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1906 general election (UK)

United Kingdom general election, 1906
United Kingdom
← 1900 12 January – 8 February 1906 Jan 1910 →

All 670 seats in the House of Commons
336 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party
  Henry Campbell-Bannerman photo.jpg Gws balfour 02.jpg
Leader Henry Campbell-Bannerman Arthur James Balfour
Party Liberal Conservative and
Liberal Unionist
Leader since December 1898 11 June 1902
Leader's seat Stirling Burghs Manchester E. (Lost)
Last election 183 seats, 44.7% 402 seats, 50.3%
Seats won 397 156
Seat change Increase214 Decrease246
Popular vote 2,565,644 2,278,076
Percentage 48.9% 43.4%
Swing Increase3.9% Decrease6.8%

  Third party Fourth party
  Picture of John Redmond.jpg Jameskeirhardie.jpg
Leader John Redmond Keir Hardie
Party Irish Parliamentary Labour Repr. Cmte.
Leader since 6 February 1900 28 February 1900
Leader's seat Waterford City Merthyr Tydfil
Last election 77 seats, 1.6% 2 seats, 1.8%
Seats won 82 29
Seat change Increase5 Increase27
Popular vote 33,231 254,202
Percentage 0.6% 4.8%
Swing Decrease1.2% Increase3.6%

United Kingdom general election 1906.svg
Colours denote the winning party.

Prime Minister before election

Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Liberal

Subsequent Prime Minister

Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Liberal


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.


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