1935 United Kingdom general election

none August 2026 May 2014 May 2014 1935 United Kingdom general election United Kingdom parliamentary no 1931 United Kingdom general election 1931 List of MPs elected in the 1931 United Kingdom general election 1945 United Kingdom general election 1945 List of MPs elected in the 1935 United Kingdom general election All 615 seats in the House of Commons 308 14 November 1935 31,374,449 21,997,05471.1% (5.3 pp) Stanley Baldwin 1932.jpg 122 120 160 0 0 Stanley Baldwin 23 May 1923 Conservative Party (UK) National Government Bewdley 470 seats, 55.0% 387speaker 83 10,496,300 47.8% 7.2 pp Clement Attlee MP.jpg 122 120 160 0 0 Clement Attlee 25 October 1935 Labour Party (UK) Limehouse 52 seats, 30.9% 154 102 8,325,491 38.0% 7.1 pp Viscount_Simon.jpg 122 120 160 0 0 John Simon 5 October 1931 Liberal National National Government Spen Valley 35 seats, 3.7% 33 2 866,354 3.7% Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel.jpg 122 120 160 0 0 Herbert Samuel October 1931 Liberal Party (UK) Darwen (lost seat) 36 seats, 7.0%Independent Lib Figure is the combined seats and vote share of the Liberal Party and Independent Liberals in 1931. The Independent Liberals group would rejoin the Liberal Party within a month after the election. 21Independent Lib 15Independent Lib 1,443,093Independent Lib 6.7%Independent Lib 0.3 ppIndependent Lib Ramsay MacDonald ggbain 35734.jpg 122 120 160 0 0 Ramsay MacDonald 24 August 1931 National Labour Organisation National Government Seaham (lost seat) 13 seats, 1.5% 8 5 339,811 1.5% 1935_UK_general_election_map.svg 340px Colours denote the winning party—as shown in Results Prime Minister Prime Minister after election Stanley Baldwin National Government (UK) Stanley Baldwin National Government (UK) File:1935 UK General Election Parliament Layout.svg Composition of the House of Commons after the election A general election was held in the United Kingdom on Thursday 14 November 1935. It resulted in a second (though reduced) landslide victory for the three-party National Government, which was led by Stanley Baldwin of the Conservative Party after the resignation – due to ill health – of Ramsay MacDonald earlier in the year. It is the most recent British general election to have seen any party or alliance of parties win a majority of the popular vote. As in 1931, the National Government was a coalition of the Conservatives with small breakaway factions of the Labour and Liberal parties, and the group campaigned together under a shared manifesto on a platform of continuing its work addressing the economic crises caused by the Great Depression. The re-elected government was again dominated by the Conservatives, but, while the National Liberals remained relatively stable in terms of vote share and seats, National Labour lost many of its seats – including that of leader Ramsay MacDonald. The Labour Party, under what was at the time of the election regarded internally as the caretaker leadership of Clement Attlee, was the main beneficiary of the swing away from the Conservatives and National Labour. The party achieved its then–best ever result in terms of share of the popular vote, and won back around half of the seats it had lost in the previous election. The Liberal Party, which had split from the National Government in 1932 over the issue of free trade, continued its decline, losing many of its seats (including that of leader Herbert Samuel). The election ushered in an era of two-party politics dominated by the Conservatives and Labour, which would last until the revival of the Liberals in the 1970s under Jeremy Thorpe. It was also the first election since 1895 in which the Independent Labour Party stood separately from the Labour Party, having disaffiliated in 1932. In Scotland, it was the first general election contested by the Scottish National Party, and the Communist Party gained its first seat in ten years (West Fife). This was the last election to be held during the reign of King George V, who died in January 1936. Due to the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, the next general election was not held until 1945. none 1929 1931 1935 1945 1950 Background National Labour leader Ramsay MacDonald had led the National Government since its establishment in August 1931, but the Conservative Party was by far the largest