1935 General Election

14 November 1935 · Labour's Rise · 615 seats, 308 for a majority

Baldwin's National Government retained a huge majority in the last election before the war. Attlee, initially a stopgap leader, rebuilt Labour to 154 seats; no election followed for ten years.

Prime Minister before

Stanley Baldwin

National

Prime Minister (continued)

Stanley Baldwin

National

Government formed

National

majority of 242

Turnout

71.1%

The result

Conservative
Stanley Baldwin · 47.8%
387
seats
Labour
Clement Attlee · 38.0%
154
seats
Liberal National
John Simon · 3.7%
33
seats
Liberal
Herbert Samuel · 6.7%
21
seats
National Labour
Ramsay MacDonald · 1.5%
8
seats

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

Turnout by nation

England

70.7%

Wales

76.4%

Scotland

72.6%

N. Ireland

72.0%

United Kingdom

71.1%

The government it made

The Conservatives contested the 1935 election again as part of a National Government. The Prime Minister before and after the election, Stanley Baldwin, was a Conservative. The National Government remained Conservative dominated as over half of House of Commons seats were won by Conservative candidates.

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. 35 seats were returned unopposed, with no poll held.

Highest turnout

89.9%

Lancashire Darwen, North West

Lowest turnout

46.3%

Orkney & Shetland, Scotland

Biggest single-party share

88.9%

Conservative, Kensington South

Tightest main-family margin

0.0 pts

Staffordshire Kingswinford, West Midlands

London
Conservative 53.3% · most votes in 61Liberal / Lib Dem 3.7% · most votes in 1Labour 41.2% · most votes in 34Other 1.8% · most votes in 1
97
seats · turnout 63.2%
North West
Conservative 50.8% · most votes in 56Liberal / Lib Dem 6.3% · most votes in 2Labour 39.6% · most votes in 21Other 3.4% · most votes in 2
81
seats · turnout 76.4%
Scotland
Conservative 42.1% · most votes in 34Liberal / Lib Dem 6.7% · most votes in 2Labour 36.8% · most votes in 20Other 14.5% · most votes in 14
70
seats · turnout 72.6%
Yorkshire and the Humber
Conservative 40.1% · most votes in 25Liberal / Lib Dem 6.5% · most votes in 1Labour 46.0% · most votes in 27Other 7.5% · most votes in 3
56
seats · turnout 73.6%
South East
Conservative 65.1% · most votes in 49Liberal / Lib Dem 5.0%Labour 27.2%Other 2.7% · most votes in 1
50
seats · turnout 66.1%
West Midlands
Conservative 51.4% · most votes in 34Liberal / Lib Dem 4.1% · most votes in 1Labour 37.1% · most votes in 10Other 7.4% · most votes in 2
47
seats · turnout 69.5%
South West
Conservative 49.2% · most votes in 34Liberal / Lib Dem 18.3% · most votes in 3Labour 27.4% · most votes in 3Other 5.1% · most votes in 3
43
seats · turnout 74.9%
East Midlands
Conservative 42.8% · most votes in 24Liberal / Lib Dem 3.4%Labour 44.3% · most votes in 9Other 9.6% · most votes in 4
37
seats · turnout 73.9%
Wales
Conservative 23.4% · most votes in 6Liberal / Lib Dem 18.0% · most votes in 6Labour 45.4% · most votes in 18Other 13.1% · most votes in 5
35
seats · turnout 76.4%
East of England
Conservative 47.9% · most votes in 25Liberal / Lib Dem 8.0% · most votes in 1Labour 31.4% · most votes in 1Other 12.8% · most votes in 6
33
seats · turnout 68.8%
North East
Conservative 34.0% · most votes in 11Liberal / Lib Dem 6.3% · most votes in 2Labour 47.8% · most votes in 15Other 11.9% · most votes in 2
30
seats · turnout 79.7%
Northern Ireland
Conservative 62.7% · most votes in 8Other 37.3% · most votes in 1
9
seats · turnout 72.0%
Show all 13 regions
University
Conservative 50.7% · most votes in 5Liberal / Lib Dem 3.6% · most votes in 1Labour 15.2%Other 30.5% · most votes in 1
7
seats · turnout 57.9%
595 of 595 constituencies
Aberdeen North
Labour
48.7%
Aberdeen South
Conservative
68.1%
Aberdeenshire & Kincardineshire Central
Conservative
55.0%
Aberdeenshire & Kincardineshire Eastern
Conservative
57.0%
Aberdeenshire & Kincardineshire Kincardine & Western
Conservative
55.9%
Accrington
Conservative
54.4%
Anglesey
Liberal / Lib Dem
44.5%
Antrim
Conservative
100.0%
Argyll
Conservative
53.6%
Armagh
Conservative
67.6%
Ashton Under Lyne
Labour
50.2%
Ayr District Of Burghs
Conservative
66.1%

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.