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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 .
Summary of general election candidates
Unionist candidates or MPs in Scottish constituencies were counted as Conservatives.
Election results
1918 UK general election
Party
Constituency
Name
Votes
%
Position
Conservative
Kennington
Alice Lucas
3,573
32.2
2
Independent
Brentford and Chiswick
Ray Strachey
1,263
9.7
3
Independent
Chelsea
Emily Frost Phipps
2,419
20.9
2
Independent
Glasgow Bridgeton
Eunice Murray
991
5.0
3
Independent
Hendon
Edith How-Martyn
2,067
10.5
3
Independent
Richmond (Surrey)
Norah Dacre Fox
3,615
20.4
2
Labour
Battersea North
Charlotte Despard
5,634
33.4
2
Labour
Manchester Rusholme
Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
2,985
15.6
3
Labour
Stourbridge
Mary Anderson
7,587
32.7
3
Labour
University of Wales
Millicent Mackenzie
176
19.2
2
Liberal
Enfield
Janet McEwan
1,987
12.1
3
Liberal
Birmingham Ladywood
Margery Corbett Ashby
1,552
11.5
3
Liberal
Mansfield
Violet Carruthers
4,000
19.5
3
Liberal
Portsmouth South
Alison Garland
4,283
18.5
2
Sinn Féin
Belfast Victoria
Winifred Carney
539
4.1
3
Sinn Féin
Dublin St Patrick's
Constance Markievicz
7,835
65.9
1
Women's Party
Smethwick
Christabel Pankhurst
8,614
47.8
2
By-elections, 1918-1922
1922 UK general election
Party
Constituency
Name[3]
Votes
%
Position
Conservative
Camberwell North
Helen Gwynne-Vaughan
8,066
49.2
2
Conservative
Denbigh
Lesley Venetia Elizabeth Brodrick
9,138
37.9
2
Conservative
Ogmore
Dorothy Caroline Edmondes
6,577
20.1
3
Conservative
Plymouth Sutton
Nancy Astor
13,924
47.4
1
Conservative
Walsall
Alice Cooper
14,349
37.8
2
Independent
Brentford and Chiswick
Ray Strachey
7,804
43.5
2
Independent
Liverpool East Toxteth
Eleanor Rathbone
9,984
39.7
2
Labour
Acton
Mary Richardson
5,342
26.2
2
Labour
Chelmsford
Clara Rackham
3,767
17.6
3
Labour
East Ham North
Susan Lawrence
6,747
27.8
2
Labour
East Surrey
Marjorie Pease
3,667
22.7
2
Labour
Islington North
Edith Picton-Turbervill
7,993
27.8
2
Labour
Islington East
Ethel Bentham
5,900
22.7
3
Labour
Lambeth North
Barbara Ayrton-Gould
3,353
17.8
3
Labour
Northampton
Margaret Bondfield
14,498
37.9
2
Labour
University of Wales
Olive Wheeler
309
24.8
3
Labour Co-op
Birmingham King's Norton
Eleanor Barton
7,017
32.8
2
Liberal
Bedford
Mary Camilla Lawson
2,075
7.8
4
Liberal
Dartford
Alison Garland
2,175
6.5
3
Liberal
Devizes
Hilda Beatrice Currie
6,576
40.7
2
Liberal
Glasgow Maryhill
Annie Burnett Smith
3,617
13.1
3
Liberal
High Peak
Anna Barlow
5,802
20.4
3
Liberal
Huntingdonshire
Lina Scott Gatty
5,123
25.7
2
Liberal
Louth, Lincolnshire
Margaret Wintringham
11,609
52.0
1
Liberal
Oldham
Mary Emmott
6,186
7.0
5
Liberal
Richmond (Surrey)
Margery Corbett Ashby
5,765
24.1
3
Liberal
Waterloo
Nessie Stewart-Brown
6,300
32.7
2
Liberal
Westminster St George's
Mary Sophia Allen
1,303
6.5
3
Liberal
Wycombe
Vera Terrington
11,154
35.8
2
National Liberal
Edinburgh South
Catherine Alderton
7,408
33.3
2
National Liberal
Forest of Dean
Winifred Coombe Tennant
3,861
18.7
3
