United Kingdom general election, 1924

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Stanley Baldwin

Ramsay MacDonald

Herbert Henry Asquith

The 1924 UK general election was held on 29th October 1924. The Conservatives, led by Stanley Baldwin did dramatically better than in the 1923 general election and obtained a large parliamentary majority. Labour, led by Ramsay MacDonald, lost a few seats, but the big losers were Herbert Henry Asquith's Liberals who lost 118 of their 158 seats.

Many attribute the results of the election to the Zinoviev Letter, which was published in the Daily Mail four days before the election, though it is difficult to demonstrate that this had a major impact, as the Labour vote actually increased from 1923. This may be due to Labour putting up eighty more candidates than they did in the previous years election.

[edit] Results

UK General Election 1924
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net Gain/Loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/-
	Conservative	412			+ 154		46.8	7,418,983
	Labour	151			- 40		33.3	5,281,626
	Liberal	40			- 118		17.8	2,818,717
	Constitutionalist	7	7	0	+ 7		1.2	185,075
	Communist	1	1	0	+ 1		0.2	51,176
	Sinn Féin	0	0	0	0		0.2	34,181
	Independent	2	0	0	0		0.2	25,206
	Labour (NI)	0	0	0	0		0.1	21,122
	Scottish Prohibition	1	0	0	0		0.1	14,596
	Independent Labour	0	0	0	0		0.0	1,775
	Independent Conservative	0	0	0	0		0.0	517
	National Party NI	1	0	2	- 2		0.0	0

Total votes cast: 15,856,215. All parties shown. The only Irish Nationalist candidate was elected unopposed. The Conservatives include the Ulster Unionists.