United Kingdom general election, 1910 (January)

1906 election

January 1910 election

December 1910 election

The UK general election of January 1910 was held from 15th January – 10th February 1910.

The election produced a hung parliament, with the Conservatives, led by Arthur Balfour, and Liberals, led by Herbert Asquith having almost equal forces. A second election was held in December in an attempt to resolve the situation.

Party	Votes	Seats	Loss/Gain	Share of Vote (%)
Conservative & Liberal Unionists	2,919,236	272	+ 116	46.8
Liberal	2,712,511	274	- 122	43.5
Labour	435,770	40	+ 11	7.0
Irish Nationalist	114,185	82	- 1	1.9
SDP	13,479	0		0.2
Independent Conservative	11,772	1		0.2
Free Trader	11,553	1		0.2
Independent Labour	9,936	0	- 1	0.1
Independent Liberal	5,237	1	+ 1	0.1

Total votes cast: 7,694,741. All parties with more than 1,000 votes shown.

External links

January 1910 Conservative manifesto

January 1910 Labour manifesto

January 1910 Liberal manifesto

Categories: UK General Election results | 1910

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