National Liberal
Glasgow Govan
Helen Fraser
9,336
37.7
2
National Liberal
Leeds South East
Mary Grant
9,554
41.1
2
By-elections, 1922-1923
1923 UK general election
Party
Constituency
Name[4]
Votes
%
Position
Conservative
Berwick-upon-Tweed
Mabel Philipson
10,636
48.0
1
Conservative
Camberwell North
Helen Gwynne-Vaughan
5,934
35.8
2
Conservative
Ince
Rachel Parsons
6,262
26.5
2
Conservative
Plymouth Sutton
Nancy Astor
16,114
54.5
1
Conservative
St Helens
Margaret Evelyn Pilkington
16,109
44.5
2
Independent
Brentford and Chiswick
Ray Strachey
4,828
27.3
2
Labour
Ashton-under-Lyne
Ellen Wilkinson
6,208
28.7
3
Labour
Berwick-upon-Tweed
Edna Penny
2,784
12.5
3
Labour
Bournemouth
Minnie Pallister
5,986
19.5
3
Labour
Chatham
Mary Agnes Hamilton
5,794
24.1
3
Labour
East Ham North
Susan Lawrence
8,727
35.7
1
Labour
Farnham
Anne Corner
3,520
16.7
3
Labour
Isle of Wight
Emily Palmer
2,475
7.1
3
Labour
Islington East
Ethel Bentham
6,941
26.0
3
Labour
Northampton
Margaret Bondfield
15,556
40.5
1
Labour
Norwich
Dorothy Jewson
19,304
20.0
2
Labour
Portsmouth South
Jessie Stephen
7,388
24.9
2
Labour
Warwick and Leamington
Countess of Warwick
4,015
12.8
3
Labour
West Dorset
Louie Simpson
7,087
41.2
2
Labour Co-op
Birmingham King's Norton
Eleanor Barton
6,743
30.7
2
Liberal
Birmingham King's Norton
Elizabeth Cadbury
5,686
25.9
3
Liberal
Birmingham Moseley
Janet Clarkson
7,904
28.7
2
Liberal
Cambridgeshire
Elsbeth Dimsdale
6,619
24.6
3
Liberal
Consett
Ursula Williams
14,619
48.0
2
Liberal
Gower
Leah Norah Folland
10,219
40.9
2
Liberal
Hamilton
Helen Fraser
8,436
41.6
2
Liberal
Hanley
Ada Rowley Moody
4,268
19.8
3
Liberal
Hastings
Maria Gordon
5,876
25.9
2
Liberal
Louth, Lincolnshire
Margaret Wintringham
12,104
52.4
1
Liberal
Pontefract
Mary Pollock Grant
4,567
18.6
3
Liberal
Richmond (Surrey)
Margery Corbett Ashby
7,702
37.0
2
Liberal
Wycombe
Lady Terrington
14,910
46.9
1
Unionist
Glasgow St Rollox
Violet Mary Robertson
9,204
37.7
2
Unionist
Kinross and Western Perthshire
Duchess of Atholl
9,235
50.4
1
Jewson was elected by taking second place in a two-seat constituency.
1924 UK general election
Party
Constituency
Name[5]
Votes
%
Position
Conservative
Berwick-upon-Tweed
Mabel Philipson
12,130
50.9
1
Conservative
Camberwell North
Helen Gwynne-Vaughan
7,564
36.7
2
Conservative
Denbigh
Lesley Venetia Elizabeth Brodrick
11,250
47.0
2
Conservative
Derby
Hilda Hulse
21,700
20.3
4
Conservative
Manchester Ardwick
Mary Kingsmill Jones
13,115
45.1
2
Conservative
Morpeth
Irene Ward
10,828
32.0
2
Conservative
Plymouth Sutton
Nancy Astor
18,174
58.1
1
Conservative
St Helens
Margaret Evelyn Pilkington
16,908
44.2
2
Conservative
Wansbeck
Mary Middleton
18,875
47.1
2
Independent Labour
Acton
Mary Richardson
1,775
7.6
4
Labour
Blackburn
Mary Agnes Hamilton
24,330
21.8
3
Labour
Bournemouth
Minnie Pallister
7,735
27.3
2
Labour
Chelsea
Dora Russell
5,661
26.0
2
Labour
Dumfriesshire
Agnes Dollan
6,342
23.0
3
Labour
East Ham North
Susan Lawrence
10,137
35.8
2
Labour
Edinburgh North
Eleanor Stewart
8,192
27.9
2
Labour
Farnham
Anne Corner
4,613
20.2
