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United Kingdom 1924 general election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Conservative Party won 412 of 615 seats with 47.2% of the vote.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats%Votes
Conservative Party41247.27,854,523
Labour Party15133.05,489,087
Liberal Party4017.62,928,737
Constitutionalist71.1185,075
Communist Party of Great Britain10.355,346
Sinn Féin00.346,457
Other parties (seats only)30.5
Nationalist Party1
Votes by party
  • Conservative Party 7,854,523
  • Labour Party 5,489,087
  • Liberal Party 2,928,737
  • Constitutionalist 185,075
  • Communist Party of Great Britain 55,346
  • Sinn Féin 46,457
  • Other parties (seats only)
  • Nationalist Party

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

16,640,279 votes were valid. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Conservative Party47.2% of votes67.0% of seats
  • Labour Party33.0% of votes24.6% of seats
  • Liberal Party17.6% of votes6.5% of seats
  • Constitutionalist1.1% of votes1.1% of seats
  • Communist Party of Great Britain0.3% of votes0.2% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 17.1 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.8 by votes and 1.9 by seats; Conservative Party led Labour Party by 14.2 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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