Summary of general election candidates edit
Unionist candidates or MPs in Scottish constituencies were counted as Conservatives.
Election results edit
1918 UK general election edit
Party | Constituency | Name | Votes | % | Position |
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| Conservative | Kennington | Alice Lucas | 3,573 | 32.2 | 2 |
| Independent | Brentford and Chiswick | Ray Strachey | 1,263 | 9.7 | 3 |
| Independent | Chelsea | Emily Frost Phipps | 2,419 | 20.9 | 2 |
| Independent | Glasgow Bridgeton | Eunice Murray | 991 | 5.0 | 3 |
| Independent | Hendon | Edith How-Martyn | 2,067 | 10.5 | 3 |
| Independent | Richmond (Surrey) | Norah Dacre Fox | 3,615 | 20.4 | 2 |
| Labour | Battersea North | Charlotte Despard | 5,634 | 33.4 | 2 |
| Labour | Manchester Rusholme | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | 2,985 | 15.6 | 3 |
| Labour | Stourbridge | Mary Anderson | 7,587 | 32.7 | 3 |
| Labour | University of Wales | Millicent Mackenzie | 176 | 19.2 | 2 |
| Liberal | Enfield | Janet McEwan | 1,987 | 12.1 | 3 |
| Liberal | Birmingham Ladywood | Margery Corbett Ashby | 1,552 | 11.5 | 3 |
| Liberal | Mansfield | Violet Carruthers | 4,000 | 19.5 | 3 |
| Liberal | Portsmouth South | Alison Garland | 4,283 | 18.5 | 2 |
| Sinn Féin | Belfast Victoria | Winifred Carney | 539 | 4.1 | 3 |
| Sinn Féin | Dublin St Patrick's | Constance Markievicz | 7,835 | 65.9 | 1 |
| Women's Party | Smethwick | Christabel Pankhurst | 8,614 | 47.8 | 2 |
By-elections, 1918-1922 edit
1922 UK general election edit
Party | Constituency | Name[3] | Votes | % | Position |
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| Conservative | Camberwell North | Helen Gwynne-Vaughan | 8,066 | 49.2 | 2 |
| Conservative | Denbigh | Lesley Venetia Elizabeth Brodrick | 9,138 | 37.9 | 2 |
| Conservative | Ogmore | Dorothy Caroline Edmondes | 6,577 | 20.1 | 3 |
| Conservative | Plymouth Sutton | Nancy Astor | 13,924 | 47.4 | 1 |
| Conservative | Walsall | Alice Cooper | 14,349 | 37.8 | 2 |
| Independent | Brentford and Chiswick | Ray Strachey | 7,804 | 43.5 | 2 |
| Independent | Liverpool East Toxteth | Eleanor Rathbone | 9,984 | 39.7 | 2 |
| Labour | Acton | Mary Richardson | 5,342 | 26.2 | 2 |
| Labour | Chelmsford | Clara Rackham | 3,767 | 17.6 | 3 |
| Labour | East Ham North | Susan Lawrence | 6,747 | 27.8 | 2 |
| Labour | East Surrey | Marjorie Pease | 3,667 | 22.7 | 2 |
| Labour | Islington North | Edith Picton-Turbervill | 7,993 | 27.8 | 2 |
| Labour | Islington East | Ethel Bentham | 5,900 | 22.7 | 3 |
| Labour | Lambeth North | Barbara Ayrton-Gould | 3,353 | 17.8 | 3 |
| Labour | Northampton | Margaret Bondfield | 14,498 | 37.9 | 2 |
| Labour | University of Wales | Olive Wheeler | 309 | 24.8 | 3 |
| Labour Co-op | Birmingham King's Norton | Eleanor Barton | 7,017 | 32.8 | 2 |
| Liberal | Bedford | Mary Camilla Lawson | 2,075 | 7.8 | 4 |
| Liberal | Dartford | Alison Garland | 2,175 | 6.5 | 3 |
| Liberal | Devizes | Hilda Beatrice Currie | 6,576 | 40.7 | 2 |
| Liberal | Glasgow Maryhill | Annie Burnett Smith | 3,617 | 13.1 | 3 |
| Liberal | High Peak | Anna Barlow | 5,802 | 20.4 | 3 |
| Liberal | Huntingdonshire | Lina Scott Gatty | 5,123 | 25.7 | 2 |
| Liberal | Louth, Lincolnshire | Margaret Wintringham | 11,609 | 52.0 | 1 |
| Liberal | Oldham | Mary Emmott | 6,186 | 7.0 | 5 |
| Liberal | Richmond (Surrey) | Margery Corbett Ashby | 5,765 | 24.1 | 3 |
| Liberal | Waterloo | Nessie Stewart-Brown | 6,300 | 32.7 | 2 |
| Liberal | Westminster St George's | Mary Sophia Allen | 1,303 | 6.5 | 3 |
| Liberal | Wycombe | Vera Terrington | 11,154 | 35.8 | 2 |
| National Liberal | Edinburgh South | Catherine Alderton | 7,408 | 33.3 | 2 |
| National Liberal | Forest of Dean | Winifred Coombe Tennant | 3,861 | 18.7 | 3 |
| National Liberal | Glasgow Govan | Helen Fraser | 9,336 | 37.7 | 2 |
| National Liberal | Leeds South East | Mary Grant | 9,554 | 41.1 | 2 |
By-elections, 1922-1923 edit
1923 UK general election edit
Party | Constituency | Name[4] | Votes | % | Position |
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| Conservative | Berwick-upon-Tweed | Mabel Philipson | 10,636 | 48.0 | 1 |
| Conservative | Camberwell North | Helen Gwynne-Vaughan | 5,934 | 35.8 | 2 |
| Conservative | Ince | Rachel Parsons | 6,262 | 26.5 | 2 |
| Conservative | Plymouth Sutton | Nancy Astor | 16,114 | 54.5 | 1 |
| Conservative | St Helens | Margaret Evelyn Pilkington | 16,109 | 44.5 | 2 |
| Independent | Brentford and Chiswick | Ray Strachey | 4,828 | 27.3 | 2 |
| Labour | Ashton-under-Lyne | Ellen Wilkinson | 6,208 | 28.7 | 3 |
| Labour | Berwick-upon-Tweed | Edna Penny | 2,784 | 12.5 | 3 |
| Labour | Bournemouth | Minnie Pallister | 5,986 | 19.5 | 3 |
| Labour | Chatham | Mary Agnes Hamilton | 5,794 | 24.1 | 3 |
| Labour | East Ham North | Susan Lawrence | 8,727 | 35.7 | 1 |
| Labour | Farnham | Anne Corner | 3,520 | 16.7 | 3 |
| Labour | Isle of Wight | Emily Palmer | 2,475 | 7.1 | 3 |
| Labour | Islington East | Ethel Bentham | 6,941 | 26.0 | 3 |
| Labour | Northampton | Margaret Bondfield | 15,556 | 40.5 | 1 |
| Labour | Norwich | Dorothy Jewson | 19,304 | 20.0 | 2 |
| Labour | Portsmouth South | Jessie Stephen | 7,388 | 24.9 | 2 |
| Labour | Warwick and Leamington | Countess of Warwick | 4,015 | 12.8 | 3 |
| Labour | West Dorset | Louie Simpson | 7,087 | 41.2 | 2 |
| Labour Co-op | Birmingham King's Norton | Eleanor Barton | 6,743 | 30.7 | 2 |
| Liberal | Birmingham King's Norton | Elizabeth Cadbury | 5,686 | 25.9 | 3 |
| Liberal | Birmingham Moseley | Janet Clarkson | 7,904 | 28.7 | 2 |
| Liberal | Cambridgeshire | Elsbeth Dimsdale | 6,619 | 24.6 | 3 |
| Liberal | Consett | Ursula Williams | 14,619 | 48.0 | 2 |
| Liberal | Gower | Leah Norah Folland | 10,219 | 40.9 | 2 |
| Liberal | Hamilton | Helen Fraser | 8,436 | 41.6 | 2 |
| Liberal | Hanley | Ada Rowley Moody | 4,268 | 19.8 | 3 |
| Liberal | Hastings | Maria Gordon | 5,876 | 25.9 | 2 |
| Liberal | Louth, Lincolnshire | Margaret Wintringham | 12,104 | 52.4 | 1 |
| Liberal | Pontefract | Mary Pollock Grant | 4,567 | 18.6 | 3 |
| Liberal | Richmond (Surrey) | Margery Corbett Ashby | 7,702 | 37.0 | 2 |
| Liberal | Wycombe | Lady Terrington | 14,910 | 46.9 | 1 |
| Unionist | Glasgow St Rollox | Violet Mary Robertson | 9,204 | 37.7 | 2 |
| Unionist | Kinross and Western Perthshire | Duchess of Atholl | 9,235 | 50.4 | 1 |
Jewson was elected by taking second place in a two-seat constituency.
