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1922 UK general election

United Kingdom general election, 1922
United Kingdom
← 1918 15 November 1922 1923 →

All 615 seats Constituency results
308 seats needed for a majority
Turnout 73.0% (Increase15.8%)
  First party Second party
  Andrew Bonar Law 02.jpg Jrclynes.jpg
Leader Bonar Law J. R. Clynes
Party Conservative Labour
Leader since 23 October 1922 14 February 1921
Leader's seat Glasgow Central Manchester Platting
Last election 379 seats, 39.2% 57 seats, 21.5%
Seats won 344 142
Seat change Decrease 35 Increase 85
Popular vote 5,294,465 4,076,665
Percentage 38.5% 29.7%
Swing Decrease 0.7% Increase 8.9%

  Third party Fourth party
  Herbert Henry Asquith.jpg David Lloyd George.jpg
Leader H. H. Asquith David Lloyd George
Party Liberal National Liberal
Leader since 30 April 1908 7 December 1916
Leader's seat Paisley Caernarvon Boroughs
Last election 36 seats, 13.3% 127 seats, 12.6%
Seats won 62 53
Seat change Increase 26 Decrease 74
Popular vote 2,601,486 1,355,366
Percentage 18.9% 9.9%
Swing Increase 5.9% Decrease 2.7%

Prime Minister before election

David Lloyd George
National

Subsequent Prime Minister

Bonar Law
Conservative

Dec 1910 election MPs
1918 election MPs
1922 election MPs
1923 election MPs
1924 election MPs

David Lloyd George
National

Bonar Law
Conservative

The United Kingdom general election of 1922 was held on Wednesday 15 November 1922. It was the first election held after most of Ireland left the United Kingdom to form the Irish Free State, and was won by Bonar Law's Conservatives, who gained an overall majority over Labour, led by J. R. Clynes, and a divided Liberal Party.

The Liberal Party were split between the "National Liberals" following David Lloyd George, who had been ousted as Prime Minister the previous month, and the "Liberals" following former Prime Minister H. H. Asquith. The Conservatives had been in coalition with the National Liberals led by David Lloyd George until the previous month, at which point Bonar Law had formed a Conservative majority government.

Although still Leader of the Liberal Party and a frequent public speaker, Asquith was no longer a particularly influential figure in the national political debate, and he had played no part in the downfall of the Lloyd George coalition. Most attention was focused on the new and most recent Prime Ministers. Asquith's daughter Violet Bonham-Carter, a prominent Liberal Party campaigner, likened the election to a contest between a man with sleeping sickness (Bonar Law) and a man with St Vitus Dance (Lloyd George).

Some Lloyd George National Liberals were not opposed by Conservative candidates (e.g. Winston Churchill, who was defeated at Dundee nonetheless) whilst many leading Conservatives (e.g. former leaders Sir Austen Chamberlain and Arthur Balfour and former Lord Chancellor Lord Birkenhead) were not members of Bonar Law's government and hoped to hold the balance of power after the election (comparisons were made with the Peelite group - the ousted Conservative front bench of the late 1840s and 1850s); this was not to be, as Bonar Law won an overall majority.


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