]
East RenfrewshireRobert Spence5,04827.82Constituency[15]
Ebbw ValeThomas RichardsunopposedN/A1Miners[14]
Edinburgh CentralWilliam Graham7,16151.31ILP[13]
Edinburgh WestJohn Alexander Young2,62214.63
EdmontonFrank Broad3,57525.72Socialist
EllandDennis Hardaker5,92325.63Constituency[15]
EnfieldWilliam E. Hill6,17637.52Railway Clerks[24]
EpsomJames Chuter Ede4,79626.12Constituency[15]
EveshamWalter Metcalfe Fielding2,86316.93Constituency[15]
FarnhamJohn Hayes3,53424.62Constituency[15]
FarnworthThomas Greenall9,74040.82Miners[14]
FavershamStanley Morgan5,98131.82Constituency[15]
FinchleyJohn Leslie3,14018.22Constituency[15]
Forest of DeanJames Wignall9,73162.81Dockers[17]
FromeEdward Gill10,45443.92Miners[14]
Fulham EastDavid Cook2,88319.52
Fulham WestRobert Mark Gentry4,43523.72
FyldeWilliam John Tout7,40035.12Textile Factory Workers
GatesheadJohn Brotherton7,21223.82Engineers
GillinghamWilliam Tapp4,70525.92Shipwrights
Glasgow BridgetonJames Maxton7,86039.82ILP[13]
Glasgow CamlachieHugh Guthrie7,19233.12ILP[13]
Glasgow CathcartGavin Brown Clark4,48921.62
Glasgow CentralDavid Quin4,73621.22
Glasgow GorbalsJohn Maclean7,43634.12Socialist
Glasgow GovanNeil Maclean9,57747.81ILP[13]
Glasgow HillheadJohn Izett4,18624.62ILP[13]
Glasgow MaryhillJohn William Muir5,53127.92
PartickWilliam Mackie5,17329.92
Glasgow St RolloxJames Stewart6,14733.22ILP[13]
Glasgow ShettlestonJohn Wheatley9,82749.82ILP[13]
Glasgow SpringburnGeorge Hardie7,99639.12ILP[13]
GloucesterWilliam Levason Edwards2,86017.33
GowerJohn Williams10,10954.81Miners[14]
GravesendJames Butts3,25421.52Engineers[19]
Great YarmouthWilliam McConnell1,84812.83Socialist
GreenwichJames Bermingham6,47130.72
GrimsbyCharles Franklin9,01535.42Socialist
GuildfordWilliam Bennett5,07827.92Constituency[15]
HamiltonDuncan Macgregor Graham6,98842.11Miners[14]
Hammersmith NorthChristopher Morden2,04816.44
Hammersmith SouthJohn Westcott1,95814.93
HampsteadSkene Mackay3,64619.32
HanleyMyles Harper Parker7,69738.72Enginemen[17]
HarboroughWalter John Baker4,49525.63Postal Clerks[16]
The HartlepoolsWill Sherwood4,73318.63General Workers
HastingsJoseph George Butler3,55624.12Socialist
Hemel HempsteadJesse Hawkes2,91322.42Constituency[15]
HemsworthJohn Guest8,10255.51Miners[14]
HendonFrank Bailey3,15916.12Constituency[15]
HerefordSidney Box3,73024.22Constituency[15]
HertfordCyril Harding1,67909.13Constituency[15]
HexhamWilliam Weir4,16826.22Miners[14]
Heywood and RadcliffeHorace Nobbs6,82732.42Postal Clerks[16]
HitchinRobert Green5,66134.92Constituency[15]
Holland-with-BostonWilliam Stapleton Royce8,78839.81Constituency
Houghton-le-SpringRobert Richardson7,31536.41Miners[14]
HuddersfieldHarry Snell12,73732.52ILP[13]
HytheRobert William Forsyth3,42728.02
IlfordHerbert Dunnico4,62119.52
IlkestonGeorge Oliver7,96245.22Engineers
InceStephen Walsh14,88287.01Miners[18]
IpswichRobert Frederick Jackson8,14332.12ILP[13]
Islington EastArthur John Lewer3,12216.33
Islington WestJohn Thomas Sheppard2,30020.93Engineers
JarrowJohn Hill8,03439.02
KeighleyWilliam Bland6,32427.73ILP[13]
KenningtonWilliam Glennie2,81725.43Engineers
Kensington NorthWilliam Joseph Jarrett3,65321.72Constituency[15]
KidderminsterJohn Baker9,76042.02Iron & Steel[7]
King's LynnRobert Barrie Walker9,78049.12Agricultural[25]
Kingston upon Hull EastR. H. Farrah3,72520.43Constituency