2
Labour
Hackney North
Stella Churchill
6,097
24.1
3
Labour
Hastings
Muriel Matters Porter
6,082
28.6
2
Labour
Hemel Hempstead
Amy Sayle
1,553
6.9
3
Labour
Islington East
Ethel Bentham
10,280
32.3
2
Labour
Lewisham West
Barbara Drake
6,781
20.4
2
Labour
Liverpool Fairfield
Mary Mercer
8,412
37.1
2
Labour
Middlesbrough East
Ellen Wilkinson
9,574
38.5
1
Labour
Northampton
Margaret Bondfield
15,046
37.2
2
Labour
Northwich
Barbara Ayrton-Gould
11,630
34.6
2
Labour
Norwich
Dorothy Jewson
22,931
22.0
4
Labour
Portsmouth South
Jessie Stephen
8,310
27.0
2
Labour
Stroud
Edith Picton-Turbervill
7,418
25.2
2
Labour
Totnes
Kate Spurrell
2,240
6.1
3
Labour
West Dorset
Louie Simpson
5,764
31.7
2
Labour Co-op
Leeds North East
Edna Penny
8,894
31.6
2
Liberal
Ilkeston
Anna Barlow
4,320
17.6
3
Liberal
Lanark
Elizabeth Buchanan Mitchell
2,126
8.1
3
Liberal
Louth, Lincolnshire
Margaret Wintringham
11,330
47.2
2
Liberal
Southwark South East
Elsie Cameron Elias
2,388
11.2
3
Liberal
Watford
Margery Corbett Ashby
5,205
18.7
3
Liberal
Wycombe
Lady Terrington
12,526
33.0
2
Unionist
Aberdeen North
Laura Sandeman
8,545
39.2
2
Unionist
Bothwell
Helen Brown Shaw
11,314
43.7
2
Unionist
Kinross and Western Perthshire
Duchess of Atholl
13,565
72.0
1
By-elections, 1924-1929
Party
Election
Name
Votes
%
Position
Labour
1926 Wallsend by-election
Margaret Bondfield
18,866
57.7
1
Labour
1926 East Ham North by-election
Susan Lawrence
10,798
40.6
1
Conservative
1927 Southend by-election
Countess of Iveagh
21,221
54.6
1
Labour
1928 Bristol West by-election
Clare Annesley
7,702
26.0
2
Liberal
1928 St Ives by-election
Hilda Runciman
10,241
42.6
1
Unionist
1928 Linlithgowshire by-election
Margaret Kidd
9,268
31.5
2
Labour
1928 Epsom by-election
Helen Keynes
3,719
16.8
3
Unionist
1928 Aberdeen North by-election
Laura Sandeman
4,696
23.1
2
Labour
1928 Cheltenham by-election
Florence Widdowson
3,962
18.8
3
Labour
1929 Bishop Auckland by-election
Ruth Dalton
14,797
57.1
1
Labour
1929 North Lanarkshire by-election
Jennie Lee
15,711
57.5
1
Liberal
1929 North Lanarkshire by-election
Elizabeth Buchanan Mitchell
2,488
9.1
3
1929 UK general election
Party
Constituency
Name[6]
Votes
%
Position
Communist
Bothwell
Helen Crawfurd
1,677
5.5
3
Communist
Mansfield
Rose Smith
533
1.1
4
Communist
Motherwell
Isabel Brown
984
3.4
4
Conservative
Farnworth
Mary Pickford
10,643
25.4
2
Conservative
Liverpool Everton
Margaret Beavan
12,667
47.1
2
Conservative
Manchester Ardwick
Mary Kingsmill Jones
13,177
39.7
2
Conservative
Morpeth
Irene Ward
9,206
22.1
2
Conservative
Plymouth Sutton
Nancy Astor
16,625
43.2
1
Conservative
Pontypridd
May Gordon Williams
3,967
10.1
3
Conservative
Southend-on-Sea
Countess of Iveagh
27,605
55.8
1
Independent
Combined English Universities
Eleanor Rathbone
3,331
33.3
2
Labour
Ayr Burghs
Clarice Shaw
13,429
36.5
2
Labour
Blackburn
Mary Agnes Hamilton
37,256
26.1
1
Labour
Brentford and Chiswick
Stella Churchill
10,918
37.8
2
Labour
Bristol West
Clare Annesley
11,961
25.3
2
Labour
East Ham North
Susan Lawrence
13,969
42.1
1
Labour
Edinburgh North
