All 615 seats in the House of Commons 308 seats needed for a majority
Turnout
73.0%, 15.8 pp
First party
Second party
Leader
Bonar Law
J. R. Clynes
Party
Conservative
Labour
Leader since
23 October 1922
14 February 1921
Leader's seat
Glasgow Central
Manchester Platting
Last election
379 seats, 38.4%[a]
57 seats, 21.5%
Seats won
344
142
Seat change
35
85
Popular vote
5,294,465
4,076,665
Percentage
38.5%
29.7%
Swing
0.1 pp
8.9 pp
Third party
Fourth party
Leader
H. H. Asquith
David Lloyd George
Party
Liberal
National Liberal
Leader since
30 April 1908
7 December 1916
Leader's seat
Paisley
Caernarvon Boroughs
Last election
36 seats, 13.3%
127 seats, 12.6%[b]
Seats won
62[note 1]
53
Seat change
26
74
Popular vote
2,601,486
1,355,366
Percentage
18.9%
9.9%
Swing
5.9 pp
2.7 pp
Colours denote the winning party—as shown in § Results
Prime Minister before election
Bonar Law
Conservative
Prime Minister after election
Bonar Law
Conservative
The 1922 United Kingdom general election was held on Wednesday 15 November 1922. It was won by the Conservative Party, led by Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law, which gained an overall majority over the Labour Party, led by J. R. Clynes, and a divided Liberal Party.
This election is considered one of political realignment, with the Liberal Party falling to third-party status. The Conservative Party went on to spend all but eight of the next forty-two years as the largest party in Parliament, and Labour emerged as the main competition to the Conservatives.
The election was the first not to be held in Southern Ireland, due to the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty on 6 December 1921, under which Southern Ireland was to secede from the United Kingdom as a Dominion – the Irish Free State – on 6 December 1922. This reduced the size of the House of Commons by nearly one hundred seats when compared to the previous election.
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