1922-1924
In the years after the secession of the Irish Free State, the Conservatives led the House of Commons, followed by a surging Labour Party and a declining Liberal Party. The Communist Party of Great Britain also enjoyed their most prolonged period of success, though still failed to have more than 1 MP at any time.
Party | 1924 | 1923 | 1922 | |||
% Popular vote | Seats | % Popular vote | Seats | % Popular vote | Seats | |
Agricultural Party | - | - | - | - | 0.2 | 0 |
Belfast Labour Party | 0.2 | 0 | - | - | - | - |
Communist | 0.2 | 1 | 0.2 | 0 | 0.2 | 1 |
Constitutionalist | 1.2 | 7 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.1 | 1 |
Conservative | 46.8 | 412 | 38.0 | 258 | 38.5 | 344 |
Independent | 0.2 | 2 | 0.3 | 2 | 0.8 | 3 |
Independent Conservative | 0.0 | 0 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.9 | 3 |
Independent Labour | 0.0 | 0 | 0.2 | 0 | 0.1 | 1 |
Independent Liberal | - | - | 0.1 | 1 | 0.1 | 1 |
Independent Nationalist | - | - | - | - | 0.1 | 0 |
Irish Nationalist | 0.0 | 1 | 0.4 | 3 | 0.4 | 3 |
Labour Party | 33.3 | 151 | 30.7 | 191 | 29.7 | 142 |
Labour Party (Northern Ireland) | 0.1 | 0 | - | - | - | - |
Liberal Party | 17.8 | 40 | 29.7 | 158 | 18.9 | 62 |
National Liberal | - | - | - | - | 9.9 | 53 |
Scottish Prohibition | 0.1 | 1 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.1 | 1 |
Sinn Féin | 0.2 | 0 | - | - | - | - |
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