Independent Labour Party election results
Election results -- 1906 general election
Table:
Constituency
Candidate
Votes
%
Position

Blackburn
Philip Snowden
10,282
26.8
2

Bradford West
Fred Jowett
4,957
39.1
1

Glasgow Camlachie
Joseph Burgess
2,568
30.0
3

Halifax
James Parker
8,937
38.3
2

Huddersfield
T. Russell Williams
5,813
35.2
2

Keighley
W. T. Newlove
3,102
26.9
3

Leicester
Ramsay MacDonald
14,685
39.8
2

Manchester North East
John Robert Clynes
5,386
64.6
1

Merthyr Tydfil
Keir Hardie
10,187
32.0
2

Sunderland
Thomas Summerbell
13,430
31.8
2

Wakefield
Stanton Coit
2,068
36.9
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 .
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 .
Joseph Burgess ( 1853-1934 ) was a British journalist and Labour politician . He was born on 3 July 1853 in Failsworth , Lancashire , the third of six children of handloom weavers , and educated at a print works school in Failsworth . He started work in a card-cutting room at the age of six and worked as a cotton operative until he was 28 . He married three times , having six children and died January 1934 .
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 .
Huddersfield is a constituency [ n 1 ] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1983 by Barry Sheerman of the Labour Co-operative Party ( which denotes he is a member of the Labour Party and Co-operative Party , one of 38 current Labour MPs , and requires members to contribute practically to a cooperative business ) . [ n 2 ]
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 .
Keighley /ˈkiːθli/ ( listen ) is a constituency in West Yorkshire [ n 1 ] created in 1885 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament [ n 2 ] since 2019 by Robbie Moore of the Conservative Party . Since 1959 the seat has been a bellwether ( its winner affiliated to the winning party nationally ) with two exceptions : in 1979 and 2017 the seat leant to the left bucking the national result . Keighley is one of 11 seats won ( held or gained ) by a Conservative candidate in 2019 from a total of 22 covering its county . Moore 's 2019 win was one of 47 net gains of the Conservative Party . The seat has been considered relative to others a marginal seat , as well as a swing seat , since 2005 as its winner 's majority has not exceeded 6.2% of the vote since the 10.5% majority won in 2005 and the seat has changed hands three times since that year .
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 .
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 .
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 .
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 .