United Kingdom October 1974 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Labour Party won 319 of 635 seats with 39.2% of the vote; 72.9% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 6.0 points on 1974.
- United Kingdom
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour Party | 319 | +18 | 39.2 | +2.0 | 11,457,079 |
| Conservative Party | 277 | −20 | 35.8 | −2.2 | 10,462,565 |
| Liberal Party | 13 | −1 | 18.3 | −1.0 | 5,346,704 |
| Scottish National Party | 11 | +4 | 2.9 | +0.9 | 839,617 |
| United Ulster Unionist Council | 0 | 0 | 1.4 | +0.2 | 407,778 |
| Plaid Cymru | 3 | +1 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 166,321 |
| Social Democratic and Labour Party | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 154,193 |
| National Front | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | +0.2 | 113,843 |
| Ulster Unionist Party | 6 | −1 | |||
| Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party | 3 | 0 | |||
| Democratic Unionist Party | 1 | 0 | |||
| Independents | 1 |
± is the change against the United Kingdom February 1974 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Labour Party 11,457,079
- Conservative Party 10,462,565
- Liberal Party 5,346,704
- Scottish National Party 839,617
- United Ulster Unionist Council 407,778
- Plaid Cymru 166,321
- Social Democratic and Labour Party 154,193
- National Front 113,843
- Ulster Unionist Party
- Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party
- Democratic Unionist Party
- Independents
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
72.9% of the 40,072,970 registered voters cast a ballot (29,226,810 ballots), down 6.0 points on 1974. 29,189,104 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Labour Party39.2% of votes50.2% of seats
- Conservative Party35.8% of votes43.6% of seats
- Liberal Party18.3% of votes2.0% of seats
- Scottish National Party2.9% of votes1.7% of seats
- Plaid Cymru0.6% of votes0.5% of seats
- Social Democratic and Labour Party0.5% of votes0.2% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 15.0 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.2 by votes and 2.3 by seats; Labour Party led Conservative Party by 3.4 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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