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{{Infobox election
| election_name = 1924 United Kingdom general election
| country = United Kingdom
| type = parliamentary
| ongoing = no
| previous_election = 1923 United Kingdom general election
| previous_year = 1923
| outgoing_members = List of MPs elected in the 1923 United Kingdom general election
| next_election = 1929 United Kingdom general election
| next_year = 1929
| elected_members = List of MPs elected in the 1924 United Kingdom general election
| seats_for_election = All [[Number of Westminster MPs|615 seats]] in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]]
| majority_seats = 308
| elected_mps = [[List of MPs elected in the 1924 United Kingdom general election|Members elected]]
| election_date = 29 October 1924
| turnout = 15,856,215<br>77.0% ({{increase}}5.9 [[Percentage point|pp]])
<!--      Conservative     -->| image1 = [[Image:Stanley Baldwin ggbain.35233.jpg|150x150px]]
| leader1 = [[Stanley Baldwin]]
| leader_since1 = 23 May 1923
| party1 = Conservative Party (UK)
| leaders_seat1 = [[Bewdley (UK Parliament constituency)|Bewdley]]
| last_election1 = 258 seats, 38.0%
| seats1 = '''412'''
| seat_change1 = {{increase}}154
| popular_vote1 = '''7,418,983'''
| percentage1 = '''46.8%'''
| swing1 = {{increase}}8.8 [[Percentage point|pp]]
<!--      Labour      -->| image2 = [[Image:Ramsay MacDonald ggbain 35734.jpg|150x150px]]
| leader2 = [[Ramsay MacDonald]]
| leader_since2 = [[1922 Labour Party leadership election (UK)|21 November 1922]]
| party2 = Labour Party (UK)
| leaders_seat2 = [[Aberavon (UK Parliament constituency)|Aberavon]]
| last_election2 = 191 seats, 30.7%
| seats2 = 151
| seat_change2 = {{decrease}}40
| popular_vote2 = 5,281,626
| percentage2 = 33.3%
| swing2 = {{increase}}2.6 [[Percentage point|pp]]
<!--      Liberal      -->| image3 = File:Beresford-HH_Asquith_portrait_1923.jpg
| leader3 = [[H. H. Asquith]]
| leader_since3 = 30 April 1908
| party3 = Liberal Party (UK)
| leaders_seat3 = [[Paisley (UK Parliament constituency)|Paisley]] <br/> ''([[Paisley (UK Parliament constituency)#Elections in the 1920s|defeated]])''
| last_election3 = 158 seats, 29.7%
| seats3 = 40{{refn|group=note|name=speaker|The seat and vote count figures for the Liberals given here include the Speaker of the House of Commons}}
| seat_change3 = {{decrease}}118
| popular_vote3 = 2,818,717
| percentage3 = 17.8%
| swing3 = {{decrease}}11.9 [[Percentage point|pp]]
| map_image = 1924_UK_general_election_map.svg
| map_size = 380px
| map_caption = Colours denote the winning party—as shown in {{slink||Results}}{{efn|Northern Ireland and [[university constituencies]] not shown.}}
| title = [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]]
| posttitle = Prime Minister after election
| before_election = [[Ramsay MacDonald]]
| before_party = Labour Party (UK)
| after_election = [[Stanley Baldwin]]
| after_party = Conservative Party (UK)
| map2_image = File:1924 UK GE composition diagram.svg
| map2_caption = Diagram showing the composition of the House of Commons following the election
}}
The '''1924 United Kingdom general election''' was held on Wednesday 29 October 1924, as a result of the defeat of the [[First MacDonald ministry|Labour minority government]], led by Prime Minister [[Ramsay MacDonald]], in the House of Commons on a motion of no confidence.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Graper|first=Elmer D.|date=1925|title=The British Election|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0003055400020955/type/journal_article|journal=American Political Science Review|language=en|volume=19|issue=1|pages=84–96|doi=10.2307/2938896|jstor=2938896 |s2cid=145751193 |issn=0003-0554|url-access=subscription}}</ref> It was the third general election to be held in less than two years. Parliament was dissolved on 9 October.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/RP97-40/RP97-40.pdf |title=Parliamentary Election Timetables |edition=3rd |publisher=[[House of Commons Library]] |date=25 March 1997 |access-date=3 July 2022}}</ref>

The [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservatives]], led by [[Stanley Baldwin]], performed better, in electoral terms, than in the [[1923 United Kingdom general election|1923 general election]] and obtained a large parliamentary majority of 209. [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]], led by MacDonald, lost 40 seats. The election also saw the [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal Party]], led by [[H. H. Asquith]], lose 118 of their 158 seats which helped to polarise British politics between the Labour Party and the Conservative Party.