Kingston upon Hull North WestAlfred Gould3,52819.33Carpenters & Joiners[26]
Kingston upon Hull South WestRobert Mell3,12119.33ILP[13]
Kingston-upon-ThamesThomas Henry Dumper2,50213.62
KingswinfordCharles Henry Sitch10,39748.01Chain Makers[17]
LanarkJames C. Welsh5,82131.02ILP[13]
Leeds NorthGeorge Hartley Thompson3,42318.42Constituency[15]
Leeds North EastJohn Bromley4,45024.52Locomotive Engineers[21]
Leeds SouthFrank Fountain5,51031.52
Leeds South EastJames O'GradyunopposedN/A1Furnishing Trades[18]
Leeds WestJohn Arnott6,02029.52ILP[13]
LeekWilliam Bromfield10,51051.71Midland Textile
Leicester EastGeorge Banton6,69727.12ILP[13]
Leicester SouthFrederick Fox Riley5,46322.82Postal Clerks[16]
Leicester WestRamsay MacDonald6,34724.02ILP[13]
LeighRichard Owen Jones11,14646.42Engineers[19]
LeithStanley Burgess4,25119.13Engineers
LewesTom Pargeter4,16433.62Constituency[15]
Leyton EastWilliam Carter3,66930.33
LichfieldT. Riley5,54836.42Miners[14]
LincolnRobert Arthur Taylor6,65828.52Engineers[19]
LinlithgowshireManny Shinwell8,72340.32ILP[13]
Liverpool Edge HillPeter Tevenan5,58736.22Constituency
Liverpool FairfieldGeorge Porter3,33721.93
Liverpool KirkdaleSamuel Mason5,01232.62
Liverpool WaltonDixon Smith4,58028.62Blind
Liverpool WavertreeCharles Wilson5,10327.02
Liverpool West DerbyGeorge Nelson5,61836.22Constituency[15]
Liverpool West ToxtethWilliam Albert Robinson6,85034.42Warehouse Workers[17]
Llandaff and BarryRussell Lowell Jones6,60730.82
LlanelliJohn Henry Williams14,40946.92Constituency[15]
London UniversitySidney Webb2,14131.72
LonsdaleDavid Hunter4,47224.32Constituency[15]
LoughboroughHerbert William Hallam6,38134.92Constituency[15]
LutonWillet Ball5,96430.62Constituency[15]
MacclesfieldWilliam Pimblott10,25341.82Constituency[15]
MaidstoneFrederick George Burgess6,27734.52Constituency[15]
MaldonGeorge Dallas6,31539.62Constituency[15]
Manchester ArdwickThomas Lowth5,67031.82Railwaymen[27]
Manchester BlackleyArnold Townend3,65925.02Railway Clerks[27][24]
Manchester ClaytonJohn Edward Sutton7,65438.42Miners[14]
Manchester GortonJohn Hodge13,04767.41Iron & Steel[7]
Manchester PlattingJohn Robert ClynesunopposedN/A1General Workers[27]
Manchester RusholmeEmmeline Pethick-Lawrence2,98515.63Constituency[27]
MansfieldWilliam Carter8,95743.61Miners[14]
MerthyrJames Winstone12,68247.32Miners[14]
Middlesbrough EastFrederick William Carey3,77630.82
Middlesbrough WestCharlie Cramp5,35032.82Railwaymen
Middleton and PrestwichJohn B. Battle6,50130.52
Montrose BurghsHenry Noel Brailsford2,94024.02ILP[13]
MorpethJohn Cairns7,67734.31Miners[14]
MotherwellWalton Newbold4,13523.22ILP[13]
NeathHerbert Morgan9,67035.22Constituency[15]
Nelson and ColneAlbert Smith14,07562.01Textile Factory Workers
Newcastle-upon-Tyne CentralJames Smith4,97634.62ILP[13]
Newcastle-upon-Tyne EastWalter Hudson5,19534.72Railwaymen
Newcastle-upon-Tyne NorthRobert John Wilson3,10216.53Constituency[15]
Newcastle-upon-Tyne WestDavid Adams6,41133.42Engineers[19]
Newport (Monmouthshire)John William Bowen10,23441.02Postmen[16]
NewtonRobert Young9,80855.01Engineers[19]
NormantonFrederick HallunopposedN/A1Miners[14]
NorthamptonWalter Halls10,73537.32
North East DerbyshireFrank Lee5,56028.62Miners[14]
North LanarkshireJoseph Sullivan5,67334.12Miners[14]
NorwichHerbert Witard6,85611.63Constituency[17]
Nottingham EastThomas Proctor2,81719.42Engineers[19]