1924 UK general election edit
Party | Constituency | Name[5] | Votes | % | Position |
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| Conservative | Berwick-upon-Tweed | Mabel Philipson | 12,130 | 50.9 | 1 |
| Conservative | Camberwell North | Helen Gwynne-Vaughan | 7,564 | 36.7 | 2 |
| Conservative | Denbigh | Lesley Venetia Elizabeth Brodrick | 11,250 | 47.0 | 2 |
| Conservative | Derby | Hilda Hulse | 21,700 | 20.3 | 4 |
| Conservative | Manchester Ardwick | Mary Kingsmill Jones | 13,115 | 45.1 | 2 |
| Conservative | Morpeth | Irene Ward | 10,828 | 32.0 | 2 |
| Conservative | Plymouth Sutton | Nancy Astor | 18,174 | 58.1 | 1 |
| Conservative | St Helens | Margaret Evelyn Pilkington | 16,908 | 44.2 | 2 |
| Conservative | Wansbeck | Mary Middleton | 18,875 | 47.1 | 2 |
| Independent Labour | Acton | Mary Richardson | 1,775 | 7.6 | 4 |
| Labour | Blackburn | Mary Agnes Hamilton | 24,330 | 21.8 | 3 |
| Labour | Bournemouth | Minnie Pallister | 7,735 | 27.3 | 2 |
| Labour | Chelsea | Dora Russell | 5,661 | 26.0 | 2 |
| Labour | Dumfriesshire | Agnes Dollan | 6,342 | 23.0 | 3 |
| Labour | East Ham North | Susan Lawrence | 10,137 | 35.8 | 2 |
| Labour | Edinburgh North | Eleanor Stewart | 8,192 | 27.9 | 2 |
| Labour | Farnham | Anne Corner | 4,613 | 20.2 | 2 |
| Labour | Hackney North | Stella Churchill | 6,097 | 24.1 | 3 |
| Labour | Hastings | Muriel Matters Porter | 6,082 | 28.6 | 2 |
| Labour | Hemel Hempstead | Amy Sayle | 1,553 | 6.9 | 3 |
| Labour | Islington East | Ethel Bentham | 10,280 | 32.3 | 2 |
| Labour | Lewisham West | Barbara Drake | 6,781 | 20.4 | 2 |
| Labour | Liverpool Fairfield | Mary Mercer | 8,412 | 37.1 | 2 |
| Labour | Middlesbrough East | Ellen Wilkinson | 9,574 | 38.5 | 1 |
| Labour | Northampton | Margaret Bondfield | 15,046 | 37.2 | 2 |
| Labour | Northwich | Barbara Ayrton-Gould | 11,630 | 34.6 | 2 |
| Labour | Norwich | Dorothy Jewson | 22,931 | 22.0 | 4 |
| Labour | Portsmouth South | Jessie Stephen | 8,310 | 27.0 | 2 |
| Labour | Stroud | Edith Picton-Turbervill | 7,418 | 25.2 | 2 |
| Labour | Totnes | Kate Spurrell | 2,240 | 6.1 | 3 |
| Labour | West Dorset | Louie Simpson | 5,764 | 31.7 | 2 |
| Labour Co-op | Leeds North East | Edna Penny | 8,894 | 31.6 | 2 |
| Liberal | Ilkeston | Anna Barlow | 4,320 | 17.6 | 3 |
| Liberal | Lanark | Elizabeth Buchanan Mitchell | 2,126 | 8.1 | 3 |
| Liberal | Louth, Lincolnshire | Margaret Wintringham | 11,330 | 47.2 | 2 |
| Liberal | Southwark South East | Elsie Cameron Elias | 2,388 | 11.2 | 3 |
| Liberal | Watford | Margery Corbett Ashby | 5,205 | 18.7 | 3 |
| Liberal | Wycombe | Lady Terrington | 12,526 | 33.0 | 2 |
| Unionist | Aberdeen North | Laura Sandeman | 8,545 | 39.2 | 2 |
| Unionist | Bothwell | Helen Brown Shaw | 11,314 | 43.7 | 2 |
| Unionist | Kinross and Western Perthshire | Duchess of Atholl | 13,565 | 72.0 | 1 |
By-elections, 1924-1929 edit
Party | Election | Name | Votes | % | Position |
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| Labour | 1926 Wallsend by-election | Margaret Bondfield | 18,866 | 57.7 | 1 |
| Labour | 1926 East Ham North by-election | Susan Lawrence | 10,798 | 40.6 | 1 |
| Conservative | 1927 Southend by-election | Countess of Iveagh | 21,221 | 54.6 | 1 |
| Labour | 1928 Bristol West by-election | Clare Annesley | 7,702 | 26.0 | 2 |
| Liberal | 1928 St Ives by-election | Hilda Runciman | 10,241 | 42.6 | 1 |
| Unionist | 1928 Linlithgowshire by-election | Margaret Kidd | 9,268 | 31.5 | 2 |
| Labour | 1928 Epsom by-election | Helen Keynes | 3,719 | 16.8 | 3 |
| Unionist | 1928 Aberdeen North by-election | Laura Sandeman | 4,696 | 23.1 | 2 |
| Labour | 1928 Cheltenham by-election | Florence Widdowson | 3,962 | 18.8 | 3 |
| Labour | 1929 Bishop Auckland by-election | Ruth Dalton | 14,797 | 57.1 | 1 |
| Labour | 1929 North Lanarkshire by-election | Jennie Lee | 15,711 | 57.5 | 1 |
| Liberal | 1929 North Lanarkshire by-election | Elizabeth Buchanan Mitchell | 2,488 | 9.1 | 3 |
1929 UK general election edit
Party | Constituency | Name[6] | Votes | % | Position |
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| Communist | Bothwell | Helen Crawfurd | 1,677 | 5.5 | 3 |
| Communist | Mansfield | Rose Smith | 533 | 1.1 | 4 |
| Communist | Motherwell | Isabel Brown | 984 | 3.4 | 4 |
| Conservative | Farnworth | Mary Pickford | 10,643 | 25.4 | 2 |
| Conservative | Liverpool Everton | Margaret Beavan | 12,667 | 47.1 | 2 |
| Conservative | Manchester Ardwick | Mary Kingsmill Jones | 13,177 | 39.7 | 2 |
| Conservative | Morpeth | Irene Ward | 9,206 | 22.1 | 2 |
| Conservative | Plymouth Sutton | Nancy Astor | 16,625 | 43.2 | 1 |
| Conservative | Pontypridd | May Gordon Williams | 3,967 | 10.1 | 3 |
| Conservative | Southend-on-Sea | Countess of Iveagh | 27,605 | 55.8 | 1 |
| Independent | Combined English Universities | Eleanor Rathbone | 3,331 | 33.3 | 2 |
| Labour | Ayr Burghs | Clarice Shaw | 13,429 | 36.5 | 2 |
| Labour | Blackburn | Mary Agnes Hamilton | 37,256 | 26.1 | 1 |
| Labour | Brentford and Chiswick | Stella Churchill | 10,918 | 37.8 | 2 |
| Labour | Bristol West | Clare Annesley | 11,961 | 25.3 | 2 |
| Labour | East Ham North | Susan Lawrence | 13,969 | 42.1 | 1 |
| Labour | Edinburgh North | Eleanor Stewart | 11,340 | 32.2 | 2 |
| Labour | Honiton | Rose Davies | 915 | 2.6 | 3 |
| Labour | Horsham and Worthing | Helen Keynes | 7,611 | 16.4 | 3 |
| Labour | Hythe | Grace Colman | 2,597 | 11.5 | 3 |
| Labour | Islington East | Ethel Bentham | 15,199 | 38.0 | 1 |
| Labour | Lewisham West | Catherine Mary Wadham | 10,598 | 25.9 | 2 |
| Labour | Luton | Florence Harrison Bell | 7,351 | 16.5 | 3 |
| Labour | Middlesbrough East | Ellen Wilkinson | 12,215 | 41.3 | 1 |
| Labour | North Lanarkshire | Jennie Lee | 19,884 | 55.9 | 1 |
| Labour | Northwich | Barbara Ayrton-Gould | 15,473 | 34.3 | 2 |
| Labour | Norwich | Dorothy Jewson | 31,040 | 24.0 | 3 |
| Labour | Nottingham Central | Eleanor Barton | 11,573 | 33.2 | 2 |
| Labour | Perth | Helen Gault | 8,291 | 23.5 | 3 |
| Labour | Petersfield | Gertrude Massingham | 3,418 | 12.1 | 3 |
| Labour | Portsmouth South | Jessie Stephen | 10,127 | 24.8 | 2 |
| Labour | Rushcliffe | Florence Widdowson | 16,069 | 35.0 | 2 |
| Labour | St Albans | Monica Whately | 11,699 | 27.6 | 2 |
| Labour | Stoke-on-Trent | Cynthia Mosley | 26,548 | 58.7 | 1 |
| Labour | Sunderland | Marion Phillips | 31,794 | 19.5 | 1 |
| Labour | The Wrekin | Edith Picton-Turbervill | 14,569 | 44.4 | 1 |
| Labour | Totnes | Kate Spurrell | 5,828 | 12.9 | 3 |
| Labour | Wallsend | Margaret Bondfield | 20,057 | 49.5 | 1 |
| Labour | Wells | Ruby Davies | 4,472 | 15.0 | 3 |
| Labour | Weston-super-Mare | Constance Borrett | 4,766 | 11.1 | 3 |
| Labour | Wycombe | Rochelle Townsend | 8,899 | 18.1 | 3 |
| Liberal | Anglesey | Megan Lloyd George | 13,181 | 49.4 | 1 |
| Liberal | Birmingham Deritend | Beta Hornabrook | 2,268 | 6.8 | 3 |
| Liberal | Caerphilly | Alice Grace Roberts | 8,190 | 22.4 | 2 |
| Liberal | East Grinstead | Barbara Bliss | 9,718 | 25.6 | 2 |
| Liberal | Hackney South | Muriel Morgan Gibbon | 6,302 | 20.7 | 3 |
| Liberal | Hendon | Margery Corbett Ashby | 13,449 | 22.2 | 3 |
| Liberal | Hitchin | Enid Lapthorn | 9,325 | 28.3 | 2 |
| Liberal | Hythe | Hester Lloyd Holland | 6,912 | 30.7 | 2 |
| Liberal | Islington North | Domini Crosfield | 10,210 | 23.4 | 3 |
| Liberal | Kensington North | Frances Henrietta Stewart | 5,516 | 13.5 | 3 |
| Liberal | Kingston upon Hull North West | Catherine Alderton | 10,059 | 28.3 | 3 |
| Liberal | Louth, Lincolnshire | Margaret Wintringham | 13,560 | 42.9 | 2 |
| Liberal | Manchester Gorton | Beatrice Bayfield | 3,385 | 9.4 | 3 |
| Liberal | North Norfolk | Zelia Hoffman | 3,403 | 11.1 | 3 |
| Liberal | Northampton | Helen Schilizzi | 11,054 | 20.6 | 3 |
| Liberal | Rotherhithe | Dora West | 4,556 | 19.1 | 3 |
| Liberal | St Pancras South East | Elizabeth Edwardes | 3,798 | 13.8 | 3 |
| Liberal | Salford West | Mary Pollock Grant | 5,614 | 15.4 | 3 |
| Liberal | Salisbury | Lucy Masterman | 13,022 | 39.3 | 2 |
| Liberal | Smethwick | Maude Egerton Marshall | 3,909 | 11.0 | 3 |
| Liberal | Sunderland | Elizabeth Morgan | 21,300 | 13.0 | 5 |
| Liberal | Surrey East | Ida Swinburne | 7,435 | 23.1 | 2 |
| Liberal | Tavistock | Hilda Runciman | 14,040 | 44.1 | 2 |
| Liberal | Warrington | Alison Garland | 3,070 | 7.2 | 3 |
| Liberal | Winchester | Frances Josephy | 7,278 | 18.6 | 3 |
| Unionist | Bothwell | Helen Brown Shaw | 12,077 | 39.3 | 2 |
| Unionist | Kinross and Western Perthshire | Duchess of Atholl | 12,245 | 48.6 | 1 |
| Unionist | Paisley | Minna Cowan | 7,094 | 17.7 | 3 |
Rathbone was elected by taking second place in a two-seat constituency.