The Conservative landslide victory and the Labour defeat in this general election have been, in part, attributed to the [[Zinoviev letter]], a forged document that was published as if it were genuine and sensationalised in the ''[[Daily Mail]]'' four days before the election. The Labour vote increased by around one million in comparison to the 1923 general election, but this was largely due to the party putting up 87 more candidates than it had in the previous election.

The Conservatives had called the previous 1923 election early to get a mandate for moving to a [[protectionist]] trade policy of [[imperial preference]], but had lost their majority. In 1924, they reverted to [[free trade]] and regained power. They would propose protectionism at the next general election in 1929, again losing.

Along with [[1964 United Kingdom general election|1964]] and [[1992 United Kingdom general election|1992]], this was the first of three elections in the 20th century to take place in the same year as a [[United States presidential election]]. This is also the closest instance in which both elections overlapped with [[1924 United States presidential election|the latter's election]] taking place a week later.

== Overview ==
After the previous general election, the Labour Party had finished as the second-largest party, but formed their first-ever government with the support of the Liberal Party, after the ruling Conservative Party's shock loss of their majority made it untenable for Baldwin to continue as Prime Minister. However, relations between Labour and the Liberals proved stormy, eventually resulting in Liberal M.P. [[John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon#Deputy leader of Liberals|Sir John Simon]] calling a motion of no confidence in MacDonald's government, which was carried by a large majority. Asquith had gambled that neither Baldwin nor MacDonald would want to put the country through a third general election in two years, and that one of them would be forced to enter into a formal coalition with the Liberals. However, the gambit backfired when MacDonald instead called an election, knowing full well that a Conservative landslide was the only likely outcome, but himself gambling that it would be primarily at the expense of the Liberals. MacDonald's judgement proved correct, as the Liberals, who were still mostly dependent on former Prime Minister [[David Lloyd George]] for funds, ended up financially crippled from the very start of the campaign, while Labour were actually able to expand the scope of their own campaign thanks to increasing support from the workers' unions.

It is speculated that the combination of Labour forming its first government in January 1924 and the Zinoviev letter helped to stir up anti-socialist fears in Britain among many traditional anti-socialist Liberal voters, who then switched their support to the Conservative Party. This partly helps to explain the poor performance of the Liberal Party in the general election. The party also had financial difficulties which allowed it to contest only 339 seats, a lack of distinctive policies after the Conservative Party dropped their support for [[Protective tariff|protected trade]], and poor leadership under Asquith, who lost his own seat for the second time in six years. It would be the final election for Asquith, who was subsequently forced to lead the party from the House of Lords after being elevated to the [[Earl of Oxford and Asquith|Earldom of Oxford and Asquith]] the following year, with Lloyd George as Liberal chairman in the House of Commons. Declining health saw Asquith replaced as party leader by Lloyd George in 1926.

The fourth party in terms of number of candidates, number of seats and number of votes were not a party but a group of former [[National Liberal Party (UK, 1922)|National Liberals]] standing under the [[Constitutionalist (UK)|Constitutionalist]] label, led by [[Winston Churchill]]. They favoured Conservative/Liberal co-operation and had intended to formally organize as a party, but the election was called before they had the opportunity to actually do so. Three of the seven Constitutionalists elected, including Churchill, had been opposed by official Liberal candidates, and sat as Conservatives after the election. The other four sat as Liberals.