within the coalition, with 470 of its 554 seats. MacDonald's health was increasingly poor throughout his time as prime minister, and in June 1935 he handed his office to Conservative leader Stanley Baldwin. The near-wipeout of October 1931 had seen the new Labour Party leader Arthur Henderson lose his seat; and a year later, George Lansbury became the party's leader. However, as a radical Christian pacifist, Lansbury strongly opposed rearmament; this put him at odds with his party's membership, his own MPs, and many of the party's affiliated trade unions, all of whom had begun to view investing in the UK's military capabilities as a necessary response to the rising threat of European fascism.Beckett Francis Clem Attlee: A Biography Blake 1998 978-1860661013 This disagreement came to a head at Labour's annual conference in October 1935, where a motion was tabled for the party to endorse sanctions against Italy for its invasion of Abyssinia. Lansbury opposed the motion, but when it passed he decided that his position was untenable, and he resigned on 8 October. Baldwin, recognising that the government's main opposition was in disarray and seeking a mandate for his new administration, called an election on 19 October, and Parliament was subsequently dissolved on 25 October.Parliamentary Election Timetables https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/RP97-40/RP97-40.pdf House of Commons Library third 25 March 1997 3 July 2022 Without time to choose a new leader before the general election, Lansbury's deputy, Clement Attlee, was appointed interim leader. As in 1931, the election was dominated by the impact of the Great Depression – in particular, persistently high unemployment – and the National Government sought to continue its program of reforms designed to repair the economy.Dale Iain https://books.google.com/books?id=IYcrBgAAQBAJ Volume One. Conservative Party General Election Manifestos 1900-1997 2012-10-02 Routledge 978-1-134-62577-2 53 However, foreign policy and defence were significantly more important than in the previous election, with the role of the League of Nations, the increasing belligerence of the Empire of Japan, the remilitarisation of Germany under Adolf Hitler, and the Italian invasion of Abyssinia all key issues. There was a heated internal debate within the National Government over the extent to which it ought to pursue rearmament in response to the rising threat of another war in Europe.Thackeray David Toye Richard Age of Promises: Electoral Pledges in Twentieth Century Britain https://books.google.com/books?id=QB0gEAAAQBAJ Oxford University Press 2021 77 978-0-19-884303-0 Baldwin was generally opposed to rearmament, and the coalition's manifesto reflected his position, promising that rearmament would be "strictly confined to what is required to make the country and the Empire safe."Middlemas Keith Barnes John Baldwin: a biography Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1969 The Liberal Party had fractured into three separate factions in 1931 over the question of whether to support the National Government's policy of trade protectionism, and it remained just as divided over economic policy in 1935. The party and the Independent Liberal group set up by former leader David Lloyd George had gradually been re-aligning during the previous years, but a full reunification did not occur in time for the election, causing Lloyd George to restrict his personal fortune (on which the Liberals had relied greatly during his time as leader) to funding the campaigns of his allies. Lacking financial resources, the main Liberal Party was only able to put up candidates in 159 constituencies.Sloman Peter The Liberal Party and the Economy, 1929–1964 https://books.google.com/books?id=GYfjBAAAQBAJ Oxford University Press 2015 105 978-0-19-872350-9 Candidates Below is a table summarising the candidates of the 1935 general election in the United Kingdom, including those in the university constituencies.https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7529/CBP-7529.pdf UK Election Statistics: 1918-2023, A Century of Elections Cracknell Richard Uberoi Elise Burton Matthew 9 August 2023 House of Commons Library 21, 23, 25, 27 8 August 2026https://api.parliament.uk/uk-general-elections/general-elections/27 UK General Elections Results 1832-2019 12 August 2026Craig F. W. S. