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1929 election • MPs |
1931 election • MPs |
1935 election • MPs |
1945 election • MPs |
1950 election • MPs |
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.