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Leader Bonar Law: David Lloyd George: Éamon de Valera: Party Conservative: Coalition Liberal: Sinn Féin: Leader since 13 November 1911 7 December 1916 25 October 1917 Leader's seat Glasgow Central: Caernarvon Boroughs: East Clare; East Mayo [b] Last election 271 seats, 46.6% Did not contest: Did not contest: Seats won 379: 127 73 [c] Seat ...
Leader Stanley Baldwin: Clement Attlee: John Simon: Party Conservative: Labour: National Liberal: Alliance National Government: National Government: Leader since 23 May 1923 25 October 1935: 5 October 1931 Leader's seat Bewdley: Limehouse: Spen Valley: Last election 470 seats, 55% 52 seats, 30.8% 35 seats, 3.7% Seats won 387 [note 1] 154 33 ...
Win – victory by a party. Ambiguous term that could mean either a gain or a hold. Ambiguous term that could mean either a gain or a hold. Incumbent – the party which held the seat at the immediate previous election, irrespective of any intervening change of candidate or candidate's change of party.
The 1922 United Kingdom general election was held on Wednesday 15 November 1922. It was won by the Conservative Party, led by Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law, which gained an overall majority over the Labour Party, led by J. R. Clynes, and a divided Liberal Party.
The Longman Companion to the Conservative Party Since 1830-2000 (2001) online; Shannon, Richard. The Age of Disraeli, 1868-1881: The Rise of Tory Democracy (1992) Ramsden, John. History of the Conservative Party: The Age of Balfour and Baldwin, 1902–1940 (1978) Ramsden, John. The Age of Churchill and Eden, 1940-1957 (1995) Ramsden, John.
Leader Henry Campbell-Bannerman: Arthur Balfour: Party Liberal: Conservative and Liberal Unionist: Leader since December 1898 11 June 1902 Leader's seat Stirling Burghs: Manchester East (defeated) Last election 183 seats, 45.1% 402 seats, 50.2% Seats won 397: 156 Seat change 214 246 Popular vote 2,565,644: 2,278,076 Percentage 48.9%: 43.4% ...
Kemi Badenoch, the new leader of the U.K.’s Conservative Party, congratulated Trump, calling his victory “historic,” in a post on X. “The world faces many serious challenges and I look ...
The Labour Party had also changed leaders since the previous election, after J. R. Clynes was defeated in a leadership challenge by former leader Ramsay MacDonald. Having won an election just the year before, Baldwin's Conservative Party had a comfortable majority in the House of Commons and could have waited another four years, but the ...