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918–49 https://books.google.com/books?id=MMCuCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA147 1st 1977 The Macmillan Press Ltd London and Basingstoke 978-1-349-81467-1 Affiliation CandidatesLabour Party 552Includes 21 Co-operative Party candidates, as part of the Labour-Co-op alliance.Conservative Party 515Includes 60 Unionist candidates in Scotland, and 13 Ulster Unionist Party candidates in Northern Ireland.speakerLiberal Party 161Includes the Independent Liberal group, which would rejoin the party within a month following the election. Those candidates that stood were Megan Lloyd George in Anglesey, Goronwy Owen in Caernarvonshire, Leader of the Independent Liberals David Lloyd George in Caernarvon Boroughs and Gwilym Lloyd George in Pembrokeshire.Liberal National Party 44National Labour Organisation 20Independent Labour Party 17Scottish National Party 8National 4The candidates that stood were Charles Markham in Ilkeston, William Bruce stood in Caithness and Sutherland, Ivor Guest in Brecon and Radnorshire and G C Hutchinson in Gower.Independent 4The candidates that stood were Walter George Bagnall in Colne Valley, Violet Van der Elst in Putney, A. P. Herbert in Oxford University and Eleanor Rathbone in Oxford University.Independent Nationalist 3Nationalist Party 2National Independent 2The candidates that stood were Austin Hopkinson stood in Mossley and Ernest Graham-Little in London University.Independent Conservative 2The candidates that stood were Linton Thorp in Nelson and Colne and James Lockwood in Shipley.Communist Party of Great Britain 2The candidates that stood were Willie Gallacher stood in West Fife and General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain Harry Pollitt in Rhondda East.National Dividend 2The candidates that stood were HC Bell in Birmingham Erdington and Reginald Kenney in Bradford North.Independent Labour 1Candidate William Brown stood in Wolverhampton West.Liverpool Protestant Party 1Candidate Harry Dixon Longbottom stood in Liverpool Kirkdale.Independent Progressive 1Candidate Gerald Bailey stood in Aldershot.People's Peace 1Candidate James Monteith Erskine stood in Farnworth.Social Credit Party 1Candidate stood Wilfred Townend in Leeds South.Plaid Cymru 1Canidate John Edward Daniel stood in Caernarvonshire.Independent Liberal 1Candidate Percy McDougall stood in Manchester Rusholme.Agricultural Defence League 1Candidate George Pitt-Rivers stood in North Dorset.Christian Socialist 1Candidate J. A. Harper stood in Walsall.Radical Reform 1Candidate Thomas Disher stood in Camberwell North.Total 1,348 Outcome The election resulted in another landslide for the National Government, with two-thirds of the seats in the House of Commons and a narrow majority of the overall popular vote. This was a less dominating performance than in 1931 – when the coalition had won two-thirds of the vote and 90.1% of seats – but it was still a clear mandate for the National Government to continue its programme of economic reforms. It remains the most recent election in which any party or alliance of parties secured a majority of the popular vote. (The coalition between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats that formed after the 2010 general election represented 59.1% of votes cast, but the two parties had campaigned against each other.) It was also the last election until 1997 in which any party or alliance of parties won more than 400 seats. Despite Labour's success in terms of vote share – higher than Ramsay MacDonald's result in 1929, Harold Wilson's in February 1974, Tony Blair's in 2005, and Keir Starmer's in 2024, all of which put the party into government – the 1935 general election remains the most recent at which the party has won fewer than 200 seats. Attlee won Labour's subsequent leadership election on 26 November 1935, and he went on to become the first Labour leader to both win a plurality of votes in a general election and a majority of seats in the House of Commons (in 1945). Labour's revival came partly at the expense of National Labour, which lost five of its 13 seats, including Ramsay MacDonald's own seat of Seaham. MacDonald was able to rejoin the Commons thanks to a by-election victory only two months later, in January 1936; however, after his death in