Nottingham WestArthur Hayday7,28656.81General Workers
NuneatonIvor Gregory6,26925.82Locomotive Engineers[21]
OgmoreVernon HartshornunopposedN/A1Miners[14]
OldhamWilliam Cornforth Robinson15,17819.63Textile Factory Workers[22]
OrmskirkJames Bell6,54537.21Textile Factory Workers
OswestryThomas Morris8,46740.82Miners[14]
Oxford UniversityHenry Sanderson Furniss33506.04
PeckhamCharles Diamond2,55916.13
Peebles and Southern MidlothianJames Gold4,83039.42Miners[14]
PembrokeshireIvor Gwynne7,71228.02Tin and Sheet Millmen
PeterboroughJohn Mansfield8,83241.02Constituency[15]
PetersfieldJohn Pile4,26728.52Constituency[15]
Plymouth DevonportFred Bramley4,11519.32Furnishing
Plymouth SuttonWilliam Thomas Gay5,33420.62
PontefractIsaac Burns5,04737.12Miners[14]
PontypoolThomas Griffiths8,34838.81Iron & Steel[7]
PontypriddDavid Lewis Davies10,15242.82Miners[14]
Poplar SouthSamuel March4,44625.62
Portsmouth CentralHugh Hinshelwood4,00419.13Socialist
Portsmouth SouthJames Lacey3,07013.23
PrestonTom Shaw19,21325.81Textile Factory Workers[22]
Pudsey and OtleyGeorge Ripley Carter4,58324.82Constituency[15]
ReadingThomas Charles Morris8,41029.82Railwaymen
Rhondda EastDavid Watts-MorganunopposedN/A1Miners[14]
Rhondda WestWilliam AbrahamunopposedN/A1Miners[14]
RochdaleR. H. Tawney4,95616.53ILP[13]
RomfordWalter Henry Letts5,04428.12Constituency[15]
Ross and CromartyHector Munro2,27821.42
RossendaleGilbert Wright Jones7,98435.12Textile Factory Workers
RotherhamJames Walker9,75738.12Iron & Steel[7]
RotherhitheWill Godfrey1,75015.53
Rother ValleyThomas Walter Grundy9,91755.11Miners[14]
RothwellWilliam Lunn9,09844.11Miners[14]
Roxburgh and SelkirkThomas Hamilton5,57429.92Constituency[15]
RoytonJames Crinion4,87522.42
RushcliffeCharles Harris6,18029.92Constituency[15]
Rutland and StamfordFleming Eccles7,63946.42General Workers
RutherglenWilliam Regan8,75940.92ILP[13]
Saffron WaldenJames Joseph Mallon4,53129.92Constituency[15]
St HelensJames Sexton15,58357.11Dock Labourers[17]
St IvesAlbert Dunn6,65938.42Constituency[15]
St Pancras NorthJohn Gilbert Dale4,65126.63Prison Officers[17]
St Pancras South EastHerbert George Romeril2,18916.94Railway Clerks[24]
Salford NorthBen Tillett12,07974.41Dockers[27]
Salford SouthJames Gorman3,80719.02Engineers[27]
Salford WestRhys John Davies4,50323.13Constituency[27][15]
Scarborough and WhitbyJohn Watson Rowntree1,02504.93Constituency[15]
SeahamJohn James Lawson8,98841.32Miners[14]
SedgefieldJohn Herriotts5,80136.82Miners[14]
SevenoaksJohn Ephraim Skinner3,32323.82
Sheffield AttercliffeWilliam Crawford Anderson6,53934.72ILP[13]
Sheffield BrightsideRichard Edward Jones6,78135.82Engineers[19]
Sheffield ParkAlf Barton3,16720.42Socialist
ShipleyTom Snowden5,69025.42ILP[13]
ShrewsburyArthur Taylor5,54236.12Engineers
SmethwickJohn Davison9,38952.21Ironfounders
SouthamptonTommy Lewis7,82810.64Socialist
SouthamptonFrederick Perriman6,77609.25ILP[13]
South AyrshireJames Brown6,35837.31Miners[14]
South DerbyshireSamuel Truman7,92333.82Constituency[15]
South DorsetBrett Morgan5,15931.62Constituency[15]
South East EssexJoe Cotter5,34329.02Ship Stewards
South NorfolkGeorge Edwards6,53635.72Agricultural[25]
SouthportArthur Greenwood5,72728.02
South ShieldsGeorge John Rowe6,42524.82
Southwark CentralLeslie Haden-Guest3,12627.92