By-elections, 1929-1931 edit
1931 UK general election edit
Party | Constituency | Name[7] | Votes | % | Position |
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| Communist | Aberdeen North | Helen Crawfurd | 3,980 | 11.1 | 3 |
| Communist | Greenwich | Kath Duncan | 2,024 | 4.4 | 4 |
| Conservative | Caerphilly | Catherine Bowen-Davies | 11,044 | 32.4 | 2 |
| Conservative | Cannock | Sarah Ward | 27,498 | 54.6 | 1 |
| Conservative | Hackney South | Marjorie Graves | 15,920 | 55.4 | 1 |
| Conservative | Hammersmith North | Mary Pickford | 18,815 | 59.2 | 1 |
| Conservative | Islington East | Thelma Cazalet | 27,221 | 67.5 | 1 |
| Conservative | Plymouth Sutton | Nancy Astor | 24,277 | 63.3 | 1 |
| Conservative | Rotherhithe | Norah Runge | 11,666 | 50.3 | 1 |
| Conservative | Silvertown | Eleonora Tennant | 5,654 | 22.2 | 2 |
| Conservative | Southend-on-Sea | Countess of Iveagh | 46,564 | 85.7 | 1 |
| Conservative | Stoke | Ida Copeland | 19,918 | 45.6 | 1 |
| Conservative | Wallsend | Irene Ward | 25,999 | 58.6 | 1 |
| Conservative | Willesden West | Mavis Tate | 23,910 | 60.6 | 1 |
| Independent | Combined English Universities | Eleanor Rathbone | 5,096 | 37.2 | 1 |
| Ind. Labour Party | Camborne | Kate Spurrell | 8,280 | 24.5 | 3 |
| Ind. Labour Party | Clapham | Hilda Browning | 7,317 | 23.0 | 2 |
| Ind. Labour Party | North Lanarkshire | Jennie Lee | 19,691 | 44.7 | 2 |
| Ind. Labour Party | Norwich | Dorothy Jewson | 26,537 | 19.7 | 4 |
| Ind. Labour Party | Perth | Helen Gault | 3,705 | 9.7 | 3 |
| Ind. Labour Party | West Renfrewshire | Jean Mann | 10,203 | 31.5 | 2 |
| Independent Liberal | Anglesey | Megan Lloyd George | 14,839 | 58.3 | 1 |
| Labour | Aldershot | Mary Richardson | 4,091 | 15.6 | 2 |
| Labour | Aylesbury | Dorothy Woodman | 4,677 | 10.9 | 3 |
| Labour | Ayr Burghs | Clarice Shaw | 9,974 | 26.1 | 2 |
| Labour | Bedford | Clare Annesley | 9,654 | 27.8 | 2 |
| Labour | Blackburn | Mary Agnes Hamilton | 25,643 | 17.0 | 3 |
| Labour | East Ham North | Susan Lawrence | 11,769 | 34.1 | 2 |
| Labour | Flintshire | Frances Edwards | 16,158 | 28.6 | 2 |
| Labour | Gillingham | Catherine Mary Wadham | 9,103 | 31.0 | 2 |
| Labour | Hastings | Irene Goddard | 4,983 | 15.5 | 2 |
| Labour | Hendon | Amber Blanco White | 15,305 | 18.8 | 2 |
| Labour | Horsham and Worthing | Helen Keynes | 5,932 | 11.7 | 2 |
| Labour | Hythe | Grace Colman | 3,608 | 15.1 | 2 |
| Labour | Islington East | Leah Manning | 13,111 | 32.5 | 2 |
| Labour | Kidderminster | Jessie Stephen | 9,814 | 22.7 | 2 |
| Labour | Maidstone | Gertrude Speedwell Massingham | 6,770 | 19.8 | 2 |
| Labour | Middlesbrough East | Ellen Wilkinson | 12,080 | 39.6 | 2 |
| Labour | North Norfolk | Lucy Noel-Buxton | 13,035 | 39.5 | 2 |
| Labour | Northwich | Barbara Gould | 15,746 | 34.4 | 2 |
| Labour | Norwood | Ann Jane Anstey | 7,217 | 19.0 | 2 |
| Labour | Paddington North | Esther Rickards | 9,597 | 28.6 | 2 |
| Labour | Paddington South | Lucy Cox | 4,532 | 14.3 | 2 |
| Labour | Rushcliffe | Florence Paton | 14,176 | 27.9 | 2 |
| Labour | St Albans | Monica Whately | 10,289 | 21.9 | 2 |
| Labour | Streatham | Betty Fraser | 5,343 | 15.0 | 2 |
| Labour | Sunderland | Marion Phillips | 29,707 | 18.0 | 3 |
| Labour | The Wrekin | Edith Picton-Turbervill | 14,162 | 38.9 | 2 |
| Labour | Tonbridge | Constance Borrett | 8,208 | 21.2 | 2 |
| Labour | Wallsend | Margaret Bondfield | 18,393 | 41.4 | 2 |
| Labour | Woodbridge | Ida Mary Nussey Keeble | 5,885 | 18.7 | 2 |
| Labour Co-op | Brighton | Rosalind Moore | 12,878 | 7.3 | 4 |
| Liberal | Basingstoke | Frances Josephy | 6,106 | 18.1 | 2 |
| Liberal | Exeter | Eleanor Acland | 8,571 | 23.2 | 2 |
| Liberal | Holderness | Aline MacKinnon | 10,471 | 30.0 | 2 |
| Liberal | Shrewsbury | Betty Morgan | 9,358 | 30.8 | 2 |
| National Liberal | Wentworth | Charlotte Isabel Hilyer | 14,462 | 31.2 | 2 |
| National (Scotland) | Glasgow St Rollox | Elma Campbell | 3,521 | 13.3 | 3 |
| Unionist | Bothwell | Helen Brown Shaw | 16,571 | 50.0 | 1 |
| Unionist | Dundee | Florence Horsbrugh | 48,556 | 27.7 | 2 |
| Unionist | Glasgow Bridgeton | Catherine Gavin | 11,941 | 41.8 | 2 |
| Unionist | Kinross and Western Perthshire | Duchess of Atholl | 16,228 | 60.6 | 1 |
Horsbrugh was elected by taking second place in a two-seat constituency.
By-elections, 1931-1935 edit
1935 UK general election edit
Party | Constituency | Name[8] | Votes | % | Position |
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| Conservative | Caerphilly | N. J. Stoneham | 7,738 | 23.8 | 2 |
| Conservative | Cannock | Sarah Ward | 26,876 | 49.1 | 2 |
| Conservative | Clay Cross | Bridget Jackson | 8,391 | 25.4 | 2 |
| Conservative | Ebbw Vale | Ethel Scarborough | 7,145 | 22.2 | 2 |
| Conservative | Frome | Mavis Tate | 19,684 | 46.3 | 1 |
| Conservative | Hackney South | Marjorie Graves | 10,876 | 40.7 | 2 |
| Conservative | Islington East | Thelma Cazalet | 18,248 | 52.5 | 1 |
| Conservative | Plaistow | Dorothy Roddick | 6,730 | 26.7 | 2 |
| Conservative | Plymouth Sutton | Nancy Astor | 21,491 | 58.3 | 1 |
| Conservative | Poplar South | Diana Spearman | 6,862 | 26.8 | 2 |
| Conservative | Rotherhithe | Norah Runge | 9,751 | 40.3 | 2 |
| Conservative | Rothwell | Gwendoline Beaumont | 17,352 | 35.5 | 2 |
| Conservative | Silvertown | Eleonora Tennant | 4,276 | 19.0 | 2 |
| Conservative | Stoke | Ida Copeland | 18,867 | 47.3 | 2 |
| Conservative | Wallsend | Irene Ward | 23,842 | 52.6 | 1 |
| Independent | Combined English Universities | Eleanor Rathbone | unopposed | N/A | 1 |
| Independent | Putney | Violet Van der Elst | 1,021 | 3.0 | 3 |
| Ind. Labour Party | Camborne | Kate Spurrell | 592 | 1.9 | 4 |
| Ind. Labour Party | North Lanarkshire | Jennie Lee | 17,267 | 37.3 | 2 |
| Labour | Birkenhead East | Mary Mercer | 8,028 | 23.3 | 3 |
| Labour | Bradford North | Muriel Nichol | 14,047 | 35.2 | 2 |
| Labour | Burton | Gladys Paling | 8,041 | 25.5 | 2 |
| Labour | Bury | Edith Summerskill | 12,845 | 34.4 | 2 |
| Labour | Cheltenham | Elizabeth Pakenham | 7,784 | 29.5 | 2 |
| Labour | City of Chester | Agnes Bulley | 6,450 | 19.3 | 3 |
| Labour | Clapham | Monica Whately | 11,368 | 23.0 | 2 |
| Labour | Dartford | Janet Adamson | 35,596 | 48.2 | 2 |
| Labour | Darwen | Frances Kerby | 7,778 | 20.9 | 3 |
| Labour | Edinburgh South | Barbara Woodburn | 5,365 | 16.5 | 2 |
| Labour | Harrow | Helen Bentwich | 31,422 | 37.3 | 2 |
| Labour | Hendon | Amber Blanco White | 28,375 | 26.8 | 2 |
| Labour | Hornsey | Mari Power | 10,320 | 21.9 | 2 |
| Labour | Jarrow | Ellen Wilkinson | 20,324 | 53.1 | 1 |
| Labour | Lewisham East | Freda Corbet | 25,425 | 44.6 | 2 |
| Labour | Manchester Hulme | Barbara Ayrton-Gould | 11,221 | 39.7 | 2 |
| Labour | New Forest and Christchurch | Catherine Mary Wadham | 10,876 | 25.2 | 2 |
| Labour | North Dorset | M. M. Whitehead | 1,360 | 5.2 | 4 |
| Labour | North Norfolk | Lucy Noel-Buxton | 14,465 | 44.7 | 2 |
| Labour | Paddington North | Caroline Ganley | 9,925 | 34.4 | 2 |
| Labour | Pudsey and Otley | Lucy Cox | 9,997 | 23.3 | 3 |
| Labour | Saffron Walden | Clara Rackham | 9,633 | 32.9 | 2 |
| Labour | St Marylebone | Elizabeth Jacobs | 8,088 | 20.4 | 2 |
| Labour | Sheffield Hallam | Grace Colman | 10,346 | 32.7 | 2 |
| Labour | Southend-on-Sea | Helen Keynes | 7,796 | 13.8 | 3 |
| Labour | Stockton-on-Tees | Susan Lawrence | 19,217 | 40.3 | 2 |
| Labour | Stroud | Constance Borrett | 14,133 | 36.8 | 2 |
| Labour | Sunderland | Leah Manning | 32,059 | 19.8 | 4 |
| Labour | Wallsend | Margaret Bondfield | 21,462 | 47.4 | 2 |
| Labour | Westminster St George's | Anne Fremantle | 4,643 | 15.4 | 2 |
| Labour | Westmorland | Evelyn Short | 10,417 | 31.5 | 2 |
| Labour | West Renfrewshire | Jean Mann | 12,407 | 38.8 | 2 |
