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United Kingdom general election, 1923
All 616 seats to the House of Commons
6 December 1923
		First party	Second party	Third party
Leader		Stanley Baldwin	Ramsay MacDonald	H. H. Asquith
Party		Conservative	Labour	Liberal
Leader since		23 May 1923	21 November 1922	30 April 1908
Leader's seat		Bewdley	Aberavon	Paisley
Last election		344 seats, 38.5%	142 seats, 29.7%	62 seats, 18.9%
Seats won		258	191	158
Seat change		-86	+49	+96
Popular vote		5,286,159	4,267,831	4,129,922
Percentage		38.0%	30.7%	29.7%
Incumbent PM Stanley Baldwin Conservative Subsequent PM Ramsay MacDonald Labour

The United Kingdom general election of 1923 was held on 6 December 1923. The Conservatives, led by Stanley Baldwin, won the most seats, but Labour, led by Ramsay MacDonald, and H. H. Asquith's reunited Liberal Party gained enough to produce a hung parliament. As the election had been fought on the Conservative proposals for tariff reform it was inevitable that they could not retain office and so the first ever Labour government was formed. Being in a minority it only lasted 10 months and another election was held in October 1924.

[edit] Results

Total number of votes cast: 13,909,017. All parties shown. Conservatives include Ulster Unionists.

[edit] Votes summary

[edit] Seats summary

[edit] References

• F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987
• United Kingdom election results - summary results 1885-1979

[edit] See also

• MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1923

[edit] External links

• 1923 Conservative manifesto
• 1923 Labour manifesto
• 1923 Liberal manifesto

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