Southwark NorthGeorge Alfred Isaacs2,02722.43Printers' Assistants
Southwark South EastThomas Ellis Naylor2,71827.42London Compositors
SowerbyJohn William Ogden7,30632.72Textile Factory Workers[22]
SpelthorneFrank Ernest Horton2,41815.12Constituency[15]
SpennymoorJoseph Batey8,19646.52Miners[14]
Spen ValleyTom Myers8,50844.42Constituency[15]
Stalybridge and HydeWalter Fowden6,50824.82ILP[13][28]
Stepney LimehouseDaniel Desmond Sheehan2,47025.22
Stepney Mile EndWilliam Devenay2,39225.12
Stirling and FalkirkArchibald Logan5,20135.72Iron Moulders[17]
StourbridgeMary Reid Anderson7,58732.72Women Workers[20]
StretfordJoseph Hallsworth5,21623.32Constituency[15]
StroudCharles Wye Kendall8,52240.12Constituency[15]
SudburyJoseph Rouse Hicks3903.03
SunderlandFrank Goldstone9,57815.23Teachers[18]
Swansea EastDavid Williams6,34136.42ILP[13]
Swansea WestJohn James Powesland5,51025.63
SwindonJoseph Compton8,39339.92Coachmakers[17]
TauntonGeorge Saville Woods4,81627.62Constituency[15]
TivertonDonald B. Fraser2,37714.13Constituency[15]
TonbridgeJohn Palmer5,00623.32Constituency[15]
TorquayAlfred Trestrail4,02918.92Constituency[15]
Tottenham SouthLeo Chiozza Money5,77937.02
TwickenhamHumphrey Chalmers2,82316.82Constituency[15]
TynemouthGeorge Harold Humphries2,56615.23
University of WalesMillicent Mackenzie17619.22
UxbridgeHarry Gosling6,25137.62Watermen[17]
WakefieldAlbert Bellamy5,88233.72Railwaymen[29]
WallaseyWalter Citrine4,38416.62Electrical[30]
WallsendJohn Chapman6,83534.02Constituency
WalsallJoseph Thickett8,33630.02
Walthamstow WestValentine McEntee4,16729.32Socialist, Carpenters & Joiners[26]
Wandsworth CentralGeorge Pearce Blizard3,38223.92
WansbeckEbenezer Edwards5,26747.52Miners[14]
WarringtonIsaac Brassington5,37722.63Railwaymen
WaterlooSamuel Reeves2,61916.52Constituency[15]
WatfordGeorge Lathan4,95225.42Railway Clerks[24]
WednesburyAlfred Short11,34149.81Boilermakers[17]
WellingboroughWalter Robert Smith10,29052.51Boot & Shoe[31]
WentworthGeorge Henry Hirst13,02959.81Miners[14]
West BromwichFrederick Owen Roberts11,57254.01Typographical[9]
West FifeWilliam Adamson10,66472.61Miners[14]
West RenfrewshireRobert Murray7,12638.22ILP[13]
West StirlingshireTom Johnston3,80928.72ILP[13]
WestburyErnest Nathaniel Bennett3,53718.83Constituency[15]
West Ham PlaistowWill Thorne12,15694.91General Workers[18]
West Ham SilvertownDavid John Davis2,27816.93ILP[17]
West Ham UptonBenjamin Walter Gardner3,18622.22ILP[17]
WesthoughtonWilliam Tyson Wilson11,84963.91Carpenters & Joiners[26]
Whitechapel and St George'sRobert Ambrose2,52229.22
WhitehavenThomas Gavan Duffy9,01645.62Cumberland Iron Miners[17]
WidnesTom Williamson7,82140.42NAUL
WiganJohn Parkinson12,91448.01Miners[14]
Willesden EastHenry James Lincoln4,94125.02Postmen[16]
Willesden WestSamuel Viant7,21737.22Carpenters & Joiners[26]
Wolverhampton BilstonJohn William Kynaston6,74439.52
Wolverhampton WestAlexander Walkden10,15842.22Railway Clerks[24]
Wood GreenHarri Tudor Rhys4,53917.02Constituency[15]
Woolwich EastWill CrooksunopposedN/A1Coopers[18]
Woolwich WestAlexander Gordon Cameron7,08834.52Carpenters & Joiners[26]
WorkingtonThomas Cape10,44151.41Miners[18]
WrexhamHugh Hughes6,50023.72
YeovilWilliam Thomas Kelly7,58936.42Engineers[19]
YorkThomas Harry Gill4,82218.03Railway Clerks[24]

Wilkie won in Dundee won by taking second place in a two-seat constituency.