November 1937 the party struggled under the new leadership of his son, Malcolm MacDonald, and it eventually disbanded ahead of the 1945 election. The election also marked the continued decline of the Liberals from a natural party of government into a fringe third party within a two-party system dominated by the Conservatives and Labour. The 21 seats secured in 1935 and the 12 seats secured in 1945 proved to be the last occasions until 1966 that the Liberal Party won more than ten seats at an election, and the 1935 election was the last time (before its alliance and merger with the Social Democratic Party in the 1980s) that the party won more than 20 seats. The National Liberals within the government, meanwhile, struggled in the following years to differentiate themselves from their coalition partners, and the party's small rump of MPs were absorbed into the Conservatives in 1968. The resulting parliamentary term would see two changes of Prime Minister: Neville Chamberlain took over from Baldwin in 1937, and then Chamberlain himself resigned in 1940 and was replaced by Winston Churchill, who formed a new cross-party wartime coalition which included the Labour and Liberal parties. Due to the war, another general election was not held until Allied victory was confirmed in 1945. Results Summary of seats returned + centre|420px PartyBritish Electoral Facts Colin Rallings Micheal Thrasher 32 Total Politics 978-1-907278-03-7 2006 Leader MPs Aggregate votes Of total Of totalAdjusted for multi-member constituencies. Conservative and Unionist Party Stanley Baldwin 387speaker 387 615 1 yes Conservative Party (UK) 10,496,300 47.8% 47.8 Conservative Party (UK) Conservative PartyResults for England and Wales. Stanley Baldwin 339speaker Figure includes Speaker of the House of Commons Edward FitzRoy in Daventry. 339 615 1 yes Conservative Party (UK) 9,225,134 42.1% 42.1 Conservative Party (UK) Unionist Party John Craik-Henderson 37 37 615 1 yes Unionist Party (Scotland) 978,326 4.4% 4.4 Unionist Party (Scotland) Ulster Unionist Party James Craig 11 11 615 1 yes Ulster Unionist Party 292,840 1.3% 1.3 Ulster Unionist Party Labour Party Clement Attlee 154Includes 9 Co-operative Party MPs, as part of the Labour-Co-op alliance. 154 615 1 yes Labour Party (UK) 8,325,491 38.0% 38.0 Labour Party (UK) Liberal National Party John Simon 33 33 615 1 yes National Liberal Party (UK, 1931) 866,354 3.7% 3.7 National Liberal Party (UK, 1931) Liberal Party Herbert Samuel 21 21 615 1 yes Liberal Party (UK) 1,443,093 6.7% 6.7 Liberal Party (UK) National Labour Organisation Ramsay MacDonald 8 8 615 1 yes National Labour Organisation 339,811 1.5% 1.5 National Labour Organisation Independent Labour Party James Maxton 4 4 615 1 yes Independent Labour Party 139,577 0.7% 0.7 Independent Labour Party Nationalist Party Thomas Joseph Campbell 2 2 615 1 yes Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland) 101,494 0.3% 0.3 Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland) National Independent 2 2 615 1 yes Independent (politician) 33,527 0.2% 0.2 National Government (United Kingdom) Independent 2 2 615 1 yes Independent (politician) 6,165 0.0% 0.0 Independent (politician) National 1 1 615 1 yes Independent (politician) 53,189 0.3% 0.3 National Government (United Kingdom) Communist Party of Great Britain Harry Pollitt 1 1 615 1 yes Communist Party of Great Britain 27,117 0.1% 0.1 Communist Party of Great Britain Full results Below is a table summarising the full results of the 1935 general election in the United Kingdom. Note: The seat and vote share change for the National Government coalition reflects on the parties that remained part of it in the election, and does not include the Liberal Party's change in seats and vote share or the outcome of the party leaving the National Government in 1932 and going into complete opposition in 1933. centre|500x500px +Results of the November 1935 general election to the House of Commons of the United KingdomPartyCraig F. W. S. