Independent Labour Party election results
Election results -- January 1910 general election
Table:
Constituency
Candidate
Votes
%
Position[5]

Blackburn
Philip Snowden
10,762

1

Bow and Bromley
George Lansbury
2,955
33.5
2

Bradford West
Fred Jowett
8,880
66.6
1

Glasgow Camlachie
James O'Connor Kessack
2,443
28.9
3

Halifax
James Parker
9,093
38.9
2

Hyde
William Crawford Anderson
2,401
21.2
3

Leicester
Ramsay MacDonald
14,337
38.2
2

Manchester North East
John Robert Clynes
5,157
58.4
1

Manchester South West
J. M. McLachlan
1,218
16.6
3

Merthyr Tydfil
Keir Hardie
13,841
36.7
2

Spen Valley
T. Russell Williams
2,514
23.3
3

Sunderland
Thomas Summerbell
11,058
23.4
4

Tewkesbury
Charles Fox
238
2.1
3

Wakefield
Stanton Coit
2,602
45.5
2

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Blackburn is a constituency [ n 1 ] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament . [ n 2 ]
Philip Snowden , 1st Viscount Snowden , PC ( /ˈsnoʊdən/ ; 18 July 1864 - 15 May 1937 ) was a British politician . A strong speaker , he became popular in trade union circles for his denunciation of capitalism as unethical and his promise of a socialist utopia . He was the first Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer , a position he held in 1924 and again between 1929 and 1931 . He broke with Labour policy in 1931 , and was expelled from the party and excoriated as a turncoat , as the Party was overwhelmingly crushed that year by the National Government coalition that Snowden supported . He was succeeded as Chancellor by Neville Chamberlain .
Bow and Bromley was a constituency in the Parliament of the United Kingdom . Located in the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar in London , it was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act for the 1885 general election and returned one Member of Parliament ( MP ) until it was abolished for the 1950 general election .
George Lansbury ( 21 February 1859 - 7 May 1940 ) was a British politician and social reformer who led the Labour Party from 1932 to 1935 . Apart from a brief period of ministerial office during the Labour government of 1929-31 , he spent his political life campaigning against established authority and vested interests , his main causes being the promotion of social justice , women 's rights and world disarmament . Originally a radical Liberal , Lansbury became a socialist in the early 1890s , and thereafter served his local community in the East End of London in numerous elective offices . His activities were underpinned by his Christian beliefs which , except for a short period of doubt , sustained him through his life . Elected to Parliament in 1910 , he resigned his seat in 1912 to campaign for women 's suffrage , and was briefly imprisoned after publicly supporting militant action . In 1912 , Lansbury helped to establish the Daily Herald newspaper , and became its editor . Throughout the First World War the paper maintained a strongly pacifist stance , and supported the October 1917 Russian Revolution . These positions contributed to Lansbury 's failure to be elected to Parliament in 1918 . He devoted himself to local politics in his home borough of Poplar , and went to prison with 30 fellow-councillors for his part in the Poplar rates revolt of 1921 . After his return to Parliament in 1922 , Lansbury was denied office in the brief Labour government of 1924 , although he served as First Commissioner of Works in the Labour government of 1929-31 . After the political and economic crisis of August 1931 , Lansbury did not follow his leader , Ramsay MacDonald , into the National Government , but remained with the Labour Party . As the most senior of the small contingent of Labour MPs that survived the 1931 general election , Lansbury became the Leader of the Labour Party .
Bradford West is a constituency [ n 1 ] of the city of Bradford represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament . [ n 2 ]
Frederick William Jowett ( 31 January 1864 - 1 February 1944 ) was a British Labour politician .
Glasgow Camlachie was a burgh constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 until 1955 . It elected one Member of Parliament ( MP ) using the first-past-the-post voting system .
James O'Connor Kessack ( 19 October 1879 - 13 November 1916 ) was a British trade unionist . Born in Aberdeen , Kessack grew up in Huntly and Inverurie , and worked from an early age to support his family , his father struggling to find work , and both of his parents dying while he was young . He moved to Glasgow to find employment shortly before his father 's death , and his younger siblings then moved in with him . Highly religious in his youth , Kessack became a socialist after hearing Robert Smillie speak at the 1901 North East Lanarkshire by-election . Sam MacDonald of the Independent Labour Party ( ILP ) noticed Kessack 's speaking ability and persuaded him to join , and Kessack later joined the Socialist Labour Party , Industrial Workers of the World and then was a founder member of the Advocates of Industrial Unionism . He resigned from the SLP after the party forbade members from speaking at meetings of any other group , but remained prominent in the ILP , and the group sponsored his unsuccessful candidatures for the Labour Party at both the January and December 1910 general elections in Glasgow Camlachie . Kessack became the national organiser of the National Union of Dock Labourers ( NUDL ) in 1909 , replacing James Larkin . Although during his first couple of years , membership of the union fell in Scotland , he managed to recruit large numbers of new members in the Humber ports , and was regarded as a successful figure . However , he left his post in 1914 to join the Scottish Horse regiment of the British Army . He was promoted to become a captain , but was killed in the Battle of the Ancre in November 1916 .
