Election results of women in United Kingdom general elections (1918–1945)

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22 of the women standing in the 1923 general election Women standing for the UK Parliament in 1923.jpg
22 of the women standing in the 1923 general election

This is a list of women who stood in general elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom up to and including the 1945 general election.

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Summary of general election candidates

YearNumber of Candidates [1] Number of MPs
1918 17 1
1922 332
1923 348
1924 414
1929 6914
1931 6215
1935 679
1945 8724
Year Conservative [1] Labour [1] Liberal [1] Independent [2] Other parties [2]
CandidatesMPsCandidatesMPsCandidatesMPsCandidatesMPsCandidatesMPs
1918 1040405031
1922 511001612000
1923 731431221000
1924 123221601000
1929 1033092511130
1931 1613360511140
1935 1963311112120
1945 13141212014190

Unionist candidates or MPs in Scottish constituencies were counted as Conservatives.

Election results

1918 UK general election

PartyConstituencyNameVotes%Position
Conservative Kennington Alice Lucas 3,57332.22
Independent Brentford and Chiswick Ray Strachey 1,2639.73
Independent Chelsea Emily Frost Phipps 2,41920.92
Independent Glasgow Bridgeton Eunice Murray 9915.03
Independent Hendon Edith How-Martyn 2,06710.53
Independent Richmond (Surrey) Norah Dacre Fox 3,61520.42
Labour Battersea North Charlotte Despard 5,63433.42
Labour Manchester Rusholme Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence 2,98515.63
Labour Stourbridge Mary Anderson 7,58732.73
Labour University of Wales Millicent Mackenzie 17619.22
Liberal Enfield Janet McEwan 1,98712.13
Liberal Birmingham Ladywood Margery Corbett Ashby 1,55211.53
Liberal Mansfield Violet Carruthers 4,00019.53
Liberal Portsmouth South Alison Garland 4,28318.52
Sinn Féin Belfast Victoria Winifred Carney 5394.13
Sinn Féin Dublin St Patrick's Constance Markievicz 7,83565.91
Women's Party Smethwick Christabel Pankhurst 8,61447.82

By-elections, 1918-1922

PartyElectionNameVotes%Position
Conservative 1919 Plymouth Sutton by-election Nancy Astor 14,49551.91
Labour 1920 Camberwell North West by-election Susan Lawrence 4,73332.12
Labour 1920 Northampton by-election Margaret Bondfield 13,27944.42
Liberal 1921 Louth by-election Margaret Wintringham 8,38642.21

1922 UK general election

PartyConstituencyName [3] Votes%Position
Conservative Camberwell North Helen Gwynne-Vaughan 8,06649.22
Conservative Denbigh Lesley Venetia Elizabeth Brodrick9,13837.92
Conservative Ogmore Dorothy Caroline Edmondes6,57720.13
Conservative Plymouth Sutton Nancy Astor 13,92447.41
Conservative Walsall Alice Cooper14,34937.82
Independent Brentford and Chiswick Ray Strachey 7,80443.52
Independent Liverpool East Toxteth Eleanor Rathbone 9,98439.72
Labour Acton Mary Richardson 5,34226.22
Labour Chelmsford Clara Rackham 3,76717.63
Labour East Ham North Susan Lawrence 6,74727.82
Labour East Surrey Marjorie Pease 3,66722.72
Labour Islington North Edith Picton-Turbervill 7,99327.82
Labour Islington East Ethel Bentham 5,90022.73
Labour Lambeth North Barbara Ayrton-Gould 3,35317.83
Labour Northampton Margaret Bondfield 14,49837.92
Labour University of Wales Olive Wheeler 30924.83
Labour Co-op Birmingham King's Norton Eleanor Barton 7,01732.82
Liberal Bedford Mary Camilla Lawson 2,0757.84
Liberal Dartford Alison Garland 2,1756.53
Liberal Devizes Hilda Beatrice Currie 6,57640.72
Liberal Glasgow Maryhill Annie Burnett Smith 3,61713.13
Liberal High Peak Anna Barlow 5,80220.43
Liberal Huntingdonshire Lina Scott Gatty 5,12325.72
Liberal Louth, Lincolnshire Margaret Wintringham 11,60952.01
Liberal Oldham Mary Emmott 6,1867.05
Liberal Richmond (Surrey) Margery Corbett Ashby 5,76524.13
Liberal Waterloo Nessie Stewart-Brown 6,30032.72
Liberal Westminster St George's Mary Sophia Allen 1,3036.53
Liberal Wycombe Vera Terrington 11,15435.82
National Liberal Edinburgh South Catherine Alderton 7,40833.32
National Liberal Forest of Dean Winifred Coombe Tennant 3,86118.73
National Liberal Glasgow Govan Helen Fraser 9,33637.72
National Liberal Leeds South East Mary Grant 9,55441.12

