United Kingdom general election, 1935

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The UK general election held on 14th November 1935 resulted in a large, though reduced, majority for the National Government now led by Conservative Stanley Baldwin. The greatest number of MPs, as before, were Conservative seats, while the National Liberal vote held steady. The National Labour vote collapsed, and even leader Ramsay MacDonald lost his seat.

Labour, under what was then internally regarded as the caretaker leadership of Clement Attlee, made large gains over their very poor position in the 1931 general election, but the Liberals lost further ground.

The Independent Labour Party stood separately from Labour for the first time since 1895, while the Scottish National Party contested their first election and the Communist Party gained their first parliamentary seat in almost ten years, West Fife.

The major election issues were the continuing unemployment problems and the role of the League of Nations, particularly as regarded Japan.

Due to the Second World War, the House elected in this election was to sit until 1945.

[edit] Results

UK General Election 1935
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net Gain/Loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/-
	Conservative	387			- 83		47.8	10,025,083
	Labour	154			+ 102		38.0	7,984,988
	Liberal	21			- 11		6.7	1,414,010
	National Liberal	33			- 2		3.7	784,608
	National Labour	8	1	6	- 5		1.5	321,028
	Ind. Labour Party	4	1	2	- 1		0.7	136,208
	National	1			- 2		0.3	50,747
	Irish Nationalist	2	0	0	0		0.2	46,715
	National Independent	2	0	0	0		0.2	33,527
	Scottish National Party	0	0	0	0		0.2	29,517
	Independent Conservative	0	0	0	0		0.1	27,721
	Communist	1	1	0	0		0.1	27,177
	Independent	2	1	0	0		0.1	17,113
	Independent Labour	0	0	0	0		0.1	14,867
	Liverpool Protestant	0	0	0	0		0.0	6,677
	Independent Progressive	0	0	0	0		0.0	6,421
	Social Credit	0	0	0	0		0.0	3,642
	Plaid Cymru	0	0	0	0		0.0	2,534
	Independent Liberal	0	0	0	0		0.0	2,525
	Agriculturalist	0	0	0	0		0.0	1,771
	Christian Socialist	0	0	0	0		0.0	1,480

Total votes cast: 20,991,488. All parties shown. Conservatives include Ulster Unionists. Seats won by the ILP are compared with those won by ILP candidates within Labour in the previous parliament.