United Kingdom 1964 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Labour Party won 317 of 630 seats with 44.1% of the vote; 77.2% of registered voters cast a ballot.
- United Kingdom
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour Party | 317 | +59 | 44.1 | +0.3 | 12,205,808 |
| Conservatives and National Liberals | 0 | 0 | 43.4 | −6.0 | 12,002,642 |
| Liberal Party | 9 | +3 | 11.2 | +5.3 | 3,099,283 |
| Plaid Cymru | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | −0.1 | 69,507 |
| Conservative Party | 298 | −47 | |||
| National Liberal Party | 6 | −14 |
± is the change against the United Kingdom 1959 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Labour Party 12,205,808
- Conservatives and National Liberals 12,002,642
- Liberal Party 3,099,283
- Plaid Cymru 69,507
- Conservative Party
- National Liberal 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.
Share of the vote
Turnout
77.2% of the 35,894,054 registered voters cast a ballot (27,698,221 ballots). 27,657,148 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Labour Party44.1% of votes50.3% of seats
- Liberal Party11.2% of votes1.4% of seats
- Conservatives and National Liberals43.4% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 46.1 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.5 by votes and 2.1 by seats; Labour Party led Conservatives and National Liberals by 0.7 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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