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This article lists the Labour Representation Committee's election results in UK parliamentary elections. The Labour Representation was the forerunner of the Labour Party. It was founded in 1900 and became the Labour Party in 1906, shortly after that year's general election.

Summary of general election performance

Year Number of Candidates Total votes Average votes per candidate % UK vote Change (percentage points) Number of MPs
1900 15 62,698 4,780 1.8 N/A 2
1906 50 254,202 5,084 4.3 +2.5 29

Election results

1900 general election

Constituency Candidate Votes % Position[1]
Ashton-under-Lyne James Johnston 737 11.0 3
Blackburn Philip Snowden 7,096 25.6 3
Bow and Bromley George Lansbury 2,558 36.7 2
Bradford Fred Jowett 4,949 49.8 2
Derby Richard Bell 7,640 25.7 2
Gower John Hodge 3,853 47.4 2
Halifax James Parker 3,276 16.1 4
Leeds East William Pollard Byles 1,266 3
Leicester Ramsay MacDonald 4,164 13.0 4
Manchester South West Fred Brocklehurst 2,394 37.4 2
Merthyr Tydfil Keir Hardie 5,745 31.3 2
Preston Keir Hardie 4,834
Rochdale Allen Clarke 901 8.0 3
Sunderland Alexander Wilkie 8,842 4
West Ham South Will Thorne 4,439 44.2 2

Clarke, Hardie, Johnston, Jowett, MacDonald, Parker and Snowden were sponsored by the Independent Labour Party, while Lansbury and Thorne were sponsored by the Social Democratic Federation. Hardie stood in two constituencies and was elected in Merthyr Tydfil, where he placed second in a two-seat constituency; Bell was similarly elected in Derby.

By-elections, 1900-1906

By-election Candidate Votes % Position
Wakefield by-election, 1902 Philip Snowden 1,979 40.1 2
Clitheroe by-election, 1902 David James Shackleton unopposed N/A 1
Woolwich by-election, 1903 Will Crooks 8,687 61.4 1
Preston by-election, 1903 John Hodge 6,490 42.9 2
Barnard Castle by-election, 1903 Arthur Henderson 3,370 35.4 1
Norwich by-election, 1904 George Henry Roberts 2,440 13.7 3
Belfast North by-election, 1905 William Walker 3,966 47.2 2

1906 general election

Constituency Candidate Votes % Position[2]
Barnard Castle Arthur Henderson 5,540 58.8 1
Barrow-in-Furness Charles Duncan 5,167 48.3 1
Belfast North William Walker 4,616 48.5 2
Birmingham Bordesley John Bruce Glasier 3,976 33.9 2
Birmingham East James Holmes 5,343 47.4 2
Blackburn Philip Snowden 10,282 26.8 2
Bolton Alfred Henry Gill 10,416 37.1 2
Bradford West Fred Jowett 4,957 39.1 1
Chatham John Hagan Jenkins 6,692 62.5 1
Clitheroe David James Shackleton 12,035 75.9 1
Croydon Harry Stranks 4,007 20.2 3
Darlington Isaac Mitchell 4,087 48.3 2
Deptford C. W. Bowerman 6,236 52.2 1
Dewsbury Ben Turner 2,629 21.2 3
Dundee Alexander Wilkie 6,833 23.3 2
Eccles Ben Tillett 3,985 26.4 3
Glasgow Blackfriars and Hutchesontown George Nicoll Barnes 3,284 39.5 1
Glasgow Camlachie Joseph Burgess 2,568 30.0 3
Glasgow Govan John Hill 4,212 29.0 3
Gorton John Hodge 8,566 66.4 1
Gravesend James Macpherson 873 16.2 3
Great Grimsby Thomas Proctor 2,248 17.8 3
Halifax James Parker 8,937 38.3 2
Huddersfield T. Russell Williams 5,813 35.2 2
Ince Stephen Walsh 8,046 70.2 1
Jarrow Peter Francis Curran 5,093 38.8 2
Leeds East James O'Grady 4,299 66.1 1
Leeds South Albert E. Fox 4,030 32.6 2
Leicester Ramsay MacDonald 14,685 39.8 2
Liverpool Kirkdale James Conley 3,157 45.7 2
Liverpool West Toxteth James Sexton 2,592 43.5 2
Manchester North East John Robert Clynes 5,386 64.6 1
Manchester South West George Davy Kelley 4,101 58.8 1
Merthyr Tydfil Keir Hardie 10,187 32.0 2
Monmouth Boroughs James Winstone 1,678 16.5 3
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Walter Hudson 18,869 31.1 1
Newton James Andrew Seddon 6,434 52.2 1
Norwich George Henry Roberts 11,059 37.5 1
Portsmouth William Sanders 8,172 17.6 3
Preston John Thomas Macpherson 10,181 31.0 1
St Helens Thomas Glover 6,088 56.6 1
Stockport George Wardle 7,299 32.4 1
Stockton-on-Tees Frank Herbert Rose 1,710 23.1 3
Sunderland Thomas Summerbell 13,430 31.8 2
Wakefield Stanton Coit 2,068 36.9 2
West Ham South Will Thorne 10,198 1
Westhoughton William Tyson Wilson 9,262 60.2 1
Wolverhampton West Thomas Frederick Richards 6,767 1
Woolwich Will Crooks 9,026 56.6 1
York G. H. Stuart 4,573 19.7 4

Burgess, Clynes, Coit, Hardie, Jowett, MacDonald, Parker, Snowden, Summerbell and Williams were sponsored by the Independent Labour Party. Gill, Hardie, MacDonald, Parker, Snowden, Summerbell and Wilkie were elected by taking second place in a two seat constituency.

See also

References

  1. ^ Alan Haworth and Dianne Hayter, Men Who Made Labour, p.245
  2. ^ Joel Dayton Moore, The Taff Vale Decision in British Labor History, pp.115-116
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