Eleanor Stewart
11,340
32.2
2
Labour
Honiton
Rose Davies
915
2.6
3
Labour
Horsham and Worthing
Helen Keynes
7,611
16.4
3
Labour
Hythe
Grace Colman
2,597
11.5
3
Labour
Islington East
Ethel Bentham
15,199
38.0
1
Labour
Lewisham West
Catherine Mary Wadham
10,598
25.9
2
Labour
Luton
Florence Harrison Bell
7,351
16.5
3
Labour
Middlesbrough East
Ellen Wilkinson
12,215
41.3
1
Labour
North Lanarkshire
Jennie Lee
19,884
55.9
1
Labour
Northwich
Barbara Ayrton-Gould
15,473
34.3
2
Labour
Norwich
Dorothy Jewson
31,040
24.0
3
Labour
Nottingham Central
Eleanor Barton
11,573
33.2
2
Labour
Perth
Helen Gault
8,291
23.5
3
Labour
Petersfield
Gertrude Massingham
3,418
12.1
3
Labour
Portsmouth South
Jessie Stephen
10,127
24.8
2
Labour
Rushcliffe
Florence Widdowson
16,069
35.0
2
Labour
St Albans
Monica Whately
11,699
27.6
2
Labour
Stoke-on-Trent
Cynthia Mosley
26,548
58.7
1
Labour
Sunderland
Marion Phillips
31,794
19.5
1
Labour
The Wrekin
Edith Picton-Turbervill
14,569
44.4
1
Labour
Totnes
Kate Spurrell
5,828
12.9
3
Labour
Wallsend
Margaret Bondfield
20,057
49.5
1
Labour
Wells
Ruby Davies
4,472
15.0
3
Labour
Weston-super-Mare
Constance Borrett
4,766
11.1
3
Labour
Wycombe
Rochelle Townsend
8,899
18.1
3
Liberal
Anglesey
Megan Lloyd George
13,181
49.4
1
Liberal
Birmingham Deritend
Beta Hornabrook
2,268
6.8
3
Liberal
Caerphilly
Alice Grace Roberts
8,190
22.4
2
Liberal
East Grinstead
Barbara Bliss
9,718
25.6
2
Liberal
Hackney South
Muriel Morgan Gibbon
6,302
20.7
3
Liberal
Hendon
Margery Corbett Ashby
13,449
22.2
3
Liberal
Hitchin
Enid Lapthorn
9,325
28.3
2
Liberal
Hythe
Hester Lloyd Holland
6,912
30.7
2
Liberal
Islington North
Domini Crosfield
10,210
23.4
3
Liberal
Kensington North
Frances Henrietta Stewart
5,516
13.5
3
Liberal
Kingston upon Hull North West
Catherine Alderton
10,059
28.3
3
Liberal
Louth, Lincolnshire
Margaret Wintringham
13,560
42.9
2
Liberal
Manchester Gorton
Beatrice Bayfield
3,385
9.4
3
Liberal
North Norfolk
Zelia Hoffman
3,403
11.1
3
Liberal
Northampton
Helen Schilizzi
11,054
20.6
3
Liberal
Rotherhithe
Dora West
4,556
19.1
3
Liberal
St Pancras South East
Elizabeth Edwardes
3,798
13.8
3
Liberal
Salford West
Mary Pollock Grant
5,614
15.4
3
Liberal
Salisbury
Lucy Masterman
13,022
39.3
2
Liberal
Smethwick
Maude Egerton Marshall
3,909
11.0
3
Liberal
Sunderland
Elizabeth Morgan
21,300
13.0
5
Liberal
Surrey East
Ida Swinburne
7,435
23.1
2
Liberal
Tavistock
Hilda Runciman
14,040
44.1
2
Liberal
Warrington
Alison Garland
3,070
7.2
3
Liberal
Winchester
Frances Josephy
7,278
18.6
3
Unionist
Bothwell
Helen Brown Shaw
12,077
39.3
2
Unionist
Kinross and Western Perthshire
Duchess of Atholl
12,245
48.6
1
Unionist
Paisley
Minna Cowan
7,094
17.7
3
Rathbone was elected by taking second place in a two-seat constituency.
By-elections, 1929-1931
1931 UK general election
Party
Constituency
Name[7]
Votes
%
Position
Communist
Aberdeen North
Helen Crawfurd
3,980
11.1
3
Communist
Greenwich
Kath Duncan
2,024
4.4
4
Conservative
Caerphilly
Catherine Bowen-Davies
11,044
32.4
2
Conservative
Cannock
Sarah Ward
27,498
54.6
1
Conservative
Hackney South