| Labour | Wood Green | Dorothy Woodman | 14,561 | 24.8 | 2 |
| Liberal | Anglesey | Megan Lloyd George | 11,227 | 44.5 | 1 |
| Liberal | Aylesbury | Margaret Wintringham | 13,622 | 31.6 | 2 |
| Liberal | Carlisle | Barbara Bliss | 3,525 | 10.3 | 3 |
| Liberal | Devizes | Frances Josephy | 9,903 | 40.7 | 2 |
| Liberal | Edinburgh North | Chrystal Macmillan | 1,798 | 5.8 | 3 |
| Liberal | Hemel Hempstead | Margery Corbett Ashby | 7,078 | 22.0 | 2 |
| Liberal | Holderness | Aline Mackinnon | 10,348 | 24.9 | 2 |
| Liberal | Kinross and Western Perthshire | Elizabeth MacDonald | 10,069 | 39.8 | 2 |
| Liberal | Maldon | Hilda Buckmaster | 5,680 | 17.7 | 3 |
| Liberal | Rye | Dorothy Osborn | 9,162 | 28.8 | 2 |
| Liberal | Willesden East | Nancy Stewart Parnell | 3,217 | 7.3 | 3 |
| Unionist | Bothwell | Helen Brown Shaw | 13,761 | 39.7 | 2 |
| Unionist | Dundee | Florence Horsbrugh | 50,542 | 26.8 | 1 |
| Unionist | Edinburgh East | Minna Cowan | 12,229 | 39.6 | 2 |
| Unionist | Kinross and Western Perthshire | Duchess of Atholl | 15,238 | 60.2 | 1 |
By-elections, 1935-1945 edit
Party | Election | Name | Votes | % | Position |
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| Conservative | 1936 Clay Cross by-election | Bridget Jackson | 8,042 | 24.9 | 2 |
| Independent | 1936 Preston by-election | Florence White | 3,221 | 4.8 | 3 |
| Conservative | 1937 Hemel Hempstead by-election | Frances Davidson | 14,992 | 57.7 | 1 |
| Liberal | 1937 Hemel Hempstead by-election | Margery Corbett Ashby | 7,078 | 22.0 | 2 |
| Labour | 1937 Glasgow Springburn by-election | Agnes Hardie | 14,859 | 62.6 | 1 |
| National Liberal | 1938 Pontypridd by-election | Juliet Rhys-Williams | 14,810 | 40.1 | 2 |
| Independent | 1938 Combined Scottish Universities by-election | Frances Melville | 5,618 | 19.5 | 2 |
| Labour | 1938 Fulham West by-election | Edith Summerskill | 16,583 | 52.2 | 1 |
| Labour | 1938 Dartford by-election | Jennie Adamson | 46,514 | 52.4 | 1 |
| Labour | 1938 Fylde by-election | Mabel Tylecote | 17,648 | 31.6 | 2 |
| Independent | 1938 Kinross and Western Perthshire by-election | Duchess of Atholl | 10,495 | 47.1 | 2 |
| Liberal | 1939 Holderness by-election | Aline Mackinnon | 11,590 | 25.7 | 2 |
| Unionist | 1939 South Ayrshire by-election | Catherine Gavin | 12,986 | 42.0 | 2 |
| National | 1940 Southwark Central by-election | Violet van der Elst | 1,382 | 16.8 | 3 |
| Ind. Labour Party | 1940 East Renfrewshire by-election | Annie Maxton | 8,206 | 19.3 | 2 |
| Communist | 1940 Bow and Bromley by-election | Isabel Brown | 506 | 4.2 | 2 |
| Conservative | 1941 Bodmin by-election | Beatrice Wright | unopposed | N/A | 1 |
| Independent | 1941 Harrow by-election | Winifred Henney | 3,433 | 19.1 | 2 |
| Common Wealth | 1943 Ashford by-election | Catherine Williamson | 4,192 | 30.3 | 2 |
| Conservative | 1943 Bristol Central by-election | Violet Bathurst | 5,867 | 52.1 | 1 |
| Independent Labour | 1943 Bristol Central by-election | Jennie Lee | 4,308 | 38.2 | 2 |
| Common Wealth | 1943 The Hartlepools by-election | Elaine Burton | 3,634 | 17.4 | 2 |
| Independent Liberal | 1943 Darwen by-election | Honor Balfour | 8,799 | 49.8 | 2 |
| Independent | 1943 Acton by-election | Dorothy Crisp | 707 | 8.5 | 3 |
| Independent Liberal | 1944 Bury St Edmunds by-election | Margery Corbett Ashby | 9,121 | 43.8 | 2 |
1945 UK general election edit
Party | Constituency | Name | Votes | % | Position |
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| Common Wealth | Canterbury | Catherine Williamson | 1,017 | 2.6 | 3 |
| Common Wealth | Chelsea | Dorothy Sharpe | 984 | 5.2 | 3 |
| Common Wealth | North Midlothian | Kitty Wintringham | 3,299 | 6.4 | 3 |
| Common Wealth | Sutton Coldfield | Joyce Purser | 2,043 | 4.2 | 3 |
| Communist | Birmingham Handsworth | Jessie Eden | 1,390 | 3.4 | 5 |
| Communist | Harrow East | Gladys Driver | 3,493 | 5.9 | 4 |
| Conservative | Bristol Central | Violet Bathurst | 7,369 | 36.1 | 2 |
| Conservative | Frome | Mavis Tate | 24,228 | 44.9 | 2 |
| Conservative | Islington East | Thelma Cazalet-Keir | 9,960 | 34.5 | 2 |
| Conservative | Hemel Hempstead | Frances Davidson | 19,536 | 44.2 | 1 |
| Conservative | Kingston upon Hull Central | Diana Spearman | 4,106 | 27.5 | 2 |
| Conservative | Manchester Ardwick | Nellie Beer | 8,093 | 36.0 | 2 |
| Conservative | Rotherhithe | Norah Runge | 2,577 | 20.9 | 2 |
| Conservative | Wallsend | Irene Ward | 21,319 | 39.9 | 2 |
| Conservative | Wentworth | Aymée Lavender Gandar Dower | 8,670 | 16.4 | 2 |
| Independent | Combined English Universities | Eleanor Rathbone | 11,176 | 53.3 | 1 |
| Independent | Hornchurch | Violet Van der Elst | 232 | 0.5 | 4 |
| Independent | Westminster St George's | Dorothy Crisp | 1,069 | 5.5 | 3 |
| Ind. Conservative | Putney | Eleonora Tennant | 144 | 0.4 | 5 |
| Independent Progressive | London University | Mary Danvers Stocks | 7,469 | 49.5 | 2 |
| Labour Co-op | Battersea South | Caroline Ganley | 19,275 | 61.5 | 1 |
| Labour Co-op | Birmingham Duddeston | Edith Agnes Wills | 10,745 | 65.0 | 1 |
| Labour Co-op | Ilford North | Mabel Ridealgh | 18,833 | 42.8 | 1 |
| Labour | Basingstoke | Edith Alice Weston | 13,763 | 33.8 | 2 |
| Labour | Bath | Dorothy Archibald | 18,120 | 39.2 | 2 |
| Labour | Bexley | Jennie Adamson | 24,686 | 56.9 | 1 |
| Labour | Blackburn | Barbara Castle | 35,145 | 26.0 | 2 |
| Labour | Bradford North | Muriel Nichol | 20,268 | 43.6 | 1 |
| Labour | Bury St Edmunds | Cecily Alicia McCall | 9,195 | 29.8 | 2 |
| Labour | Camberwell North West | Freda Corbet | 12,251 | 69.6 | 1 |
| Labour | Cannock | Jennie Lee | 48,849 | 62.6 | 1 |
| Labour | Chelsea | Margaret Douglas Shufeldt | 5,874 | 31.1 | 2 |
| Labour | Cheltenham | Phyllis Maude Warner | 11,095 | 29.9 | 2 |
| Labour | Chichester | Rosalie Francesca Chamberlayne | 13,670 | 24.1 | 2 |
| Labour | Coatbridge | Jean Mann | 18,619 | 61.1 | 1 |
| Labour | Croydon North | Marion Billson | 22,810 | 40.1 | 2 |
| Labour | Epping | Leah Manning | 15,993 | 44.1 | 1 |
| Labour | Flintshire | Eirene Lloyd Jones | 26,761 | 37.4 | 2 |
| Labour | Fulham West | Edith Summerskill | 19,537 | 61.9 | 1 |
| Labour | Harrow West | B. J. K. Thompson | 18,961 | 33.0 | 2 |
| Labour | Hemel Hempstead | Doris Mobbs | 14,426 | 32.6 | 2 |
| Labour | Hendon North | Barbara Gould | 18,251 | 47.6 | 1 |
| Labour | Hendon South | Elaine Burton | 14,917 | 38.1 | 2 |
| Labour | Holborn | Irene Marcousé | 5,136 | 45.9 | 2 |
| Labour | Jarrow | Ellen Wilkinson | 22,656 | 66.0 | 1 |
| Labour | Kensington South | Patricia Strauss | 6,014 | 18.9 | 2 |
| Labour | Kilmarnock | Clarice Shaw | 23,837 | 59.4 | 1 |
| Labour | Leeds North East | Alice Bacon | 28,870 | 53.1 | 1 |
| Labour | Liverpool Exchange | Bessie Braddock | 8,494 | 52.0 | 1 |
| Labour | Middleton and Prestwich | Mabel Tylecote | 25,908 | 49.2 | 2 |
| Labour | Newbury | Iris Brook | 15,754 | 33.7 | 2 |
| Labour | North Lanarkshire | Margaret Herbison | 30,251 | 59.6 | 1 |
| Labour | Norwich | Lucy Noel-Buxton | 31,553 | 27.9 | 1 |
| Labour | Plymouth Sutton | Lucy Middleton | 15,417 | 51.6 | 1 |
| Labour | Rushcliffe | Florence Paton | 43,303 | 54.2 | 1 |
| Labour | St Marylebone | Elizabeth Jacobs | 10,740 | 32.4 | 2 |
| Labour | Sutton and Cheam | Helen Judd | 17,293 | 41.0 | 2 |
| Labour | Tonbridge | Vera Dart | 16,590 | 35.9 | 2 |
| Labour | Tynemouth | Grace Colman | 13,963 | 46.1 | 1 |
| Labour | Windsor | Marjorie Nicholson | 16,420 | 33.1 | 2 |
| Labour | Wirral | Agnes Bulley | 25,919 | 31.3 | 2 |
| Liberal | Anglesey | Megan Lloyd George | 12,610 | 52.2 | 1 |
| Liberal | Barnet | Jean Henderson | 4,495 | 11.4 | 3 |
| Liberal | Birmingham Handsworth | Barbara Lewis | 4,945 | 12.0 | 4 |
