Independent Labour Party election results
Election results -- December 1910 general election
Table:
Constituency
Candidate
Votes
%
Position[6]

Blackburn
Philip Snowden
10,762

1

Bow and Bromley
George Lansbury
4,315
55.6
1

Bradford West
Fred Jowett
8,880
66.6
1

Chatham
Frank Smith
1,103
8.9
3

Glasgow Camlachie
James O'Connor Kessack
1,539
18.1
3

Halifax
James Parker
8,511

2

Leeds South
John Badlay
2,706
21.5
3

Leicester
Ramsay MacDonald
12,998
38.5
2

Liverpool Kirkdale
Thomas McKerrell
2,992
41.6
2

Manchester North East
J. R. Clynes
4,313

1

Merthyr Tydfil
Keir Hardie
11,507
39.6
2

Whitehaven
Thomas Richardson
1,414
53.7
1

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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 .
Chatham was a parliamentary constituency in Kent which returned one Member of Parliament ( MP ) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom . It was created for the 1832 general election , when the borough of Chatham was enfranchised under the Reform Act 1832 . It was abolished for the 1950 general election , when it was largely replaced by the new Rochester and Chatham constituency . This then became Medway in 1983 . When the boroughs of Rochester upon Medway and Gillingham merged to form the larger unitary Borough of Medway in 1998 , the Parliamentary constituency of Medway only covered part of the new borough , so for the 2010 election it was renamed Rochester and Strood .
Francis Samuel Smith ( 1854 - 26 December 1940 ) was a British newspaper editor and Christian socialist politician , who contested a large number of elections before finally winning a parliamentary seat in his mid-70s . Born in Chelsea , Smith was educated privately and ran an upholstery company in Sloane Street . He was active in the Chelsea Mission , and through that joined the Salvation Army in its early days . In 1884 he moved to the United States to quell a secessionist movement among the Salvationists there , then returned to the UK as the first leader of the Social Wing of the Salvation Army . On the voyage to America he read Henry George 's book , Progress and Poverty which introduced him to Georgist ideas . In 1890 , he co-wrote In Darkest England and the Way Out with William Booth . However , he left the movement later in the year , to involve himself in the labour movement , founding the Labour Army and Workers ' Cry , a newspaper which he edited from two years . In 1892 , he became editor of the Weekly Dispatch , holding the post for three years . Smith stood unsuccessfully in Hammersmith at the 1892 general election , but he was elected to the London County Council , playing a key role on the body until 1913 . He became a founding member of the Independent Labour Party ( ILP ) , and was its first parliamentary candidate , at the 1894 Sheffield Attercliffe by-election . A close friend of its leader , Keir Hardie , he drew on some experience in radical journalism to assist with the relaunch of the Labour Leader . Smith also stood in Glasgow Tradeston at the 1895 general election , in the meantime involving himself in spiritualism and the Brotherhood Movement , emphasising that , for him , socialism was entirely compatible with religion .
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 .
Leeds South was a parliamentary constituency in the city of Leeds , West Yorkshire , which returned one Member of Parliament ( MP ) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 until it was abolished for the 1983 general election . It was then largely replaced by the new Morley and Leeds South constituency . It was the seat of the former Leader of the Labour Party , the late Hugh Gaitskell , and the former Home Secretary Merlyn Rees .
John Badlay ( 1860 - 1944 ) was a British politician .
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 .
Liverpool Kirkdale was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom covering Kirkdale , Liverpool . It elected one Member of Parliament ( MP ) by the first past the post system of election .
Thomas McKerrell ( 1877 - 21 December 1922 ) was a Scottish trade unionist and politician . Born in Scotland , McKerrell moved to South Africa to work as a coal miner with his brother David , although he left around the onset of the Second Boer War . He returned to Scotland , settling in Kilmarnock , where he married in 1899 , and joined the Independent Labour Party ( ILP ) around this time . He was elected as a councillor in Kilmarnock , and also became a bailie there . He was appointed as agent of the Ayrshire Miners ' Union , and through this served on the executive of both the Scottish Miners ' Federation and the Miners ' Federation of Great Britain ; and as vice-chairman of the Scottish Trades Union Congress . The ILP was affiliated to the Labour Party , and McKerrell was selected to stand for Labour in Midlothian at the January 1910 general election . However , he withdrew from the contest at short notice . In November 1910 , he was adopted as a last-minute candidate for Liverpool Kirkdale at the December general election , taking 41.6% of the vote , a small reduction for the party 's performance earlier in the year . McKerrell next stood in the 1911 Kilmarnock Burghs by-election where , as a supporter of women 's suffrage , he received significant support from the local branches of the National Union of Women 's Suffrage Societies . Despite this , he could take only third place , with 17.3% of the votes cast . McKerrell 's brother , David , had returned to mine in South Africa , and became a leader of a strike in the early 1910s . As a result , he was deported back to Scotland , where he stayed with Tom and briefly became a prominent speaker , but died soon after .
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 .
Whitehaven was a constituency centred on the town of Whitehaven in Cumberland , which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom . It was created in 1832 and renamed Copeland at the 1983 general election .
Thomas Richardson ( 6 June 1868 - 22 October 1928 ) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom who served as Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Whitehaven , in Cumberland , from 1910 to 1918 . Thomas Richardson was the first born of Robert Richardson and his wife Margaret and was named for his grandfather who died shortly before he was born . His father worked as a coal miner and the family had lived at Usworth Colliery . Thomas began working as a coal miner as well . In 1885 his father died in an explosion in the Usworth pit which had claimed forty one other men . At the age of 20 Thomas Richardson married his wife Mary Ellinor Purvis . They had four children . He interest in politics was motivated by his desire to improve conditions for coal miners . Richardson was an active member of the Independent Labour Party , and its leading member in Whitehaven . His brother William was also active in the party , and later became Treasurer of the Miners ' Federation of Great Britain . He was elected as Whitehaven 's first Labour MP at the December 1910 general election . A Labour candidate had stood unsuccessfully in January 1910 general election , but Richardson was assisted by the absence of a Liberal party candidate .