1935 UK general election

United Kingdom general election, 1935

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All 615 seats to the House of Commons 308 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	71.1% (5.3%)
First party Second party Third party   Leader Stanley Baldwin Clement Attlee John Simon Party Conservative Labour Liberal National Leader since 23 May 1923 25 October 1935 5 October 1931 Leader's seat Bewdley Limehouse Spen Valley Last election 473 seats, 55% 52 seats, 30.8% 35 seats, 3.7% Seats won 386 154 33 Seat change 83 102 2 Popular vote 10,025,083 7,984,988 784,608 Percentage 47.8% 38.0% 3.7% Swing 7.2% 7.4%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Herbert Samuel Ramsay MacDonald James Maxton Party Liberal National Labour Ind. Labour Party Leader since 1931 24 August 1931 1934 Leader's seat Darwen (defeated) Seaham (defeated) Glasgow Bridgeton Last election 33 seats, 6.5% 13 seats, 1.5% 3 seats, 1.2% Seats won 21 8 4 Seat change 12 5 1 Popular vote 1,414,010 321,028 136,208 Percentage 6.7% 1.5% 0.7% Swing 0.2% 0.5%
Prime Minister before election Stanley Baldwin National Subsequent Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin National

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Stanley Baldwin
National

Stanley Baldwin
National

The United Kingdom general election held on Thursday, 14 November 1935 resulted in a large, albeit reduced, majority for the National Government now led by Conservative Stanley Baldwin. The greatest number of members, as before, were Conservatives, while the Liberal National vote held steady. The National Labour vote collapsed, and even the party leader Ramsay MacDonald lost his seat.

Labour, under what was then regarded internally as the caretaker leadership of Clement Attlee following the resignation of George Lansbury slightly over a month before the election, made large gains over their very poor showing in the 1931 general election, and registered their highest ever share of the vote up until this point. The Liberals continued their slow political collapse and lost further ground, with their leader Sir Herbert Samuel losing his own seat.

The Independent Labour Party stood entirely separately from Labour for the first time since 1895, having stood candidates unendorsed by Labour at the 1931 general election and having disaffiliated fully from Labour in 1932. The Scottish National Party contested their first election, and the Communist Party gained their first parliamentary seat in almost ten years, West Fife.

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