| Liberal | Blackburn | Marjorie Annie MacInerney | 6,096 | 4.5 | 6 |
| Liberal | Chelmsford | Hilda Buckmaster | 5,909 | 10.1 | 3 |
| Liberal | Darwen | Honor Balfour | 7,979 | 24.3 | 3 |
| Liberal | Devizes | Frances Josephy | 6,278 | 23.1 | 3 |
| Liberal | Exeter | Freda Evelyn Griffith Morgan | 6,220 | 16.4 | 3 |
| Liberal | Hackney North | Doreen Gorsky | 3,546 | 13.3 | 3 |
| Liberal | Ilford North | Juliet Rhys-Williams | 9,128 | 20.8 | 3 |
| Liberal | Isle of Wight | May O'Conor | 5,967 | 12.6 | 3 |
| Liberal | Mossley | Marjorie Wainwright Jalland | 7,128 | 12.4 | 3 |
| Liberal | Paisley | Louise Glen-Coats | 4,532 | 10.0 | 3 |
| Liberal | Plymouth Sutton | Joan Gaved | 3,695 | 12.4 | 3 |
| Liberal | Ripon | Mabel Cowley | 6,122 | 12.6 | 3 |
| Liberal | St Albans | Enid Lakeman | 5,601 | 10.7 | 3 |
| Liberal | St Pancras South East | Audrey Blackman | 1,474 | 8.8 | 3 |
| Liberal | Sevenoaks | Nelia Muspratt | 6,906 | 16.7 | 3 |
| Liberal | Sudbury | Margaret Hitchcock | 5,045 | 20.5 | 3 |
| Liberal | Wells | Violet Bonham-Carter | 7,910 | 25.1 | 3 |
| National Liberal | Poplar South | Joan Vickers | 1,403 | 10.8 | 2 |
| Plaid Cymru | University of Wales | Gwenan Jones | 1,696 | 24.5 | 2 |
| Unionist | Aberdeen North | Priscilla Buchan | 9,623 | 25.1 | 2 |
| Unionist | Bothwell | Helen Brown Shaw | 13,207 | 34.2 | 2 |
| Unionist | Dundee | Florence Horsbrugh | 32,309 | 18.9 | 4 |
| Ulster Unionist | Fermanagh and Tyrone | Noreen Cooper | 46,260 | 22.8 | 4 |
Castle won in Blackburn by taking second place in a two-seat constituency.
See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b c d Richard Keen; Richard Cracknell (20 July 2021). "Women in Parliament and Government". House of Commons Library. p. 22.
- ^ a b Craig, F. W. S. (1968). British Parliamentary Election Statistics 1918-1968. Glasgow: Political Reference Publications. p. 62. ISBN 0900178000.
- ^ "The defeated thirty", Manchester Guardian, 5 December 1922
- ^ "Eight woman MPs", The Times, 8 December 1923
- ^ "The 41 women candidates", Manchester Guardian, 20 October 1924
- ^ "Women candidates: a total of 64 for all parties", Manchester Guardian, 4 May 1929
- ^ "Women candidates: 61 Nominated : Two Straight Fights", Manchester Guardian, 17 October 1931
- ^ "Women candidates", The Times, 5 November 1935
- F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949
Further reading edit
- Women Members of Parliament
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This is a list of women who stood in general elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom up to and including the 1945 general election 22 of the women standing in the 1923 general election Contents 1 Summary of general election candidates 2 Election results 2 1 1918 UK general election 2 2 By elections 1918 1922 2 3 1922 UK general election 2 4 By elections 1922 1923 2 5 1923 UK general election 2 6 1924 UK general election 2 7 By elections 1924 1929 2 8 1929 UK general election 2 9 By elections 1929 1931 2 10 1931 UK general election 2 11 By elections 1931 1935 2 12 1935 UK general election 2 13 By elections 1935 1945 2 14 1945 UK general election 3 See also 4 References 5 Further readingSummary of general election candidates editYear Number of Candidates 1 Number of MPs1918 17 11922 33 21923 34 81924 41 41929 69 141931 62 151935 67 91945 87 24Year Conservative 1 Labour 1 Liberal 1 Independent 2 Other parties 2 Candidates MPs Candidates MPs Candidates MPs Candidates MPs Candidates MPs1918 1 0 4 0 4 0 5 0 3 11922 5 1 10 0 16 1 2 0 0 01923 7 3 14 3 12 2 1 0 0 01924 12 3 22 1 6 0 1 0 0 01929 10 3 30 9 25 1 1 1 3 01931 16 13 36 0 5 1 1 1 4 01935 19 6 33 1 11 1 2 1 2 01945 13 1 41 21 20 1 4 1 9 0Unionist candidates or MPs in Scottish constituencies were counted as Conservatives Election results edit1918 UK general election edit Party Constituency Name Votes PositionConservative Kennington Alice Lucas 3 573 32 2 2Independent Brentford and Chiswick Ray Strachey 1 263 9 7 3Independent Chelsea Emily Frost Phipps 2 419 20 9 2Independent Glasgow Bridgeton Eunice Murray 991 5 0 3Independent Hendon Edith How Martyn 2 067 10 5 3Independent Richmond Surrey Norah Dacre Fox 3 615 20 4 2Labour Battersea North Charlotte Despard 5 634 33 4 2Labour Manchester Rusholme Emmeline Pethick Lawrence 2 985 15 6 3Labour Stourbridge Mary Anderson 7 587 32 7 3Labour University of Wales Millicent Mackenzie 176 19 2 2Liberal Enfield Janet McEwan 1 987 12 1 3Liberal Birmingham Ladywood Margery Corbett Ashby 1 552 11 5 3Liberal Mansfield Violet Carruthers 4 000 19 5 3Liberal Portsmouth South Alison Garland 4 283 18 5 2Sinn Fein Belfast Victoria Winifred Carney 539 4 1 3Sinn Fein Dublin St Patrick s Constance Markievicz 7 835 65 9 1Women s Party Smethwick Christabel Pankhurst 8 614 47 8 2By elections 1918 1922 edit Party Election Name Votes PositionConservative 1919 Plymouth Sutton by election Nancy Astor 14 495 51 9 1Labour 1920 Camberwell North West by election Susan Lawrence 4 733 32 1 2Labour 1920 Northampton by election Margaret Bondfield 13 279 44 4 2Liberal 1921 Louth by election Margaret Wintringham 8 386 42 2 11922 UK general election edit Party Constituency Name 3 Votes PositionConservative Camberwell North Helen Gwynne Vaughan 8 066 49 2 2Conservative Denbigh Lesley Venetia Elizabeth Brodrick 9 138 37 9 2Conservative Ogmore Dorothy Caroline Edmondes 6 577 20 1 3Conservative Plymouth Sutton Nancy Astor 13 924 47 4 1Conservative Walsall Alice Cooper 14 349 37 8 2Independent Brentford and Chiswick Ray Strachey 7 804 43 5 2Independent Liverpool East Toxteth Eleanor Rathbone 9 984 39 7 2Labour Acton Mary Richardson 5 342 26 2 2Labour Chelmsford Clara Rackham 3 767 17 6 3Labour East Ham North Susan Lawrence 6 747 27 8 2Labour East Surrey Marjorie Pease 3 667 22 7 2Labour Islington North Edith Picton Turbervill 7 993 27 8 2Labour Islington East Ethel Bentham 5 900 22 7 3Labour Lambeth North Barbara Ayrton Gould 3 353 17 8 3Labour Northampton Margaret Bondfield 14 498 37 9 2Labour University of Wales Olive Wheeler 309 24 8 3Labour Co op Birmingham King s Norton Eleanor Barton 7 017 32 8 2Liberal Bedford Mary Camilla Lawson 2 075 7 8 4Liberal Dartford Alison Garland 2 175 6 5 3Liberal Devizes Hilda Beatrice Currie 6 576 40 7 2Liberal Glasgow Maryhill Annie Burnett Smith 3 617 13 1 3Liberal High Peak Anna Barlow 5 802 20 4 3Liberal Huntingdonshire Lina Scott Gatty 5 123 25 7 2Liberal Louth Lincolnshire Margaret Wintringham 11 609 52 0 1Liberal Oldham Mary Emmott 6 186 7 0 5Liberal Richmond Surrey Margery Corbett Ashby 5 765 24 1 3Liberal Waterloo Nessie Stewart Brown 6 300 32 7 2Liberal Westminster St George s Mary Sophia Allen 1 303 6 5 3Liberal Wycombe Vera Terrington 11 154 35 8 2National Liberal Edinburgh South Catherine Alderton 7 408 33 3 2National Liberal Forest of Dean Winifred Coombe Tennant 3 861 18 7 3National Liberal Glasgow Govan Helen Fraser 9 336 37 7 2National Liberal Leeds South East Mary Grant 9 554 41 1 2By elections 1922 1923 edit Party Election Name Votes PositionConservative 1923 Berwick upon Tweed by election Mabel Philipson 12 000 55 0 11923 UK general election edit Party Constituency Name 4 Votes PositionConservative Berwick upon Tweed Mabel Philipson 10 636 48 0 1Conservative Camberwell North Helen Gwynne Vaughan 5 934 35 8 2Conservative Ince Rachel Parsons 6 262 26 5 2Conservative Plymouth Sutton Nancy Astor 16 114 54 5 1Conservative St Helens Margaret Evelyn Pilkington 16 109 44 5 2Independent Brentford and Chiswick Ray Strachey 4 828 27 3 2Labour Ashton under Lyne Ellen Wilkinson 6 208 28 7 3Labour Berwick upon Tweed Edna Penny 2 784 12 5 3Labour Bournemouth Minnie Pallister 5 986 19 5 3Labour Chatham Mary Agnes Hamilton 5 794 24 1 3Labour East Ham North Susan Lawrence 8 727 35 7 1Labour Farnham Anne