Marjorie Graves
15,920
55.4
1
Conservative
Hammersmith North
Mary Pickford
18,815
59.2
1
Conservative
Islington East
Thelma Cazalet
27,221
67.5
1
Conservative
Plymouth Sutton
Nancy Astor
24,277
63.3
1
Conservative
Rotherhithe
Norah Runge
11,666
50.3
1
Conservative
Silvertown
Eleonora Tennant
5,654
22.2
2
Conservative
Southend-on-Sea
Countess of Iveagh
46,564
85.7
1
Conservative
Stoke
Ida Copeland
19,918
45.6
1
Conservative
Wallsend
Irene Ward
25,999
58.6
1
Conservative
Willesden West
Mavis Tate
23,910
60.6
1
Independent
Combined English Universities
Eleanor Rathbone
5,096
37.2
1
Ind. Labour Party
Camborne
Kate Spurrell
8,280
24.5
3
Ind. Labour Party
Clapham
Hilda Browning
7,317
23.0
2
Ind. Labour Party
North Lanarkshire
Jennie Lee
19,691
44.7
2
Ind. Labour Party
Norwich
Dorothy Jewson
26,537
19.7
4
Ind. Labour Party
Perth
Helen Gault
3,705
9.7
3
Ind. Labour Party
West Renfrewshire
Jean Mann
10,203
31.5
2
Independent Liberal
Anglesey
Megan Lloyd George
14,839
58.3
1
Labour
Aldershot
Mary Richardson
4,091
15.6
2
Labour
Aylesbury
Dorothy Woodman
4,677
10.9
3
Labour
Ayr Burghs
Clarice Shaw
9,974
26.1
2
Labour
Bedford
Clare Annesley
9,654
27.8
2
Labour
Blackburn
Mary Agnes Hamilton
25,643
17.0
3
Labour
East Ham North
Susan Lawrence
11,769
34.1
2
Labour
Flintshire
Frances Edwards
16,158
28.6
2
Labour
Gillingham
Catherine Mary Wadham
9,103
31.0
2
Labour
Hastings
Irene Goddard
4,983
15.5
2
Labour
Hendon
Amber Blanco White
15,305
18.8
2
Labour
Horsham and Worthing
Helen Keynes
5,932
11.7
2
Labour
Hythe
Grace Colman
3,608
15.1
2
Labour
Islington East
Leah Manning
13,111
32.5
2
Labour
Kidderminster
Jessie Stephen
9,814
22.7
2
Labour
Maidstone
Gertrude Speedwell Massingham
6,770
19.8
2
Labour
Middlesbrough East
Ellen Wilkinson
12,080
39.6
2
Labour
North Norfolk
Lucy Noel-Buxton
13,035
39.5
2
Labour
Northwich
Barbara Gould
15,746
34.4
2
Labour
Norwood
Ann Jane Anstey
7,217
19.0
2
Labour
Paddington North
Esther Rickards
9,597
28.6
2
Labour
Paddington South
Lucy Cox
4,532
14.3
2
Labour
Rushcliffe
Florence Paton
14,176
27.9
2
Labour
St Albans
Monica Whately
10,289
21.9
2
Labour
Streatham
Betty Fraser
5,343
15.0
2
Labour
Sunderland
Marion Phillips
29,707
18.0
3
Labour
The Wrekin
Edith Picton-Turbervill
14,162
38.9
2
Labour
Tonbridge
Constance Borrett
8,208
21.2
2
Labour
Wallsend
Margaret Bondfield
18,393
41.4
2
Labour
Woodbridge
Ida Mary Nussey Keeble
5,885
18.7
2
Labour Co-op
Brighton
Rosalind Moore
12,878
7.3
4
Liberal
Basingstoke
Frances Josephy
6,106
18.1
2
Liberal
Exeter
Eleanor Acland
8,571
23.2
2
Liberal
Holderness
Aline MacKinnon
10,471
30.0
2
Liberal
Shrewsbury
Betty Morgan
9,358
30.8
2
National Liberal
Wentworth
Charlotte Isabel Hilyer
14,462
31.2
2
National (Scotland)
Glasgow St Rollox
Elma Campbell
3,521
13.3
3
Unionist
Bothwell
Helen Brown Shaw
16,571
50.0
1
Unionist
Dundee
Florence Horsbrugh
48,556
27.7
2
Unionist
Glasgow Bridgeton
Catherine Gavin
11,941
41.8
2
Unionist
Kinross and Western Perthshire
Duchess of Atholl
16,228
60.6
1
Horsbrugh was elected by taking second place in a two-seat constituency.