Halifax is a constituency [ n 1 ] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Holly Lynch of the Labour Party . [ n 2 ]
James Parker , CH ( 1863 - 11 February 1948 ) was a British Labour Party politician . He was elected as Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Halifax at the 1906 general election , and held the seat until the town 's representation was reduced to one seat at the 1918 general election . He did not stand again in Halifax , but instead stood in the Cannock division of Staffordshire , as a Coalition Labour candidate ( i.e . a holder of the coalition coupon , supporting the Lloyd George 's coalition government ) . He won the seat , but lost it , standing as a National Liberal at the 1922 general election . Parker was made a Companion of Honour by King George V in 1918 .
Hyde was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 until 1918 . It was seated in the town of Hyde , Cheshire . From the 1918 general election onwards , the town has been represented in parliament through the constituency of Stalybridge and Hyde .
William Crawford Anderson ( 1877 - 25 February 1919 ) was a British socialist politician . Born on 13 February 1877 at Findon , Aberdeenshire , the name Crawford in fact does not appear on his birth certificate . His father Francis Anderson was a blacksmith , who married in 1868 , Barbara Cruickshank , an ardent radical ; she being responsible for Andersons education , she was an intelligent and widely read woman of strong , radical , Presbyterian views who encouraged William to read extensively . At the age of sixteen he was apprenticed in Aberdeen as a manufacturing chemist and began to attend meetings of the local Social Democratic Federation ( SDF ) , at this time he also followed Tom Manns campaign for the by-election in 1896 . After listening to an eloquent speech by Carrie Martyn at an SDF meeting , he became intent on improving himself and began to read rigorously ; he read everything from Dickens , Ruskin , Thackeray and Hardy , to name but a few . Robert Blatchfords Merrie England had a profound effect upon Anderson although he did not at this point consider himself to be a socialist , but advocated Land Nationalism . The most influential figure in his transition to Socialism was A. E. Fletcher , the editor of The New Age . Fletcher was running in the Glasgow elections supported by the Independent Labour Party ( ILP ) . In 1900 Anderson moved to Glasgow and volunteered to help Fletcher in the election ; he in turn joined the Glasgow branch of the ILP and also the Shop Assistants Union , then moved to the Manufacturing Chemists . The transition from radical to socialist politics was completed after Anderson 's move to Glasgow , where he contested the Camlachie seat in the 1900 khaki election on a pro-Boer platform , supported by the ILP . He was elected chairman of the Union after just three months . In 1902 he was the delegate of the ILP to the Manchester Conference .
Leicester was a parliamentary borough in Leicestershire , which elected two members of parliament ( MPs ) to the House of Commons from 1295 until 1918 , when it was split into three single-member divisions .
James Ramsay MacDonald FRS ( né James McDonald Ramsay ; 12 October 1866 - 9 November 1937 ) was a British statesman who was the first Labour Party politician to become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom , leading minority Labour governments for nine months in 1924 and then in 1929-31 . From 1931 to 1935 , he headed a National Government dominated by the Conservative Party and supported by only a few Labour members . MacDonald was later vehemently denounced by and expelled from the party he had helped to found . MacDonald , along with Keir Hardie and Arthur Henderson , was one of the three principal founders of the Labour Party . He was chairman of the Labour MPs before 1914 and , after an eclipse in his career caused by his opposition to the First World War , he was Leader of the Labour Party from 1922 . The second Labour Government ( 1929-31 ) was dominated by the Great Depression . He formed the National Government to carry out spending cuts to defend the gold standard , but it had to be abandoned after the Invergordon Mutiny , and he called a general election in 1931 seeking a doctor 's mandate to fix the economy . The National coalition won an overwhelming landslide and the Labour Party was reduced to a rump of around 50 seats in the House of Commons . His health deteriorated and he stood down as Prime Minister in 1935 , remaining as Lord President of the Council until retiring in 1937 . He died later that year . MacDonald 's speeches , pamphlets and books made him an important theoretician . Historian John Shepherd states that MacDonald 's natural gifts of an imposing presence , handsome features and a persuasive oratory delivered with an arresting Highlands accent made him the iconic Labour leader .
