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United Kingdom general election, 1935

United Kingdom general election, 1935
United Kingdom
← 1931 14 November 1935 1945 →

All 615 seats to the House of Commons
308 seats needed for a majority
Turnout 71.1% (Decrease5.3%)
  First party Second party Third party
  Stanley Baldwin ggbain.35233.jpg Attlee BW cropped.jpg Portrait of John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon.jpg
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 Decrease 83 Increase 102 Decrease 2
Popular vote 10,025,083 7,984,988 784,608
Percentage 47.8% 38.0% 3.7%
Swing Decrease 7.2% Increase 7.4% Steady

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
  Gws samuel 01.jpg Ramsay MacDonald ggbain.37952.jpg James Maxton.jpg
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 Decrease 12 Decrease 5 Increase 1
Popular vote 1,414,010 321,028 136,208
Percentage 6.7% 1.5% 0.7%
Swing Increase 0.2% Steady Decrease 0.5%

PM before election

Stanley Baldwin
National

Subsequent PM

Stanley Baldwin
National

1929 election MPs
1931 election MPs
1935 election MPs
1945 election MPs
1950 election MPs

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 National Liberal 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. 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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