The refounded [[Sinn Féin]] ran Westminster candidates for the first time since [[1919 North Londonderry by-election|March 1919]]; none came close to winning, with six of the eight losing their deposits. [[Sinn Féin Westminster election results|Its next Westminster election]] was [[1950 United Kingdom general election|in 1950]].
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The election was the first in the United Kingdom to feature [[Party political broadcast|party political broadcasts]], with the parties making short appeals to voters via [[BBC Radio]].<ref name="PoliticalCompendiump55">{{cite book |last1=Evans |first1=Jeff |title=The Political Compendium |date=2022 |publisher=Zymurgy Publishing |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |isbn=978-1-903506-49-3 |page=55}}</ref>

== Results ==
[[File:1924 UK parliament.svg|center|300px]]
{{Election summary begin with leaders | title = UK general election 1924<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons/lib/research/rp2008/rp08-012.pdf |title=Election Statistics: UK 1918-2007 |access-date=23 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140708134346/http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons/lib/research/rp2008/rp08-012.pdf |archive-date=8 July 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref>{{efn|All parties shown. The only Irish Nationalist candidate was elected unopposed. The Conservatives include the [[Ulster Unionist]]s.}}}}
{{Election summary party with leaders|
  |party      = Conservative Party (UK)
  |leader     = [[Stanley Baldwin]]
  |candidates = 534
  |seats      = 412
  |gain       = 164
  |loss       = 10
  |net        = +154
  |votes      = 7,418,983
  |votes %    = 46.8
  |seats %    = 66.99
  |plus/minus = +8.8
  |government = yes
}}
{{Election summary party with leaders|
  |party      = Labour Party (UK)
  |leader     = [[Ramsay MacDonald]]
  |candidates = 504
  |seats      = 146
  |gain       = 23
  |loss       = 62
  |net        = &minus;39
  |votes      = 5,152,799
  |votes %    = 32.5
  |seats %    = 23.74
  |plus/minus = +2.8
}}
{{Election summary party with leaders|
  |party      = Liberal Party (UK)
  |leader     = [[H. H. Asquith]]
  |candidates = 339
  |seats      = 40
  |gain       = 10
  |loss       = 128
  |net        = &minus;118
  |votes      = 2,818,717
  |votes %    = 17.8
  |seats %    = 6.5
  |plus/minus = &minus;11.9
}}
{{Election summary party with leaders|
  |party      = Constitutionalist (UK)
  |leader     = ''N/A''
  |candidates = 12
  |seats      = 7
  |gain       = 7
  |loss       = 0
  |net        = +7
  |votes      = 185,075
  |votes %    = 1.2
  |seats %    = 1.14
  |plus/minus = +1.1
}}
{{Election summary party with leaders|
  |party      = Co-operative Party 
  |leader     =''N/A''{{efn| Took up the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] [[Whip (politics)|whip]] |name=|group=}}
  |candidates = 10
  |seats      = 5
  |gain       = 
  |loss       =1
  |net        = -1
  |votes      = 128,827
  |votes %    = 0.8
  |seats %    = 0.8
  |plus/minus = +0.0
  |vps        = 57,785
}}
{{Election summary party with leaders|
  |party      = Communist Party of Great Britain
  |leader     = [[Albert Inkpin]]
  |candidates = 8
