All 615 seats in the House of Commons 308 seats needed for a majority
Turnout
76.4%, 0.1%
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
Stanley Baldwin
Arthur Henderson
John Simon
Party
Conservative
Labour
National Liberal
Alliance
National
National
Leader since
23 May 1923
1 September 1931
5 October 1931
Leader's seat
Bewdley
Burnley (defeated)
Spen Valley
Last election
260 seats, 38.1%
287 seats, 37.1%
Did not contest
Seats won
470[note 1]
52
35
Seat change
210
235
35
Popular vote
11,377,022
6,339,306
761,705
Percentage
55.0%
30.6%
3.7%
Swing
16.9%
6.5%
New party
Fourth party
Fifth party
Sixth party
Leader
Herbert Samuel
Ramsay MacDonald
David Lloyd George
Party
Liberal
National Labour
Independent Liberal
Alliance
National
National
Leader since
October 1931
24 August 1931
1931
Leader's seat
Darwen
Seaham
Caernarvon Boroughs
Last election
59 seats, 23.6%
Did not contest
Did not contest
Seats won
33
13
4
Seat change
26
13
4
Popular vote
1,346,571
316,741
106,106
Percentage
6.5%
1.5%
0.5%
Swing
17.1%
New party
New party
Colours denote the winning party—as shown in § Results
Composition of the House of Commons after the 1931 General Election
Prime Minister before election
Ramsay MacDonald
Labour
Prime Minister after election
Ramsay MacDonald
National
The 1931 United Kingdom general election was held on Tuesday 27 October 1931 and saw a landslide election victory for the National Government which had been formed two months previously after the collapse of the second Labour government.[1] Collectively, the parties forming the National Government won 67% of the votes and 554 seats out of 615. Although the bulk of the National Government's support came from the Conservative Party and the Conservatives won 470 seats, National Labour leader Ramsay MacDonald remained as Prime Minister. The Labour Party suffered its greatest defeat, losing four out of every five seats compared with the previous election, including the seat of its leader Arthur Henderson. Ivor Bulmer-Thomas said the results "were the most astonishing in the history of the British party system".[2] It is the most recent election in which one party (the Conservatives) received an absolute majority of the votes cast, and the last UK general election not to take place on a Thursday. It would be the last election until 1997 in which a party won over 400 seats in the House of Commons.
1924 election
MPs
1929 election
MPs
1931 election
MPs
1935 election
MPs
1945 election
MPs
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^Macmahon, Arthur W. (1932). "The British General Election of 1931". American Political Science Review. 26 (2): 333–345. doi:10.2307/1947117. ISSN 0003-0554. JSTOR 1947117. S2CID 143537799.
^Bulmer-Thomas, Ivor (1967), The Growth of the British Party System Volume II 1924–1964, p. 76
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