United Kingdom general election, January 1910

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The United Kingdom general election of January 1910 was held from 15 January to 10 February 1910.

The election produced a hung parliament, with the Conservative Party led by Arthur Balfour receiving the largest number of votes, and the Liberals led by Herbert Asquith returning two more MPs than the Conservatives. A second election was soon held in December.

The Labour Party was led by Arthur Henderson and the Irish Parliamentary Party by John Redmond.

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[edit] Results

UK General Election January 1910
Party Seats Gains Losses Net Gain/Loss Seats % Votes % Votes +/-
  Conservative and Liberal Unionist 272 + 116 40.6 46.7 3,104,407
  Liberal 274 - 125 40.9 43.1 2,866,157
  Labour 40 + 11 6.0 7.6 505,657
  Irish Parliamentary 71 0 11 - 11 10.6 1.2 74,047
  All-for-Ireland 8 8 0 + 8 1.2 0.4 23,605
  Independent Nationalist 3 3 2 + 2 0.3 16,533
  Social Democratic Party 0 0 0 0 0.2 13,479
  Independent Conservative 1 0 0 0 0.2 11,772
  Free Trader 0 0 0 0 0.2 11,553
  Independent Labour 0 0 1 - 1 0.1 9,936
  Independent Liberal 1 1 0 + 1 0.1 5,237
  Scottish Prohibition 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 756

All parties shown.

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[edit] External links

January 1910 Conservative manifesto
January 1910 Labour manifesto
January 1910 Liberal manifesto

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