  |seats      = [[Battersea North (UK Parliament constituency)|1]]
  |gain       = [[Battersea North (UK Parliament constituency)|1]]
  |loss       = 0
  |net        = +1
  |votes      = 51,176
  |votes %    = 0.2
  |seats %    = 0.16
  |plus/minus = +0.1
}}
{{Election summary party with leaders|
  |party      = Sinn Féin
  |leader     = [[Éamon de Valera]]
  |candidates = 8
  |seats      = 0
  |gain       = 0
  |loss       = 0
  |net        = 0
  |votes      = 34,181
  |votes %    = 0.2
  |seats %    = 
  |plus/minus = ''N/A''
}}
{{Election summary party with leaders|
  |party      = Independent (politician)
  |leader     = ''N/A''
  |candidates = 7
  |seats      = 2
  |gain       = [[London University (UK Parliament constituency)|1]]
  |loss       = [[Harrow (UK Parliament constituency)|1]]
  |net        = 0
  |votes      = 25,206
  |votes %    = 0.2
  |seats %    = 0.32
  |plus/minus = &minus;0.1
}}
{{Election summary party with leaders|
  |party      = Northern Ireland Labour Party
  |leader     = [[Sam Kyle]]
  |candidates = [[Belfast West (UK Parliament constituency)|1]]
  |seats      = 0
  |gain       = 0
  |loss       = 0
  |net        = 0
  |votes      = 21,122
  |votes %    = 0.1
  |seats %    = 
  |plus/minus = ''N/A''
}}
{{Election summary party with leaders|
  |party      = Scottish Prohibition Party
  |leader     = [[Edwin Scrymgeour]]
  |candidates = [[Dundee (UK Parliament constituency)|1]]
  |seats      = [[Dundee (UK Parliament constituency)|1]]
  |gain       = 0
  |loss       = 0
  |net        = 0
  |votes      = 14,596
  |votes %    = 0.1
  |seats %    = 0.16
  |plus/minus = 0.0
}}
{{Election summary party with leaders|
  |party      = Independent Liberal
  |leader     = ''N/A''
  |candidates = [[Cambridge University (UK Parliament constituency)|1]]
  |seats      = 0
  |gain       = 0
  |loss       = [[Cardiganshire (UK Parliament constituency)|1]]
  |net        = &minus;1
  |votes      = 3,241
  |votes %    = 0.0
  |seats %    = 
  |plus/minus = &minus;0.1
}}
{{Election summary party with leaders|
  |party      = Independent Labour
  |leader     = ''N/A''
  |candidates = [[Peterborough (UK Parliament constituency)|1]]
  |seats      = 0
  |gain       = 0
  |loss       = 0
  |net        = 0
  |votes      = 1,775
  |votes %    = 0.0
  |seats %    = 
  |plus/minus = &minus;0.1
}}
{{Election summary party with leaders|
  |party      = Independent Unionist
  |leader     = ''N/A''
  |candidates = [[Londonderry (UK Parliament constituency)|1]]
  |seats      = 0
  |gain       = 0
  |loss       = 0
  |net        = 0
  |votes      = 517
  |votes %    = 0.0
  |seats %    = 
  |plus/minus = &minus;0.1
}}
{{Election summary party with leaders|
  |party      = Nationalist Party (Ireland)
  |leader     = [[T. P. O'Connor]]
  |candidates = [[Liverpool Scotland (UK Parliament constituency)|1]]
  |seats      = [[Liverpool Scotland (UK Parliament constituency)|1]]
  |gain       = 0
  |loss       = 0
  |net        = 0
  |votes      = 0
  |votes %    = 0.0
  |seats %    = 0.16
  |plus/minus = &minus;0.4
}}
|-
! class="sortbottom" colspan="2" style="text-align: left" | Turnout || || || || || || || || style="text-align: right" | 77.0 || style="text-align: right" | 15,856,215 || style="text-align: right" | +5.9
|-
{{Election summary end}}