By-elections, 1922-1923

PartyElectionNameVotes%Position
Conservative 1923 Berwick-upon-Tweed by-election Mabel Philipson 12,00055.01

1923 UK general election

PartyConstituencyName [4] Votes%Position
Conservative Berwick-upon-Tweed Mabel Philipson 10,63648.01
Conservative Camberwell North Helen Gwynne-Vaughan 5,93435.82
Conservative Ince Rachel Parsons 6,26226.52
Conservative Plymouth Sutton Nancy Astor 16,11454.51
Conservative St Helens Margaret Evelyn Pilkington16,10944.52
Independent Brentford and Chiswick Ray Strachey 4,82827.32
Labour Ashton-under-Lyne Ellen Wilkinson 6,20828.73
Labour Berwick-upon-Tweed Edna Penny2,78412.53
Labour Bournemouth Minnie Pallister 5,98619.53
Labour Chatham Mary Agnes Hamilton 5,79424.13
Labour East Ham North Susan Lawrence 8,72735.71
Labour Farnham Anne Corner 3,52016.73
Labour Isle of Wight Emily Palmer 2,4757.13
Labour Islington East Ethel Bentham 6,94126.03
Labour Northampton Margaret Bondfield 15,55640.51
Labour Norwich Dorothy Jewson 19,30420.02
Labour Portsmouth South Jessie Stephen 7,38824.92
Labour Warwick and Leamington Countess of Warwick 4,01512.83
Labour West Dorset Louie Simpson 7,08741.22
Labour Co-op Birmingham King's Norton Eleanor Barton 6,74330.72
Liberal Birmingham King's Norton Elizabeth Cadbury 5,68625.93
Liberal Birmingham Moseley Janet Clarkson7,90428.72
Liberal Cambridgeshire Elsbeth Dimsdale 6,61924.63
Liberal Consett Ursula Williams 14,61948.02
Liberal Gower Leah Norah Folland 10,21940.92
Liberal Hamilton Helen Fraser 8,43641.62
Liberal Hanley Ada Rowley Moody 4,26819.83
Liberal Hastings Maria Gordon 5,87625.92
Liberal Louth, Lincolnshire Margaret Wintringham 12,10452.41
Liberal Pontefract Mary Pollock Grant 4,56718.63
Liberal Richmond (Surrey) Margery Corbett Ashby 7,70237.02
Liberal Wycombe Lady Terrington 14,91046.91
Unionist Glasgow St Rollox Violet Mary Robertson9,20437.72
Unionist Kinross and Western Perthshire Duchess of Atholl 9,23550.41

Jewson was elected by taking second place in a two-seat constituency.

