Summary of general election performance
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| Year |
Number of Candidates |
Total votes |
Average voters per candidate |
Percentage of vote |
Saved deposits |
Change (%) |
Number of MPs
|
| 1945
|
23 |
110,634 |
4,810 |
0.5 |
7 |
N/A |
1
|
Elections results
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By-elections, 1943–45
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| By-election |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
Position
|
| 1943 Ashford by-election |
Catherine Williamson |
4,192 |
30.3 |
2
|
| 1943 Midlothian and Peebles Northern by-election |
Tom Wintringham |
10,751 |
48.1 |
2
|
| 1943 Portsmouth North by-election |
Thomas Sargant |
4,545 |
40.3 |
2
|
| 1943 Watford by-election |
Raymond Blackburn |
11,838 |
46.1 |
2
|
| 1943 Eddisbury by-election |
John Loverseed |
8,023 |
43.7 |
1
|
| 1943 Daventry by-election |
Dennis Webb |
6,591 |
33.4 |
2
|
| 1943 The Hartlepools by-election |
Elaine Burton |
3,634 |
17.4 |
2
|
| 1943 Newark by-election |
Edward Moeran |
3,189 |
13.9 |
3
|
| 1943 Birmingham Aston by-election |
Gilbert Hall |
1,886 |
21.6 |
2
|
| 1944 Skipton by-election |
Hugh Lawson |
12,222 |
44.9 |
1
|
| 1944 Manchester Rusholme by-election |
Harold W. Blomerley |
6,870 |
42.1 |
2
|
| 1945 Chelmsford by-election |
Ernest Millington |
24,548 |
57.5 |
1
|
1945 general election
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| Constituency |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
Position
|
| Aldershot |
Tom Wintringham |
14,435 |
42.6 |
2
|
| Bury St Edmunds |
Eric Gordon England |
750 |
2.4 |
4
|
| Canterbury |
Catherine Williamson |
1,017 |
2.6 |
3
|
| Chelmsford |
Ernest Millington |
27,309 |
46.7 |
1
|
| Chelsea |
Dorothy Sharpe |
984 |
5.2 |
3
|
| Evesham |
Desmond Donnelly |
7,727 |
23.1 |
3
|
| Fylde |
Karl Edwin Heath |
1,784 |
2.9 |
3
|
| Glasgow Pollok |
William John Voisey-Youldon |
932 |
3.0 |
3
|
| Harrow West |
Hugh Lawson |
2,462 |
4.3 |
4
|
| Knutsford |
Frank William Young |
628 |
1.1 |
4
|
| Newbury |
George Suggett |
424 |
0.9 |
4
|
| Newcastle-upon-Tyne North |
Henry Arthur Charles Ridsdale |
904 |
2.6 |
4
|
| North Midlothian |
Kitty Wintringham |
3,299 |
6.4 |
3
|
| Petersfield |
Thomas Sargant |
6,600 |
18.5 |
3
|
| Plymouth Drake |
Edgar Trout |
1,681 |
5.7 |
3
|
| Putney |
Richard Acland |
2,686 |
8.0 |
3
|
| Richmond (Surrey) |
Douglas George Horace Frank |
753 |
1.7 |
4
|
| Richmond (Yorks) |
Roy Norman Chesterton |
813 |
2.3 |
4
|
| Sheffield Ecclesall |
Sydney Checkland |
12,045 |
35.9 |
2
|
| Sutton Coldfield |
Joyce Purser |
2,043 |
4.2 |
3
|
| Thirsk and Malton |
Edward Moeran |
13,572 |
39.9 |
2
|
| Westminster St George's |
Wilfred Brown |
5,314 |
27.3 |
2
|
| Wimbledon |
K. Horne |
2,472 |
3.6 |
4
|
References
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- F. W. S. Craig, Chronology of British Parliamentary By-elections 1833-1987
- Craig, F. W. S. (1975). Minor Parties in British By-elections, 1885-1974. London: Macmillan Press. pp. 14–15.
