January 1910 United Kingdom general election
Template:Short description Template:Redirect Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox election The January 1910 UK general election was held from 15 January to 10 February 1910. Called amid a constitutional crisis after the Conservative-dominated House of Lords rejected the People's Budget, the Liberal government, seeking a mandate, lost their majority.
The result was a hung parliament: Arthur Balfour’s Conservatives and their Liberal Unionist allies won the most votes, but Asquith’s Liberals secured the most seats, edging out the Conservatives by two. With Irish Parliamentary Party support, Asquith remained in power. Another election followed in December.
The Labour Party, led by Arthur Henderson, returned 40 MPs. Much of this apparent increase (from the 29 Labour MPs elected in 1906) came from the defection, a few years earlier, of Lib Lab MPs from the Liberal Party to Labour.
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Voting summary
Seats summary
See also
- List of MPs elected in the January 1910 United Kingdom general election
- Parliamentary franchise in the United Kingdom 1885–1918
- January 1910 United Kingdom general election in Ireland
- January 1910 United Kingdom general election in Scotland
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External links
- Spartacus: Political Parties and Election Results
- United Kingdom election results—summary results 1885–1979 Template:Webarchive