United Kingdom 1929 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Labour Party won 287 of 615 seats with 37.0% of the vote.
- United Kingdom
- Held
Result
308 for a majority
- Labour Party287
- Conservative Party260
- Liberal Party59
- Other parties (seats only)6
- Nationalist Party3
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | % | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative Party | 260 | 38.2 | 8,656,225 |
| Labour Party | 287 | 37.0 | 8,370,417 |
| Liberal Party | 59 | 23.4 | 5,308,738 |
| Communist Party of Great Britain | 0 | 0.2 | 50,634 |
| Nationalist Party | 3 | 0.1 | 24,177 |
| Other parties (seats only) | 6 | 1.0 |
Votes by party
- Conservative Party 8,656,225
- Labour Party 8,370,417
- Liberal Party 5,308,738
- Communist Party of Great Britain 50,634
- Nationalist Party 24,177
- 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
22,648,375 votes were valid. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Labour Party37.0% of votes46.7% of seats
- Conservative Party38.2% of votes42.3% of seats
- Liberal Party23.4% of votes9.6% of seats
- Nationalist Party0.1% of votes0.5% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 12.3 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.0 by votes and 2.5 by seats; Conservative Party led Labour Party by 1.3 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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