By-elections, 1918–1922

Edwards, elected in South Norfolk in 1920
Bondfield, narrowly defeated in Northampton in 1920
MacDonald, former party leader, unsuccessful in Woolwich East in 1921
By-electionCandidateVotes%PositionSponsor
1919 Liverpool West Derby by-electionGeorge Nelson4,67043.52Constituency
1919 Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire Central by-electionJoseph Forbes Duncan3,48226.43ILP[32]
1919 Swansea East by-electionDavid Williams8,15846.92ILP[32]
1919 Bothwell by-electionJohn Robertson13,13568.81Miners
1919 Widnes by-electionArthur Henderson11,40452.31Iron Founders
1919 Pontefract by-electionIsaac Burns8,44546.02Miners
1919 Manchester Rusholme by-electionRobert Dunstan6,41231.22ILP[32]
1919 Chester-le-Street by-electionJack Lawson17,83877.11Miners
1919 Plymouth Sutton by-electionWilliam Thomas Gay9,29233.32
1919 St Albans by-electionJohn W. Brown8,90842.42Shipping Clerks
1919 Bromley by-electionFrancis Percy Hodes10,07747.52
1919 Spen Valley by-electionTom Myers11,96239.41ILP[32]
1920 Ashton-under-Lyne by-electionWilliam Cornforth Robinson8,12739.62Textile Factory Workers
February 1920 The Wrekin by-electionCharles Duncan8,72938.42Workers[23]
1920 Horncastle by-electionWilliam Holmes3,44318.83Agricultural Workers
1920 Argyll by-electionMalcolm MacCallum5,49835.12Highland Land League
1920 Dartford by-electionJohn Edmund Mills13,61050.21
1920 Stockport by-electionLeo Chiozza Money16,04218.03
1920 Basingstoke by-electionJames H. Round5,35227.83
1920 Camberwell North West by-electionSusan Lawrence4,73332.12
1920 Northampton by-electionMargaret Bondfield13,27944.42Shop Assistants
1920 Edinburgh North by-electionDavid Pole3,80817.13
1920 Sunderland by-electionVickerman Henzell Rutherford14,37934.02
1920 Nelson and Colne by-electionRobinson Graham14,13449.51
1920 Ebbw Vale by-electionEvan DaviesunopposedN/A1
1920 South Norfolk by-electionGeorge Edwards8,59445.71Agricultural[25]
1920 Woodbridge by-electionHenry Devenish Harben8,70746.82
1920 Ilford by-electionJoseph King6,57722.92
November 1920 The Wrekin by-electionCharles Duncan10,60042.12
1920 Abertillery by-electionGeorge Barker15,94266.41Miners
1920 Rhondda West by-electionWilliam John14,03558.51
1921 Woolwich East by-electionRamsay MacDonald13,08148.72ILP
1921 Dudley by-electionJames Wilson10,24450.71Railwaymen[29]
1921 Kirkcaldy Burghs by-electionTom Kennedy11,67453.41NSP
1921 Penistone by-electionWilliam Gillis8,56036.21Miners
1921 Taunton by-electionJames Lunnon8,29038.92Agricultural Workers[33]
1921 Bedford by-electionFrederick Fox Riley9,73140.32Post Office Workers[16]
1921 Hastings by-electionRichard Davies5,43725.52Constituency
1921 Heywood and Radcliffe by-electionWalter Halls13,43041.71Railwaymen[29]
1921 Caerphilly by-electionMorgan Jones13,69954.21ILP[34]
1921 Louth by-electionJames L. George3,87319.53Constituency[34]
1921 Westhoughton by-electionRhys Davies14,87658.41Distributive Workers[34]
1921 Southwark South East by-electionThomas Ellis Naylor6,56157.01London Compositors[5]
1922 Tamworth by-electionGeorge Henry Jones6,67131.22Miners[34]
1922 Manchester Clayton by-electionJohn Edward Sutton14,66257.11Miners[34]
1922 Camberwell North by-electionCharles Ammon7,85453.91Post Office Workers[16]
1922 Wolverhampton West by-electionAlexander Walkden13,79945.12Railway Clerks[35]
1922 Cambridge by-electionHugh Dalton6,95431.12Constituency[34]
1922 Leicester East by-electionGeorge Banton14,06252.91ILP[34]
1922 Nottingham East by-electionA. H. Jones5,43127.32Co-op
1922 Gower by-electionDavid Rhys Grenfell13,29657.51Miners
1922 Pontypridd by-electionThomas Isaac Mardy Jones16,63057.01Miners
1922 Hackney South by-electionHolford Knight9,04649.82
1922 Newport by-electionJohn William Bowen11,42533.82Post Office Workers[16]

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