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The Government called a further election in December 1910 to get a mandate for the Parliament Act 1911, which would prevent the House of Lords from permanently blocking legislation linked to money bills ever again, and to obtain King George V's agreement to threaten to create sufficient Liberal peers to pass that act (in the event this did not ...
The January 1910 United Kingdom general election was held from 15 January to 10 February 1910. The government called the election in the midst of a constitutional crisis caused by the rejection of the People's Budget by the Conservative-dominated House of Lords , in order to get a mandate to pass the budget.
1910 Barnstaple by-election; December 1910 United Kingdom general election; List of MPs elected in the December 1910 United Kingdom general election; 1910 Govan by-election; List of United Kingdom MPs who only sat in the February–November 1910 Parliament; 1910 Reading by-election; 1910 Rotherham by-election; 1910 Shipley by-election
United Kingdom general elections (elections for the House of Commons) have occurred in the United Kingdom since the first in 1802.The members of the 1801–1802 Parliament had been elected to the former Parliament of Great Britain and Parliament of Ireland, before being co-opted to serve in the first Parliament of the United Kingdom, so that Parliament is not included in the table below.
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This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) elected at the January 1910 general election, held over several days from 15 January to 10 February 1910. [ 1 ] Contents
19 December 1910 () – 14 December 1918 () Election: December 1910 United Kingdom general election: Government: Third Asquith ministry (1910—1915) Fourth Asquith ministry (1915—1916) First Lloyd George coalition ministry (1916—1918) House of Commons; Members: 670: Speaker: James Lowther: Leader: H. H. Asquith (until 1916)
The fact that there would very likely be another general election within a few months encouraged the Conservatives to save their fire and wait for that contest rather than fight an expensive by-election. [7] There was no tradition of Parliamentary elections in Reading being contested by the Labour Party [8] and they also chose not to oppose Isaacs.