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918–49 https://books.google.com/books?id=MMCuCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA147 1st 1977 The Macmillan Press Ltd London and Basingstoke 978-1-349-81467-1https://api.parliament.uk/uk-general-elections/general-elections/27 UK General Elections Results 1832-2019 12 August 2026British Electoral Facts Colin Rallings Micheal Thrasher Total Politics 978-1-907278-03-7 2006LeaderCandidatesMPsAggregate votes Total Gains Losses Net Of total (%) Total Of total (%)Adjusted for multi-member constituencies. Change (%)   National Government (Total) StanleyBaldwin 583 429 13 106 93 69.8 11,755,654 53.3 7.4 Conservative Party (UK)Figure includes the Unionist Party and the Ulster Unionist Party under their nation affiliations with the Conservative Party. StanleyBaldwin 515 387speaker 6 89 83 62.9 10,496,300 47.8 7.2   Liberal National John Simon 44 33 5 7 2 5.4 866,354 3.7 National Labour Organisation RamsayMacDonald 20 8 1 6 5 1.3 339,811 1.5   National 4 1 1Ivor Guest in Brecon and Radnorshire. 4Gordon Campbell in Burnley, William Allen in Burslem and Ian Horobin in Southwark Central. William Craven-Ellis in Southampton was re-elected, but as an official Conservative Party candidate. 3 0.2 53,189 0.3 0.2   Labour Party ClementAttlee 552Includes 20 Co-operative Party candidates, as part of the Labour-Co-op alliance. 154Includes 9 Co-operative Party MPs, as part of the Labour-Co-op alliance. 105Includes 8 Co-operative Party MPs, as part of the Labour-Co-op alliance. 3 102 25.0Includes 1.5% for the Co-operative Party, as part of the Labour-Co-op alliance. 8,325,491Includes 347,728 for the Co-operative Party, as part of the Labour-Co-op alliance. 38.0Includes 1.7% for the Co-operative Party, as part of the Labour-Co-op alliance. 7.1Includes 0.5% for the Co-operative Party, as part of the Labour-Co-op alliance.   Liberal HerbertSamuel 161 21 3 18 15 3.4 1,443,093 6.7 0.3   Ind. Labour Party JamesMaxton 17 4 colspan="2" Newly independent 4 0.7 139,577 0.7   Nationalist ThomasJoseph Campbell 2 2 0 0 0.3 101,494 0.3   IndependentRepublican 3 0 colspan=3 Did not stand in 1931 — 56,833 0.3   NationalIndependent 2 2Austin Hopkinson in Mossley and Ernest Graham-Little in London University. 0 0 0.3 33,527 0.2   SNP AlexanderMacEwen 8 0 0 0 — 29,517 0.1   IndependentConservative 2 0 colspan="3" Did not stand in 1931 — 27,721 0.1   Communist Harry Pollitt 2 1 1Willie Gallacher in West Fife. 0 1 0.2 27,117 0.1 0.2   IndependentLabour 1 0 0 0 — 14,867 0.1   LiverpoolProtestant Harry Dixon Longbottom 1 0 0 0 — 6,677 0.0   NationalDividend 2 0 colspan="3" New — 6,734 0.0 New   IndependentProgressive 1 0 colspan="3" New — 6,421 0.0 New   Independent 4 2A. P. Herbert in Oxford University and Eleanor Rathbone in Combined English Universities. 1A. P. Herbert in Oxford University. 0 1 0.3 6,165 0.0   People'sPeace 1 0 colspan="3" New — 3,763 0.0 New   Social Credit JohnHargrave 1 0 colspan="3" New — 3,642 0.0 New   Plaid Cymru SaundersLewis 1 0 0 0 — 2,534 0.0   IndependentLiberal 1 0 0 0 — 2,525 0.0   AgriculturalDefence 1 0 colspan="3" New — 1,771 0.0 New   Christian Socialist 1 0 colspan="3" New — 1,480 0.0 New   RadicalReform 1 0 colspan="3" New — 451 0.0 New Total 1,348 615 0 100.0 21,997,054 100.0 0.0 Registered voters, and turnout 31,374,449British Electoral Facts 1885-1975 F.W.S. Craig Macmillan Press 3 76 0333197348 1976Including the electorate in uncontested constituencies. 71.1https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7529/CBP-7529.pdf UK Election Statistics: 1918-2023, A Century of Elections Cracknell Richard Uberoi Elise Burton Matthew 9 August 2023 House of Commons Library 29 8 August 2026Adjusted for multi-member constituencies. 5.3 Popular vote Popular vote #ddd 600px 410px Conservative Conservative Party (UK) 47.8 Labour Labour Party (UK) 38.0 Liberal Liberal Party (UK) 6.7 Liberal National National Liberal Party (UK, 1931) 3.7 National Labour National Labour Organisation 1.5 Others #A9A9A9 2.3 Popular vote (coalitions) #ddd 600px 410px National Gov. #000000 53.3 Labour Labour Party (UK) 38.0 Liberal Liberal Party (UK) 6.7 Others #A9A9A9 2.0 Parliament Parliament seats #ddd 600px 410px Conservative Conservative Party (UK) 62.8 Labour Labour Party (UK) 25.0 Liberal National National Liberal Party (UK, 1931) 5.4 Liberal Liberal Party (UK) 3.4 National Labour National Labour Organisation 1.3 Others #A9A9A9 2.1 Parliamentary seats (coalitions) #ddd 600px 410px National Gov. #000000 69.8 Labour Labour Party (UK) 25.0 Liberal Liberal Party (UK) 3.4 Others #A9A9A9 1.8 Transfers of seats All comparisons are with the 1931 election. In some cases the change is due to the MP