=== Votes summary ===
{{bar box
|title=Popular vote
|titlebar=#ddd
|width=600px
|barwidth=500px
|bars=
{{bar percent|'''Conservative'''|{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}|46.79}}
{{bar percent|Labour|{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}|30.68}}
{{bar percent|Liberal|{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}|17.78}}
{{bar percent|Others|#a9a9a9|4.75}}
}}

=== Seats summary ===
{{bar box
|title=Parliamentary seats
|titlebar=#ddd
|width=600px
|barwidth=500px
|bars=
{{bar percent|'''Conservative'''|{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}|66.99}}
{{bar percent|Labour|{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}|24.55}}
{{bar percent|Liberal|{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}|6.50}}
{{bar percent|Others|#a9a9a9|1.96}}
}}

== Transfers of seats ==
* All comparisons are with the 1923 election.
**In some cases the change is due to the MP defecting to the gaining party. Such circumstances are marked with a *.
**In other circumstances the change is due to the seat having been won by the gaining party in a by-election in the intervening years, and then retained in 1924. Such circumstances are marked with a †.
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin:1em"
!colspan=2|To
!colspan=2|From
!No.
!class=unsortable|Seats
|-
| {{Party name with colour|Communist Party (UK)}}
| rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
| rowspan="2" |{{party shortname linked|Liberal Party (UK)}}
|1
|[[Battersea North (UK Parliament constituency)|Battersea North]]
|-
| rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| rowspan="2" |{{party shortname linked|Labour Party (UK)}}
|16
|[[Stirling and Falkirk (UK Parliament constituency)|Stirling and Falkirk]], [[Paisley (UK Parliament constituency)|Paisley]], [[Edinburgh East (UK Parliament constituency)|Edinburgh East]], [[Gateshead (UK Parliament constituency)|Gateshead]], [[Rochdale (UK Parliament constituency)|Rochdale]], [[Bermondsey West (UK Parliament constituency)|Bermondsey West]], [[Southwark Central (UK Parliament constituency)|Southwark Central]], [[Newcastle upon Tyne East (UK Parliament constituency)|Newcastle upon Tyne East]], [[Newcastle upon Tyne West (UK Parliament constituency)|Newcastle upon Tyne West]], [[Burslem (UK Parliament constituency)|Burslem]], [[Middlesbrough East (UK Parliament constituency)|Middlesbrough East]], [[Elland (UK Parliament constituency)|Elland]], [[Keighley (UK Parliament constituency)|Keighley]], [[Penistone (UK Parliament constituency)|Penistone]], [[Bradford South (UK Parliament constituency)|Bradford South]], [[Dewsbury (UK Parliament constituency)|Dewsbury]]
|-
| {{Party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}}
|7
|[[Motherwell (UK Parliament constituency)|Motherwell]], [[Barrow-in-Furness (UK Parliament constituency)|Barrow-in-Furness]], [[Liverpool West Toxteth (UK Parliament constituency)|Liverpool West Toxteth]], [[Lincoln (UK Parliament constituency)|Lincoln]], [[Peckham (UK Parliament constituency)|Peckham]], [[Bilston (UK Parliament constituency)|Wolverhampton Bilston]], [[Birmingham King's Norton (UK Parliament constituency)|Birmingham King's Norton]]
|- class="sortbottom"
! style="text-align:left" colspan="4" |Labour gains:
! style="text-align:left" colspan="2" |23
|-
| rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
| rowspan="2" |{{party shortname linked|Liberal Party (UK)}}
| {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}}
|8
|[[Walthamstow West (UK Parliament constituency)|Walthamstow West]], [[Bristol North (UK Parliament constituency)|Bristol North]], [[Hackney South (UK Parliament constituency)|Hackney South]], [[Norwich (UK Parliament constituency)|Norwich]] (one of two), [[Bradford East (UK Parliament constituency)|Bradford East]], [[Batley and Morley (UK Parliament constituency)|Batley and Morley]], [[Wrexham (UK Parliament constituency)|Wrexham]], [[Swansea West (UK Parliament constituency)|Swansea West]]
|-
| {{Party name with colour|Independent Liberal}}
|1
|[[Cardiganshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Cardiganshire]] *
|- class="sortbottom"
! style="text-align:left" colspan="4" |Liberal gains:
! style="text-align:left" colspan="2" |9
|-
| rowspan="4" style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| rowspan="4" |{{party shortname linked|Conservative Party (UK)}}