Manchester North East was one of several Parliamentary constituencies created in 1885 from the former Manchester constituency . It was abolished in 1918 . C. P. Scott , the editor and then part-owner of the Manchester Guardian stood unsuccessfully in 1886 , 1891 and 1892 . John Robert Clynes ( 1906-1918 ) later became leader of the Labour Party .
John Robert Clynes ( 27 March 1869 - 23 October 1949 ) was a British trade unionist and Labour politician . He was a Member of Parliament ( MP ) for 35 years , and as Leader of the Labour Party ( from 14 February 1921 to 21 November 1922 ) , led the party in its breakthrough at the 1922 general election . He was the first Englishman to serve as leader of the Labour Party .
Manchester South West was one of six single-member Parliamentary constituencies created in 1885 by the division of the existing three-member Parliamentary Borough of Manchester . It was abolished in 1918 .
John McKean McLachlan ( 27 August 1873 - 29 December 1930 ) was a British socialist politician . McLachlan was elected to Levenshulme District Council in the mid-1900s . He first became prominent as a left-wing member of the Independent Labour Party ( ILP ) ; at its 1906 conference , he was the lead opponent of a motion against military service , holding that such training would assist with building a citizen 's army . During 1908 , McLachlan supported Victor Grayson 's independent Right to Work candidates for Manchester City Council , and also campaigned for Dan Irving of the Social Democratic Federation ( SDF ) at the 1908 Manchester North West by-election . McLachlan himself stood in Ardwick for the city council in Ardwick in 1909 , and was elected . Despite this , it was a surprise when he was adopted as the official Labour Party candidate for Manchester South West at the January 1910 general election . He took only 16.6% of the vote , and was not elected . McLachlan was elected to the National Administrative Council ( NAC ) of the ILP in 1909 , along with other left-wingers , including Leonard Hall and Russell Smart . Concerned about the direction of the Labour Party under Ramsay MacDonald and the ILP 's role in this , McLachlan compiled a document entitled Let us reform the Labour Party , but generally known as the Green Manifesto , with contributions from co-thinkers including Hall , C. T. Douthwaite and J. H. Belcher . In 1911 , the SDF formed the new British Socialist Party , hoping that dissidents on the left of the ILP would join . Although Douthwaite left to join the new party , McLachlan opted to remain in the ILP and work with G. H. Stuart on the NAC . They formed part of a broader left including George Lansbury and Keir Hardie , but the resignations of Lansbury and Hardie from the council in 1912 left them isolated .
Merthyr Tydfil was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Merthyr Tydfil in Glamorgan . From 1832 to 1868 it returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom , and in 1868 this was increased to two members . The two-member constituency was abolished for the 1918 general election . A single-member constituency ( known as Merthyr ) existed from 1918 until 1945 and , by the 1950 general election , it had been renamed Merthyr Tydfil . The constituency was abolished for the 1983 general election , when it was largely replaced by the new Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney constituency .
James Keir Hardie ( 15 August 1856 - 26 September 1915 ) was a Scottish trade unionist and politician . He was a founder of the Labour Party , and served as its first parliamentary leader from 1906 to 1908 . Hardie was born in Newhouse , North Lanarkshire . He started working at the age of seven , and from the age of 10 worked in the South Lanarkshire coal mines . With a background in preaching , he became known as a talented public speaker and was chosen as a spokesman for his fellow miners . In 1879 , Hardie was elected leader of a miners ' union in Hamilton and organised a National Conference of Miners in Dunfermline . He subsequently led miners ' strikes in Lanarkshire ( 1880 ) and Ayrshire ( 1881 ) . He turned to journalism to make ends meet , and from 1886 was a full-time union organiser as secretary of the Ayrshire Miners ' Union . Hardie initially supported William Gladstone 's Liberal Party , but later concluded that the working class needed its own party . He first stood for parliament in 1888 as an independent , and later that year helped form the Scottish Labour Party . Hardie won the English seat of West Ham South as an independent candidate in 1892 , and helped to form the Independent Labour Party ( ILP ) the following year . He lost his seat in 1895 , but was re-elected to parliament in 1900 for Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales .
