Incumbents Defeated
| Party | Name | Constituency | Office held during 1929-1931 Parliament | Year elected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour Party | William Wedgwood Benn | Aberdeen North | Secretary of State for India | 1906 | |
| Tom Snowden | Accrington | 1929 | |||
| James Shillaker | Acton | 1929 | |||
| James Brown | South Ayrshire | Secretary of the National Union of Scottish Mineworkers | 1918 | ||
| Will Lawther | Barnard Castle | 1929 | |||
| John Potts | Barnsley | 1922 | |||
| Sir Ben Turner | Batley and Morley | Secretary for Mines | 1929 | ||
| William Sanders | Battersea North | Financial Secretary to the War Office | 1929 | ||
| William Bennett | Battersea South | 1929 | |||
| Jack Lees | Belper | 1929 | |||
| George Sinkinson | Berwick and Haddington | 1929 | |||
| John Baker | Wolverhampton, Bilston | 1924 | |||
| William Henry Egan | Birkenhead West | 1929 | |||
| John Strachey | Birmingham Aston | 1929 | |||
| Fred Longden | Birmingham Deritend | 1929 | |||
| George Francis Sawyer | Birmingham Duddeston | 1929 | |||
| Charles Simmons | Birmingham Erdington | 1929 | |||
| Wilfrid Whiteley | Birmingham Ladywood | 1929 | |||
| Archibald Gossling | Birmingham Yardley | 1929 | |||
| Hugh Dalton | Bishop Auckland | Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs | 1924 | ||
| Mary Agnes Hamilton | Blackburn | 1929 | |||
| Thomas Harry Gill | Blackburn | 1929 | |||
| William Whiteley | Blaydon | Lords of the Treasury | 1929 | ||
| Michael Brothers | Bolton | 1929 | |||
| Albert Law | Bolton | 1929 | |||
| John Kinley | Bootle | 1929 | |||
| Joseph Sullivan | Bothwell | 1926 | |||
| William Leach | Bradford Central | 1929 | |||
| Frederick William Jowett | Bradford East | 1929 | |||
| Norman Angell | Bradford North | 1929 | |||
| William Hirst | Bradford South | 1924 | |||
| Peter Freeman | Brecon and Radnorshire | 1929 | |||
| David Quibell | Brigg | 1929 | |||
| Joseph Alpass | Bristol Central | 1929 | |||
| Walter Ayles | Bristol East | 1929 | |||
| Alexander Walkden | Bristol South | 1929 | |||
| Arthur Henderson | Burnley | Leader of the Labour Party, Leader of the Opposition and Foreign Secretary | 1924 | ||
| Charles Ammon | Camberwell North | 1929 | |||
| Hyacinth Morgan | Camberwell North West | 1929 | |||
| Leifchild Leif-Jones | Camborne | 1929 | |||
| William Murdoch Adamson | Cannock | 1929 | |||
| James Ewart Edmunds | Cardiff East | 1929 | |||
| Arthur Henderson | Cardiff South | 1929 | |||
| George Middleton | Carlisle | 1929 | |||
| Daniel Hopkin | Carmarthen | 1929 | |||
| George Benson | Chesterfield | 1929 | |||
| Lauchlin MacNeill Weir | Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire | 1922 | |||
| William Thomas Mansfield | Cleveland | 1929 | |||
| James C. Welsh | Coatbridge | 1922 | |||
| Herbert Dunnico | Consett | 1922 | |||
| Philip Noel-Baker | Coventry | 1929 | |||
| John William Bowen | Crewe | 1929 | |||
| Arthur Lewis Shepherd | Darlington | 1926 | |||
| John Edmund Mills | Dartford | 1929 | |||
| C. W. Bowerman | Deptford | 1906 | |||
| William Robert Raynes | Derby | 1929 | |||
| Frank Lee | North East Derbyshire | 1922 | |||
| David Pole | South Derbyshire | 1929 | |||
| Ben Riley | Dewsbury | Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food | 1924 | ||
