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Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Liberal
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Liberal
The United Kingdom general election of 1906 was held from 12 January-8 February 1906.
The Liberals, led by Prime Minister Henry Campbell-Bannerman, won a landslide majority at the election. The Conservatives led by Arthur Balfour, who had been in government until the month before the election, lost more than half their seats, including party leader Balfour's own seat in Manchester East, leaving them with their lowest ever number of seats. The election saw a 5.4% swing from the Conservative Party to the Liberal Party, the largest ever seen at the time (however, if only looking at seats contested in both 1900 and 1906, the Conservative vote fell by 11.6%). This has resulted in the 1906 general election being dubbed the "Liberal landslide", and is now ranked alongside the 1931, 1945, 1983 and 1997 General Elections as one of the largest landslide election victories.
The Labour Representation Committee was far more successful than at the 1900 and after the election would be renamed the "Labour Party" with 29 MPs and Keir Hardie as leader. The Irish Parliamentary Party, led by John Redmond, achieved its seats with a relatively low number of votes, as 73 candidates stood unopposed.