Spen Valley was a parliamentary constituency in the valley of the River Spen in the West Riding of Yorkshire . It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom .
Thomas Russell Williams ( 1869 - 1926 ) was a British socialist politician . Williams grew up in Huddersfield and largely educated himself . He entered the textile industry and rose to become manager of a mill . He tried to enter the civil service , but was rejected , and instead turned his attention to the trade union movement . He became interested in ethical socialism and joined the Independent Labour Party ( ILP ) , serving on its national council , though never becoming a figure well-known to the public . Williams stood as the Labour Representation Committee candidate for Huddersfield at the 1906 general election . He was initially selected by the local trades council , and only later gained the backing of the ILP , against the private wishes of Ramsay MacDonald . He believed that he had a strong chance of winning the seat , but ultimately took a close second place , with 35.2% of the vote , on an extremely high turnout of 94% of eligible voters . Williams stood again at the 1906 Huddersfield by-election , for the renamed Labour Party , but again lost narrowly , his vote dropping slightly to 33.8% . Although blaming this on the disqualification of some working class voters , he also admitted that the party had failed to make new converts . Williams lost further favour with the ILP leadership after he endorsed Victor Grayson in his successful independent labour campaign at the 1907 Colne Valley by-election . However , he was selected for Spen Valley , taking 23.3% of the vote at the January 1910 general election .
Sunderland was a borough constituency of the House of Commons , created by the Reform Act 1832 for the 1832 general election . It elected two Members of Parliament ( MP ) by the bloc vote system of election until it was split into single-member seats of Sunderland North and Sunderland South for the 1950 general election .
Thomas Summerbell ( 10 August 1861 - 10 February 1910 ) was an early British Labour Party Member of Parliament . Born at Seaham Harbour in County Durham , Summerball worked from the age of twelve in a variety of jobs before becoming an apprentice printer with the Seaham Weekly News . He was laid off at the end of his apprenticeship , and moved to Felling , Jarrow , South Shields and finally Sunderland to find work . There , he worked for the Daily Post before starting his own printing firm . Summerbell was active in the Typographical Association and became a supporter of Joseph Cowen . He was also involved with Sunderland Trades Council , of which he was secretary from 1888 , and was a founder of the Tyneside and District Labourers Union . Initially a supporter of the Liberal Party , he was elected to Sunderland Borough Council in 1892 , remaining a member until his death . In this role , his major achievement was arranging the municipalisation of the tramways and subsequently electrifying the system . Around the mid-1890s , he became a socialist and joined the Independent Labour Party ( ILP ) . He was also the secretary of the National League of the Blind and was active in the Foresters ' Friendly Society . At the 1906 general election , Summerbell was elected for the Labour Representation Committee in Sunderland , with the support of the ILP . Although there were two MPs for the town , he took up the entirety of local issues , and also became known for his interest in reforms to the indentured labour system in the West Indies .
Tewkesbury is a constituency [ n 1 ] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 1997 recreation by Laurence Robertson , a Conservative . [ n 2 ]
Charles Herbert Fox ( 1861 - 1939 ) was a British socialist activist and dentist . Born in Gloucester , the son of a dentist , Fox studied at Sidcot School . His father died when he was fifteen , and he worked as a building supplies manufacturer . However , his health broke down when he was twenty , and the co-operative advocate Samuel Saunders helped him recuperate with gentle work on a smallholding . This led Fox to support the Whiteway Colony , and also to become a vegetarian . In the 1890s , Fox moved back to Gloucester , where he qualified as a dentist , and also attended to the health of residents during a smallpox epidemic . He stood unsuccessfully for the Labour Party in Tewkesbury at the January 1910 general election , and was also active in the Independent Labour Party . Fox stood again for Labour at the 1931 general election , this time in Gloucester , but was again unsuccessful . He died in 1939 .
Wakefield is a constituency created in 1832 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Imran Ahmad-Khan , a member of the Conservative Party .
Stanton George Coit ( 11 August 1857 - 15 February 1944 ) was an American-born leader of the Ethical movement in England . He became a British citizen in 1903 .