| {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}}
|55
|[[Stirling and Clackmannan Western (UK Parliament constituency)|Stirlingshire West]], [[East Renfrewshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Renfrewshire East]], [[Dunbartonshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Dunbartonshire]], [[Lanark (UK Parliament constituency)|Lanark]], [[Glasgow Partick (UK Parliament constituency)|Glasgow Partick]], [[North Lanarkshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Lanarkshire North]], [[West Renfrewshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Renfrewshire West]], [[Glasgow Maryhill (UK Parliament constituency)|Glasgow Maryhill]], [[Kilmarnock (UK Parliament constituency)|Kilmarnock]], [[Midlothian and Peebles Northern (UK Parliament constituency)|Midlothian & Peebles North]], [[Linlithgowshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Linlithgow]], [[Berwick and Haddington (UK Parliament constituency)|Berwick & Haddington]], [[Reading (UK Parliament constituency)|Reading]], [[Birkenhead West (UK Parliament constituency)|Birkenhead West]], [[Crewe (UK Parliament constituency)|Crewe]], [[Carlisle (UK Parliament constituency)|Carlisle]], [[Whitehaven (UK Parliament constituency)|Whitehaven]], [[Derby (UK Parliament constituency)|Derby]] (one of two), [[Barnard Castle (UK Parliament constituency)|Barnard Castle]], [[Leyton East (UK Parliament constituency)|Leyton East]], [[East Ham North (UK Parliament constituency)|East Ham North]], [[South East Essex (UK Parliament constituency)|Essex SE]], [[Maldon (UK Parliament constituency)|Maldon]], [[Upton (UK Parliament constituency)|Upton]], [[Dartford (UK Parliament constituency)|Dartford]], [[Gravesend (UK Parliament constituency)|Gravesend]], [[Bolton (UK Parliament constituency)|Bolton]] (one of two), [[Eccles (UK Parliament constituency)|Eccles]], [[Oldham (UK Parliament constituency)|Oldham]] (one of two), [[Salford North (UK Parliament constituency)|Salford North]], [[Salford South (UK Parliament constituency)|Salford South]], [[Salford West (UK Parliament constituency)|Salford West]], [[Warrington (UK Parliament constituency)|Warrington]], [[Leicester East (UK Parliament constituency)|Leicester East]], [[Holland with Boston (UK Parliament constituency)|Holland with Boston]]†, [[Greenwich (UK Parliament constituency)|Greenwich]], [[Kennington (UK Parliament constituency)|Kennington]], [[Hammersmith North (UK Parliament constituency)|Hammersmith North]], [[St Pancras North (UK Parliament constituency)|St Pancras North]], [[St Pancras South East (UK Parliament constituency)|St Pancras South East]], [[South Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency)|Norfolk South]], [[Norwich (UK Parliament constituency)|Norwich]] (one of two), [[Kettering (UK Parliament constituency)|Kettering]], [[Northampton (UK Parliament constituency)|Northampton]], [[Enfield (UK Parliament constituency)|Enfield]], [[Tottenham South (UK Parliament constituency)|Tottenham South]], [[The Wrekin (historic UK Parliament constituency)|The Wrekin]], [[Frome (UK Parliament constituency)|Frome]], [[Lichfield (UK Parliament constituency)|Lichfield]], [[Ipswich (UK Parliament constituency)|Ipswich]], [[Coventry (UK Parliament constituency)|Coventry]], [[Wakefield (UK Parliament constituency)|Wakefield]], [[Bradford Central (UK Parliament constituency)|Bradford Central]], [[Pontefract (UK Parliament constituency)|Pontefract]], [[Cardiff South (UK Parliament constituency)|Cardiff South]]
|-
| {{Party name with colour|Liberal Party (UK)}}
|106
|[[Bodmin (UK Parliament constituency)|Bodmin]], [[North Cornwall (UK Parliament constituency)|Cornwall North]], [[Penryn and Falmouth (UK Parliament constituency)|Penryn and Falmouth]], [[St Ives (UK Parliament constituency)|St Ives]], [[Banff (UK Parliament constituency)|Banff]], [[East Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire (UK Parliament constituency)|East Aberdeenshire & Kincardineshire]], [[Aberdeen and Kincardine Central (UK Parliament constituency)|Aberdeen and Kincardine Central]], [[Forfar (UK Parliament constituency)|Forfarshire]], [[Perth (UK Parliament constituency)|Perth]], [[East Fife (UK Parliament constituency)|Fife East]], [[Argyll (UK Parliament constituency)|Argyll]], [[Edinburgh West (UK Parliament constituency)|Edinburgh West]], [[Edinburgh