All 615 seats in the House of Commons 308 seats needed for a majority
Turnout
71.1%, 1.9 pp
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%
115 seats, 28.8%[a]
Seats won
258
191
158[note 1]
Seat change
86
49
43
Popular vote
5,286,159
4,267,831
4,129,922
Percentage
38.0%
30.7%
29.7%
Swing
0.5 pp
1.0 pp
0.9 pp
Colours denote the winning party—as shown in § Results
Prime Minister before election
Stanley Baldwin
Conservative
Prime Minister after election
Ramsay MacDonald
Labour
The 1923 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 6 December 1923.[1] The Conservatives, led by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, won the most seats, but Labour, led by Ramsay MacDonald, and H. H. Asquith's reunited Liberal Party gained enough seats to produce a hung parliament. It is the most recent UK general election in which a third party won over 100 seats (158 for the Liberals) and the most narrow gap, of a "mere" 100 seats, between the first and third parties since. The Liberals' percentage of the vote, 29.7%, has not been exceeded by a third party at any general election since.
MacDonald formed the first ever Labour government with tacit support from the Liberals. Rather than trying to bring the Liberals back into government, Asquith's motivation for permitting Labour to enter power was that he hoped they would prove to be incompetent and quickly lose support. Being a minority, MacDonald's government only lasted ten months and another general election was held in October 1924.
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^Morgan, William Thomas (1924). "The British Elections of December, 1923". American Political Science Review. 18 (2): 331–340. doi:10.2307/1943928. ISSN 0003-0554.
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