Corner 3 520 16 7 3Labour Isle of Wight Emily Palmer 2 475 7 1 3Labour Islington East Ethel Bentham 6 941 26 0 3Labour Northampton Margaret Bondfield 15 556 40 5 1Labour Norwich Dorothy Jewson 19 304 20 0 2Labour Portsmouth South Jessie Stephen 7 388 24 9 2Labour Warwick and Leamington Countess of Warwick 4 015 12 8 3Labour West Dorset Louie Simpson 7 087 41 2 2Labour Co op Birmingham King s Norton Eleanor Barton 6 743 30 7 2Liberal Birmingham King s Norton Elizabeth Cadbury 5 686 25 9 3Liberal Birmingham Moseley Janet Clarkson 7 904 28 7 2Liberal Cambridgeshire Elsbeth Dimsdale 6 619 24 6 3Liberal Consett Ursula Williams 14 619 48 0 2Liberal Gower Leah Norah Folland 10 219 40 9 2Liberal Hamilton Helen Fraser 8 436 41 6 2Liberal Hanley Ada Rowley Moody 4 268 19 8 3Liberal Hastings Maria Gordon 5 876 25 9 2Liberal Louth Lincolnshire Margaret Wintringham 12 104 52 4 1Liberal Pontefract Mary Pollock Grant 4 567 18 6 3Liberal Richmond Surrey Margery Corbett Ashby 7 702 37 0 2Liberal Wycombe Lady Terrington 14 910 46 9 1Unionist Glasgow St Rollox Violet Mary Robertson 9 204 37 7 2Unionist Kinross and Western Perthshire Duchess of Atholl 9 235 50 4 1Jewson was elected by taking second place in a two seat constituency 1924 UK general election edit Party Constituency Name 5 Votes PositionConservative Berwick upon Tweed Mabel Philipson 12 130 50 9 1Conservative Camberwell North Helen Gwynne Vaughan 7 564 36 7 2Conservative Denbigh Lesley Venetia Elizabeth Brodrick 11 250 47 0 2Conservative Derby Hilda Hulse 21 700 20 3 4Conservative Manchester Ardwick Mary Kingsmill Jones 13 115 45 1 2Conservative Morpeth Irene Ward 10 828 32 0 2Conservative Plymouth Sutton Nancy Astor 18 174 58 1 1Conservative St Helens Margaret Evelyn Pilkington 16 908 44 2 2Conservative Wansbeck Mary Middleton 18 875 47 1 2Independent Labour Acton Mary Richardson 1 775 7 6 4Labour Blackburn Mary Agnes Hamilton 24 330 21 8 3Labour Bournemouth Minnie Pallister 7 735 27 3 2Labour Chelsea Dora Russell 5 661 26 0 2Labour Dumfriesshire Agnes Dollan 6 342 23 0 3Labour East Ham North Susan Lawrence 10 137 35 8 2Labour Edinburgh North Eleanor Stewart 8 192 27 9 2Labour Farnham Anne Corner 4 613 20 2 2Labour Hackney North Stella Churchill 6 097 24 1 3Labour Hastings Muriel Matters Porter 6 082 28 6 2Labour Hemel Hempstead Amy Sayle 1 553 6 9 3Labour Islington East Ethel Bentham 10 280 32 3 2Labour Lewisham West Barbara Drake 6 781 20 4 2Labour Liverpool Fairfield Mary Mercer 8 412 37 1 2Labour Middlesbrough East Ellen Wilkinson 9 574 38 5 1Labour Northampton Margaret Bondfield 15 046 37 2 2Labour Northwich Barbara Ayrton Gould 11 630 34 6 2Labour Norwich Dorothy Jewson 22 931 22 0 4Labour Portsmouth South Jessie Stephen 8 310 27 0 2Labour Stroud Edith Picton Turbervill 7 418 25 2 2Labour Totnes Kate Spurrell 2 240 6 1 3Labour West Dorset Louie Simpson 5 764 31 7 2Labour Co op Leeds North East Edna Penny 8 894 31 6 2Liberal Ilkeston Anna Barlow 4 320 17 6 3Liberal Lanark Elizabeth Buchanan Mitchell 2 126 8 1 3Liberal Louth Lincolnshire Margaret Wintringham 11 330 47 2 2Liberal Southwark South East Elsie Cameron Elias 2 388 11 2 3Liberal Watford Margery Corbett Ashby 5 205 18 7 3Liberal Wycombe Lady Terrington 12 526 33 0 2Unionist Aberdeen North Laura Sandeman 8 545 39 2 2Unionist Bothwell Helen Brown Shaw 11 314 43 7 2Unionist Kinross and Western Perthshire Duchess of Atholl 13 565 72 0 1By elections 1924 1929 edit Party Election Name Votes PositionLabour 1926 Wallsend by election Margaret Bondfield 18 866 57 7 1Labour 1926 East Ham North by election Susan Lawrence 10 798 40 6 1Conservative 1927 Southend by election Countess of Iveagh 21 221 54 6 1Labour 1928 Bristol West by election Clare Annesley 7 702 26 0 2Liberal 1928 St Ives by election Hilda Runciman 10 241 42 6 1Unionist 1928 Linlithgowshire by election Margaret Kidd 9 268 31 5 2Labour 1928 Epsom by election Helen Keynes 3 719 16 8 3Unionist 1928 Aberdeen North by election Laura Sandeman 4 696 23 1 2Labour 1928 Cheltenham by election Florence Widdowson 3 962 18 8 3Labour 1929 Bishop Auckland by election Ruth Dalton 14 797 57 1 1Labour 1929 North Lanarkshire by election Jennie Lee 15 711 57 5 1Liberal 1929 North Lanarkshire by election Elizabeth Buchanan Mitchell 2 488 9 1 31929 UK general election edit Party Constituency Name 6 Votes PositionCommunist Bothwell Helen Crawfurd 1 677 5 5 3Communist Mansfield Rose Smith 533 1 1 4Communist Motherwell Isabel Brown 984 3 4 4Conservative Farnworth Mary Pickford 10 643 25 4 2Conservative Liverpool Everton Margaret Beavan 12 667 47 1 2Conservative Manchester Ardwick Mary Kingsmill Jones 13 177 39 7 2Conservative Morpeth Irene Ward 9 206 22 1 2Conservative Plymouth Sutton Nancy Astor 16 625 43 2 1Conservative Pontypridd May Gordon Williams 3 967 10 1 3Conservative Southend on Sea Countess of Iveagh 27 605 55 8 1Independent Combined English Universities Eleanor Rathbone 3 331 33 3 2Labour Ayr Burghs Clarice Shaw 13 429 36 5 2Labour Blackburn Mary Agnes Hamilton 37 256 26 1 1Labour Brentford and Chiswick Stella Churchill 10 918 37 8 2Labour Bristol West Clare Annesley 11 961 25 3 2Labour East Ham North Susan Lawrence 13 969 42 1 1Labour Edinburgh North Eleanor Stewart 11 340 32 2 2Labour Honiton Rose Davies 915 2 6 3Labour Horsham and Worthing Helen Keynes 7 611 16 4 3Labour Hythe Grace Colman 2 597 11 5 3Labour Islington East Ethel Bentham 15 199 38 0 1Labour Lewisham West Catherine Mary Wadham 10 598 25 9 2Labour Luton Florence Harrison Bell 7 351 16 5 3Labour Middlesbrough East Ellen Wilkinson 12 215 41 3 1Labour North Lanarkshire Jennie Lee 19 884 55 9 1Labour Northwich Barbara Ayrton Gould 15 473 34 3 2Labour Norwich Dorothy Jewson 31 040 24 0 3Labour Nottingham Central Eleanor Barton 11 573 33 2 2Labour Perth Helen Gault 8 291 23 5 3Labour Petersfield Gertrude Massingham 3 418 12 1 3Labour Portsmouth South Jessie Stephen 10 127 24 8 2Labour Rushcliffe Florence Widdowson 16 069 35 0 2Labour St Albans Monica Whately 11 699 27 6 2Labour Stoke on Trent Cynthia Mosley 26 548 58 7 1Labour Sunderland Marion Phillips 31 794 19 5 1Labour The Wrekin Edith Picton Turbervill 14 569 44 4 1Labour Totnes Kate Spurrell 5 828 12 9 3Labour Wallsend Margaret Bondfield 20 057 49 5 1Labour Wells Ruby Davies 4 472 15 0 3Labour Weston super Mare Constance Borrett 4 766 11 1 3Labour Wycombe Rochelle Townsend 8 899 18 1 3Liberal Anglesey Megan Lloyd George 13 181 49 4 1Liberal Birmingham Deritend Beta Hornabrook 2 268 6 8 3Liberal Caerphilly Alice Grace Roberts 8 190 22 4 2Liberal East Grinstead Barbara Bliss 9 718 25 6 2Liberal Hackney South Muriel Morgan Gibbon 6 302 20 7 3Liberal Hendon Margery Corbett Ashby 13 449 22 2 3Liberal Hitchin Enid Lapthorn 9 325 28 3 2Liberal Hythe Hester Lloyd Holland 6 912 30 7 2Liberal Islington North Domini Crosfield 10 210 23 4 3Liberal Kensington North Frances Henrietta Stewart 5 516 13 5 3Liberal Kingston upon Hull North West Catherine Alderton 10 059 28 3 3Liberal Louth Lincolnshire Margaret Wintringham 13 560 42 9 2Liberal Manchester Gorton Beatrice Bayfield 3 385 9 4 3Liberal North Norfolk Zelia Hoffman 3 403 11 1 3Liberal Northampton Helen Schilizzi 11 054 20 6 3Liberal Rotherhithe Dora West 4 556 19 1 3Liberal St Pancras South East Elizabeth Edwardes 3 798 13 8 3Liberal Salford West Mary Pollock Grant 5 614 15 4 3Liberal Salisbury Lucy Masterman 13 022 39 3 2Liberal Smethwick Maude Egerton Marshall 3 909 11 0 3Liberal Sunderland Elizabeth Morgan 21 300 13 0 5Liberal Surrey East Ida Swinburne 7 435 23 1 2Liberal Tavistock Hilda Runciman 14 040 44 1 2Liberal Warrington Alison Garland 3 070 7 2 3Liberal Winchester Frances Josephy 7 278 18 6 3Unionist Bothwell Helen Brown Shaw 12 077 39 3 2Unionist Kinross and Western Perthshire Duchess of Atholl 12 245 