1924 UK general election

PartyConstituencyName [5] Votes%Position
Conservative Berwick-upon-Tweed Mabel Philipson 12,13050.91
Conservative Camberwell North Helen Gwynne-Vaughan 7,56436.72
Conservative Denbigh Lesley Venetia Elizabeth Brodrick11,25047.02
Conservative Derby Hilda Hulse21,70020.34
Conservative Manchester Ardwick Mary Kingsmill Jones 13,11545.12
Conservative Morpeth Irene Ward 10,82832.02
Conservative Plymouth Sutton Nancy Astor 18,17458.11
Conservative St Helens Margaret Evelyn Pilkington16,90844.22
Conservative Wansbeck Mary Middleton18,87547.12
Independent Labour Acton Mary Richardson 1,7757.64
Labour Blackburn Mary Agnes Hamilton 24,33021.83
Labour Bournemouth Minnie Pallister 7,73527.32
Labour Chelsea Dora Russell 5,66126.02
Labour Dumfriesshire Agnes Dollan 6,34223.03
Labour East Ham North Susan Lawrence 10,13735.82
Labour Edinburgh North Eleanor Stewart 8,19227.92
Labour Farnham Anne Corner 4,61320.22
Labour Hackney North Stella Churchill 6,09724.13
Labour Hastings Muriel Matters Porter 6,08228.62
Labour Hemel Hempstead Amy Sayle 1,5536.93
Labour Islington East Ethel Bentham 10,28032.32
Labour Lewisham West Barbara Drake 6,78120.42
Labour Liverpool Fairfield Mary Mercer 8,41237.12
Labour Middlesbrough East Ellen Wilkinson 9,57438.51
Labour Northampton Margaret Bondfield 15,04637.22
Labour Northwich Barbara Ayrton-Gould 11,63034.62
Labour Norwich Dorothy Jewson 22,93122.04
Labour Portsmouth South Jessie Stephen 8,31027.02
Labour Stroud Edith Picton-Turbervill 7,41825.22
Labour Totnes Kate Spurrell 2,2406.13
Labour West Dorset Louie Simpson 5,76431.72
Labour Co-op Leeds North East Edna Penny8,89431.62
Liberal Ilkeston Anna Barlow 4,32017.63
Liberal Lanark Elizabeth Buchanan Mitchell 2,1268.13
Liberal Louth, Lincolnshire Margaret Wintringham 11,33047.22
Liberal Southwark South East Elsie Cameron Elias 2,38811.23
Liberal Watford Margery Corbett Ashby 5,20518.73
Liberal Wycombe Lady Terrington 12,52633.02
Unionist Aberdeen North Laura Sandeman 8,54539.22
Unionist Bothwell Helen Brown Shaw 11,31443.72
Unionist Kinross and Western Perthshire Duchess of Atholl 13,56572.01

By-elections, 1924-1929

PartyElectionNameVotes%Position
Labour 1926 Wallsend by-election Margaret Bondfield 18,86657.71
Labour 1926 East Ham North by-election Susan Lawrence 10,79840.61
Conservative 1927 Southend by-election Countess of Iveagh 21,22154.61
Labour 1928 Bristol West by-election Clare Annesley 7,70226.02
Liberal 1928 St Ives by-election Hilda Runciman 10,24142.61
Unionist 1928 Linlithgowshire by-election Margaret Kidd 9,26831.52
Labour 1928 Epsom by-election Helen Keynes 3,71916.83
Unionist 1928 Aberdeen North by-election Laura Sandeman 4,69623.12
Labour 1928 Cheltenham by-election Florence Widdowson 3,96218.83
Labour 1929 Bishop Auckland by-election Ruth Dalton 14,79757.11
Labour 1929 North Lanarkshire by-election Jennie Lee 15,71157.51
Liberal 1929 North Lanarkshire by-election Elizabeth Buchanan Mitchell 2,4889.13