North (UK Parliament constituency)|Edinburgh North]], [[Dumfriesshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Dumfriesshire]], [[Galloway (UK Parliament constituency)|Galloway]], [[Mid Bedfordshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Bedfordshire Mid]], [[Luton (UK Parliament constituency)|Luton]], [[Abingdon (UK Parliament constituency)|Abingdon]], [[Newbury (UK Parliament constituency)|Newbury]], [[Aylesbury (UK Parliament constituency)|Aylesbury]], [[Wycombe (UK Parliament constituency)|Wycombe]], [[Huntingdonshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Huntingdonshire]], [[Isle of Ely (UK Parliament constituency)|Isle of Ely]], [[Altrincham (UK Parliament constituency)|Altrincham]], [[Birkenhead East (UK Parliament constituency)|Birkenhead East]], [[Stalybridge and Hyde (UK Parliament constituency)|Stalybridge and Hyde]], [[Stockport (UK Parliament constituency)|Stockport]] (one of two), [[Wirral (UK Parliament constituency)|Wirral]], [[Barnstaple (UK Parliament constituency)|Barnstaple]], [[South Molton (UK Parliament constituency)|South Molton]], [[Tavistock (UK Parliament constituency)|Tavistock]], [[Tiverton (UK Parliament constituency)|Tiverton]], [[Torquay (UK Parliament constituency)|Torquay]], [[Totnes (UK Parliament constituency)|Totnes]], [[North Dorset (UK Parliament constituency)|Dorset North]], [[Stockton-on-Tees (UK Parliament constituency)|Stockton-on-Tees]], [[The Hartlepools (UK Parliament constituency)|The Hartlepools]], [[Chelmsford (UK Parliament constituency)|Chelmsford]], [[Harwich (UK Parliament constituency)|Harwich]], [[Stroud (UK Parliament constituency)|Stroud]], [[Thornbury (UK Parliament constituency)|Thornbury]], [[Basingstoke (UK Parliament constituency)|Basingstoke]], [[Portsmouth Central (UK Parliament constituency)|Portsmouth Central]], [[Isle of Wight (UK Parliament constituency)|Isle of Wight]], [[Hemel Hempstead (UK Parliament constituency)|Hemel Hempstead]], [[Kingston upon Hull South West (UK Parliament constituency)|Kingston upon Hull South West]], [[Sevenoaks (UK Parliament constituency)|Sevenoaks]], [[Blackpool (UK Parliament constituency)|Blackpool]], [[Darwen (UK Parliament constituency)|Darwen]], [[Lancaster (UK Parliament constituency)|Lancaster]], [[Lonsdale (UK Parliament constituency)|Lonsdale]], [[Preston (UK Parliament constituency)|Preston]] (one of two), [[Manchester Blackley (UK Parliament constituency)|Manchester Blackley]], [[Manchester Exchange (UK Parliament constituency)|Manchester Exchange]], [[Manchester Moss Side (UK Parliament constituency)|Manchester Moss Side]], [[Manchester Rusholme (UK Parliament constituency)|Manchester Rusholme]], [[Manchester Withington (UK Parliament constituency)|Manchester Withington]], [[Royton (UK Parliament constituency)|Royton]], [[Bootle (UK Parliament constituency)|Bootle]], [[Liverpool Wavertree (UK Parliament constituency)|Liverpool Wavertree]], [[Liverpool West Derby (UK Parliament constituency)|Liverpool West Derby]], [[Southport (UK Parliament constituency)|Southport]], [[Bosworth (UK Parliament constituency)|Bosworth]], [[Harborough (UK Parliament constituency)|Harborough]], [[Leicester South (UK Parliament constituency)|Leicester South]], [[Gainsborough (UK Parliament constituency)|Gainsborough]], [[Horncastle (UK Parliament constituency)|Horncastle]], [[Louth, Lincolnshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Louth]], [[Hackney North (UK Parliament constituency)|Hackney North]], [[Brixton (UK Parliament constituency)|Brixton]], [[Islington East (UK Parliament constituency)|Islington East]], [[Camberwell North West (UK Parliament constituency)|Camberwell North-West]], [[Hackney Central (UK Parliament constituency)|Hackney Central]], [[Stoke Newington (UK Parliament constituency)|Stoke Newington]], [[Great Yarmouth (UK Parliament constituency)|Great Yarmouth]], [[King's Lynn (UK Parliament constituency)|King's Lynn]], [[East Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency)|Norfolk East]], [[Hexham (UK Parliament constituency)|Hexham]], [[Nottingham Central (UK Parliament constituency)|Nottingham Central]], [[Nottingham East (UK Parliament constituency)|Nottingham East]], [[Finchley (UK Parliament constituency)|Finchley]], [[Willesden East (UK Parliament constituency)|Willesden East]], [[Oxford (UK Parliament constituency)|Oxford]]†, [[Shrewsbury (UK