1923 General Election

6 December 1923 · Labour's Rise · 615 seats, 308 for a majority

Baldwin dissolved early seeking a tariff mandate and lost his majority. Though the Conservatives remained largest, MacDonald formed the first ever Labour government with Liberal acquiescence.

Prime Minister before

Stanley Baldwin

Conservative

Prime Minister after

Ramsay MacDonald

Labour

Government formed

Labour

no overall majority

Turnout

71.1%

The result

Conservative
Stanley Baldwin · 38.0%
258
seats
Labour
Ramsay MacDonald · 30.7%
191
seats
Liberal
H. H. Asquith · 29.7%
158
seats

8 further seats went to parties and independents outside the main contenders listed above.

Turnout by nation

England

71.1%

Wales

77.3%

Scotland

67.9%

N. Ireland

76.5%

United Kingdom

71.1%

The government it made

Although the Conservatives won the most seats (though not a majority), Labour formed a government after the 1923 election.

The result by constituency

All 595 constituencies on the 1918-1935 boundaries, from the House of Commons Library dataset. Search, filter by country or region, and click any column heading to sort. 42 seats were returned unopposed, with no poll held.

Highest turnout

90.6%

Lancashire Darwen, North West

Lowest turnout

39.1%

Orkney & Shetland, Scotland

Biggest single-party share

81.3%

Labour, West Ham Silvertown

Tightest main-family margin

0.0 pts

Durham Sedgefield, North East

London
Conservative 39.0% · most votes in 48Liberal / Lib Dem 26.9% · most votes in 13Labour 33.2% · most votes in 33Other 1.0% · most votes in 1
95
seats · turnout 61.5%
North West
Conservative 38.6% · most votes in 30Liberal / Lib Dem 29.7% · most votes in 23Labour 30.6% · most votes in 26Other 1.0% · most votes in 2
81
seats · turnout 77.2%
Scotland
Conservative 31.6% · most votes in 14Liberal / Lib Dem 28.3% · most votes in 22Labour 36.5% · most votes in 33Other 3.6% · most votes in 1
70
seats · turnout 67.9%
Yorkshire and the Humber
Conservative 34.3% · most votes in 22Liberal / Lib Dem 28.2% · most votes in 11Labour 37.5% · most votes in 23
56
seats · turnout 72.8%
South East
Conservative 49.9% · most votes in 37Liberal / Lib Dem 28.9% · most votes in 10Labour 19.9% · most votes in 3Other 1.3%
50
seats · turnout 67.9%
West Midlands
Conservative 45.5% · most votes in 29Liberal / Lib Dem 23.6% · most votes in 7Labour 30.8% · most votes in 11Other 0.1%
47
seats · turnout 71.5%
South West
Conservative 43.5% · most votes in 14Liberal / Lib Dem 39.0% · most votes in 25Labour 16.7% · most votes in 4Other 0.8%
43
seats · turnout 77.2%
East Midlands
Conservative 36.6% · most votes in 14Liberal / Lib Dem 33.9% · most votes in 10Labour 28.4% · most votes in 13Other 1.1%
37
seats · turnout 75.0%
East of England
Conservative 43.3% · most votes in 16Liberal / Lib Dem 33.2% · most votes in 11Labour 23.5% · most votes in 8
35
seats · turnout 70.3%
Wales
Conservative 21.1% · most votes in 4Liberal / Lib Dem 35.4% · most votes in 11Labour 42.0% · most votes in 19Other 1.5% · most votes in 1
35
seats · turnout 77.3%
North East
Conservative 28.8% · most votes in 6Liberal / Lib Dem 28.6% · most votes in 10Labour 42.7% · most votes in 14
30
seats · turnout 74.3%
Northern Ireland
Conservative 49.4% · most votes in 9Other 50.6% · most votes in 1
10
seats · turnout 76.4%
Show all 13 regions
University
Conservative 58.1% · most votes in 4Liberal / Lib Dem 21.4% · most votes in 1Labour 8.9% · most votes in 1Other 11.6%
6
seats · turnout 72.6%
595 of 595 constituencies
Aberdeen North
Labour
50.6%
Aberdeen South
Conservative
47.3%
Aberdeenshire & Kincardineshire Central
Liberal / Lib Dem
53.6%
Aberdeenshire & Kincardineshire Eastern
Liberal / Lib Dem
55.9%
Aberdeenshire & Kincardineshire Kincardine & Western
Conservative
51.0%
Accrington
Liberal / Lib Dem
54.3%
Anglesey
Liberal / Lib Dem · unopposed
—
Antrim
Conservative
—
Argyll
Liberal / Lib Dem
52.7%
Armagh
Conservative · unopposed
—
Ashton Under Lyne
Conservative
36.2%
Ayr District Of Burghs
Conservative
41.8%

The dataset groups candidates into five party families: Conservative (including Ulster Unionists before February 1974), the Liberal family (Liberal, SDP–Liberal Alliance, Liberal Democrats), Labour, SNP and Plaid Cymru, and all others combined. “Most votes” marks the family with the largest vote in each constituency, not necessarily the seat's winner: the Other column aggregates many parties, and some constituencies elected two or three members in this period.