By-elections, 1931-1935
1935 UK general election
Party
Constituency
Name[8]
Votes
%
Position
Conservative
Caerphilly
N. J. Stoneham
7,738
23.8
2
Conservative
Cannock
Sarah Ward
26,876
49.1
2
Conservative
Clay Cross
Bridget Jackson
8,391
25.4
2
Conservative
Ebbw Vale
Ethel Scarborough
7,145
22.2
2
Conservative
Frome
Mavis Tate
19,684
46.3
1
Conservative
Hackney South
Marjorie Graves
10,876
40.7
2
Conservative
Islington East
Thelma Cazalet
18,248
52.5
1
Conservative
Plaistow
Dorothy Roddick
6,730
26.7
2
Conservative
Plymouth Sutton
Nancy Astor
21,491
58.3
1
Conservative
Poplar South
Diana Spearman
6,862
26.8
2
Conservative
Rotherhithe
Norah Runge
9,751
40.3
2
Conservative
Rothwell
Gwendoline Beaumont
17,352
35.5
2
Conservative
Silvertown
Eleonora Tennant
4,276
19.0
2
Conservative
Stoke
Ida Copeland
18,867
47.3
2
Conservative
Wallsend
Irene Ward
23,842
52.6
1
Independent
Combined English Universities
Eleanor Rathbone
unopposed
N/A
1
Independent
Putney
Violet Van der Elst
1,021
3.0
3
Ind. Labour Party
Camborne
Kate Spurrell
592
1.9
4
Ind. Labour Party
North Lanarkshire
Jennie Lee
17,267
37.3
2
Labour
Birkenhead East
Mary Mercer
8,028
23.3
3
Labour
Bradford North
Muriel Nichol
14,047
35.2
2
Labour
Burton
Gladys Paling
8,041
25.5
2
Labour
Bury
Edith Summerskill
12,845
34.4
2
Labour
Cheltenham
Elizabeth Pakenham
7,784
29.5
2
Labour
City of Chester
Agnes Bulley
6,450
19.3
3
Labour
Clapham
Monica Whately
11,368
23.0
2
Labour
Dartford
Janet Adamson
35,596
48.2
2
Labour
Darwen
Frances Kerby
7,778
20.9
3
Labour
Edinburgh South
Barbara Woodburn
5,365
16.5
2
Labour
Harrow
Helen Bentwich
31,422
37.3
2
Labour
Hendon
Amber Blanco White
28,375
26.8
2
Labour
Hornsey
Mari Power
10,320
21.9
2
Labour
Jarrow
Ellen Wilkinson
20,324
53.1
1
Labour
Lewisham East
Freda Corbet
25,425
44.6
2
Labour
Manchester Hulme
Barbara Ayrton-Gould
11,221
39.7
2
Labour
New Forest and Christchurch
Catherine Mary Wadham
10,876
25.2
2
Labour
North Dorset
M. M. Whitehead
1,360
5.2
4
Labour
North Norfolk
Lucy Noel-Buxton
14,465
44.7
2
Labour
Paddington North
Caroline Ganley
9,925
34.4
2
Labour
Pudsey and Otley
Lucy Cox
9,997
23.3
3
Labour
Saffron Walden
Clara Rackham
9,633
32.9
2
Labour
St Marylebone
Elizabeth Jacobs
8,088
20.4
2
Labour
Sheffield Hallam
Grace Colman
10,346
32.7
2
Labour
Southend-on-Sea
Helen Keynes
7,796
13.8
3
Labour
Stockton-on-Tees
Susan Lawrence
19,217
40.3
2
Labour
Stroud
Constance Borrett
14,133
36.8
2
Labour
Sunderland
Leah Manning
32,059
19.8
4
Labour
Wallsend
Margaret Bondfield
21,462
47.4
2
Labour
Westminster St George's
Anne Fremantle
4,643
15.4
2
Labour
Westmorland
Evelyn Short
10,417
31.5
2
Labour
West Renfrewshire
Jean Mann
12,407
38.8
2
Labour
Wood Green
Dorothy Woodman
14,561
24.8
2
Liberal
Anglesey
Megan Lloyd George
11,227
44.5
1
Liberal
Aylesbury
Margaret Wintringham
13,622
31.6
2
Liberal
Carlisle
Barbara Bliss
3,525
10.3
3
Liberal
Devizes
Frances Josephy
9,903
40.7
2
Liberal
Edinburgh North
Chrystal Macmillan
1,798
5.8
3
Liberal
Hemel Hempstead
Margery Corbett Ashby
7,078
22.0
2
Liberal
Holderness
Aline Mackinnon
10,348
24.9
2
Liberal
Kinross and Western Perthshire
Elizabeth MacDonald
10,069
39.8
2
Liberal
Maldon
Hilda Buckmaster
5,680
17.7
3
Liberal
Rye
Dorothy Osborn
9,162
28.8
2
Liberal
Willesden East
Nancy Stewart Parnell
3,217
7.3
3
Unionist
Bothwell
Helen Brown Shaw
13,761
39.7
2
Unionist
Dundee
Florence Horsbrugh
50,542
26.8
1
Unionist
Edinburgh East
Minna Cowan
12,229
39.6
2
Unionist
Kinross and Western Perthshire
Duchess of Atholl
15,238
60.2
1
By-elections, 1935-1945
Party
Election
Name
Votes
%
Position
Conservative
1936 Clay Cross by-election
Bridget Jackson
