United Kingdom February 1974 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Labour Party won 301 of 635 seats with 37.2% of the vote; 78.9% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 6.8 points on 1970.
- United Kingdom
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative Party | 297 | −33 | 38.0 | −8.4 | 11,872,180 |
| Labour Party | 301 | +13 | 37.2 | −5.9 | 11,645,616 |
| Liberal Party | 14 | +8 | 19.3 | +11.8 | 6,059,519 |
| Scottish National Party | 7 | +6 | 2.0 | +0.9 | 633,180 |
| United Ulster Unionist Council | 0 | 1.2 | 366,703 | ||
| Plaid Cymru | 2 | +2 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 171,374 |
| National Front | 0 | 0.2 | 76,865 | ||
| Social Democratic and Labour Party | 1 | 0.5 | 22,660 | ||
| Ulster Unionist Party | 7 | ||||
| Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party | 3 | ||||
| Other parties (seats only) | 2 | +1 | |||
| Democratic Unionist Party | 1 |
± is the change against the United Kingdom 1970 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Conservative Party 11,872,180
- Labour Party 11,645,616
- Liberal Party 6,059,519
- Scottish National Party 633,180
- United Ulster Unionist Council 366,703
- Plaid Cymru 171,374
- National Front 76,865
- Social Democratic and Labour Party 22,660
- Ulster Unionist Party
- Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party
- Other parties (seats only)
- Democratic Unionist 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
78.9% of the 39,753,863 registered voters cast a ballot (31,382,414 ballots), up 6.8 points on 1970. 31,340,162 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout of this kind in our data, which begins in 1964. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Labour Party37.2% of votes47.4% of seats
- Conservative Party38.0% of votes46.8% of seats
- Liberal Party19.3% of votes2.2% of seats
- Scottish National Party2.0% of votes1.1% of seats
- Plaid Cymru0.6% of votes0.3% of seats
- Social Democratic and Labour Party0.5% of votes0.2% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 15.4 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.1 by votes and 2.3 by seats; Conservative Party led Labour Party by 0.8 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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