Talk:1929 United Kingdom general election

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Gains and losses

Eagle-eyed readers will see that the number of gains I recently added here in the Results table adds to 184 while the number of losses adds to 177.

The gains and losses I took from the 1924 election (as is modern practice), so excluding mid-term gains by by-elections or defections. At this distance it would be hard, even with F. W. S. Craig to work it out from the dissolution of this Parliament to the next, including by-elections and defections. I thought a comparison from 1924 to 1929, using Craig’s own lists, would be more useful than blank spaces.

On this basis, as the vaguely-defined Constitutionalists won seven seats in 1924, but had immediately dispersed to their previous parties or to the parties they were going over to (they were all ex-Liberals and either went back to the Liberals or over to the Conservatives). By 1929 there were no Constitutionalists and, short of a line in the results table putting them in as no votes – no seats – no gains – seven losses, they are absent.

For completeness; all seven stood in 1929 and their fate was:

Constituency	Elected MP in 1924	Notes
Walthamstow, East	Sir Hamar Greenwood	Became Conservative; stood again as Conservative and was defeated by Labour in 1929
Cornwall, Camborne	Algernon Moreing	Became Conservative; stood again as Conservative and was defeated by Liberal in 1929
Essex, Epping	Winston Churchill	Became Conservative; re-elected as Conservative in 1929
Accrington	Hugh Edwards	Became Liberal; stood again as Liberal and was defeated by Labour in 1929
Stoke-on-Trent, Stoke	John Ward	Became Liberal; stood again as Liberal and was defeated by Labour in 1929
Lancashire, Heywood and Radcliffe	Abraham England	Became Liberal; re-elected as Liberal in 1929
Lancashire, Stretford	Sir Thomas Robinson	Became Liberal, then Independent; re-elected as Independent in 1929

Uncantabrigian (talk) 18:33, 5 August 2018 (UTC)