United Kingdom 1923 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Conservative Party won 258 of 615 seats with 38.0% of the vote.
- United Kingdom
- Held
Result
308 for a majority
- Conservative Party258
- Labour Party191
- Liberal Party158
- Other parties (seats only)5
- Nationalist Party3
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | % | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative Party | 258 | 38.0 | 5,514,541 |
| Labour Party | 191 | 30.7 | 4,439,780 |
| Liberal Party | 158 | 29.7 | 4,301,481 |
| Nationalist Party | 3 | 0.4 | 97,993 |
| Communist Party of Great Britain | 0 | 0.2 | 39,448 |
| Other parties (seats only) | 5 | 1.0 |
Votes by party
- Conservative Party 5,514,541
- Labour Party 4,439,780
- Liberal Party 4,301,481
- Nationalist Party 97,993
- Communist Party of Great Britain 39,448
- Other parties (seats only)
ParlGov lists parties with at least 1 percent of the vote or 2 seats, so the rows do not add up to the valid votes. How we read it.
ParlGov marks results before 1945 as experimental: they may need revision, so we compare them with no other election.
Share of the vote
Turnout
14,547,695 votes were valid. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Conservative Party38.0% of votes42.0% of seats
- Labour Party30.7% of votes31.1% of seats
- Liberal Party29.7% of votes25.7% of seats
- Nationalist Party0.4% of votes0.5% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 4.0 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.1 by votes and 3.0 by seats; Conservative Party led Labour Party by 7.3 points of the vote. How these are computed.
Sources and licence
Sources and licence
- ParlGov 2024 Release (Döring and Manow), Harvard Dataverse (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
- Wikidata, party colours (P465) (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
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