| Wilfred Paling | Doncaster | Lord of the Treasury | 1922 | ||
| Oliver Baldwin | Dudley | 1929 | |||
| Willie Brooke | Dunbartonshire | 1929 | |||
| Michael Marcus | Dundee | 1929 | |||
| William McLean Watson | Dunfermline Burghs | 1922 | |||
| Joshua Ritson | Durham | 1922 | |||
| Susan Lawrence | East Ham North | Chair of the Labour Party | 1926 | ||
| Alfred Barnes | East Ham South | Lords of the Treasury | 1922 | ||
| David Mort | Eccles | 1929 | |||
| William Graham | Edinburgh Central | President of the Board of Trade | 1918 | ||
| Drummond Shiels | Edinburgh East | Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies | 1924 | ||
| George Mathers | Edinburgh West | 1929 | |||
| Frank Broad | Edmonton | 1922 | |||
| Charles Roden Buxton | Elland | 1929 | |||
| William Henderson | Enfield | Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for India | 1929 | ||
| John Richard Anthony Oldfield | South East Essex | 1929 | |||
| Guy Rowson | Farnworth | 1929 | |||
| William Adamson | West Fife | Secretary of State for Scotland | Dec. 1910 | ||
| David Vaughan | Forest of Dean | 1929 | |||
| Frederick Gould | Frome | 1929 | |||
| Campbell Stephen | Glasgow Camlachie | 1922 | |||
| John Smith Clarke | Glasgow Maryhill | 1929 | |||
| Adam McKinlay | Glasgow Partick | 1929 | |||
| George Hardie | Glasgow Springburn | 1922 | |||
| Tom Henderson | Glasgow Tradeston | Comptroller of the Household | 1929 | ||
| Edward Timothy Palmer | Greenwich | 1929 | |||
| Frederick Charles Watkins | Hackney Central | 1929 | |||
| Herbert Morrison | Hackney South | Minister of Transport | 1929 | ||
| Arthur Longbottom | Halifax | 1928 | |||
| James Patrick Gardner | Hammersmith North | 1926 | |||
| Dan Chater | Hammersmith South | 1929 | |||
| Robert Richardson | Houghton-le-Spring | 1918 | |||
| James Hindle Hudson | Huddersfield | 1923 | |||
| The Hon. Joseph Kenworthy | Kingston upon Hull Central | 1919 | |||
| George Muff | Hull East | 1929 | |||
| John Arnott | Kingston upon Hull South West | 1929 | |||
| George Oliver | Ilkeston | 1929 | |||
| Leah Manning | Islington East | February 1931 | |||
| Robert Young | Islington North | 1929 | |||
| William Sampson Cluse | Islington South | 1923 | |||
| Frederick Montague | Islington West | Under-Secretary of State for Air | 1923 | ||
| Robert John Wilson | Jarrow | 1922 | |||
| Hastings Lees-Smith | Keighley | President of the Board of Education | 1923 | ||
| Leonard Matters | Kennington | 1929 | |||
| Fielding Reginald West | Kettering | 1929 | |||
| Samuel Perry | Keighley | National Secretary of the Co-operative Party | 1929 | ||
| Charles Henry Sitch | Kingswinford | 1918 | |||
| Tom Kennedy | Kirkcaldy Burghs | Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury | 1923 | ||
| George Strauss | Lambeth North | 1929 | |||
| Jennie Lee | North Lanarkshire | 1929 | |||
| Henry Charleton | Leeds South | Lords of the Treasury | 1929 | ||
| Thomas William Stamford | Leeds West | 1923 | |||
| William Bromfield | Leek | 1918 | |||
| Edward Frank Wise | Leicester East | 1929 | |||
| Frederick Pethick-Lawrence | Leicester West | Financial Secretary to the Treasury | 1923 | ||
| Fenner Brockway | East Leyton | 1929 | |||
| Reginald Sorensen | Leyton West | 1929 | |||