1929 UK general election

PartyConstituencyName [6] Votes%Position
Communist Bothwell Helen Crawfurd 1,6775.53
Communist Mansfield Rose Smith 5331.14
Communist Motherwell Isabel Brown 9843.44
Conservative Farnworth Mary Pickford 10,64325.42
Conservative Liverpool Everton Margaret Beavan 12,66747.12
Conservative Manchester Ardwick Mary Kingsmill Jones 13,17739.72
Conservative Morpeth Irene Ward 9,20622.12
Conservative Plymouth Sutton Nancy Astor 16,62543.21
Conservative Pontypridd May Gordon Williams3,96710.13
Conservative Southend-on-Sea Countess of Iveagh 27,60555.81
Independent Combined English Universities Eleanor Rathbone 3,33133.32
Labour Ayr Burghs Clarice Shaw 13,42936.52
Labour Blackburn Mary Agnes Hamilton 37,25626.11
Labour Brentford and Chiswick Stella Churchill 10,91837.82
Labour Bristol West Clare Annesley 11,96125.32
Labour East Ham North Susan Lawrence 13,96942.11
Labour Edinburgh North Eleanor Stewart 11,34032.22
Labour Honiton Rose Davies 9152.63
Labour Horsham and Worthing Helen Keynes 7,61116.43
Labour Hythe Grace Colman 2,59711.53
Labour Islington East Ethel Bentham 15,19938.01
Labour Lewisham West Catherine Mary Wadham10,59825.92
Labour Luton Florence Harrison Bell 7,35116.53
Labour Middlesbrough East Ellen Wilkinson 12,21541.31
Labour North Lanarkshire Jennie Lee 19,88455.91
Labour Northwich Barbara Ayrton-Gould 15,47334.32
Labour Norwich Dorothy Jewson 31,04024.03
Labour Nottingham Central Eleanor Barton 11,57333.22
Labour Perth Helen Gault8,29123.53
Labour Petersfield Gertrude Massingham3,41812.13
Labour Portsmouth South Jessie Stephen 10,12724.82
Labour Rushcliffe Florence Widdowson 16,06935.02
Labour St Albans Monica Whately 11,69927.62
Labour Stoke-on-Trent Cynthia Mosley 26,54858.71
Labour Sunderland Marion Phillips 31,79419.51
Labour The Wrekin Edith Picton-Turbervill 14,56944.41
Labour Totnes Kate Spurrell 5,82812.93
Labour Wallsend Margaret Bondfield 20,05749.51
Labour Wells Ruby Davies 4,47215.03
Labour Weston-super-Mare Constance Borrett 4,76611.13
Labour Wycombe Rochelle Townsend8,89918.13
Liberal Anglesey Megan Lloyd George 13,18149.41
Liberal Birmingham Deritend Beta Hornabrook 2,2686.83
Liberal Caerphilly Alice Grace Roberts8,19022.42
Liberal East Grinstead Barbara Bliss 9,71825.62
Liberal Hackney South Muriel Morgan Gibbon 6,30220.73
Liberal Hendon Margery Corbett Ashby 13,44922.23
Liberal Hitchin Enid Lapthorn 9,32528.32
Liberal Hythe Hester Lloyd Holland6,91230.72
Liberal Islington North Domini Crosfield 10,21023.43
Liberal Kensington North Frances Henrietta Stewart 5,51613.53
Liberal Kingston upon Hull North West Catherine Alderton 10,05928.33
Liberal Louth, Lincolnshire Margaret Wintringham 13,56042.92
Liberal Manchester Gorton Beatrice Bayfield3,3859.43
Liberal North Norfolk Zelia Hoffman 3,40311.13
Liberal Northampton Helen Schilizzi 11,05420.63
Liberal Rotherhithe Dora West 4,55619.13
Liberal St Pancras South East Elizabeth Edwardes3,79813.83
Liberal Salford West Mary Pollock Grant 5,61415.43
Liberal Salisbury Lucy Masterman 13,02239.32
Liberal Smethwick Maude Egerton Marshall3,90911.03
Liberal Sunderland Elizabeth Morgan 21,30013.05
Liberal Surrey East Ida Swinburne 7,43523.12
Liberal Tavistock Hilda Runciman 14,04044.12
Liberal Warrington Alison Garland 3,0707.23
Liberal Winchester Frances Josephy 7,27818.63
Unionist Bothwell Helen Brown Shaw 12,07739.32
Unionist Kinross and Western Perthshire Duchess of Atholl 12,24548.61
Unionist Paisley Minna Cowan 7,09417.73

Rathbone was elected by taking second place in a two-seat constituency.

By-elections, 1929-1931

PartyElectionNameVotes%Position
Communist 1929 Kilmarnock by-election Isabel Brown 1,4484.43
Labour 1930 North Norfolk by-election Lucy Noel-Buxton 14,82150.31
Labour 1930 Paddington South by-election Dorothy Evans 7,94426.63
United Empire 1930 Paddington South by-election Alexandra Stewart-Richardson4941.74
Labour 1931 Islington East by-election Leah Manning 10,59134.71
Conservative 1931 Islington East by-election Thelma Cazalet 7,18223.53
Liberal 1931 Salisbury by-election Lucy Masterman 9,58832.72
Liberal 1931 Sunderland by-election Elizabeth Morgan 15,02019.93
National (Scotland) 1931 Glasgow St Rollox by-election Elma Campbell 3,52115.83