Parliament constituency)|Shrewsbury]], [[Bath (UK Parliament constituency)|Bath]], [[Bridgwater (UK Parliament constituency)|Bridgwater]], [[Taunton (UK Parliament constituency)|Taunton]], [[Wells (UK Parliament constituency)|Wells]], [[Weston-super-Mare (UK Parliament constituency)|Weston-super-Mare]], [[Walsall (UK Parliament constituency)|Walsall]], [[Sudbury (UK Parliament constituency)|Sudbury]], [[Chichester (UK Parliament constituency)|Chichester]], [[Nuneaton (UK Parliament constituency)|Nuneaton]], [[Rugby (UK Parliament constituency)|Rugby]], [[Chippenham (UK Parliament constituency)|Chippenham]], [[Westbury (UK Parliament constituency)|Westbury]], [[Devizes (UK Parliament constituency)|Devizes]], [[Salisbury (UK Parliament constituency)|Salisbury]], [[Cleveland (UK Parliament constituency)|Cleveland]], [[Bradford North (UK Parliament constituency)|Bradford North]], [[Sowerby (UK Parliament constituency)|Sowerby]], [[Flintshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Flintshire]], [[Pembrokeshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Pembrokeshire]], [[Brecon and Radnor (UK Parliament constituency)|Brecon and Radnor]], [[Cardiff East (UK Parliament constituency)|Cardiff East]]
|-
| {{Party name with colour|National Liberal Party (UK, 1922)}}
|1
|[[Loughborough (UK Parliament constituency)|Loughborough]]
|-
| {{Party name with colour|Independent politician}}
|1
|[[Harrow (UK Parliament constituency)|Harrow]]<sup>1</sup>
|- class="sortbottom"
! style="text-align:left" colspan="4" |Conservative gains:
! style="text-align:left" colspan="2" |163
|-
| rowspan=2 style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Constitutionalist (UK)}}" |
| rowspan="2" |{{party shortname linked|Constitutionalist (UK)}}
| {{Party name with colour|Liberal Party (UK)}}
|5
|[[Accrington (UK Parliament constituency)|Accrington]], [[Heywood and Radcliffe (UK Parliament constituency)|Heywood and Radcliffe]], [[Stretford (UK Parliament constituency)|Stretford]], [[Stoke-on-Trent, Stoke (UK Parliament constituency)|Stoke]], [[Camborne (UK Parliament constituency)|Camborne]]
|-
| {{Party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}}
|2
|[[Epping in the 1924 General Election|Epping]], [[Walthamstow East (UK Parliament constituency)|Walthamstow East]]
|-
| {{Party name with colour|Ulster Unionist Party}}
| {{Party name with colour|Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland)}}
|2
|[[Fermanagh and Tyrone (UK Parliament constituency)|Fermanagh and Tyrone]] (both seats)
|}
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:<sup>1</sup> Previous MP had defected to Labour by the time of the 1924 election
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== See also ==
* [[List of MPs elected in the 1924 United Kingdom general election]]
* [[1924 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland]]
* [[1924 United Kingdom general election in Scotland]]
* [[1924 in the United Kingdom]]
* [[1924]]

== Notes ==
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== References ==

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==Further reading==
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* Adelman, Paul. ''The decline of the Liberal Party 1910-1931'' (Routledge, 2014).

* {{citation |author-link=F. W. S. Craig |first=F. W. S. |last=Craig |title=British Electoral Facts: 1832–1987 |year=1989 |location=Dartmouth |publisher=Gower |isbn=0900178302 }}
* Walker, Graham, and James Greer. "Religion, Labour, and National Questions: The General Election of 1924 in Belfast and Lanarkshire1." ''Labour History Review'' 84.3 (2019): 217-240.


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==External links==
* [http://www.election.demon.co.uk/geresults.html United Kingdom election results—summary results 1885–1979] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201008002213/http://www.election.demon.co.uk/geresults.html |date=8 October 2020 }}

===Manifestos===
* [http://www.conservativemanifesto.com/1924/1924-conservative-manifesto.shtml 1924 Conservative manifesto]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20040212181627/http://labour-party.org.uk/manifestos/1924/1924-labour-manifesto.shtml 1924 Labour manifesto]
* [http://www.libdemmanifesto.com/1924/1924-liberal-manifesto.shtml 1924 Liberal manifesto]

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