48 6 1Unionist Paisley Minna Cowan 7 094 17 7 3Rathbone was elected by taking second place in a two seat constituency By elections 1929 1931 edit Party Election Name Votes PositionCommunist 1929 Kilmarnock by election Isabel Brown 1 448 4 4 3Labour 1930 North Norfolk by election Lucy Noel Buxton 14 821 50 3 1Labour 1930 Paddington South by election Dorothy Evans 7 944 26 6 3United Empire 1930 Paddington South by election Alexandra Stewart Richardson 494 1 7 4Labour 1931 Islington East by election Leah Manning 10 591 34 7 1Conservative 1931 Islington East by election Thelma Cazalet 7 182 23 5 3Liberal 1931 Salisbury by election Lucy Masterman 9 588 32 7 2Liberal 1931 Sunderland by election Elizabeth Morgan 15 020 19 9 3National Scotland 1931 Glasgow St Rollox by election Elma Campbell 3 521 15 8 31931 UK general election edit Party Constituency Name 7 Votes PositionCommunist Aberdeen North Helen Crawfurd 3 980 11 1 3Communist Greenwich Kath Duncan 2 024 4 4 4Conservative Caerphilly Catherine Bowen Davies 11 044 32 4 2Conservative Cannock Sarah Ward 27 498 54 6 1Conservative Hackney South Marjorie Graves 15 920 55 4 1Conservative Hammersmith North Mary Pickford 18 815 59 2 1Conservative Islington East Thelma Cazalet 27 221 67 5 1Conservative Plymouth Sutton Nancy Astor 24 277 63 3 1Conservative Rotherhithe Norah Runge 11 666 50 3 1Conservative Silvertown Eleonora Tennant 5 654 22 2 2Conservative Southend on Sea Countess of Iveagh 46 564 85 7 1Conservative Stoke Ida Copeland 19 918 45 6 1Conservative Wallsend Irene Ward 25 999 58 6 1Conservative Willesden West Mavis Tate 23 910 60 6 1Independent Combined English Universities Eleanor Rathbone 5 096 37 2 1Ind Labour Party Camborne Kate Spurrell 8 280 24 5 3Ind Labour Party Clapham Hilda Browning 7 317 23 0 2Ind Labour Party North Lanarkshire Jennie Lee 19 691 44 7 2Ind Labour Party Norwich Dorothy Jewson 26 537 19 7 4Ind Labour Party Perth Helen Gault 3 705 9 7 3Ind Labour Party West Renfrewshire Jean Mann 10 203 31 5 2Independent Liberal Anglesey Megan Lloyd George 14 839 58 3 1Labour Aldershot Mary Richardson 4 091 15 6 2Labour Aylesbury Dorothy Woodman 4 677 10 9 3Labour Ayr Burghs Clarice Shaw 9 974 26 1 2Labour Bedford Clare Annesley 9 654 27 8 2Labour Blackburn Mary Agnes Hamilton 25 643 17 0 3Labour East Ham North Susan Lawrence 11 769 34 1 2Labour Flintshire Frances Edwards 16 158 28 6 2Labour Gillingham Catherine Mary Wadham 9 103 31 0 2Labour Hastings Irene Goddard 4 983 15 5 2Labour Hendon Amber Blanco White 15 305 18 8 2Labour Horsham and Worthing Helen Keynes 5 932 11 7 2Labour Hythe Grace Colman 3 608 15 1 2Labour Islington East Leah Manning 13 111 32 5 2Labour Kidderminster Jessie Stephen 9 814 22 7 2Labour Maidstone Gertrude Speedwell Massingham 6 770 19 8 2Labour Middlesbrough East Ellen Wilkinson 12 080 39 6 2Labour North Norfolk Lucy Noel Buxton 13 035 39 5 2Labour Northwich Barbara Gould 15 746 34 4 2Labour Norwood Ann Jane Anstey 7 217 19 0 2Labour Paddington North Esther Rickards 9 597 28 6 2Labour Paddington South Lucy Cox 4 532 14 3 2Labour Rushcliffe Florence Paton 14 176 27 9 2Labour St Albans Monica Whately 10 289 21 9 2Labour Streatham Betty Fraser 5 343 15 0 2Labour Sunderland Marion Phillips 29 707 18 0 3Labour The Wrekin Edith Picton Turbervill 14 162 38 9 2Labour Tonbridge Constance Borrett 8 208 21 2 2Labour Wallsend Margaret Bondfield 18 393 41 4 2Labour Woodbridge Ida Mary Nussey Keeble 5 885 18 7 2Labour Co op Brighton Rosalind Moore 12 878 7 3 4Liberal Basingstoke Frances Josephy 6 106 18 1 2Liberal Exeter Eleanor Acland 8 571 23 2 2Liberal Holderness Aline MacKinnon 10 471 30 0 2Liberal Shrewsbury Betty Morgan 9 358 30 8 2National Liberal Wentworth Charlotte Isabel Hilyer 14 462 31 2 2National Scotland Glasgow St Rollox Elma Campbell 3 521 13 3 3Unionist Bothwell Helen Brown Shaw 16 571 50 0 1Unionist Dundee Florence Horsbrugh 48 556 27 7 2Unionist Glasgow Bridgeton Catherine Gavin 11 941 41 8 2Unionist Kinross and Western Perthshire Duchess of Atholl 16 228 60 6 1Horsbrugh was elected by taking second place in a two seat constituency By elections 1931 1935 edit Party Election Name Votes PositionLabour 1932 Dulwich by election Helen Bentwich 3 905 19 3 3Independent 1934 Lambeth North by election Alice Brown 305 1 6 4Labour 1934 Putney by election Edith Summerskill 12 936 45 3 2Labour 1935 Norwood by election Barbara Gould 12 799 40 4 2Labour 1935 Perth by election Helen Gault 3 705 9 7 3Labour 1935 Combined Scottish Universities by election Naomi Mitchison 4 293 17 3 21935 UK general election edit Party Constituency Name 8 Votes PositionConservative Caerphilly N J Stoneham 7 738 23 8 2Conservative Cannock Sarah Ward 26 876 49 1 2Conservative Clay Cross Bridget Jackson 8 391 25 4 2Conservative Ebbw Vale Ethel Scarborough 7 145 22 2 2Conservative Frome Mavis Tate 19 684 46 3 1Conservative Hackney South Marjorie Graves 10 876 40 7 2Conservative Islington East Thelma Cazalet 18 248 52 5 1Conservative Plaistow Dorothy Roddick 6 730 26 7 2Conservative Plymouth Sutton Nancy Astor 21 491 58 3 1Conservative Poplar South Diana Spearman 6 862 26 8 2Conservative Rotherhithe Norah Runge 9 751 40 3 2Conservative Rothwell Gwendoline Beaumont 17 352 35 5 2Conservative Silvertown Eleonora Tennant 4 276 19 0 2Conservative Stoke Ida Copeland 18 867 47 3 2Conservative Wallsend Irene Ward 23 842 52 6 1Independent Combined English Universities Eleanor Rathbone unopposed N A 1Independent Putney Violet Van der Elst 1 021 3 0 3Ind Labour Party Camborne Kate Spurrell 592 1 9 4Ind Labour Party North Lanarkshire Jennie Lee 17 267 37 3 2Labour Birkenhead East Mary Mercer 8 028 23 3 3Labour Bradford North Muriel Nichol 14 047 35 2 2Labour Burton Gladys Paling 8 041 25 5 2Labour Bury Edith Summerskill 12 845 34 4 2Labour Cheltenham Elizabeth Pakenham 7 784 29 5 2Labour City of Chester Agnes Bulley 6 450 19 3 3Labour Clapham Monica Whately 11 368 23 0 2Labour Dartford Janet Adamson 35 596 48 2 2Labour Darwen Frances Kerby 7 778 20 9 3Labour Edinburgh South Barbara Woodburn 5 365 16 5 2Labour Harrow Helen Bentwich 31 422 37 3 2Labour Hendon Amber Blanco White 28 375 26 8 2Labour Hornsey Mari Power 10 320 21 9 2Labour Jarrow Ellen Wilkinson 20 324 53 1 1Labour Lewisham East Freda Corbet 25 425 44 6 2Labour Manchester Hulme Barbara Ayrton Gould 11 221 39 7 2Labour New Forest and Christchurch Catherine Mary Wadham 10 876 25 2 2Labour North Dorset M M Whitehead 1 360 5 2 4Labour North Norfolk Lucy Noel Buxton 14 465 44 7 2Labour Paddington North Caroline Ganley 9 925 34 4 2Labour Pudsey and Otley Lucy Cox 9 997 23 3 3Labour Saffron Walden Clara Rackham 9 633 32 9 2Labour St Marylebone Elizabeth Jacobs 8 088 20 4 2Labour Sheffield Hallam Grace Colman 10 346 32 7 2Labour Southend on Sea Helen Keynes 7 796 13 8 3Labour Stockton on Tees Susan Lawrence 19 217 40 3 2Labour Stroud Constance Borrett 14 133 36 8 2Labour Sunderland Leah Manning 32 059 19 8 4Labour Wallsend Margaret Bondfield 21 462 47 4 2Labour Westminster St George s Anne Fremantle 4 643 15 4 2Labour Westmorland Evelyn Short 10 417 31 5 2Labour West Renfrewshire Jean Mann 12 407 38 8 2Labour Wood Green Dorothy Woodman 14 561 24 8 2Liberal Anglesey Megan Lloyd George 11 227 44 5 1Liberal Aylesbury Margaret Wintringham 13 622 31 6 2Liberal Carlisle Barbara Bliss 3 525 10 3 3Liberal Devizes Frances Josephy 9 903 40 7 2Liberal Edinburgh North Chrystal Macmillan 1 798 5 8 3Liberal Hemel Hempstead Margery Corbett Ashby 7 078 22 0 2Liberal Holderness Aline Mackinnon 10 348 24 9 2Liberal Kinross and Western Perthshire Elizabeth MacDonald 10 069 39 8 2Liberal Maldon Hilda Buckmaster 5 680 17 7 3Liberal Rye Dorothy Osborn 9 162 28 8 2Liberal Willesden East Nancy Stewart Parnell 3 217 7 3 3Unionist Bothwell Helen Brown Shaw 