United Kingdom general election, January 1910

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The United Kingdom general election of January 1910 was held from 15 January to 10 February 1910.

The election produced a hung parliament, with the Conservative Party led by Arthur Balfour receiving the largest number of votes, and the Liberals led by Herbert Asquith returning two more MPs than the Conservatives. A second election was soon held in December.

The Labour Party was led by Arthur Henderson and the Irish Parliamentary Party by John Redmond.

1 Results
2 See also
3 External links
4 References

[edit] Results

UK General Election January 1910
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net Gain/Loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/-
	Conservative and Liberal Unionist	272			+ 116	40.6	46.7	3,104,407
	Liberal	274			- 125	40.9	43.1	2,866,157
	Labour	40			+ 11	6.0	7.6	505,657
	Irish Parliamentary	71	0	11	- 11	10.6	1.2	74,047
	All-for-Ireland	8	8	0	+ 8	1.2	0.4	23,605
	Independent Nationalist	3	3	2	+ 2		0.3	16,533
	Social Democratic Party	0	0	0	0		0.2	13,479
	Independent Conservative	1	0	0	0		0.2	11,772
	Free Trader	0	0	0	0		0.2	11,553
	Independent Labour	0	0	1	- 1		0.1	9,936
	Independent Liberal	1	1	0	+ 1		0.1	5,237
	Scottish Prohibition	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	756