defecting to the gaining party. Such circumstances are marked with a *. In other circumstances the change is due to the seat having been won by the gaining party in a by-election in the intervening years, and then retained in 1935. Such circumstances are marked with a †. ToFromNo.SeatsIndependent Labour Party Conservative Party (UK)1Glasgow Camlachie Labour Party (UK)3Glasgow Bridgeton*indlab Elected as Independent Labour Party as part of the Labour Opposition in 1931., Glasgow Shettleston*indlab, Glasgow Gorbals*indlabIndependent Labour Party gains:4 Communist Party of Great Britain Conservative Party (UK)1Fife WestCommunist gains:1Labour Party (UK) Liberal Party (UK)11Edinburgh East, South Shields, Durham, Bethnal Green North-East†, Lambeth North†, Whitechapel and St Georges, Middlesbrough East, Dewsbury, Colne Valley, Wrexham, Carmarthen National Labour Organisation6Ilkeston, Seaham, Forest of Dean, Finsbury, Tottenham South, Bassetlaw National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)6Western Isles, Dunfermline Burghs, Bishop Auckland, Consett, Shoreditch, Barnsley UK National Government3Southwark Central, BurslemSitting MP had defected to National Liberals., Burnley Conservative Party (UK)79Aberdeen North, Stirling and Falkirk, Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire, Stirlingshire West, Kirkcaldy Burghs, Maryhill, Motherwell, Bothwell, Coatbridge, Springburn, Tradeston, Ayrshire South, Linlithgow, Whitehaven, Derbyshire North East, Chesterfield, Blaydon, Houghton-le-Spring, Jarrow, Barnard Castle, Sedgefield, East Ham S, Leyton West, Romford, Upton†, Bristol South, Kingston upon Hull Central, Kingston upon Hull East, Ashton-under-Lyne, Farnworth, Ardwick, Clayton, Gorton, Platting, Rochdale, Everton, West Toxteth, Newton, St Helens, Brigg, Battersea North, Camberwell North, Deptford, Hackney Central, Hackney South, Hammersmith North†, Islington South, Islington West, Rotherhithe, Southwark South East, Mile End, Willesden West, Edmonton, Tottenham North, Morpeth, Nottingham West, Cannock, Hanley, Kingswinford, Leek, Stoke, Wednesbury†, West Bromwich, Nuneaton, Shipley, Wakefield†, Sheffield Park, Rotherham†, Bradford Central, Keighley, Pontefract, Hillsborough, Attercliffe, Brightside, Penistone, Leeds South, Doncaster, Batley and Morley, Nelson and ColneLabour gains:105 Liberal Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK)3Cumberland North, Barnstaple, Berwick-upon-TweedLiberal gains:3 National Labour OrganisationLiberal Party (UK)1Leicester WestNational Liberal Party (UK, 1931)3Walsall*, Combined Scottish Universities (one of three), Dumfriesshire† Conservative Party (UK)2Sunderland (one of two), Oldham (one of two)National Liberal gains:5 UK National Government Conservative Party (UK)1Brecon and RadnorConservative Party (UK) Liberal Party (UK)4Orkney and Shetland, Banff, Bodmin, Darwen National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)1FlintshireSitting MP had defected to Liberals. National Government (United Kingdom)1Southampton*Sitting MP became official Conservative Party candidate in this election.Conservative gains:6 Independent (politician) Conservative Party (UK)1Oxford University (one of two)Independent gains:1 Constituency results These are available on the Political Science Resources Elections Database, a link to which is given below. See also List of MPs elected in the 1935 United Kingdom general election 1935 United Kingdom general election in England 1935 United Kingdom general election in Scotland 1935 United Kingdom general election in Wales 1935 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland List of MPs for constituencies in Wales (1935–1945) Notes References note Further reading F. W. S. Craig F.W.S. Craig British Electoral Facts: 1832–1987 Gower Dartmouth 1989 0900178302 Fry Geoffrey K. A Reconsideration of the British General Election of 1935 and the Electoral Revolution of 1945 History 76 43–55 246 1991 10.1111/j.1468-229X.1991.tb01533.x Stannage Tom Tom Stannage Baldwin Thwarts the Opposition: The British General Election of 1935 Croom Helm London 1980 0709903413 Manifestos 1935 Conservative manifesto 1935 Labour manifesto 1935 Liberal manifesto 1935 General election Category:November 1935 in the United Kingdom General Election Category:Clement Attlee Category:Stanley Baldwin Category:Ramsay MacDonald