1931 UK general election

PartyConstituencyName [7] Votes%Position
Communist Aberdeen North Helen Crawfurd 3,98011.13
Communist Greenwich Kath Duncan 2,0244.44
Conservative Caerphilly Catherine Bowen-Davies11,04432.42
Conservative Cannock Sarah Ward 27,49854.61
Conservative Hackney South Marjorie Graves 15,92055.41
Conservative Hammersmith North Mary Pickford 18,81559.21
Conservative Islington East Thelma Cazalet 27,22167.51
Conservative Plymouth Sutton Nancy Astor 24,27763.31
Conservative Rotherhithe Norah Runge 11,66650.31
Conservative Silvertown Eleonora Tennant 5,65422.22
Conservative Southend-on-Sea Countess of Iveagh 46,56485.71
Conservative Stoke Ida Copeland 19,91845.61
Conservative Wallsend Irene Ward 25,99958.61
Conservative Willesden West Mavis Tate 23,91060.61
Independent Combined English Universities Eleanor Rathbone 5,09637.21
Ind. Labour Party Camborne Kate Spurrell 8,28024.53
Ind. Labour Party Clapham Hilda Browning 7,31723.02
Ind. Labour Party North Lanarkshire Jennie Lee 19,69144.72
Ind. Labour Party Norwich Dorothy Jewson 26,53719.74
Ind. Labour Party Perth Helen Gault3,7059.73
Ind. Labour Party West Renfrewshire Jean Mann 10,20331.52
Independent Liberal Anglesey Megan Lloyd George 14,83958.31
Labour Aldershot Mary Richardson 4,09115.62
Labour Aylesbury Dorothy Woodman 4,67710.93
Labour Ayr Burghs Clarice Shaw 9,97426.12
Labour Bedford Clare Annesley 9,65427.82
Labour Blackburn Mary Agnes Hamilton 25,64317.03
Labour East Ham North Susan Lawrence 11,76934.12
Labour Flintshire Frances Edwards 16,15828.62
Labour Gillingham Catherine Mary Wadham9,10331.02
Labour Hastings Irene Goddard4,98315.52
Labour Hendon Amber Blanco White 15,30518.82
Labour Horsham and Worthing Helen Keynes 5,93211.72
Labour Hythe Grace Colman 3,60815.12
Labour Islington East Leah Manning 13,11132.52
Labour Kidderminster Jessie Stephen 9,81422.72
Labour Maidstone Gertrude Speedwell Massingham6,77019.82
Labour Middlesbrough East Ellen Wilkinson 12,08039.62
Labour North Norfolk Lucy Noel-Buxton 13,03539.52
Labour Northwich Barbara Gould 15,74634.42
Labour Norwood Ann Jane Anstey7,21719.02
Labour Paddington North Esther Rickards 9,59728.62
Labour Paddington South Lucy Cox 4,53214.32
Labour Rushcliffe Florence Paton 14,17627.92
Labour St Albans Monica Whately 10,28921.92
Labour Streatham Betty Fraser5,34315.02
Labour Sunderland Marion Phillips 29,70718.03
Labour The Wrekin Edith Picton-Turbervill 14,16238.92
Labour Tonbridge Constance Borrett 8,20821.22
Labour Wallsend Margaret Bondfield 18,39341.42
Labour Woodbridge Ida Mary Nussey Keeble5,88518.72
Labour Co-op Brighton Rosalind Moore12,8787.34
Liberal Basingstoke Frances Josephy 6,10618.12
Liberal Exeter Eleanor Acland 8,57123.22
Liberal Holderness Aline MacKinnon 10,47130.02
Liberal Shrewsbury Betty Morgan 9,35830.82
National Liberal Wentworth Charlotte Isabel Hilyer14,46231.22
National (Scotland) Glasgow St Rollox Elma Campbell 3,52113.33
Unionist Bothwell Helen Brown Shaw 16,57150.01
Unionist Dundee Florence Horsbrugh 48,55627.72
Unionist Glasgow Bridgeton Catherine Gavin 11,94141.82
Unionist Kinross and Western Perthshire Duchess of Atholl 16,22860.61

Horsbrugh was elected by taking second place in a two-seat constituency.

By-elections, 1931-1935

PartyElectionNameVotes%Position
Labour 1932 Dulwich by-election Helen Bentwich 3,90519.33
Independent 1934 Lambeth North by-election Alice Brown3051.64
Labour 1934 Putney by-election Edith Summerskill 12,93645.32
Labour 1935 Norwood by-election Barbara Gould 12,79940.42
Labour 1935 Perth by-election Helen Gault3,7059.73
Labour 1935 Combined Scottish Universities by-election Naomi Mitchison 4,29317.32

