Common Wealth Party election results

This article lists the Common Wealth Party's election results in UK parliamentary elections.

Summary of general election performance

Year	Number of Candidates	Total votes	Average voters per candidate	Percentage of vote	Saved deposits	Change (%)	Number of MPs
1945	23	110,634	4,810	0.5	7	N/A	1

Elections results

By-elections, 1943–45

By-election	Candidate	Votes	%	Position
1943 Ashford by-election	Catherine Williamson	4,192	30.3	2
1943 Midlothian and Peebles Northern by-election	Tom Wintringham	10,751	48.1	2
1943 Portsmouth North by-election	Thomas Sargant	4,545	40.3	2
1943 Watford by-election	Raymond Blackburn	11,838	46.1	2
1943 Eddisbury by-election	John Loverseed	8,023	43.7	1
1943 Daventry by-election	Dennis Webb	6,591	33.4	2
1943 The Hartlepools by-election	Elaine Burton	3,634	17.4	2
1943 Newark by-election	Edward Moeran	3,189	13.9	3
1943 Birmingham Aston by-election	Gilbert Hall	1,886	21.6	2
1944 Skipton by-election	Hugh Lawson	12,222	44.9	1
1944 Manchester Rusholme by-election	Harold W. Blomerley	6,870	42.1	2
1945 Chelmsford by-election	Ernest Millington	24,548	57.5	1

1945 general election

Constituency	Candidate	Votes	%	Position
Aldershot	Tom Wintringham	14,435	42.6	2
Bury St Edmunds	Eric Gordon England	750	2.4	4
Canterbury	Catherine Williamson	1,017	2.6	3
Chelmsford	Ernest Millington	27,309	46.7	1
Chelsea	Dorothy Sharpe	984	5.2	3
Evesham	Desmond Donnelly	7,727	23.1	3
Fylde	Karl Edwin Heath	1,784	2.9	3
Glasgow Pollok	William John Voisey-Youldon	932	3.0	3
Harrow West	Hugh Lawson	2,462	4.3	4
Knutsford	Frank William Young	628	1.1	4
Newbury	George Suggett	424	0.9	4
Newcastle-upon-Tyne North	Henry Arthur Charles Ridsdale	904	2.6	4
North Midlothian	Kitty Wintringham	3,299	6.4	3
Petersfield	Thomas Sargant	6,600	18.5	3
Plymouth Drake	Edgar Trout	1,681	5.7	3
Putney	Richard Acland	2,686	8.0	3
Richmond (Surrey)	Douglas George Horace Frank	753	1.7	4
Richmond (Yorks)	Roy Norman Chesterton	813	2.3	4
Sheffield Ecclesall	Sydney Checkland	12,045	35.9	2
Sutton Coldfield	Joyce Purser	2,043	4.2	3
Thirsk and Malton	Edward Moeran	13,572	39.9	2
Westminster St George's	Wilfred Brown	5,314	27.3	2
Wimbledon	K. Horne	2,472	3.6	4

References

• F. W. S. Craig, Chronology of British Parliamentary By-elections 1833-1987
• Craig, F. W. S. (1975). Minor Parties in British By-elections, 1885-1974. London: Macmillan Press. pp. 14–15.