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The UK general election of 1923 was held on 6 December 1923. The Conservatives, led by Stanley Baldwin, won the most seats, but Labour, led by Ramsay MacDonald and Herbert Henry Asquith's reunited Liberal Party gained enough to produce a hung parliament. As the election had been fought on the Conservative proposals for tariff reform it was inevitable that they could not retain office and so the first ever Labour government was formed, even though Labour did not even have a plurality of seats. Being in a minority it only lasted 10 months and another election was held in October 1924.
[edit] Results
| UK General Election 1923 |
| Party |
Candidates |
Seats |
Gains |
Losses |
Net Gain/Loss |
Seats % |
Votes % |
Votes |
+/- |
| |
Conservative |
536 |
258 |
|
|
- 86 |
|
38.0 |
5,286,159 |
-0.5 |
| |
Labour |
427 |
191 |
|
|
+ 49 |
|
30.7 |
4,267,831 |
+1.0 |
| |
Liberal |
457 |
158 |
|
|
+ 96 |
|
29.7 |
4,129,922 |
+10.8 |
| |
Nationalist (NI) |
4 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
0.4 |
54,157 |
N/A |
| |
Independent |
6 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
- 1 |
|
0.3 |
36,802 |
-0.5 |
| |
Communist |
4 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
- 1 |
|
0.2 |
34,258 |
0.0 |
| |
Belfast Labour |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
0.2 |
22,255 |
N/A |
| |
Independent Labour |
4 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
- 1 |
|
0.2 |
17,331 |
0.0 |
| |
Independent Liberal |
3 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
|
0.1 |
16,184 |
0.0 |
| |
Constitutionalist |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
- 1 |
|
0.1 |
15,500 |
0.0 |
| |
Independent Conservative |
1 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
- 3 |
|
0.1 |
15,171 |
-0.8 |
| |
Scottish Prohibition |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
0.1 |
12,877 |
0.0 |
| |
Christian Pacifist |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
0.0 |
570 |
N/A |
Total number of votes cast: 13,909,017. All parties shown. Conservatives include Ulster Unionists.
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