1935 UK general election

PartyConstituencyName [8] Votes%Position
Conservative Caerphilly N. J. Stoneham7,73823.82
Conservative Cannock Sarah Ward 26,87649.12
Conservative Clay Cross Bridget Jackson8,39125.42
Conservative Ebbw Vale Ethel Scarborough 7,14522.22
Conservative Frome Mavis Tate 19,68446.31
Conservative Hackney South Marjorie Graves 10,87640.72
Conservative Islington East Thelma Cazalet 18,24852.51
Conservative Plaistow Dorothy Roddick6,73026.72
Conservative Plymouth Sutton Nancy Astor 21,49158.31
Conservative Poplar South Diana Spearman 6,86226.82
Conservative Rotherhithe Norah Runge 9,75140.32
Conservative Rothwell Gwendoline Beaumont17,35235.52
Conservative Silvertown Eleonora Tennant 4,27619.02
Conservative Stoke Ida Copeland 18,86747.32
Conservative Wallsend Irene Ward 23,84252.61
Independent Combined English Universities Eleanor Rathbone unopposedN/A1
Independent Putney Violet Van der Elst 1,0213.03
Ind. Labour Party Camborne Kate Spurrell 5921.94
Ind. Labour Party North Lanarkshire Jennie Lee 17,26737.32
Labour Birkenhead East Mary Mercer 8,02823.33
Labour Bradford North Muriel Nichol 14,04735.22
Labour Burton Gladys Paling8,04125.52
Labour Bury Edith Summerskill 12,84534.42
Labour Cheltenham Elizabeth Pakenham 7,78429.52
Labour City of Chester Agnes Bulley6,45019.33
Labour Clapham Monica Whately 11,36823.02
Labour Dartford Janet Adamson 35,59648.22
Labour Darwen Frances Kerby 7,77820.93
Labour Edinburgh South Barbara Woodburn5,36516.52
Labour Harrow Helen Bentwich 31,42237.32
Labour Hendon Amber Blanco White 28,37526.82
Labour Hornsey Mari Power 10,32021.92
Labour Jarrow Ellen Wilkinson 20,32453.11
Labour Lewisham East Freda Corbet 25,42544.62
Labour Manchester Hulme Barbara Ayrton-Gould 11,22139.72
Labour New Forest and Christchurch Catherine Mary Wadham10,87625.22
Labour North Dorset M. M. Whitehead1,3605.24
Labour North Norfolk Lucy Noel-Buxton 14,46544.72
Labour Paddington North Caroline Ganley 9,92534.42
Labour Pudsey and Otley Lucy Cox 9,99723.33
Labour Saffron Walden Clara Rackham 9,63332.92
Labour St Marylebone Elizabeth Jacobs 8,08820.42
Labour Sheffield Hallam Grace Colman 10,34632.72
Labour Southend-on-Sea Helen Keynes 7,79613.83
Labour Stockton-on-Tees Susan Lawrence 19,21740.32
Labour Stroud Constance Borrett 14,13336.82
Labour Sunderland Leah Manning 32,05919.84
Labour Wallsend Margaret Bondfield 21,46247.42
Labour Westminster St George's Anne Fremantle 4,64315.42
Labour Westmorland Evelyn Short10,41731.52
Labour West Renfrewshire Jean Mann 12,40738.82
Labour Wood Green Dorothy Woodman 14,56124.82
Liberal Anglesey Megan Lloyd George 11,22744.51
Liberal Aylesbury Margaret Wintringham 13,62231.62
Liberal Carlisle Barbara Bliss 3,52510.33
Liberal Devizes Frances Josephy 9,90340.72
Liberal Edinburgh North Chrystal Macmillan 1,7985.83
Liberal Hemel Hempstead Margery Corbett Ashby 7,07822.02
Liberal Holderness Aline Mackinnon 10,34824.92
Liberal Kinross and Western Perthshire Elizabeth MacDonald10,06939.82
Liberal Maldon Hilda Buckmaster 5,68017.73
Liberal Rye Dorothy Osborn9,16228.82
Liberal Willesden East Nancy Stewart Parnell 3,2177.33
Unionist Bothwell Helen Brown Shaw 13,76139.72
Unionist Dundee Florence Horsbrugh 50,54226.81
Unionist Edinburgh East Minna Cowan 12,22939.62
Unionist Kinross and Western Perthshire Duchess of Atholl 15,23860.21

