United Kingdom 1935 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Conservative Party won 387 of 615 seats with 47.7% of the vote.
- United Kingdom
- Held
Result
308 for a majority
- Conservative Party387
- Labour Party154
- National Liberal Party33
- Liberal Party21
- National Labour Organisation8
- Independent Labour Party4
- Other parties (seats only)4
- Nationalist Party2
- Communist Party of Great Britain1
- National1
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | % | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative Party | 387 | 47.7 | 10,496,300 |
| Labour Party | 154 | 37.9 | 8,325,491 |
| Liberal Party | 21 | 6.6 | 1,443,093 |
| National Liberal Party | 33 | 3.9 | 866,354 |
| National Labour Organisation | 8 | 1.5 | 339,811 |
| Independent Labour Party | 4 | 0.6 | 139,577 |
| Nationalist Party | 2 | 0.5 | 101,494 |
| National | 1 | 0.3 | 53,189 |
| Communist Party of Great Britain | 1 | 0.1 | 27,117 |
| Other parties (seats only) | 4 | 0.5 |
Votes by party
- Conservative Party 10,496,300
- Labour Party 8,325,491
- Liberal Party 1,443,093
- National Liberal Party 866,354
- National Labour Organisation 339,811
- Independent Labour Party 139,577
- Nationalist Party 101,494
- National 53,189
- Communist Party of Great Britain 27,117
- 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
21,997,054 votes were valid. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Conservative Party47.7% of votes62.9% of seats
- Labour Party37.9% of votes25.0% of seats
- National Liberal Party3.9% of votes5.4% of seats
- Liberal Party6.6% of votes3.4% of seats
- National Labour Organisation1.5% of votes1.3% of seats
- Independent Labour Party0.6% of votes0.7% of seats
- Nationalist Party0.5% of votes0.3% of seats
- National0.3% of votes0.2% of seats
- Communist Party of Great Britain0.1% of votes0.2% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 14.3 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.7 by votes and 2.2 by seats; Conservative Party led Labour Party by 9.9 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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