13 761 39 7 2Unionist Dundee Florence Horsbrugh 50 542 26 8 1Unionist Edinburgh East Minna Cowan 12 229 39 6 2Unionist Kinross and Western Perthshire Duchess of Atholl 15 238 60 2 1By elections 1935 1945 edit Party Election Name Votes PositionConservative 1936 Clay Cross by election Bridget Jackson 8 042 24 9 2Independent 1936 Preston by election Florence White 3 221 4 8 3Conservative 1937 Hemel Hempstead by election Frances Davidson 14 992 57 7 1Liberal 1937 Hemel Hempstead by election Margery Corbett Ashby 7 078 22 0 2Labour 1937 Glasgow Springburn by election Agnes Hardie 14 859 62 6 1National Liberal 1938 Pontypridd by election Juliet Rhys Williams 14 810 40 1 2Independent 1938 Combined Scottish Universities by election Frances Melville 5 618 19 5 2Labour 1938 Fulham West by election Edith Summerskill 16 583 52 2 1Labour 1938 Dartford by election Jennie Adamson 46 514 52 4 1Labour 1938 Fylde by election Mabel Tylecote 17 648 31 6 2Independent 1938 Kinross and Western Perthshire by election Duchess of Atholl 10 495 47 1 2Liberal 1939 Holderness by election Aline Mackinnon 11 590 25 7 2Unionist 1939 South Ayrshire by election Catherine Gavin 12 986 42 0 2National 1940 Southwark Central by election Violet van der Elst 1 382 16 8 3Ind Labour Party 1940 East Renfrewshire by election Annie Maxton 8 206 19 3 2Communist 1940 Bow and Bromley by election Isabel Brown 506 4 2 2Conservative 1941 Bodmin by election Beatrice Wright unopposed N A 1Independent 1941 Harrow by election Winifred Henney 3 433 19 1 2Common Wealth 1943 Ashford by election Catherine Williamson 4 192 30 3 2Conservative 1943 Bristol Central by election Violet Bathurst 5 867 52 1 1Independent Labour 1943 Bristol Central by election Jennie Lee 4 308 38 2 2Common Wealth 1943 The Hartlepools by election Elaine Burton 3 634 17 4 2Independent Liberal 1943 Darwen by election Honor Balfour 8 799 49 8 2Independent 1943 Acton by election Dorothy Crisp 707 8 5 3Independent Liberal 1944 Bury St Edmunds by election Margery Corbett Ashby 9 121 43 8 21945 UK general election edit Party Constituency Name Votes PositionCommon Wealth Canterbury Catherine Williamson 1 017 2 6 3Common Wealth Chelsea Dorothy Sharpe 984 5 2 3Common Wealth North Midlothian Kitty Wintringham 3 299 6 4 3Common Wealth Sutton Coldfield Joyce Purser 2 043 4 2 3Communist Birmingham Handsworth Jessie Eden 1 390 3 4 5Communist Harrow East Gladys Driver 3 493 5 9 4Conservative Bristol Central Violet Bathurst 7 369 36 1 2Conservative Frome Mavis Tate 24 228 44 9 2Conservative Islington East Thelma Cazalet Keir 9 960 34 5 2Conservative Hemel Hempstead Frances Davidson 19 536 44 2 1Conservative Kingston upon Hull Central Diana Spearman 4 106 27 5 2Conservative Manchester Ardwick Nellie Beer 8 093 36 0 2Conservative Rotherhithe Norah Runge 2 577 20 9 2Conservative Wallsend Irene Ward 21 319 39 9 2Conservative Wentworth Aymee Lavender Gandar Dower 8 670 16 4 2Independent Combined English Universities Eleanor Rathbone 11 176 53 3 1Independent Hornchurch Violet Van der Elst 232 0 5 4Independent Westminster St George s Dorothy Crisp 1 069 5 5 3Ind Conservative Putney Eleonora Tennant 144 0 4 5Independent Progressive London University Mary Danvers Stocks 7 469 49 5 2Labour Co op Battersea South Caroline Ganley 19 275 61 5 1Labour Co op Birmingham Duddeston Edith Agnes Wills 10 745 65 0 1Labour Co op Ilford North Mabel Ridealgh 18 833 42 8 1Labour Basingstoke Edith Alice Weston 13 763 33 8 2Labour Bath Dorothy Archibald 18 120 39 2 2Labour Bexley Jennie Adamson 24 686 56 9 1Labour Blackburn Barbara Castle 35 145 26 0 2Labour Bradford North Muriel Nichol 20 268 43 6 1Labour Bury St Edmunds Cecily Alicia McCall 9 195 29 8 2Labour Camberwell North West Freda Corbet 12 251 69 6 1Labour Cannock Jennie Lee 48 849 62 6 1Labour Chelsea Margaret Douglas Shufeldt 5 874 31 1 2Labour Cheltenham Phyllis Maude Warner 11 095 29 9 2Labour Chichester Rosalie Francesca Chamberlayne 13 670 24 1 2Labour Coatbridge Jean Mann 18 619 61 1 1Labour Croydon North Marion Billson 22 810 40 1 2Labour Epping Leah Manning 15 993 44 1 1Labour Flintshire Eirene Lloyd Jones 26 761 37 4 2Labour Fulham West Edith Summerskill 19 537 61 9 1Labour Harrow West B J K Thompson 18 961 33 0 2Labour Hemel Hempstead Doris Mobbs 14 426 32 6 2Labour Hendon North Barbara Gould 18 251 47 6 1Labour Hendon South Elaine Burton 14 917 38 1 2Labour Holborn Irene Marcouse 5 136 45 9 2Labour Jarrow Ellen Wilkinson 22 656 66 0 1Labour Kensington South Patricia Strauss 6 014 18 9 2Labour Kilmarnock Clarice Shaw 23 837 59 4 1Labour Leeds North East Alice Bacon 28 870 53 1 1Labour Liverpool Exchange Bessie Braddock 8 494 52 0 1Labour Middleton and Prestwich Mabel Tylecote 25 908 49 2 2Labour Newbury Iris Brook 15 754 33 7 2Labour North Lanarkshire Margaret Herbison 30 251 59 6 1Labour Norwich Lucy Noel Buxton 31 553 27 9 1Labour Plymouth Sutton Lucy Middleton 15 417 51 6 1Labour Rushcliffe Florence Paton 43 303 54 2 1Labour St Marylebone Elizabeth Jacobs 10 740 32 4 2Labour Sutton and Cheam Helen Judd 17 293 41 0 2Labour Tonbridge Vera Dart 16 590 35 9 2Labour Tynemouth Grace Colman 13 963 46 1 1Labour Windsor Marjorie Nicholson 16 420 33 1 2Labour Wirral Agnes Bulley 25 919 31 3 2Liberal Anglesey Megan Lloyd George 12 610 52 2 1Liberal Barnet Jean Henderson 4 495 11 4 3Liberal Birmingham Handsworth Barbara Lewis 4 945 12 0 4Liberal Blackburn Marjorie Annie MacInerney 6 096 4 5 6Liberal Chelmsford Hilda Buckmaster 5 909 10 1 3Liberal Darwen Honor Balfour 7 979 24 3 3Liberal Devizes Frances Josephy 6 278 23 1 3Liberal Exeter Freda Evelyn Griffith Morgan 6 220 16 4 3Liberal Hackney North Doreen Gorsky 3 546 13 3 3Liberal Ilford North Juliet Rhys Williams 9 128 20 8 3Liberal Isle of Wight May O Conor 5 967 12 6 3Liberal Mossley Marjorie Wainwright Jalland 7 128 12 4 3Liberal Paisley Louise Glen Coats 4 532 10 0 3Liberal Plymouth Sutton Joan Gaved 3 695 12 4 3Liberal Ripon Mabel Cowley 6 122 12 6 3Liberal St Albans Enid Lakeman 5 601 10 7 3Liberal St Pancras South East Audrey Blackman 1 474 8 8 3Liberal Sevenoaks Nelia Muspratt 6 906 16 7 3Liberal Sudbury Margaret Hitchcock 5 045 20 5 3Liberal Wells Violet Bonham Carter 7 910 25 1 3National Liberal Poplar South Joan Vickers 1 403 10 8 2Plaid Cymru University of Wales Gwenan Jones 1 696 24 5 2Unionist Aberdeen North Priscilla Buchan 9 623 25 1 2Unionist Bothwell Helen Brown Shaw 13 207 34 2 2Unionist Dundee Florence Horsbrugh 32 309 18 9 4Ulster Unionist Fermanagh and Tyrone Noreen Cooper 46 260 22 8 4Castle won in Blackburn by taking second place in a two seat constituency See also editList of female members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom Parliament Qualification of Women Act 1918 Women in the House of Commons of the United KingdomReferences edit a b c d Richard Keen Richard Cracknell 20 July 2021 Women in Parliament and Government House of Commons Library p 22 a b Craig F W S 1968 British Parliamentary Election Statistics 1918 1968 Glasgow Political Reference Publications p 62 ISBN 0900178000 The defeated thirty Manchester Guardian 5 December 1922 Eight woman MPs The Times 8 December 1923 The 41 women candidates Manchester Guardian 20 October 1924 Women candidates a total of 64 for all parties Manchester Guardian 4 May 1929 Women candidates 61 Nominated Two Straight Fights Manchester Guardian 17 October 1931 Women candidates The Times 5 November 1935 F W S Craig British Parliamentary Election Results 1918 1949Further reading editWomen Members of Parliament Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Election results of women in United Kingdom general elections 1918 1945 amp oldid 1170771682, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
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