By-elections, 1935-1945

PartyElectionNameVotes%Position
Conservative 1936 Clay Cross by-election Bridget Jackson8,04224.92
Independent 1936 Preston by-election Florence White3,2214.83
Conservative 1937 Hemel Hempstead by-election Frances Davidson 14,99257.71
Liberal 1937 Hemel Hempstead by-election Margery Corbett Ashby 7,07822.02
Labour 1937 Glasgow Springburn by-election Agnes Hardie 14,85962.61
National Liberal 1938 Pontypridd by-election Juliet Rhys-Williams 14,81040.12
Independent 1938 Combined Scottish Universities by-election Frances Melville 5,61819.52
Labour 1938 Fulham West by-election Edith Summerskill 16,58352.21
Labour 1938 Dartford by-election Jennie Adamson 46,51452.41
Labour 1938 Fylde by-election Mabel Tylecote 17,64831.62
Independent 1938 Kinross and Western Perthshire by-election Duchess of Atholl 10,49547.12
Liberal 1939 Holderness by-election Aline Mackinnon 11,59025.72
Unionist 1939 South Ayrshire by-election Catherine Gavin 12,98642.02
National 1940 Southwark Central by-election Violet van der Elst 1,38216.83
Ind. Labour Party 1940 East Renfrewshire by-election Annie Maxton 8,20619.32
Communist 1940 Bow and Bromley by-election Isabel Brown 5064.22
Conservative 1941 Bodmin by-election Beatrice Wright unopposedN/A1
Independent 1941 Harrow by-election Winifred Henney3,43319.12
Common Wealth 1943 Ashford by-election Catherine Williamson 4,19230.32
Conservative 1943 Bristol Central by-election Violet Bathurst 5,86752.11
Independent Labour 1943 Bristol Central by-election Jennie Lee 4,30838.22
Common Wealth 1943 The Hartlepools by-election Elaine Burton 3,63417.42
Independent Liberal 1943 Darwen by-election Honor Balfour 8,79949.82
Independent 1943 Acton by-election Dorothy Crisp 7078.53
Independent Liberal 1944 Bury St Edmunds by-election Margery Corbett Ashby 9,12143.82