8,042
24.9
2
Independent
1936 Preston by-election
Florence White
3,221
4.8
3
Conservative
1937 Hemel Hempstead by-election
Frances Davidson
14,992
57.7
1
Liberal
1937 Hemel Hempstead by-election
Margery Corbett Ashby
7,078
22.0
2
Labour
1937 Glasgow Springburn by-election
Agnes Hardie
14,859
62.6
1
National Liberal
1938 Pontypridd by-election
Juliet Rhys-Williams
14,810
40.1
2
Independent
1938 Combined Scottish Universities by-election
Frances Melville
5,618
19.5
2
Labour
1938 Fulham West by-election
Edith Summerskill
16,583
52.2
1
Labour
1938 Dartford by-election
Jennie Adamson
46,514
52.4
1
Labour
1938 Fylde by-election
Mabel Tylecote
17,648
31.6
2
Independent
1938 Kinross and Western Perthshire by-election
Duchess of Atholl
10,495
47.1
2
Liberal
1939 Holderness by-election
Aline Mackinnon
11,590
25.7
2
Unionist
1939 South Ayrshire by-election
Catherine Gavin
12,986
42.0
2
National
1940 Southwark Central by-election
Violet van der Elst
1,382
16.8
3
Ind. Labour Party
1940 East Renfrewshire by-election
Annie Maxton
8,206
19.3
2
Communist
1940 Bow and Bromley by-election
Isabel Brown
506
4.2
2
Conservative
1941 Bodmin by-election
Beatrice Wright
unopposed
N/A
1
Independent
1941 Harrow by-election
Winifred Henney
3,433
19.1
2
Common Wealth
1943 Ashford by-election
Catherine Williamson
4,192
30.3
2
Conservative
1943 Bristol Central by-election
Violet Bathurst
5,867
52.1
1
Independent Labour
1943 Bristol Central by-election
Jennie Lee
4,308
38.2
2
Common Wealth
1943 The Hartlepools by-election
Elaine Burton
3,634
17.4
2
Independent Liberal
1943 Darwen by-election
Honor Balfour
8,799
49.8
2
Independent
1943 Acton by-election
Dorothy Crisp
707
8.5
3
Independent Liberal
1944 Bury St Edmunds by-election
Margery Corbett Ashby
9,121
43.8
2
1945 UK general election
Party
Constituency
Name
Votes
%
Position
Common Wealth
Canterbury
Catherine Williamson
1,017
2.6
3
Common Wealth
Chelsea
Dorothy Sharpe
984
5.2
3
Common Wealth
North Midlothian
Kitty Wintringham
3,299
6.4
3
Common Wealth
Sutton Coldfield
Joyce Purser
2,043
4.2
3
Communist
Birmingham Handsworth
Jessie Eden
1,390
3.4
5
Communist
Harrow East
Gladys Driver
3,493
5.9
4
Conservative
Bristol Central
Violet Bathurst
7,369
36.1
2
Conservative
Frome
Mavis Tate
24,228
44.9
2
Conservative
Islington East
Thelma Cazalet-Keir
9,960
34.5
2
Conservative
Hemel Hempstead
Frances Davidson
19,536
44.2
1
Conservative
Kingston upon Hull Central
Diana Spearman
4,106
27.5
2
Conservative
Manchester Ardwick
Nellie Beer
8,093
36.0
2
Conservative
Rotherhithe
Norah Runge
2,577
20.9
2
Conservative
Wallsend
Irene Ward
21,319
39.9
2
Conservative
Wentworth
Aymée Lavender Gandar Dower
8,670
16.4
2
Independent
Combined English Universities
Eleanor Rathbone
11,176
53.3
1
Independent
Hornchurch
Violet Van der Elst
232
0.5
4
Independent
Westminster St George's
Dorothy Crisp
1,069
5.5
3
Ind. Conservative
Putney
Eleonora Tennant
144
0.4
5
Independent Progressive
London University
Mary Danvers Stocks
7,469
49.5
2
Labour Co-op
Battersea South
Caroline Ganley
19,275
61.5
1
Labour Co-op
Birmingham Duddeston
Edith Agnes Wills
10,745
65.0
1
Labour Co-op
Ilford North
Mabel Ridealgh
18,833
42.8
1
Labour
Basingstoke
Edith Alice Weston
13,763
33.8
2
Labour
Bath
Dorothy Archibald
18,120
39.2
2
Labour
Bexley
Jennie Adamson
24,686
56.9
1
Labour
Blackburn
Barbara Castle
35,145
26.0
2
Labour
Bradford North
Muriel Nichol
20,268
43.6
1
Labour
Bury St Edmunds
Cecily Alicia McCall
9,195
29.8
2
Labour
Camberwell North West
Freda Corbet
12,251
69.6
1
Labour
Cannock
Jennie Lee
48,849
62.6
1
Labour
Chelsea
Margaret Douglas Shufeldt
5,874
31.1
2
Labour
Cheltenham