| Robert Arthur Taylor | Lincoln | 1924 | |||
| Manny Shinwell | Linlithgowshire | Secretary for Mines | 1929 | ||
| John Henry Hayes | Liverpool Edge Hill | Vice-Chamberlain of the Household | 1923 | ||
| Derwent Hall Caine | Liverpool Everton | 1929 | |||
| Elijah Sandham | Liverpool Kirkdale | 1929 | |||
| Joseph Gibbins | Liverpool West Toxteth | 1924 | |||
| Charles Ellis Lloyd | Llandaff and Barry | 1929 | |||
| George Ernest Winterton | Loughborough | 1929 | |||
| Joseph Henderson | Manchester Ardwick | June 1931 | |||
| John Edward Sutton | Manchester Clayton | 1922 | |||
| Joseph Compton | Manchester Gorton | 1923 | |||
| Andrew McElwee | Manchester Hulme | 1929 | |||
| J. R. Clynes | Manchester Platting | Home Secretary | 1906 | ||
| Ellen Wilkinson | Middlesbrough East | Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health | 1929 | ||
| John Scurr | Mile End | 1923 | |||
| Ebby Edwards | Morpeth | 1929 | |||
| Herbert Gibson | Mossley | 1929 | |||
| James Barr | Motherwell | 1924 | |||
| Arthur Greenwood | Nelson and Colne | Minister of Health | 1922 | ||
| Sir Charles Trevelyan, 3rd Baronet | Newcastle Central | President of the Board of Education | 1922 | ||
| John Henry Palin | Newcastle upon Tyne West | 1924 | |||
| Jmaes Walker | Newport | 1929 | |||
| Robert Young | Newton | Chairman of Ways and Means | 1918 | ||
| Lucy Noel-Buxton, Baroness Noel-Buxton | North Norfolk | 1930 | |||
| William Benjamin Taylor | South West Norfolk | 1929 | |||
| Cecil L'Estrange Malone | Northampton | 1929 | |||
| Walter Robert Smith | Norwich | Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade | 1929 | ||
| Arthur Hayday | Nottingham West | President of the Trades Union Congress | 1918 | ||
| Frank Smith | Nuneaton | Parliamentary Private Secretary to George Lansbury | 1929 | ||
| Rev. Gordon Lang | Oldham | 1929 | |||
| James Wilson | Oldham | 1929 | |||
| James Welsh | Paisley | 1929 | |||
| John Beckett | Peckham | 1924 | |||
| Joseph Westwood | Peebles and Southern Midlothian | Under-Secretary of State for Scotland | 1922 | ||
| Rennie Smith | Penistone | 1924 | |||
| J. F. Horrabin | Peterborough | 1929 | |||
| James John Hamlyn Moses | Plymouth Drake | 1929 | |||
| Tom Smith | Pontefract | 1929 | |||
| Glenvil Hall | Portsmouth Central | 1929 | |||
| Tom Shaw | Preston | Secretary of State for War | 1918 | ||
| William Jowitt | Preston | Attorney General for England and Wales | 1929 | ||
| Somerville Hastings | Reading | 1929 | |||
| William Kelly | Rochdale | 1929 | |||
| H. T. Muggeridge | Romford | 1929 | |||
| Arthur Law | Rossendale | 1929 | |||
| Fred William Lindley | Rotherham | 1929 | |||
| Ben Smith | Rotherhithe | Treasurer of the Household | 1923 | ||
| David Hardie | Glasgow Rutherglen | 1931 | |||
| James Sexton | St Helens | 1918 | |||
| James Marley | St Pancras North | 1929 | |||
| Herbert George Romeril | St Pancras South East | 1929 | |||
| William Carter | St Pancras South West | 1929 | |||
| Ben Tillett | Salford North | 1929 | |||
| Joseph Toole | Salford South | 1929 | |||
| Alexander Haycock | Salford West | 1929 | |||
| John Herriotts | Sedgefield | 1929 | |||
| Cecil Wilson | Sheffield Attercliffe | 1922 | |||
| Fred Marshall | Sheffield Brightside | 1930 | |||
| Philip Hoffman | Sheffield Central | 1922 | |||
