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United Kingdom general election, 1931

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The UK general election on Tuesday 27 October 1931 was the last in the United Kingdom not held on a Thursday. It gave the Conservatives, led by Stanley Baldwin a huge majority, although the prime minister of the resulting National Government was still Ramsay MacDonald.

The Liberals lacked the funds to contest their usual number of seats, but won almost as many as Labour, who nonetheless polled 38% of the votes cast.

Party Votes Seats Loss/Gain Share of Vote (%)
Conservative 11,377,022 473 + 210 55.0
Labour 6,339,306 52 - 225 38.0
Liberal 1,346,571 33 - 27 6.5
National Liberals 761,705 35 + 35 3.7
National Labour 316,741 13 + 13 1.5
Independent Liberal 103,528 4 + 4 0.5
"National" 100,193 4 + 4 0.5
Irish Nationalist 72,530 2 - 1 0.4
Communist Party 69,692 0 0.3
New 36,377 0 0.2
National Independent 33,468 2 + 2 0.2
National (Scotland) 20,954 0 0.1
Independent Labour 18,200 0 0.1
Scottish Prohibition 16,114 0 - 1 0.1
Independent 10,789 1 - 3 0.0
Liverpool Protestant 7,834 0 0.0
Agriculturalist 6,993 0 0.0
Independent Nationalist 3,134 0 0.0
Independent Liberal 2,578 0 0.0
Plaid Cymru 2,050 0 0.0
Common Wealth Land 1,347 0 0.0

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