1945 UK general election

PartyConstituencyNameVotes%Position
Common Wealth Canterbury Catherine Williamson 1,0172.63
Common Wealth Chelsea Dorothy Sharpe9845.23
Common Wealth North Midlothian Kitty Wintringham 3,2996.43
Common Wealth Sutton Coldfield Joyce Purser2,0434.23
Communist Birmingham Handsworth Jessie Eden1,3903.45
Communist Harrow East Gladys Driver3,4935.94
Conservative Bristol Central Violet Bathurst 7,36936.12
Conservative Frome Mavis Tate 24,22844.92
Conservative Islington East Thelma Cazalet-Keir 9,96034.52
Conservative Hemel Hempstead Frances Davidson 19,53644.21
Conservative Kingston upon Hull Central Diana Spearman4,10627.52
Conservative Manchester Ardwick Nellie Beer 8,09336.02
Conservative Rotherhithe Norah Runge 2,57720.92
Conservative Wallsend Irene Ward 21,31939.92
Conservative Wentworth Aymée Lavender Gandar Dower8,67016.42
Independent Combined English Universities Eleanor Rathbone 11,17653.31
Independent Hornchurch Violet Van der Elst 2320.54
Independent Westminster St George's Dorothy Crisp 1,0695.53
Ind. Conservative Putney Eleonora Tennant 1440.45
Independent Progressive London University Mary Danvers Stocks 7,46949.52
Labour Co-op Battersea South Caroline Ganley 19,27561.51
Labour Co-op Birmingham Duddeston Edith Agnes Wills 10,74565.01
Labour Co-op Ilford North Mabel Ridealgh 18,83342.81
Labour Basingstoke Edith Alice Weston13,76333.82
Labour Bath Dorothy Archibald 18,12039.22
Labour Bexley Jennie Adamson 24,68656.91
Labour Blackburn Barbara Castle 35,14526.02
Labour Bradford North Muriel Nichol 20,26843.61
Labour Bury St Edmunds Cecily Alicia McCall9,19529.82
Labour Camberwell North West Freda Corbet 12,25169.61
Labour Cannock Jennie Lee 48,84962.61
Labour Chelsea Margaret Douglas Shufeldt5,87431.12
Labour Cheltenham Phyllis Maude Warner11,09529.92
Labour Chichester Rosalie Francesca Chamberlayne13,67024.12
Labour Coatbridge Jean Mann 18,61961.11
Labour Croydon North Marion Billson 22,81040.12
Labour Epping Leah Manning 15,99344.11
Labour Flintshire Eirene Lloyd Jones 26,76137.42
Labour Fulham West Edith Summerskill 19,53761.91
Labour Harrow West B. J. K. Thompson18,96133.02
Labour Hemel Hempstead Doris Mobbs14,42632.62
Labour Hendon North Barbara Gould 18,25147.61
Labour Hendon South Elaine Burton 14,91738.12
Labour Holborn Irene Marcousé 5,13645.92
Labour Jarrow Ellen Wilkinson 22,65666.01
Labour Kensington South Patricia Strauss 6,01418.92
Labour Kilmarnock Clarice Shaw 23,83759.41
Labour Leeds North East Alice Bacon 28,87053.11
Labour Liverpool Exchange Bessie Braddock 8,49452.01
Labour Middleton and Prestwich Mabel Tylecote 25,90849.22
Labour Newbury Iris Brook15,75433.72
Labour North Lanarkshire Margaret Herbison 30,25159.61
Labour Norwich Lucy Noel-Buxton 31,55327.91
Labour Plymouth Sutton Lucy Middleton 15,41751.61
Labour Rushcliffe Florence Paton 43,30354.21
Labour St Marylebone Elizabeth Jacobs 10,74032.42
Labour Sutton and Cheam Helen Judd17,29341.02
Labour Tonbridge Vera Dart 16,59035.92
Labour Tynemouth Grace Colman 13,96346.11
Labour Windsor Marjorie Nicholson 16,42033.12
Labour Wirral Agnes Bulley25,91931.32
Liberal Anglesey Megan Lloyd George 12,61052.21
Liberal Barnet Jean Henderson 4,49511.43
Liberal Birmingham Handsworth Barbara Lewis 4,94512.04
Liberal Blackburn Marjorie Annie MacInerney6,0964.56
Liberal Chelmsford Hilda Buckmaster 5,90910.13
Liberal Darwen Honor Balfour 7,97924.33
Liberal Devizes Frances Josephy 6,27823.13
Liberal Exeter Freda Evelyn Griffith Morgan6,22016.43
Liberal Hackney North Doreen Gorsky 3,54613.33
Liberal Ilford North Juliet Rhys-Williams 9,12820.83
Liberal Isle of Wight May O'Conor5,96712.63
Liberal Mossley Marjorie Wainwright Jalland 7,12812.43
Liberal Paisley Louise Glen-Coats 4,53210.03
Liberal Plymouth Sutton Joan Gaved3,69512.43
Liberal Ripon Mabel Cowley6,12212.63
Liberal St Albans Enid Lakeman 5,60110.73
Liberal St Pancras South East Audrey Blackman 1,4748.83
Liberal Sevenoaks Nelia Muspratt 6,90616.73
Liberal Sudbury Margaret Hitchcock5,04520.53
Liberal Wells Violet Bonham-Carter 7,91025.13
National Liberal Poplar South Joan Vickers 1,40310.82
Plaid Cymru University of Wales Gwenan Jones 1,69624.52
Unionist Aberdeen North Priscilla Buchan 9,62325.12
Unionist Bothwell Helen Brown Shaw 13,20734.22
Unionist Dundee Florence Horsbrugh 32,30918.94
UUP Fermanagh and Tyrone Noreen Cooper46,26022.84

Castle won in Blackburn by taking second place in a two-seat constituency.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Richard Keen; Richard Cracknell (20 July 2021). "Women in Parliament and Government". House of Commons Library. p. 22.
  2. 1 2 Craig, F. W. S. (1968). British Parliamentary Election Statistics 1918-1968 . Glasgow: Political Reference Publications. p.  62. ISBN   0900178000.
  3. ↑ "The defeated thirty", Manchester Guardian , 5 December 1922
  4. ↑ "Eight woman MPs", The Times , 8 December 1923
  5. ↑ "The 41 women candidates", Manchester Guardian , 20 October 1924
  6. ↑ "Women candidates: a total of 64 for all parties", Manchester Guardian , 4 May 1929
  7. ↑ "Women candidates: 61 Nominated : Two Straight Fights", Manchester Guardian , 17 October 1931
  8. ↑ "Women candidates", The Times , 5 November 1935
F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949

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