| A. V. Alexander | Sheffield Hillsborough | First Lord of the Admiralty | 1922 | ||
| George Lathan | Sheffield Park | 1929 | |||
| Ernest Thurtle | Shoreditch | Lord Commissioner of the Treasury | 1923 | ||
| Tommy Lewis | Southampton | 1929 | |||
| Ralph Morley | Southampton | 1929 | |||
| James Chuter Ede | South Shields | 1929 | |||
| Harry Day | Southwark Central | 1924 | |||
| George Isaacs | Southwark North | Parliamentary Private Secretary | 1929 | ||
| Thomas Naylor | Southwark South-East | 1923 | |||
| William John Tout | Sowerby | 1929 | |||
| Hugh Hartley Lawrie | Stalybridge and Hyde | 1929 | |||
| Hugh Murnin | Stirling and Falkirk Burghs | 1924 | |||
| Tom Johnston | Stirling and Clackmannan West | Lord Privy Seal | 1922 | ||
| Arnold Townend | Stockport | 1925 | |||
| Frederick Fox Riley | Stockton-on-Tees | 1929 | |||
| Andrew MacLaren | Burslem | 1924 | |||
| Arthur Hollins | Hanley | 1929 | |||
| Wilfred Wellock | Stourbridge | 1927 | |||
| Marion Phillips | Sunderland | 1929 | |||
| Alfred Smith | Sunderland | 1929 | |||
| Howel Walter Samuel | Swansea West | 1929 | |||
| Christopher Addison | Swindon | Minister of Agriculture | 1929 | ||
| Robert Morrison | Tottenham North | 1929 | |||
| Frederick Messer | Tottenham South | 1929 | |||
| Benjamin Walter Gardiner | Upton | 1929 | |||
| George Henry Sherwood | Wakefield | 1929 | |||
| Margaret Bondfield | Wallsend | Minister of Labour | 1926 | ||
| John James McShane | Walsall | 1929 | |||
| Harry Wallace | Walthamstow East | 1929 | |||
| Major Archibald Church | Wandsworth Central | 1929 | |||
| George Shield | Warrington | 1929 | |||
| Charles Duke | Wansbeck | 1929 | |||
| Alfred Short | Wednesbury | Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department | 1918 | ||
| George Dallas | Wellingborough | 1929 | |||
| Frederick Roberts | West Bromwich | Minister of Pensions | 1918 | ||
| J. H. Hall | White Chapel and St Georges | 1930 | |||
| Morgan Philips Price | Whitehaven | Parliamentary Secretary | 1929 | ||
| Alexander Gordon Cameron | Widnes | 1923 | |||
| Samuel Vient | Willesden West | Assistant Postmaster General | 1929 | ||
| William Brown | Wolverhampton West | General Secretary of the Civil Service Clerical Association | 1929 | ||
| Edith Picton-Turbervill | The Wrekin | 1929 | |||
| Robert Richards | Wrexham | 1929 | |||
| Frederick George Burgess | York | 1929 | |||
| Liberal Party | Rev. Roderick Kedward | Ashford | 1929 | ||
| Milner Gray | Mid Bedfordshire | Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Labour | 1929 | ||
| Alec Ewart Glassey | East Dorset | Lord Commissioner of the Treasury | 1929 | ||
| Frank Owen | Hereford | 1929 | |||
| James Scott | Kincardine and Aberdeenshire West | Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Scotland | 1929 | ||
| Philip Oliver | Manchester Blackley | 1929 | |||
| Ernest Simon | Manchester Withington | 1929 | |||
| New Party | Cecil Dudgeon | Galloway | 1929 | ||
| Robert Forgan | West Renfrewshire | 1929 | |||
| Sir Oswald Mosley, 6th Baronet | Smethwick | Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster | 1929 | ||
| Lady Cynthia Mosley | Stoke | 1929 | |||
| Scottish Prohibition Party | Edwin Scrymgeour | Dundee | 1922 | ||
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