Phyllis Maude Warner
11,095
29.9
2
Labour
Chichester
Rosalie Francesca Chamberlayne
13,670
24.1
2
Labour
Coatbridge
Jean Mann
18,619
61.1
1
Labour
Croydon North
Marion Billson
22,810
40.1
2
Labour
Epping
Leah Manning
15,993
44.1
1
Labour
Flintshire
Eirene Lloyd Jones
26,761
37.4
2
Labour
Fulham West
Edith Summerskill
19,537
61.9
1
Labour
Harrow West
B. J. K. Thompson
18,961
33.0
2
Labour
Hemel Hempstead
Doris Mobbs
14,426
32.6
2
Labour
Hendon North
Barbara Gould
18,251
47.6
1
Labour
Hendon South
Elaine Burton
14,917
38.1
2
Labour
Holborn
Irene Marcousé
5,136
45.9
2
Labour
Jarrow
Ellen Wilkinson
22,656
66.0
1
Labour
Kensington South
Patricia Strauss
6,014
18.9
2
Labour
Kilmarnock
Clarice Shaw
23,837
59.4
1
Labour
Leeds North East
Alice Bacon
28,870
53.1
1
Labour
Liverpool Exchange
Bessie Braddock
8,494
52.0
1
Labour
Middleton and Prestwich
Mabel Tylecote
25,908
49.2
2
Labour
Newbury
Iris Brook
15,754
33.7
2
Labour
North Lanarkshire
Margaret Herbison
30,251
59.6
1
Labour
Norwich
Lucy Noel-Buxton
31,553
27.9
1
Labour
Plymouth Sutton
Lucy Middleton
15,417
51.6
1
Labour
Rushcliffe
Florence Paton
43,303
54.2
1
Labour
St Marylebone
Elizabeth Jacobs
10,740
32.4
2
Labour
Sutton and Cheam
Helen Judd
17,293
41.0
2
Labour
Tonbridge
Vera Dart
16,590
35.9
2
Labour
Tynemouth
Grace Colman
13,963
46.1
1
Labour
Windsor
Marjorie Nicholson
16,420
33.1
2
Labour
Wirral
Agnes Bulley
25,919
31.3
2
Liberal
Anglesey
Megan Lloyd George
12,610
52.2
1
Liberal
Barnet
Jean Henderson
4,495
11.4
3
Liberal
Birmingham Handsworth
Barbara Lewis
4,945
12.0
4
Liberal
Blackburn
Marjorie Annie MacInerney
6,096
4.5
6
Liberal
Chelmsford
Hilda Buckmaster
5,909
10.1
3
Liberal
Darwen
Honor Balfour
7,979
24.3
3
Liberal
Devizes
Frances Josephy
6,278
23.1
3
Liberal
Exeter
Freda Evelyn Griffith Morgan
6,220
16.4
3
Liberal
Hackney North
Doreen Gorsky
3,546
13.3
3
Liberal
Ilford North
Juliet Rhys-Williams
9,128
20.8
3
Liberal
Isle of Wight
May O'Conor
5,967
12.6
3
Liberal
Mossley
Marjorie Wainwright Jalland
7,128
12.4
3
Liberal
Paisley
Louise Glen-Coats
4,532
10.0
3
Liberal
Plymouth Sutton
Joan Gaved
3,695
12.4
3
Liberal
Ripon
Mabel Cowley
6,122
12.6
3
Liberal
St Albans
Enid Lakeman
5,601
10.7
3
Liberal
St Pancras South East
Audrey Blackman
1,474
8.8
3
Liberal
Sevenoaks
Nelia Muspratt
6,906
16.7
3
Liberal
Sudbury
Margaret Hitchcock
5,045
20.5
3
Liberal
Wells
Violet Bonham-Carter
7,910
25.1
3
National Liberal
Poplar South
Joan Vickers
1,403
10.8
2
Plaid Cymru
University of Wales
Gwenan Jones
1,696
24.5
2
Unionist
Aberdeen North
Priscilla Buchan
9,623
25.1
2
Unionist
Bothwell
Helen Brown Shaw
13,207
34.2
2
Unionist
Dundee
Florence Horsbrugh
32,309
18.9
4
UUP
Fermanagh and Tyrone
Noreen Cooper
46,260
22.8
4
Castle won in Blackburn by taking second place in a two-seat constituency.
See also
References
^ a b c d Richard Keen; Richard Cracknell (20 July 2021). "Women in Parliament and Government" (Document). House of Commons Library. p. 22.
^ a b Craig, F. W. S. (1968). British Parliamentary Election Statistics 1918-1968 . Glasgow: Political Reference Publications. p. 62 . ISBN 0900178000 .
^ "The defeated thirty", Manchester Guardian , 5 December 1922
^ "Eight woman MPs", The Times , 8 December 1923
^ "The 41 women candidates", Manchester Guardian , 20 October 1924
^ "Women candidates: a total of 64 for all parties", Manchester Guardian , 4 May 1929
^ "Women candidates: 61 Nominated : Two Straight Fights", Manchester Guardian , 17 October 1931
^ "Women candidates", The Times , 5 November 1935
F. W. S. Craig , British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949
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